Israel Brief: Tuesday, November 25
Lebanon turns into an axis franchise hub, and Israel starts cutting into the systems that failed on October 7 while the “international community” rebuilds the ecosystem that made it possible.
Shalom, friends.
On every front that matters, the war is still running; only the communiqués pretend it paused. In Rafah, the IDF is treating the ceasefire as a rules-of-engagement document while tunnels collapse, terrorists die on contact and a hostage’s body moves only when Hamas is reminded there is a price for delay. In Lebanon, Hezbollah is burying its chief of staff under Israeli drones, Hamas fighters are queuing up to join the next round and the Vatican is trying to deter war with a papal visit. At home, the system that failed on October 7 is finally paying in careers—inside the IDF, inside Mossad—and the political class is being dragged away from slogans toward real choices on the draft and the Muslim Brotherhood. Around all of it, Iran is spinning missiles and narratives, and Western systems keep wiring money, platforms and legitimacy to people who want Jews dead.
Here’s the day in one glance before we go deep.
⚡️Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Rafah: Nahal, Golani and Yahalom dismantle tunnels, kill 11 of 17 emerging terrorists; Hamas hands a hostage’s body to the Red Cross under pressure. See The War Today.
Lebanon: Hezbollah buries Tabataba’i under Israeli drones, Hamas units in Lebanon prep to join fighting, Pope insists on visiting anyway. See The War Today & Developments to Watch.
Iran / Axis: Tehran boasts expanded missile power, works with Russia on laser tech, Houthis publicly “support Lebanon and Palestine.” See The War Today & Developments to Watch.
Judea & Samaria: Joint IDF–Shin Bet ops kill Sultan al-Ghani in Jenin and Ala Shetiyya near Shechem, while an Arab mob stones a Jewish shepherd in western Binyamin. See The War Today & Inside Israel.
Inside the system: Mossad removes Brig. Gen. G, two 8200 colonels are dismissed, Katz–Zamir clash lands in the PM’s office and Likud holds its first national convention in 13 years. See Inside Israel.
Info-war and money: X exposes foreign-run protest accounts steering Israeli discourse, while Minnesota welfare and Swedish schools quietly feed jihadist networks abroad. See Israel and the World & Briefly Noted.
Diplomacy: Sa’ar signs a security pact in Paraguay, Trump orders a Muslim Brotherhood terror review, and France rolls out the carpet for Iran’s foreign minister. See Israel and the World.
The full brief and analysis continue below.
The through-line hasn’t changed, it just sharpened. Gaza’s “ceasefire” keeps functioning as a fire-control script for Israel and a meat grinder for Hamas: tunnels wrecked, infiltrators shot on sight, bodies returned home to Israel only under pressure. In the same strip, UNRWA’s school-and-clinic machine is being restored almost to pre–October 7 strength on the very ground that produced the last war. In the north, Israel has broken Hezbollah’s old “equations” by killing its chief of staff in Dahieh, flying drones over his funeral and now watching as Al-Qassam cadres in Lebanon line up to join the next campaign while the Pope is dropped in as a kind of human de-escalation bet. Inside Israel, you can feel the avoidance culture cracking: generals and colonels are being pushed out, Mossad is cutting loose a tainted MI veteran, Katz is forcing the IDF to accept outside scrutiny and Netanyahu is moving to finish the job on the Muslim Brotherhood that Texas and Trump just restarted in American law.
The War Today
Rafah’s Underground Dies While UNRWA Resurrects Hamas’s Ecosystem
In Rafah, the IDF is treating the ceasefire as a combat framework. Nahal and Golani—two of Israel’s main infantry brigades—together with Yahalom (the combat engineering/tunnel and EOD unit) have spent weeks encircling and dismantling the remaining underground grid: hundreds of meters of tunnels destroyed, more than 60 targets struck in recent days, around 15 shafts collapsed, and 11 out of 17 terrorists who surfaced from cowering in their terror tunnel, with six hauled out alive for Shin Bet interrogation. Along the Yellow Line, more terrorists were spotted crossing toward IDF positions in the north and were eliminated by directed fire within seconds, underlining that any movement east of Hamas’s zone is rightly treated as an immediate lethal threat. Against that backdrop, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad today transferred a coffin with the body of an Israeli hostage to the Red Cross in central Gaza; the casket is now being escorted to IDF forces for a dignified handover under a military rabbi, after Islamic Jihad claimed yesterday to have “found” remains in Nuseirat — a sequence that only began moving after Jerusalem publicly called the delay another violation of the deal. At the same time, UNRWA — the agency whose staff were documented helping kidnap civilians, hand out ammunition and host captives in its facilities — is proudly announcing it has reopened schools for roughly 300,000 Gazan students, brought 50,000 back into 124 education sites, and is running seven central clinics and 35 “medical points” treating about 15,000 people a day inside the same social, political and physical terrain Hamas uses as cover and recruitment ground.
