Israel Brief: Tuesday, December 9
Phase II Scripts Get Softer, Borders and Barriers Get Harder
Shalom, friends.
Quick note before we dive in: today’s Brief is going out a bit earlier than usual — I’m grabbing a flight back to Israel and wanted this on your desk before boarding, not after landing. Boarding shortly, currently enjoying a moment in a sun-glared corner of a lounge to get this out to you. I’m reminded of a time a few months ago when I was (terrified) in a lounge in Beirut’s airport counting the seconds until we could leave—this is more pleasant, though much of the happenings below are anything but.
Hamas is back on the streets in Gaza, its police and checkpoints restored, while its leaders talk about “freezing” weapons and EU planners design an “International Stabilization Force” that pointedly avoids disarming anyone. To the north, the IDF is still hitting Radwan infrastructure as Lebanon’s own speaker begs Tehran for a fatwa on Hezbollah’s rockets and Brussels dreams of training Lebanese police to free the army’s hands. At home, Israel has started pouring concrete into a 310-mile Jordan barrier, kept 280,000 reservists on emergency footing, and is trying to pass a draft law with Haredi protests blocking highways and Shas holding the budget hostage—in other words the adult are working while others throw tantrums. In Europe, intelligence services now warn Hamas is gearing up for external operations against Jewish and Israeli targets, even as a Gaza butcher wanders a Belgian Christmas market and “reporters” with Hamas ranks are mourned at Washington galas.
Here’s the situation before we get on the plane.
⚡️Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Gaza: Hamas restores police and checkpoints, talks about “storing” weapons while IDF strikes an imminent-threat cell in Deir al-Balah. See The War Today.
Hostages & Phase II: Hamas and Red Cross resume searches for Ran Gvili’s body as talk grows of starting Phase B before Christmas. See The War Today & Developments to Watch.
North: IDF hits Radwan training sites; Nabih Berri asks Iran to bless handing rockets to LAF amid Shia anger. See The War Today & Developments to Watch.
Iran / Axis: Western intel expects Hamas terror attempts in Europe within six months, using pre-positioned cells and crime networks. See Developments to Watch & Israel and the World.
Inside Israel: Construction begins on a 310-mile Jordan barrier; emergency Order 8 for 280,000 reservists extended; Katz and Zamir cut a partial appointments deal. See Inside Israel.
Politics & law: State Comptroller clashes with ex-Shin Bet “Oscar” over Oct 7 audit; Haredi draft protests block Highway 4 as Shas threatens the budget. See Inside Israel.
Diplomacy & info-war: US–Israel–Qatar meet in New York; Trump–Netanyahu set for Mar-a-Lago December 29; UNRWA raid in Jerusalem sparks UN outrage while Hamas terrorists are honored as “reporters” in Washington. See Israel and the World & Briefly Noted.
The gap between language and reality is getting wider by the day. Hamas offers to put its guns in the closet, not in the garbage heap, while the same capitals that spent twenty years ignoring its tunnels now churn out PowerPoints about peacekeeping forces that will “monitor” a ceasefire they can’t enforce. The IDF’s answer is refreshingly non-theoretical: hit Radwan’s real compounds, kill operatives planning attacks, lock-down the Yellow Line and start sealing the Jordan frontier with steel and Nahal outposts, not wishful thinking. Inside the country, you can feel a state working towards lasting security… building borders, keeping reserve capacity, fighting over who commands the state sword — while the legal system and parts of the intelligence guild and some of the politicos still look for reasons not to sit under the same light as everyone else after October 7.
The War Today
Gaza: Hamas Back on the Street, Not on the Way Out
Hamas has used the ceasefire and partial IDF withdrawal to reassert control over the half of Gaza it still holds. Its police are back on the streets. It has restored its checkpoints. They continue to execute rivals—in broad daylight and, obviously, with no due process. Indeed, much like the witch trials, people often denounce their neighbor as a collaborate to settle petty disputes. And it collects “taxes” on high-value imports to refill its coffers. Israeli and Arab intel estimate it still fields ~20,000 fighters and more than half its tunnel network. Senior Hamas officials now speak more softly for Western audiences but still say the same thing. Bassem Naim offers to “freeze or store” weapons only in exchange for a full IDF withdrawal and a Palestinian state from Judea and Samaria to Gaza and Jerusalem, and Taher al-Nunu clarifies that Hamas’s and other factions’ arsenals will become the official weapons of that state, explicitly rejecting any international force tasked with disarming them.
Amid all this, around Gaza, the international hardware looks impressive. A U.S.-run Civil-Military Coordination Center, that is definitely not infringing on Israeli sovereignty, in Kiryat Gat that’s covered in printed copies of Trump’s 20-point plan, and serious talks on an International Stabilization Force for Phase II, with Italy now the first European state openly considering sending troops. Inside that structure, the story is different. The Guardian reports deep friction at the CMCC after the U.S. commander demanded Israel stop secretly recording meetings. Diplomats complain Palestinians are excluded even from video calls and that “Gazans” are treated as “end users” in a dystopian logistics startup. At the same time, sources say the emerging ISF mandate will explicitly avoid direct disarmament of Hamas, focusing on “peacekeeping” and maybe destroying infrastructure while leaving confrontation with the organization to… no one? Hamas, for its part, says no state will send soldiers to forcibly disarm “the resistance,” and the Europeans designing this circus know it.
Assessment: Hamas is not transitioning out of power, it’s transitioning back into it under a bogus ceasefire umbrella, and every word about “stored” weapons is just a demand to swap underground brigades for above ground brigades. The international architecture being built around Gaza is designed to manage the optics of demilitarization, not the guns. A Gaza reconstruction plan that assumes a demilitarized strip while Hamas runs police, tunnels, revenue, and ideology is pure fantasy. The movement continues to tell you it will only discuss its guns as part of an Israeli capitulation package. The more Washington and Europe invest in these structures without a real disarmament mandate, the more they will resist any future Israeli operation that actually strips Hamas of its weapons. If Israel doesn’t etch its red lines—no Phase II without real disarmament—into this system now, it will wake up later to find its freedom of action shrink-wrapped by the very “stabilization” mechanisms built in its name.
Northern Front: Israel Hits Radwan While Brussels Plans Post-UNIFIL Lebanon
The IDF just struck Radwan Force infrastructure in southern Lebanon, including a training and qualification compound used to prepare cross-border attack teams, on top of a freshly dismantled tunnel and weapons depot that still held mortar rounds meant for Israel. In Brussels, meanwhile, the EU’s diplomatic arm is circulating a plan to bolster Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces so the Lebanese Army can “focus” on disarming Hezbollah once UNIFIL begins its drawdown after 2026. The idea is advice, training, and some kit—not replacing UNIFIL — alongside a separate roadmap from Macron’s envoy to “assess” Hezbollah’s disarmament. I’m sure it’ll be just as ineffective. On the Lebanese side, Speaker Nabih Berri is reportedly begging Tehran for a fatwa that would allow Hezbollah to hand its missile and UAV arsenal to the LAF, while simultaneously requesting Iranian cash for tens of thousands of devastated Shia families in the south—families who are increasingly angry at being left with rubble, no jobs, and vague promises.
Assessment: On the ground, Israel is degrading Hezbollah’s real capability. Everywhere else, planners are drawing organizational charts that assume a functioning Lebanese state and an army that isn’t welded to Hezbollah. Berri’s appeal to Iran and the EU’s ISF/LAF tinkering both admit that the key to Hezbollah’s weapons sits in Tehran, not Beirut, Brussels, or New York. If Israel waits for these diplomatic contraptions to mature, it will still be facing the same rockets—just stored in LAF bases with EU training certificates hanging on the wall. The IDF understands this. That’s why it’s taking Radwan’s launch grids apart now, before those assets acquire a UN sticker.
From Gaza to Europe: Hamas External Ops Come Online
Western intelligence agencies assess there is a “high likelihood” of Hamas-led attacks in Europe over the next six months, targeting Israeli diplomatic missions, businesses with Israeli links, and Jewish or Israel-associated religious sites, as the group activates cells, weapons caches, and organized-crime ties built quietly between 2019 and 2025. The report, echoed by former UK counterterror adviser Col. Richard Kemp, says Hamas has embedded trusted operatives, stashed arms and built logistics networks across the continent, and is increasingly willing to accept the strategic risk of external operations as its Gaza infrastructure absorbs attrition. This isn’t spontaneous lone-wolf incitement or independent al-Qaeda cells. Instead, it is deliberate extension of the same IRGC-backed terror ecosystem whose money pipelines through Turkey and whose media arms whitewash October 7 as “creative resistance.”
