Israel Brief: Sunday, November 30
The tunnels are collapsing, the north is ticking, and the legal system is learning that Israel can’t fight Iran with half its institutions stuck in 2019.
Shavua tov, friends.
Rafah is coughing up starving Hamas fighters as the underground grid buckles. The Syrian line just turned kinetic eight kilometers over the border. Hezbollah keeps promising revenge but can’t decide whether dignity or survival matters more. Judea and Samaria is running on combat logic, not Oslo nostalgia. And inside Israel, the political, legal, and military echelons are wrestling over who actually leads when the rockets come.
⚡️Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Rafah: Four more tunnel fugitives — including the son of Razi Hamed and a battalion commander — were killed as the grid collapses and dozens remain trapped. See The War Today.
Lebanon/Syria: Hezbollah vows retaliation while UNIFIL leaks intel and Israel reinforces the Hermon line after a Beit Jinn ambush wounded seven. See The War Today & Developments to Watch.
Judea & Samaria: IDF encircles the Tammun–Tubas belt, demolishes Jenin terror structures, and busts Turkey–Jordan gun pipelines feeding the ridge. See The War Today.
Iran / Axis: Tehran accelerates weapons to Hezbollah, smuggling into PA zones, and maritime signaling, while Houthis hype a “Golan” front. See Developments to Watch & Israel and the World.
Inside Israel: Netanyahu’s pardon request moves into formal review; law enforcement arrests far-left instigator calling for violent overthrow; Android ban and Morpheus AI enter force. See Inside Israel.
Diplomacy: Germany resumes arms sales and sends its chancellor to Jerusalem; Qatar pushes “phase two” while bodies are still withheld; Europe spins deeper into soft hate. See Israel and the World.
Aviation: Global A320 grounding may disrupt Israel’s flight corridors this week even as El Al remains unaffected. See Developments to Watch.
Israel is engaging with reality while its enemies — and too many allied capitals — cling to illusions. Rafah isn’t “paused,” it’s being hollowed out. Syria isn’t quiet, it’s becoming Iran’s export lane. Hezbollah’s delay isn’t restraint, it’s weakness. And inside Israel, the old bureaucratic reflexes — delay, defer, deny — are finally being dragged into the daylight.