Assessment: Israel continues to impose consequences. Tunnels are demolished, infiltrating terrorists die on contact, and yet hostage remains only move when Hamas and PIJ are reminded that delay has a price. In the rear, the same UNRWA system that incubated Hamas hordes and sheltered its operations is being restored almost to pre–October 7 capacity under the blessing of The Hague. The combination of effective lethal enforcement at the tactical edge and a complicit international welfare machine reconstituting Hamas’s ecosystem is far from stable. If Israel wants Rafah to stay neutralized instead of rearming under blue flags and school logos, it has to treat UNRWA’s return as part of the battlespace, not a humanitarian footnote.
Dahieh Under Drones, Al-Qassam in Lebanon, Rome in the Flight Plan
After the Dahieh strike that killed Haytham Ali Tabataba’i, Hezbollah’s de facto chief of staff, the organization is burying its dead under Israeli drones and trying to hold the facade together. The funeral ran with full military theater: red berets, marching bands, “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” chants — while Ali Damoush vowed they “won’t bargain” over weapons and framed Tabataba’i and his men as “defenders of Lebanon,” not “martyrs on the road to Jerusalem,” a telling rhetorical pivot aimed at domestic legitimacy. Behind that show, Lebanese and Western officials admit Israel is now hunting the “next generation” of Hezbollah operatives “layer by layer,” after years of eliminating founders and old-guard commanders. The pressure is not just on Hezbollah. Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades have built up a presence in Lebanon and, according to local reporting, are preparing hundreds of fighters to join Hezbollah if war resumes, turning the country into a multi-brand franchise of the Iranian axis. Tehran’s IRGC promises “crushing revenge,” a senior Houthi official jumps in to “reaffirm Yemen’s support for Lebanon and Palestine,” and Iranian advisers talk openly about the “resistance” being stronger than under Nasrallah, even as a Hezbollah source tells Arab media that “current circumstances do not allow a response” to the assassination. Over all this floats the Pope’s planned visit to Lebanon, with the Vatican gambling that his presence will act as a deterrent to escalation. A calculation everyone from Hezbollah to the IDF has to factor into their timing, even while Lebanon’s new leadership talks about disarming Hezbollah and Hezbollah’s media arm Al-Akhbar confesses to “distress” and calls the strike a “severe blow.”
Assessment: Lebanon is no longer just Hezbollah plus a weak state. Into that combustible mix, the further destabilizing elements of Hamas, and an expanded Iranian footprint have been mixed. With a Pope parachuted in as an improvised human de-escalation device. (What could go wrong?) Israel’s decapitation campaign has broken Hezbollah’s old “equations” and forced a real dilemma on Tehran’s outpost: hit back and invite a short, punishing Israeli air war just as its senior pipeline collapses, or keep absorbing losses and expose itself at home as an Iranian-run scarecrow that can’t even protect its own chiefs. The more Hamas and Iran turn Lebanon into the forward operating theater for the entire axis, the clearer the choice becomes for Jerusalem: decide on its own terms when to run a limited but decisive campaign to strip that front, or wait and let the whole coalition pick the timing.
