Plenty of people with standing to object used it today, and almost none of it moved anything. What did move got moved by people who did not stop to ask — Border Police pulling 1.4 million shekels of terror money out of a false wall on the road into Jerusalem, a Beit Shemesh congregation burying the scrolls that burned in March and expecting to be back inside the building for the chagim. Eight weeks out from a vote, that is the half of the day still standing in November.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Hormuz: American aircraft strike IRGC crews loading sea mines into a strait Washington declared clear on Friday. See The War Today.
The Pentagon: Four combatant commands and the chief of naval operations enter non-concur against holding the Iran force into 2027. See The War Today.
Gaza: Israel strikes a Hamas commander inside a Deir al-Balah hospital compound four days after warning medical authorities. See The War Today.
Givati: Sixteen soldiers go to detention for refusing a mission their own brigade rabbi ruled they were permitted to run. See Inside Israel.
The draft: Hundreds of haredim enlist past the picket line as Shas refuses to join a government before the exemption law. See Inside Israel.
The ballot: Rabbis order the small parties to merge, and the polling says the merger costs the camp two seats. See Inside Israel.
Sanctions: Bessent promises a designated bank a week, and the Emirati and Egyptian central banks answer jointly within a day. See Israel and the World.
The Mecca pact: Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan open joint staffs and joint weapons production in Istanbul today. See Israel and the World.
AFP: A wire folds B'Tselem's June count into one sentence and sends it to a dozen mastheads undated. See Israel and the World.
The CBC: The terrorism rule bends in a day for September 11 and holds against Hamas after three years. See Israel and the World.
Britain: Mirvis, the Board and the JLC tell Miliband his Judea and Samaria measures will reach British Jews. See Israel and the World.
Michigan: El-Sayed apologizes to the state party's Jewish caucus, and the attorney general asks them to vote on other things. See Israel and the World.
The Iran campaign has run into arithmetic that does not care about anyone's November — destroyers in dock, and a strait that has to be re-cleared every time Tehran sails a boat out to it. At home the arithmetic is seats, and everybody working it has figured out that anything settled after 27 October is settled too late. Abroad the rule that matters keeps getting written in a room the people it lands on are not in.
Today: the Larak strike and Iran's answer into Jordan, four American commands objecting to orders they will carry out, and sixteen Givati soldiers in detention.
The Jewish State — Mitzpe's eight-session live course on Israeli history from the Mandate to October 7, taught the way the brief reads. Cohort 1: eight Sundays from Oct 11. mitzpe.org/the-jewish-state