Assessment: Hamas is treating Europe as the next proving ground for its relevance. The more it is squeezed at home, the more incentive it has to show it can still hit Jews and Israelis abroad. For Israel, that means its Gaza operations and the international security concerns are now the same problem set, not separate ones. European services can either pretend this is a policing issue and keep wringing their hands about “radicalization,” or they can admit they are dealing with a foreign-directed terror army that requires Israeli intelligence and coordinated offensive measures. Either way, the axis has already drawn its new map. The only question is whether Europe continues to be the terrain or finally decides to be a combatant on the right side.
Inside Israel
Baram’s Barrier and Katz–Zamir Deal Signal War-Footing Maturity
Israel has kicked off construction of a 310-mile multilayered barrier along the Jordan border, starting with 80 km in the valleys north of Samaria — a NIS 6-billion project that couples physical defense with new Nahal outposts, a dedicated Jordan Valley division, and an explicit plan to strengthen Jewish settlement, agriculture, and infrastructure all along the eastern border. At the same time, the Knesset extended the emergency Order 8 framework for up to 280,000 reservists until January 1, after Defense Minister Israel Katz said the manpower buffer is still needed even as paid reserve days in 2026 drop from 60 to 40 per soldier. Katz and IDF chief Eyal Zamir also reached a partial truce in their appointments fight. Dozens of brigade and battalion-level officers are now being promoted across the ground forces and IAF, while a handful of General Staff posts remain frozen pending Katz’s third-round October 7 review. As to internal security, police and medics contained a bloody clan brawl outside the Be’er Sheva courthouse, and the Shin Bet wrapped another Iranian infiltration case — a 16-year-old recruited over Telegram, paid in crypto, and tasked with political vandalism and probing sensitive sites before he broke and called the police.
Assessment: Hard borders going up to the east, a large reserve bank kept available even as the finance side trims exposure, and a defense minister willing to fight with his chief of staff inside the tent rather than let the old deep-state culture continue unchallenged. The eastern barrier plus the Jordan Valley division are Smotrich’s strategic plans turned into concrete. The Katz–Zamir compromise keeps the army functioning while reminding the brass who actually sets policy. Iran’s use of minors and Bedouin clan feuds as pressure points are the flip side of the same coin — internal fissures the enemy will keep driving wedges into. The direction is right, though there is a way to go.
War Poor, Haredi Leverage, and a Prime Minister Under Fire
Inside the Knesset, the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee extended the emergency reservist call-up even as Boaz Bismuth tries to push a Haredi enlistment outline that critics say is too soft and Shas and UTJ say is the minimum price of stability. Aryeh Deri has now drawn a clear line. Shas will not support the 2026 budget unless Haredi families are restored to the food-voucher scheme from which Finance Ministry officials surgically removed them after the Haredi parties walked out over the draft bill. Netanyahu touted record employment, a strong shekel, new defense exports, and upcoming meetings with Trump and Putin as proof that Israel’s strategic weight is rising, not shrinking — and branding calls for him to take a plea and quit as opposition fantasy. All this lands as Latet’s “war poor” report shows the obvious. October 7 and two years of mobilization shoved tens of thousands of working families — including reservists and small business owners — into structural distress; two minimum wages no longer cover real basic needs, and food insecurity has jumped deep into the lower middle class.
Assessment: This government is juggling live grenades. The draft fight is messy, but the logic is sound. Move Haredim into service in stages without blowing up the coalition that is still needed for the northern round. Deri is doing what every coalition partner does in Israel — using the budget to protect his voters — and he’s not wrong that bureaucrats were happy to cut Haredi kids first. The poverty numbers are a warning, not yet quite an indictment. A state at war that doesn’t shore up its working poor will pay in cohesion what it saves in line items. Netanyahu’s “stronger than ever” line is is aspirational as Israel intends to come out of this war with harder borders, more settlers east of the Green Line, a bigger, more integrated army — and a social contract rebuilt so that the people who carry the rifle can still buy groceries.