Iran’s Missile Lines Feed Every Front That Tries to Kill Jews
While diplomats play with Gaza “phases” and Lebanon “understandings,” Tehran is keeping busy. They’re cranking out missiles, refining technology and feeding a network of proxies whose job description is simple: hit Israelis and Jews wherever possible. Iranian officials now brag that missile power “far surpasses” pre–12-Day-War levels; production is up in both quantity and quality, and cooperation with Russia on advanced laser technology points straight at more precise, harder-to-monitor, nuclear-relevant systems. Those missiles and their derivatives don’t just sit in Iranian warehouses. They show up in Houthi hands targeting international shipping and talking openly about “supporting Lebanon and Palestine.” They underpin Hezbollah’s rocket and drone envelope in Lebanon. They inform Hamas and PIJ engineering in Gaza and smuggling efforts into Judea and Samaria, where Iranian money and know-how already fuel the gunmen and bomb-makers the IDF is rolling up in Jenin, Tulkarm and the Hebron belt. In parallel, Iran runs other vectors: cyber operations and online campaigns that pump antisemitic and anti-Israel propaganda into Western discourse, bankroll foreign “America First” and “Gaza eyewitness” sock-puppets, and encourage physical attacks on Jews from knife charges on borders to the kill-bounty site that put prices on Israeli academics and protest leaders.
Assessment: Iran’s missile factories, training camps and cyber rooms are all organs of the same body: an apparatus designed to give every proxy — Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, PIJ, militias in Syria and Iraq, and even lone-wolf actors abroad — the tools to hit Israelis and Jews anywhere from Eilat to a European street. The axis doesn’t care whether it’s a hypersonic sent from Tehran, a rocket out of southern Lebanon, a drone from Yemen, a rifle in Jenin or a doxxing-and-bounty campaign against an Israeli scientist in Berlin. For them, it’s one continuum. If Israel and what’s left of the serious West want to keep this from hardening into a permanent missile-and-proxy stranglehold, they will have to move beyond merely managing symptoms.
Inside Israel
Katz, Zamir, Barnea and Bibi Start Cutting Into the System
The accountability war that’s been simmering since October 7 just took another step out of theory and into people’s careers. After Eyal Zamir’s first round of IDF penalties, Mossad chief David Barnea decided that Brig. Gen. G — the former head of the Operations Division in Military Intelligence, now seconded to the Mossad — will wrap up his role and retire, and two colonels, the head of the Palestinian Arena in Operations and the commander of Unit 8200’s Collection Center, will be dismissed outright over their performance on the day of the massacre. In parallel, Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered a 30-day comptroller review of the Turgeman report and all the “red” internal probes, froze senior IDF appointments, and got a very public pushback from Zamir. Enough so that Netanyahu hauled both into a clarification meeting to re-assert that the army answers to the elected government, not the other way around. Overlay that with Netanyahu’s pledge to “complete” Israel’s outlawing of the Muslim Brotherhood after Trump’s executive order and you see the new line of contact: the same PM who once explored a Ra’am partnership is now moving to erase the Brotherhood’s political infrastructure, and Mansour Abbas knows it. Which is why he’s already accusing Bibi of trying to “steal the elections” and begging the AG, police and Shin Bet not to “become tools” of the elected leadership. All this is framed by a state that’s finally re-arming its own political core: Likud just held its first national convention and internal elections in years, refreshing the Central Committee and branches before a likely national vote; police grabbed a senior municipal official off a flight from Thailand as the Histadrut corruption probe widens; and X’s new location feature exposed that at least one high-profile “grassroots” protest account inside Israel is being run from Ireland — yet another hint that someone is paying to destabilize the country from abroad while the old elites scream “democracy.”
Assessment: What you’re seeing is a realtime test of the political systems. The old pattern: soldiers die, civilians bury, elites issue reports and nobody important loses their job is breaking. Zamir and Barnea are cutting into the intelligence caste that let October 7 happen, Katz is making sure the army doesn’t get to investigate itself without civilian oversight, and Netanyahu is drawing the line where it always should have been: no more Brotherhood play-acting as “partners” while their ideology fuels the people who butchered our communities. Mansour Abbas is panicking because a serious state that bans the Brotherhood, cleans up its unions and exposes foreign-funded disruption ops is a state that doesn’t need Islamist kingmakers. The question now is whether the government has the stamina to push this through past the courts, the media and the NGO echo chamber. Or if whether we slouch back into the same avoidance culture that detonated on October 7.
