Israel Brief: Monday, November 3

Bodies as bargaining chips, rockets in motion, and a clock on Beirut and Tehran.

Shalom, friends.

Any calm is currently cosmetic and coincidental. In Gaza, Hamas trades corpses for corridors while armed men roam inside the Yellow Line. Up north, Israel accelerates attrition as Washington signals the window is closing on Hezbollah’s rearmament. At home, the state tightens discipline even as legal scandals and a mass corruption case te…