The countries in between get to decide how much of somebody else's war they are willing to carry, and none of them asked for the job. Israel spent the weekend on the actor actually in the way. And at home, the rules that are supposed to govern an election turn out not to cover the situation the country is in.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Iran: Bessent aims Washington's economic campaign at the countries carrying Iran's oil and money, and Tehran calls them enemies. See Israel and the World.
Gaza: Katz orders every launch out of Gaza treated as an act of war, and threatens to move civilians out. See The War Today.
Syria: Israel's Mossad chief meets Syria's foreign minister in Jordan, five days after Israeli jets cratered Abu al-Duhur. See The War Today.
Judea and Samaria: A soldier is stabbed on Route 90 and a rifle grabbed at Rimonim, and both attackers are stopped. See The War Today.
Eisenkot: Shin Bet chief Zini refuses the poll-leading candidate a security detail, and Netanyahu orders him protected anyway. See Inside Israel.
Police oversight: The High Court freezes Levin's appointments to the rebuilt Police Investigations Department until it rules on the election period. See Inside Israel.
The ballot: Lists are due in a little over two weeks, and no mainstream poll gives either bloc the 61 seats. See Inside Israel.
Golan: Trump's envoy Barrack calls the Golan occupied on Friday and reverses himself on the record by Sunday. See Israel and the World.
Hamas: Hamas drops eleven points in ten months, and goes looking for Mohammed Dahlan in Egypt. See Israel and the World.
Incitement: Twitch's Hasan Piker tells his audience that American Jews who back Israel are inviting the violence. See Israel and the World.
Australia: Melbourne's mayor tells Australia's antisemitism commission his synagogues are tagged almost weekly, and asks Canberra to pay. See Israel and the World.
Draft: Peleg calls its people back onto Highway 4 this afternoon after a yeshiva student is handed to the Military Police. See Developments to Watch.
Melbourne can clean a wall inside an hour and cannot find who wrote on it. An Israeli in Athens got walked out of a party by men his own government has no word with. Israel has a runway it can crater and a road it can search.
Today: Washington's economic campaign opens on the countries carrying Iran, a runway strike that produced a Syrian delegation, and a front-runner nobody will guard.
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