Binyamin’s Shepherds Take the Hits While the Media Looks the Other Way
Out in western Binyamin, the war over the map isn’t theoretical, it’s a shepherd with rocks bouncing off his head. At Beit Karnayim Farm (planted by the Binyamin Council on a ridge overlooking Modi’in to block a Palestinian Authority land-grab that would turn central Israel into a jihadi corridor) dozens of Arab rioters swept in, stoned a Jewish shepherd, stole his bag and his donkey, and had to be driven off when the farm owner scared them off with a firearm to keep them from reaching the homes. Dozens of “strategic farms” across Binyamin and western Samaria quietly protect state land reserves the PA is trying to seize by any means possible, while every clash the other way gets a “settler violence” headline and a UN tweet. In the same region, the security forces are doing what they’re supposed to do: in Samaria, a siege and shoulder-launched missiles took out Ala Raouf Shetiyya, who rammed and killed two soldiers near Shechem and hid behind civilian walls, and in southern Jenin a joint IDF–Shin Bet operation finally eliminated Sultan al-Ghani, the hammer-killer of Gideon Perry, arresting his helpers and pulling a Carlo gun, M16, explosives and magazines from his safe house.
Assessment: Judea and Samaria’s “violence problem” is not the story foreign diplomats and media studios keep trying to sell. The operational threat is Arab: PA-adjacent mobs attacking Jewish shepherds on state land, Iranian-fed cells in Jenin and Shechem, and a territorial project that aims to choke Israel’s center from the hills. The Jews on the ridge — farmers, shepherds, reservists — are the ones holding the only depth between the Jordan and Highway 6, often at personal risk and without cameras. The government must continue to treat criminality as just that—remove the fuel those campaigns run on—while keeping reality fact-checked. When the state backs them with serious security operations and planning decisions, it stabilizes the entire country. When it lets the narrative machine turn them into villains while ignoring Arab violence, it saws off the branch they’re sitting on.
Israel and the World
Israel Pushes Allies to Choose: Sovereignty, Security… or Revisionism
Israel’s diplomatic map is splitting cleanly between those building a shared security structure and those drowning in their own evasions. In Asunción, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar inked a new Israel–Paraguay security pact, thanked the president for designating the IRGC, Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist entities, and announced surging bilateral trade . It’s a sign that Israel’s most reliable partners are now countries unafraid to name jihad and legislate accordingly. In Washington, families of murdered Israelis filed a sweeping U.S. federal lawsuit accusing Binance of knowingly routing more than $1 billion to Hamas, Hezbollah, PIJ and the IRGC — the financial bloodstream of October 7 — exposing the Western fintech ecosystem as a force multiplier for Iran’s axis. In the U.S., Massachusetts released a unanimous 70-page commission report acknowledging an historic rise in antisemitic hate, demanding law-enforcement training, curriculum reform, and explicit recognition that slogans like “globalize the intifada” are, in fact, calls for violence against Jews. Turkey, meanwhile, is drifting even further into open intolerance: Christian sites converted to mosques, Jewish institutions targeted, and pro-Erdogan outlets calling for stripping Turkish citizenship from Jews serving in the IDF. Layered onto that is UN Resolution 2803 — a diplomatic Trojan horse whose annexes extend ISF jurisdiction into “adjacent logistical corridors” inside Israel, exposing the Negev to creeping internationalization unless Jerusalem files a hard interpretive reservation.
Assessment: The world is dividing between states strengthening Israel’s hand and states busy laundering Islamist power. Paraguay, India, Azerbaijan and others are forming a real strategic coalition because they live in the same world Israel does: one where Iran and its franchises need to be deterred, not coddled. Israel’s task is simple: bind tightly to the allies who act like allies, expose the ones supporting terror, and fight foreign systems which try to erode Israeli sovereignty — especially in the IDF command chain and in the Negev, where the UN is already testing its jurisdictional reach.
Western Systems Keep Feeding Jihad and Punishing Jews
While Israel is grilled at the UN over a ceasefire it is actually enforcing, Western systems keep financing and normalizing the forces arrayed against it. In New York, PA envoy Riyad Mansour accused Israel of “seeking collapse” of the Gaza truce, even as Danny Danon pointed out that terrorists are the ones crossing the clearly marked Yellow Line and that Jerusalem is pushing hundreds of aid trucks a day into Gaza while the PA fails to control terror in Judea and Samaria. In the US and Europe, the money trail looks worse than the rhetoric: Minnesota welfare schemes and housing programs sent millions via hawala straight into Al-Shabaab’s hands. Swedish investigators found over $100 million in taxpayer-backed school and preschool funds siphoned into an Islamist network tied to extremism and fraud. A parallel analysis bluntly describes Western welfare as a de-facto “jizya” tax subsidizing jihadists who then massacre Christians in places like Garissa. The “activist” edge of that same current is visible: in the UK, a Palestine Action cell used sledgehammers in an Elbit break-in, fracturing a female officer’s spine while trying to smash an Israeli-linked defense site. In Poland, an extremist MP staged an antisemitic rant outside Auschwitz (“Poland is for Poles,” Jews are a “dangerous neighbor”), even as the justice minister promises legal action and Warsaw picks a public fight with Yad Vashem — summoning Israel’s ambassador over a tweet about Nazi badges in “Poland” instead of “German-occupied Poland.” All of this plays out against a U.S. ambassador in Warsaw equating talk of Polish complicity with a “blood libel.”
