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Israel Brief
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Israel Brief: Monday, June 29
Recognition on paper, a tunnel in pieces underneath it — every signature this spring is worth exactly what its signatory can enforce, which is nothing.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, June 28
A framework three days old buries its first soldier, a memorandum reopens Hormuz on paper while the strait stays mined, and a “ninety-day” arrest freeze runs six months.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, June 25
Trump offers the Lebanon job to Damascus and a New York primary makes “genocide enabler” the winning charge.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, June 24
The IDF fires under new rules into a Beirut process Jerusalem’s own ambassador says is derailing and Bibi trades the draft for the AG’s office.
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Israel Brief: Tuesday, June 23
Tehran collects the oil, the strait, and a Lebanon seat before an inspector reaches a centrifuge, and the IDF’s orders in the north shrink to a chief-of-staff signature.
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Israel Brief: Monday, June 22
The IDF holds every dominant point in southern Lebanon and is cleared to fire on none of them.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, June 21
The deal Israel never wrote is now enforced against it on every front — Hormuz reclosed, the talks turned on Lebanon, the bloc past 61, and two more soldiers buried under the fifth ceasefire.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, June 18
The memorandum takes force two days early, Hormuz theoretically reopens (if you ignore the mines), and a reservist falls on the Litani enforcing the war the paper says is over.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, June 17
Washington signs Iran’s strait open and will not let Jerusalem read the page, while the draft fight cracks the coalition and the IDF keeps enforcing the clauses no one signed.
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Israel Brief: Tuesday, June 16
The IDF keeps working its missions, the coalition trades the draft law for an arrest-freeze, and Europe boards up the booths.
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Israel Brief: Monday, June 15
Trump dates the Iran signing to Friday and folds in a Lebanon clause, and the PM who staked everything on his American friend now has to distance himself.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, June 14
Trump sells Iran an open strait for a stockpile "diluted at an appropriate time," and the IDF is advancing on Nabatieh.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, June 11
American jets work Iran’s air defenses a second night and spare the energy core, Riyadh routes its freight through Ankara, and the coalition remains busy.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, June 10
American jets are firing into Iran, and the question of whether Israel was dragging Washington into a war just answered itself.
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Israel Brief: Tuesday, June 9
Israel and Iran stop firing on Trump's word, the prime minister ends a loaded strike on a phone call, and the question is who decides.
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Israel Brief: Monday, June 8
Iran fires its first direct barrage in two months, Israel strikes back into Tehran’s air defenses, and Trump tells the prime minister he does not call the shots.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, June 7
Qassem rejects the deal from the pulpit and the north buries three more, Iran maps Trump’s floor with live fire, and a gunman works the Sharon.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, June 4
A fourth Washington round signs a Lebanon text Hezbollah answers with rockets and a drone at a general, while Iran fires on a Gulf airport and argues with itself about whether it fired.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, June 3
Iran puts ballistic missiles on Kuwait and Bahrain, and Hezbollah fires through a fourth round of talks.
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Israel Brief: Tuesday, June 2
Netanyahu ordered the Beirut strike. Trump turned it back by nightfall, Iran walked from the talks it needs, and the Knesset voted itself toward elections.
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Israel Brief: Monday, June 1
Every deferral Israel postponed is coming due — Beaufort retaken, the yeshiva budget cut, Joseph’s Tomb reopened — while Tehran reloads behind a memorandum nobody has signed.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, May 31
The army crosses the Litani and takes Gaza to 70 percent while the talks, the courts, and the memoranda are still deciding whether to begin.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, May 28
Israel takes ground in Lebanon and the money line in Gaza while Tehran, Beirut, and the UN reach for paper they can no longer back with anything heavier.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, May 27
Washington strikes IRGC mine-layers inside Tehran’s ceasefire window, the cabinet names the Beirut veto, and Kosher Kingdom burns on Golders Green Road.
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Israel Brief: Tuesday, May 26
Hormuz strike answers Tehran’s drafting, Zamir asks for Beirut, and Riyadh keeps two answers on the only currency that matters.
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Israel Brief: Monday, May 25
Washington drafts a framework that leaves Iran’s missiles and proxies standing, and the only enforcement actually running is the IDF doing it by hand.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, May 24
The war Israel fought is being settled in a room Israel was kept out of, while the enforcement nobody else will do still gets done by hand.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, May 20
Trump walks Iran to the weekend, the Knesset dissolves itself 110-0, the Hague climbs from the cabinet to the general staff.
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Israel Brief: Tuesday, May 19
Trump pulls Tuesday’s strike at the Gulf’s request as Tehran prices the subsea cables into the next round, and the AG’s sealed envelope on Gofman backs Gofman.
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Israel Brief: Monday, May 18
Trump posts the ultimatum a day before tomorrow's Iran situation room, and the coalition prices the haredi vote on dissolution day itself.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, May 17
The Ghost is dead, Pay-for-Slay is officially back, the Iran deck is being rebuilt, and the coalition files its own dissolution while the army runs on a check that has not cleared.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, May 14
Katz files the dissolution bill while the IRGC grabs a tanker and the cabinet readies the deeper Lebanon maneuver. Netanyahu has chosen to run the election into the war.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, May 13
Englman names what the state refused to fix, Landau pulls the bloc, and the Gulf goes on the record.
