Haha! We are all ignorant asking ignorant questions. We just make the best guesses we can given what we think we know, and we talk amongst ourselves to learn more.... to "think in groups" as Jordan Peterson put it I believe.

Yeah Israel was almost at a civil war I heard. They had real trouble electing a government. Netanyahu was under investigation for corruption and apparently he corrupted the judges too, to try to wiggle out of the corruption charges. I heard the only way he could stay in power is under emergency powers, but that required an emergency, and hence there is speculation that he created the emergency so he could stay in power.

But I do not think he intended for 1000 Israelis to be killed. A smaller emergency would have sufficed.