Assessment: This is the ecosystem Israel lives in: UN podiums where Palestinian officials label enforcement as aggression. Welfare, education and NGO pipelines that push Western cash into the accounts of Al-Shabaab, Hamas and their ideological cousins. European and global elites who alternate between historical revisionism and street-level hostility to living Jews. The same systems that moralize about “international law” are funding jihad, indulging antisemitism and then losing their minds when Israel defends itself. Jerusalem’s job is to treat this as part of the battlespace: track and expose how Western money and institutions are feeding the war against Jews, force allies to choose between real enforcement and performative outrage, and stop letting the people who can’t keep their own house clean lecture the only country actually fighting the attackers they’re bankrolling.
Briefly Noted
Diplomacy & Geopolitics
Jerusalem Post: France will host Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi in Paris to talk regional issues, detained French nationals and Tehran’s nuclear program, with Paris vowing to press for renewed cooperation with the IAEA. Europe is sliding back into “let’s talk to the arsonist about fire safety” mode just as Iran boasts about rebuilding its missile and nuclear toolbox.
Israel National News: President Trump signed an executive order ordering US agencies to assess Muslim Brotherhood chapters for terror designation, citing their ties to Hamas and rocket fire on Israel. If State and Treasury follow through, it will finally align US law with Middle Eastern reality and start choking the global Brotherhood ecosystem that feeds Hamas, CAIR, and assorted “civil society” front groups.
Israel National News: Two Belgian princes from the House of Ligne toured Samaria as guests of Yossi Dagan, openly backing Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and praising the building boom. It’s a small royal delegation, but it signals that not all European elites are buying the “occupation” script—and some are ready to say out loud that Jewish presence on the ridge is legitimate and strategic.
JNS: Israel approved the aliyah of 5,800 Bnei Menashe from India by 2030, effectively bringing the whole community home and settling them primarily in the north. It’s classic Zionism with a 2025 twist: strengthen the Galilee, reunite a far-flung tribe that never let go of Zion, and quietly change the demographic and strategic map in Israel’s favor.
Culture, Religion & Society
JNS: Avi Abelow argues that Jews aren’t facing a “surge in antisemitism” but a full-spectrum war on Jewish identity, and that press releases, Holocaust museums and apologetic hasbara won’t cut it.
Jerusalem Post: Anti-Israel activists are calling for a boycott of Stranger Things because Noah Schnapp and Brett Gelman love Israel and said so, but global fans are largely ignoring them as Netflix drops the final season.
Jerusalem Post: Spotify, Apple, Amazon and YouTube are hosting tracks that literally chant “death, death to the IDF,” “Boom, Boom Tel Aviv,” and “LGBT: Let’s Go Bomb Tel Aviv,” some with millions of streams and Hamas-style targeting graphics. The same platforms that lecture about “hate policies” are happily monetizing open calls to bomb Jews.
Jerusalem Post: Pro-Palestinian activists in Europe have cloned Israel’s “Bring Them Home” campaign with red ribbons and “Release all Palestinian hostages” posters, equating convicted terrorists with kidnapped civilians and murdered hostages. Another salvo in narrative warfare designed to erase the difference between jail time for terror and babies stolen from their beds.
Developments to Watch
Northern Front (Lebanon / Syria)
Russia Eyes New Southern Syria Footprint – Jerusalem now assesses Moscow wants to renegotiate new Russian deployments at key points in southern Syria, near Israel’s security belt. A renewed Russian flag on the ridge complicates every future strike package against Iranian assets there and gives Tehran one more layer of human shielding.
