The shooting over Hormuz is American, and the question underneath it is still Jerusalem's: whether a campaign that can take a launcher apart can reach the men who design one. Washington has gotten very good at the first half. Nobody has worked out how to bomb Rosoboronexport. Israel spent its own day on its own business, an intelligence service and a prosecutor and a filing deadline, and then watched somebody else's war arrive over Eilat.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Hormuz: Washington works a hundred Iranian targets and strikes two Guard tankers at anchor, and Tehran answers into four countries. See The War Today.
Gaza: Shin Bet takes Hamas's internal security chief alive out of Gaza City and brings him back to Israel. See The War Today.
October 7: Netanyahu rules out betrayal, Katz declines to, and Golan and Sara Netanyahu trade warning letters. See Inside Israel.
The lists: Smotrich signs Feiglin to a technical bloc and holds slot two for Ofer Winter, who turns everyone down. See Inside Israel.
The indictment: Israel charges twelve of its own prison officers over the 2023 death of a Fatah prisoner at Ketziot. See Inside Israel.
London: Miliband promises a comprehensive package on Israeli building and Sa'ar answers that Israel will act against Britain. See Israel and the World.
Vienna: The IAEA closes Syria's reactor file nineteen years on and still cannot count Iran's uranium. See Israel and the World.
Madrid: Sanchez blames Israeli-linked networks for July's Ceuta crossing and cites EU research the EU has not confirmed. See Israel and the World.
Hollywood: More than 170 Jewish figures in entertainment call the antisemitism charge against Mark Ruffalo a smear campaign. See Israel and the World.
Sacramento: California sends Newsom six Jewish-community bills, including the first state law counting Jewish as an ethnicity. See Israel and the World.
The White House: Six haredi leaders see Trump tomorrow, several of them to ask about Israel's draft of yeshiva students. See Israel and the World.
The north: Hezbollah puts two explosive drones on the Ali al-Taher ridge and the first border sirens in nearly three months follow. See Developments to Watch.
A radar is reachable, and so is a tanker riding at anchor. Russian engineers working inside Iran are not, and neither is a UN mandate that dies at the end of this month unless Moscow and Beijing decide to let it live. The rest of the day was foreign capitals writing law and findings about Israel while Israel prosecuted its own officers and argued about its own war.
Today: an American strike wave down Iran's coast, Britain drafting measures Sa'ar promises to answer, and Israel indicting twelve of its own guards.
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