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Israel Brief: Tuesday, May 12
The Ohio-class transits Gibraltar, Brussels sanctions the towns alongside the Hamas leaders, and the IDF moves without waiting on either.
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Israel Brief: Monday, May 11
The framework written on Pakistani paper collapses while the strike map rewrites south Lebanon. The Yellow Line consolidates underneath. The AG petitions Bagatz to override the committee she defends.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, May 10
Fire in Hormuz, the framework window still open — and, as expected, the AG files to block the next Mossad chief.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, May 7
Trump's one-week deadline meets Tehran's forty-eight-hour silence. Beirut answers linkage clause before the framework can write it in.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, May 6
The IRGC reaches for the soft Gulf target as Trump freezes the strait around it. Inside Israel, the coalition's brakes file their Thursday deadlines while the field sorts itself for the vote.
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Israel Brief: Monday, May 4
A long week ahead in a galaxy not far enough away
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Israel Brief: Sunday, May 3
Iran rebuilds in the pause — while three Western institutions catch up to what Israel has been naming.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, April 30
Trump holds the Lebanon track as London names the proxy network and the AG cuts the yeshiva donor line.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, April 29
Iran names its collapse as Smotrich restores Sa-Nur and the diaspora environment splits in both directions.
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Israel Brief: Tuesday, April 28
Three exposures in one day: FBI affidavit, UNIFIL meeting, Hormuz traffic count.
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Israel Brief: Monday, April 27
Paper architectures fail their first audits this week. The operational ones don't.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, April 26
Three adversaries weaker than they have been in decades — and the political calendar finally moves.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, April 23
Europe fluctuates. Hungary threatens arrest. Lebanon opens a war-crimes track — and Yahalom accelerates the demolitions.
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Israel Brief: Monday, April 20
Tehran walks out of Islamabad as the Yellow Line collects its first body — thirty hours to the Tuesday night Iran cliff.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, April 19
The ceasefires are fragile. The leverage that produced them is not.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, April 16
The IDF finishes Bint Jbeil as the cabinet considers capping the operation. Hamas, Tehran, and Luxembourg spend the week it bought them.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, April 15
Three tracks converging on April 21 — Lebanon at State, Hormuz at sea, and a Shin Bet weaponization disclosure landing as the Ben-Gvir hearing opens.
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Israel Brief: Monday, April 13
No deal in Islamabad, a blockade at Hormuz on a published timetable, and a 60-day War Powers clock now running against eight days of ceasefire.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, April 12
Two walk-outs in one weekend: Vance from Islamabad, Hamas from the deadline.
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Israel Brief: Tuesday, March 31
Israel declares "completion phase" — but the Gulf states, the High Court, and Hezbollah's anti-tank teams haven't received the memo.
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Israel Brief: Monday, March 30
The budget passed at midnight with NIS 800 million the Attorney General tried to block and 109 votes the opposition meant not to cast. The coalition survives.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, March 29
The Houthis enter the war, the budget reaches the plenum, and the question shifts from whether the campaign succeeds to what success costs when no one agrees on the exit.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, March 26
Netanyahu orders a 48-hour strike surge before a ceasefire he can't control. Tehran names conditions Washington cannot accept. The Lebanese army's deception in the south unravels in real time.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, March 25
Washington deployed paratroopers and a ceasefire framework on the same day. Tehran rejected both. Jerusalem sent Dermer to protect its interests.
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Israel Brief: Tuesday, March 24
Israel degrades 70% of Iran's launcher fleet. Trump claims a deal Tehran denies. The coalition buys its budget with reforms it promised not to abandon.
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Israel Brief: Monday, March 23
The regime that cannot show its leader now cannot trust its own officers — and Washington is signaling it may seize the oil terminal that funds what remains.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, March 22
The campaign supposedly reaches its halfway mark. The home front absorbs what halfway costs — some 123 casualties in one night, two interception failures, and a five-year-old in the ICU.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, March 19
Israel kills Iran's de facto leader and strikes South Pars — then Trump tells Jerusalem to stop. The war enters the phase where escalation constrains allies faster than enemies.
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Israel Brief: Monday, March 16
Israel opens the "Quds file" across the Middle East. The IDF asks for 450,000 reservists. The Gulf states cheer from the sidelines.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, March 15
Iran's regime is bleeding out — and lashing at anything within reach, from Gulf tankers to Michigan synagogues to its own citizens.
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Israel Brief: Thursday, March 12
Iran claims coordinated fire with Hezbollah for the first time. The Strait of Hormuz becomes even more contested. Israel warns Lebanon: act on your promises or lose your infrastructure.
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Israel Brief: Wednesday, March 11
Iran mines the Strait of Hormuz and loses its fleet in hours. Hezbollah's missile penetrates central Israel without a siren. Netanyahu clears the budget by shelving the domestic fights.
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Israel Brief: Monday, March 9
Oil burns in Iran and Tehran grapples with succession.
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Israel Brief: Sunday, March 8
Phase 2 begins in Iran. Phase 1 hasn't ended at home.