The Long Brief: The Math Survives The Vote

Stop asking if the upcoming election will finally break Haredi power — it won't. Start asking which coalition members will get to control the ministries…

11 hrs ago • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

The Long Brief: The Wrong Words

Israeli politics runs on three independent grammars at once. The American mono-axis read collapses all three and loses the plot.

May 11 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

The Long Brief: The Wrong Map

Five indicators read three American Jewries, two European ones, and an Australia that isn't what it was in 2023. The institutional class is still…

May 1 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

April 2026

The Long Brief: Two Middles

The extremes converge on Israel. The moderate cores diverge — and the architecture built for a shared middle cannot reach either one.

Apr 24 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

The Long Brief: The Fifty-Year Front

Israel won the war with Iran. The war that started against it in 1975 remains undecided — which, on current trajectory, is a problem.

Apr 17 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

March 2026

The Long Brief: The Gaza Reconstruction Trap

Five cycles. Five reconstructions. Five rearmaments. The model works exactly as designed.

Mar 27 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

The Long Brief: The Promised War

Iran didn’t escalate into war with Israel and the West. It was born at war with both — and spent 46 years building the arsenal to prove it.

Mar 20 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

The Long Brief: The Machinery of Selective Outrage

The same organizations that shut down universities over Gaza went silent while Iran massacred tens of thousands in a few days — then reactivated to…

Mar 13 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

The Long Brief: The Milk Cartel Cracks

Israel’s dairy reform is a fight between consumer sanity and periphery mythology — and the outcome will define whether the government can touch any…

Mar 6 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

February 2026

The Long Brief: Holiday From History [Part 4]

When courts, feeds, and “process” become weapons, defense must become doctrine.

Feb 27 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

The Long Brief: Holiday From History [Part 3]

Great powers didn’t retire. They modernized—and they learned our gaps.

Feb 19 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי

The Long Brief: Holiday From History [Part 2]

Maps are masks. Tribes, sects, and memory wait underneath.

Feb 12 • Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי