Israel Brief: Thursday, May 14
Katz files the dissolution bill while the IRGC grabs a tanker and the cabinet readies the deeper Lebanon maneuver. Netanyahu has chosen to run the election into the war.
Ofir Katz filed the dissolution bill yesterday with every coalition faction signed on. Two September dates sit on the board. The House Committee Katz himself chairs holds the pen on which one. The cabinet told Zamir two weeks ago to bring back the plan for a deeper Lebanon maneuver. The IRGC grabbed a tanker off Fujairah this morning. The coalition is dissolving with three active fronts running hot and the haredi-draft enforcement deadline landing inside the campaign.
The coalition filed its own dissolution bill yesterday with every faction signed on, and two September dates now sit on the board. Today's Israel Brief reads a government dissolving with three fronts running hot and the haredi-draft enforcement deadline landing inside the campaign. The full edition digs into what Likud filing its own dissolution costs the opposition more than Netanyahu, why the cabinet's standing-plan instruction to Zamir turns Hezbollah's perishability into a calendar question, and what Sarah Lawrence rejecting a two-state Jewish campus group does to the sorting curve.
Every Israeli election since the 1977 upheaval has answered on the security axis.
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