Israel Brief: Thursday, September 18

Hostages in Gaza, rebels against Hamas, lasers over the Negev, and Jews defending themselves from Halifax to Houston—this is our present tense.

Shalom and welcome to today’s Israel Brief.

This briefing moves from the battlefield to the home front to the wider region. In Gaza, the fate of hostages grows more urgent as Hamas relocates captives while the IDF presses deeper into the city. Inside Israel, evacuees return with quiet determination, even as violent crime reminds us that resilience must …