Ben-Gvir’s Noose, Shin Bet Silence, and a State Still Avoiding the Mirror
Itamar Ben-Gvir walked into the National Security Committee wearing a gold noose pin as his Otzma Yehudit party advanced its death-penalty-for-terrorists bill, openly mulling hanging, the chair, or lethal injection and claiming eager doctors are already volunteering. The symbolism enraged the left, which accused him of hijacking the yellow-ribbon hostage campaign; Ben-Gvir’s base heard something else entirely: a state that intends to stop treating mass murderers as VIP prisoners and start treating them as dead men walking. At the same moment, the State Comptroller’s October 7 audit hit another wall when “Oscar,” the former Shin Bet southern commander on duty that day, formally refused to appear, arguing the Comptroller lacks authority until a full state commission is formed and the AG blesses it. The Shin Bet’s current director, David Zini, is cooperating under a court-approved framework; former seniors are not. Families of the murdered and abducted see it all as one long dodge: no state commission, secret IDF debriefs, a Comptroller blocked by legal hairsplitting, and the man who owned the Gaza desk on October 7 saying “not yet.”
Assessment: On one side, you have a government finally willing to say that some irredeemable terrorists should never be a bargaining chip. On the other, you have parts of the system still unwilling to own their failure on the morning that made those terrorists infamous. The instinct to punish jihadists harder is healthy. The refusal of a key Shin Bet veteran to sit in a room and answer questions is not.
Israel and the World
From Mamdani to Munk: The Diaspora Battlespace Hardens
New York, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Warsaw and American campuses all lit up this week with the same argument: is Jewish survival legitimate, or an offense. In New York, President Herzog used a Yeshiva University gala to call out incoming NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani, who defended an “intifada” mob outside Park East Synagogue by claiming aliyah events violate “international law,” and Herzog spelled it out: delegitimizing Jewish return is both anti-Jewish and anti-American. In Canada, the StopAntisemitism report gave 14 marquee universities an F on antisemitism as nearly 40% of Jewish students were forced to hide their identity and 60% are personally blamed for “Israeli crimes,” while outside Toronto’s Munk Debate on Israel, 200 protesters tried and failed to shut down a serious discussion between four Israeli leaders — security checks, screened ticketing and three arrests later, 3,000 people still heard an actual debate. In Argentina, far-left MPs used their oath of office to swear “from the river to the sea” and praise “boys and girls massacred in Gaza,” prompting DAIA to file a formal complaint and a Jewish legislator to introduce a bill barring foreign-policy stunts in the oath. In Poland, the nationalist right tried to crush Yoav Potash’s film “Among Neighbors,” which documents Poles who murdered returning Jewish survivors, branding it “anti-Polish manipulation” — another state-backed attempt to erase local complicity and retreat into pure-victim mythology.
Assessment: Jewish life in the West is once again a referendum. A good answer is not a given. History shows what is on the road ahead if we don’t change course. Israel is the proxy question on every ballot, cinema screen, and campus quad—though, really, it’s just about Jews. This is one continuous front, and we need to treat it that way.
No Arab Force Will Fix Gaza — Graham Admits
On the hard-power side, Senator Lindsey Graham dropped the diplomatic filter: “there is no way to disarm Hamas through some Arab force.” In his JNS interview he backed Israel “going into Gaza to finish Hamas off,” dismissed Trump’s Arab-only ISF concept as fantasy, and linked real normalization with Saudi Arabia directly to neutralizing Hamas and weakening Hezbollah, not to more photo ops. He also pledged to back cutting federal funds to US universities that won’t protect Jewish students and warned that Republicans flirting with “Israel is a liability” are playing with fire. On the south-south axis, Israel quietly chalked up another win: Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar is in Washington to sign the formal restoration of diplomatic ties with Bolivia, reversing the Morales-era break. The new Bolivian president campaigned on reopening to the world, already scrapped visas for Israelis, and chose Israel as one of his first post-election calls.
Assessment: Arab regimes have zero appetite to “do Israel’s dirty work” in Gaza, and Graham is blunt enough to say that only Israeli force will strip Hamas and Hezbollah of their guns. Every serious Arab partner — MBS, MBZ — wants the same result in the short term and prefers Israel to own it. Though, we ought not forget their longterm goals re: Israel are incompatible with, well, Israel. At the same time, Latin states like Bolivia are edging back toward Jerusalem as they decide whether they want to sit with Iran’s clients or with countries that can actually help them grow.
