 Accordingly, Israel's leadership avoided the mobilization of the reserve army, then 80% of the IDF ground forces.On Thursday, 4 October, about 44 hours before war launched, Marwan called Dubi, his Mossad handler in London, and asked to meet the Mossad chief urgently to talk about "a lot of chemicals", code for war.The meeting took place on Friday late at night in London, and Marwan informed Zamir that "war would start tomorrow".