The war has moved onto the things Hezbollah and Iran cannot replace quickly — the concrete poured under the border villages, and the oil money that keeps Tehran solvent. Neither is close to settling, and the arguing over whether Israel may touch either is happening a long way from both. At home, a good deal of what got promised this weekend was promised on behalf of a government nobody has elected yet.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Lebanon: Katz speeds up the demolition, and Hezbollah would rather Israel take the ridge than the Lebanese army. See The War Today.
Syria: Trump's envoy calls the Idlib strike election bait, and Katz answers on Shabbat with the intelligence. See The War Today.
Gaza: Hamas flies kites over Nahal Oz to time Israel's response, and presses mediators to call a breach. See The War Today.
Draft: Deri buys Rabbi Yosef back by committing Shas's next coalition to the yeshiva exemption law. See Inside Israel.
Airport: A workers' committee chairman shuts Ben Gurion to arrivals on one of the year's busiest days. See Inside Israel.
Ankara: Turkey asks Interpol for a red notice on Netanyahu, off an Istanbul case naming 35 Israelis. See Israel and the World.
Iran: Bessent says the sanctions are meant to collapse the regime, and Qatar cuts its ministries and its aid. See Israel and the World.
Hollywood: Ruffalo attacks the Paramount-Warner merger through Oracle's work for the IDF, and Paramount answers on the record. See Israel and the World.
New York: Jewish teachers hand Mamdani 250 school incidents the city's own complaint forms could never have counted. See Israel and the World.
Gaza journalists: HonestReporting ties 120 of the 209 names on CPJ's Gaza list to armed groups. See Briefly Noted.
Hormuz: Tehran lets Iraqi oil through the strait it has kept shut since the end of February. See Developments to Watch.
The War Today runs three theaters on one question: what Israel will have finished before anybody else gets to rule on it. Inside Israel bends toward 27 October, where the exemption law and the next coalition's inheritance are both waiting on a result. The world sections are about reach — what an Interpol filing, a Treasury press conference and an actor's post can each actually make happen.
Today: Hezbollah choosing demolition over a handover, Washington putting regime collapse in writing, and a rabbi bought back with the next government's exemption bill.
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