Briefly Noted
Frontline & Security
Israel National News: A Gazan who took part in the October 7 massacre was spotted strolling a Christmas market in Belgium. Europe keeps lecturing Israel on “proportionality” while letting Hamas butchers sip vin brule under fairy lights.
Jerusalem Post: Over 100 people, including 63 children, were slaughtered when Sudan’s RSF hit a kindergarten and nearby hospital with heavy weapons and drones. The same “international community” that screams about Gaza is somehow very quiet about an actual child massacre with zero Israelis involved.
Jerusalem Post: US Army cyber chief Brandon Pugh said in Israel that many of America’s biggest cyber wins against China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are invisible — sometimes even to the adversaries that got owned — and highlighted new five-person “expeditionary firing crews” that blend cyber and electronic warfare on the tactical edge. For Israel, it’s a reminder that the real alliance is increasingly about sharing code, drones, and spectrum tricks below the radar, not just joint press conferences and Patriot batteries on the tarmac.
JNS: United Hatzalah volunteer Moshe Weizman discovered that the badly wounded officer he tourniqueted and evacuated on October 7 was Roman Gofman, now tapped as the next Mossad director. It’s a neat circle of Israeli reality: the guy who drove south under fire to fight on Black Shabbat is the same one now being handed the keys to the kingdom — and he’s alive to do it because a random volunteer knew his trauma drill cold.
Ynet: Testimony to the Turgeman inquiry shows Southern Command twice pushed plans to kill Deif and Sinwar — plus a broader four-phase strike — but political leaders and the General Staff repeatedly shelved them to “keep Gaza calm” and focus on Iran–Hezbollah. The picture is brutal: years of conscious strategic choice to leave Hamas leadership alive as a management tool, while Jericho Wall sat on their computers and, pitifully, nobody with authority treated “destroy them first” as a serious option.
Diplomacy & Geopolitics
Times of Israel: UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council forces have seized much of oil-rich southern Yemen, flying the old South Yemen flag over airports, palaces, and borders while Saudi briefly closed Yemeni airspace as a warning shot. The anti-Houthi camp is fracturing into Emirati and Saudi spheres, which means Iran’s regional enemies are in-fighting, and leaving Iran to its own devices.
Israel National News: The International Court of Justice agreed to hear Russia’s counter-case accusing 41 Ukrainian officials of “genocide” against ethnic Russians in Donetsk and Luhansk. We really ought just disband the ICC at this point, the farce is getting far too costly.
Jewish Insider: The US House Foreign Affairs Committee gutted a Muslim Brotherhood terror-designation bill, stripping mandatory designations and sanctions in favor of a softer “assessment” report. Washington is once again saying all the right words about Islamists while still supporting them!
Domestic & Law
Israel National News: CAIR announced it will sue Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for “defamation” after he ordered the state to treat the group as a foreign terrorist organization. It’s a classic move from a Brotherhood-adjacent shop: try to turn a legitimate terror-designation debate into a First Amendment persecution story and scare other governors off following suit. Pols: please stop falling for the “Islamophobia” nonsense.
Culture, Religion & Society
Jerusalem Post: An Algerian nanny in France is on trial for poisoning a Jewish family’s food and drinks with corrosive chemicals, admitting she did it because they were Jews with “money and power.” But, sure, it’s about Israel not Jews.
Algemeiner: An essay dissects the annual “Jesus was a Palestinian refugee” meme, pointing out that Jesus was a Jew from Judea centuries before “Palestine” existed as a political term. Erasing the Jewishness of the most famous Jew in history is just another item in the campaign to uproot Jews from their own land and story.
Jerusalem Post: A Washington press-club gala held a solemn “memorial” for 10 Al Jazeera “Gazan reporters” who, according to IDF documents, included a Hamas sniper, a Nukhba operative, a PIJ rocket commander, and a cell head for rocket fire on Israeli civilians. Western media circles are now literally canonizing Hamas and PIJ terrorists as fallen colleagues — and then wonder why Israelis treat “independent journalism” with skepticism.
The CJN: An Orthodox Montrealer in LA spent a week davening at a Beverly Hills Reform shul, documenting pink tallitot, lots of singing, and a mostly-elderly membership instead of the antifa rainbow he’d been promised online. The piece quietly explodes some frum caricatures of Reform while still reminding you that the real denominational fault line is less about theology than whether anyone under 40 is in the room.