Gaza & Southern Theater
Hostage Body Handover Under Duress – After Islamic Jihad sat for 13+ hours on remains it publicly “found” in Nuseirat, Hamas and PIJ finally transferred a coffin to the Red Cross, now en route to the IDF for handover. The sequence screams leverage, not humanity: they only moved once Jerusalem called it a fresh breach of the deal, setting up another moment where Israel has to decide how hard to punish “technical” violations that involve dead Israelis.
Judea & Samaria
Two Major Terror Planners Removed – In separate overnight ops, Israeli forces killed Sultan al-Ghani in southern Jenin (the hammer murderer of Gideon Perry) and Ala Raouf Shetiyya in Samaria, who rammed and killed two soldiers near Shechem, pulling rifles, a Carlo, explosives and mags from their hideouts. These are not random gunmen but marquee killers, and every time you close this kind of circle you both thin Iran’s Judea–Samaria network and raise the chance their friends try something big to “restore honor.” LIKELY TO ESCALATE
Storm Punches Hole in Judea Barrier – Heavy rains collapsed a section of the separation barrier near Al-Burj in western Dura, south of Hebron. Nature just opened a gap where hostile cells already operate.
Regional Axis (Iran, Houthis, Militias)
Hamas Units in Lebanon Ready to Embed – Local reporting says hundreds of Hamas Al-Qassam fighters in Lebanon have coordinated with Hezbollah and are preparing to join its ranks if war resumes. Iran is turning Lebanon into a joint venture: the more brands on the battlefield, the harder it is to deter escalation without hitting a wider slice of the axis. LIKELY TO ESCALATE
Embassies Pull Staff Out of Venezuela – Multiple countries have started evacuating their embassies from Caracas, expecting a possible US strike. If Washington opens a new front in Venezuela, Iran and its friends will see distraction, not deterrence — and they’ve never been shy about testing how many fires America can manage at once.
Diplomatic & Legal
Trump’s Muslim Brotherhood Clock Starts Ticking – An executive order now gives State and Treasury 45 days to decide which Muslim Brotherhood branches qualify as FTOs or SDGTs and should be sanctioned. That review could finally put legal handcuffs on the same global network that seeds Hamas, Jordanian MB funders and CAIR-style “advocacy” outfits in the West.
Araghchi to Paris for Sanctions-Avoidance Diplomacy – Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi is heading to Paris for talks on nukes, detainees and “regional issues,” with France promising to press for renewed IAEA cooperation. Tehran will present this as engagement while using every extra week to spin centrifuges, refine missiles and bargain for breathing room from an EU still addicted to process.
Home Front & Politics
Foreign-Run Protest Accounts Exposed on X – X’s new location tag showed that at least one high-profile “anti-milk reform” protest account steering Israeli discourse is actually being operated out of Ireland. It’s another data point that some of our loudest “grassroots” storms are probably funded information ops, and Israel needs to start treating them as security problems, not just spicy politics.
Haredi Teens on Cranes, System on Edge – For the second day in a row, Haredi teenagers protesting the draft climbed construction cranes at Jerusalem’s entrance and had to be rescued after stranding themselves dozens of meters up. More than youthful ignorance, it’s a symptom of a community where a loud fringe would literally risk death to avoid serving, right as the state is trying to write a real equality-of-burden law.
The war is still on and the fault lines are clear. In Gaza, the question is no longer whether Hamas is weaker—it is whether Israel and its allies treat UNRWA’s return as part of the problem or keep pretending it’s neutral relief. In Lebanon, the choice gets sharper by the day. Does Hezbollah risk a serious response and accept a short, brutal air war just as Iran’s cadre pipeline collapses, or keep swallowing strikes and watch its myth of “resistance” rot at home while Hamas embeds in its backyard? In Judea and Samaria, every marquee terrorist removed and every Arab mob on a Jewish farm pushes the theater closer to a larger operation the foreign press will blame on “settlers” while the real issue is Tehran’s project on the ridge. Inside Israel’s institutions, the next few days and weeks will tell us whether Katz, Zamir, Barnea and the government keep cutting into the caste that failed on October 7—or let lawyers, media and NGOs drag us back to the luxury of lying to ourselves.
— Uri Zehavi · Intelligence Editor
With Modi Zehavi · Data + Research Analyst
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