In the days before the October 7th attack short selling of Israeli stocks spiked in New York, making someone a lot of money. How likely is it that a Hamas insider was behind it?

00:00 - Pre-war stock market changes
00:33 - What happened to the stocks?
01:03 - Who was behind it?

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