Developments to Watch
Northern Front (Lebanon / Syria)
Berri Begs Iran for a Weapons Fatwa — Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri privately appealed to Iran’s supreme leader for approval to transfer Hezbollah’s missile and UAV arsenal to the Lebanese Army — and asked for emergency cash for devastated Shia communities. This confirms Hezbollah’s collapse dilemma: its own base is breaking, but only Tehran can authorize surrender, tightening the logic for an Israeli-Iran confrontation. LIKELY TO ESCALATE
EU Eyes ISF Support to Free the Army — Brussels is exploring a plan to beef up Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces so the Lebanese Army can “focus” on disarming Hezbollah as UNIFIL winds down. It’s a fantasy framework — but the timing signals Europe expects a major shift before UNIFIL’s mandate expires.
Syria “Safe” Again — for Europe’s Convenience — The UK Foreign Office touted “hope” in post-Assad Syria to justify refugee repatriation, ignoring ongoing massacres of Kurds, Druze, and Alawites. If Europe officially labels Syria safe, Israel should expect new diplomatic pressure to treat the Syrian front as “restabilized,” regardless of facts on the ground.
Gaza & Southern Theater
Hamas Searches for Gvili’s Body — Hamas and the Red Cross have been pressured to resume searches for Staff Sgt. Ran Gvili’s body in Zeitoun. Movement here is the sole hinge for Phase II; any delay forces Israel to harden the Yellow Line as a long-term border stance.
IDF Airstrike in Deir al-Balah Breaks the Pattern — Israel conducted a targeted strike on a Hamas operative planning an imminent attack, killing him under ceasefire rules. If Hamas resumes short-range tactical probing, expect precision strikes to increase and the ceasefire narrative to unravel. LIKELY TO ESCALATE
Judea & Samaria
Terror Cell Activity Immediately Rising Again — IDF forces near Azzun killed one terrorist and neutralized another attempting to stone and ambush civilian traffic and yet another sniper attack was thwarted in Burkin hours later. These small cells test Israeli response speed — and often precede coordinated escalation attempts across the district.
Regional Axis (Iran, Militias, Houthis)
Hamas External Ops Green-Lit for Europe — Western intelligence warns of Hamas attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets in Europe within six months, using pre-positioned cells, crime networks, and weapons caches. This is Hamas shifting from local survival to global projection — a classic IRGC adaptation pattern. LIKELY TO ESCALATE
Diplomatic & Legal
US–Israel–Qatar Reset Summit Moves Quietly —A trilateral meeting in New York seeks to repair ties after the failed Israeli strike in Doha, even as Qatar still pushes to delay disarmament in Gaza. This is Washington trying to stabilize the diplomatic chessboard ahead of Trump–Netanyahu’s December 29 meeting.
UNRWA Raid Triggers UN Legal Posturing — Israeli police seized phones during a raid on a banned UNRWA facility in Sheikh Jarrah; Guterres condemned it as a violation of “inviolable” UN property. Expect UN lawfare escalation, especially as Israel asserts sovereignty over Jerusalem sites UNRWA refuses to vacate.
Gaza’s “day after” fantasy took another hit: a movement that can retake the streets, execute rivals, tax imports, and openly say its weapons become the future Palestinian army is not on its way out. Any Phase II that pretends an ISF can “keep peace” while Hamas keeps guns is just a more expensive version of October 6 with only bad outcomes.
Inside Israel, the amended war footprint is finally, visibly, taking shape: a fortified eastern spine, a massive reservist pool kept legally on call, Katz forcing the General Staff to share the same oxygen as elected civilians, and a government mulling if some terrorists should end their story at the end of a rope. At the same time, you still see the old reflexes — a Shin Bet veteran refusing to participate in an audit, parts of the judiciary treating a collapsing trial as sacred scripture, Haredi protesters blocking roads while reservists quietly sign another Order 8 extension and “war poor” families slide off the edge.
Our job — in Gaza, on the Litani, in Judea and Samaria, and back on the Jordan line — is to answer with borders, doctrine, and laws that match the reality we’re in, not the one some people still wish we had.
— Uri Zehavi · Intelligence Editor
With Modi Zehavi · Data + Research Analyst
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