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Israel Brief: Friday, January 16
Trump advances “technocratic” rollout while Hamas keeps guns, cashflow, and a missing Israeli underground. Washington buys optionality on Iran. Israel’s…
15 hrs ago • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
The Long Brief: Manufactured Self-Defeat
How Palestinian leadership choices—not history alone—produced paralysis, stagnation, and isolation, while civilians paid the price.
Jan 15 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
Israel Brief: Thursday, January 15
Israel buys hours while Tehran sells uncertainty. Hamas tests the line, and the West tries to turn committees into control.
Jan 15 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
Israel Brief: Wednesday, January 14
Tehran’s killing cycle meets Washington’s decision cycle, while Hamas tries to turn “governance” into immunity. Inside Israel, courts and conscription…
Jan 14 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
Advocate’s Brief: Tuesday, January 13
A fast-escalating lawfare push is being framed into “responsible” positions you’re expected to adopt in the latest moves of institutional "common…
Jan 13 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
Israel Brief: Tuesday, January 13
Israel buys hours as Tehran threatens and Hamas measures response.
Jan 13 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
Israel Brief: Monday, January 12
Tehran kills in darkness as Washington studies the trigger. Israel keeps enforcing nearby fronts while the reserve bill keeps arriving.
Jan 12 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
Israel Brief: Sunday, January 11
Israel keeps enforcing across Gaza and Lebanon while Tehran blacks out its own country and searches for a pressure valve.
Jan 11 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
Israel Brief: Friday, January 9
Iran goes dark at home while it clears lanes abroad.
Jan 9 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
The Long Brief: Survival by Design
Why Jewish economic relevance has repeatedly functioned as a hedge against vulnerability — and why tolerance alone never has.
Jan 8 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
Israel Brief: Thursday, January 8
Contact on the edges. Tehran’s regime stress narrows the misread window while Hezbollah and Hamas keep probing the seams Israel actually controls.
Jan 8 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
Strategic Assessment: January 2026
A pause without resolution—and a region nearing its next inflection.
Jan 7 • Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
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