Israel Brief: Wednesday, August 12
Israeli fire crosses the Yellow Line for the first time under the new approval rules, and Likud's own court freezes a Netanyahu slot.
Israel cut the water to the tunnels under Ali Taher, and the resupply drones Hezbollah flies in overnight are coming down. Dozens of men are sealed in there. No Lebanese unit is coming for them. Three weeks into the first handover, the Lebanese army has photographed caches in the villages and left Hezbollah's own infrastructure alone. (See The War Today.)
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Gaza: The 99th Division fires at a sniper near the Yellow Line, the first strike published since the rules changed. See The War Today.
Hormuz: Tehran makes ending the wars in Gaza and Lebanon the price of reopening the strait. See The War Today.
Likud: The party's own tribunal stops one of Netanyahu's three reserved slots with the secretariat mid-vote. See Inside Israel.
Levin: A recording has the justice minister counting ten High Court appointments inside the next Knesset's term. See Inside Israel.
Qusra: Bluth takes the tent outside Qusra down himself, and a magistrate frees Dardik without conditions. See Inside Israel.
Venezuela: Caracas restores consular relations seventeen years after Chavez cut them, and Washington cleared it first. See Israel and the World.
Primaries: AIPAC's lane loses Minnesota and Connecticut in one night, and its endorsement is now the attack. See Israel and the World.
Hasan Piker: Britain pulls the streamer's visa and Sanders vouches for him, and neither move reaches the stream. See Israel and the World.
Influence: An Iranian operation writes the incitement against Netanyahu, and his own supporters do the distributing. See Israel and the World.
New York: Mamdani's office picks the ten rabbis who get the hour, a week after he sat with Satmar. See Israel and the World.
Jewish schools: A government reviewer finds Britain's Jewish head teachers losing whole weeks to security. See Israel and the World.
Rezaei's price for reopening the strait is an end to the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and the party that would have to deliver it sits in Washington. Rome has now agreed how somebody would certify a disarmament nobody in Beirut intends to carry out.
Today: the men sealed under Ali Taher, the first Israeli fire past the Yellow Line under the new rules, and Levin counting ten court seats.
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