A Note from the Editor: Pesach Break
Israel Brief pauses for Pesach. The war doesn't — but the table is set anyway.
Shalom, friends.
Today’s Daily Brief and Advocate’s Brief are our last editions before Pesach. Israel Brief does not publish on Shabbat or Jewish holidays — the full schedule is here. That means we’re off until Sunday, April 12, when we return with the Daily Brief and the April Strategic Assessment [delayed a bit from its usual slot by the holiday].
The war will not pause while we do. Iran is still firing. Soldiers are still fighting. The “completion phase” declared this week will meet reality on multiple fronts before we publish again. We’ll cover what moved — and what it means — when we’re back.
In the meantime, if you want to read something of mine during the break, I write a weekly column called Finding the Joy on the Kosher Duck Revolution website. Three columns are coming out over Pesach and the Shabbatot surrounding it — one on the first seder as a wartime meal (7 AM Eastern on April 1st), one on the fifth cup and the promise that hasn’t been fulfilled yet (7 AM Eastern on April 3rd), and one for Parashat Shemini and what the eighth day asks of a structure built to hold both joy and grief (7 AM Eastern on April 10th). Different register. Still me. You can find them here.
If you're looking for something with more analytical weight, the break is a great time to catch up on the Long Brief archive. Deep dives — from the jihadist continuum to the unfinished constitution to the infrastructure that makes Israeli sovereignty physically real. They're written as reference documents, rather than reactions — and they haven’t expired.
We are spending the holiday with friends, family, and faith. We hope you are too.
Chag Pesach sameach. See you on the 12th.
— Uri