Not much of yesterday's trouble started yesterday. Most of it had been lying in the open for months or years, where any of several offices could have dealt with it, and most of them can now show you the paperwork saying they did their part. That's the argument Israel takes into the last two weeks before it votes, and Britain is having its own version of it.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
The Ramim Ridge: A Hezbollah cluster bomblet kills a 14-year-old on a school hike by the Lebanese border and wounds 24 more. See The War Today.
Riyadh: Netanyahu reportedly asks Riyadh to let Israel join the Houthi campaign, and the crown prince says no. See Briefly Noted.
Iran: Trump says Washington may have killed too many Iranian leaders to know who it's dealing with. See The War Today.
The president: Herzog vows to head off a repeat election, and Golan and Eisenkot rule out unity with Netanyahu. See Inside Israel.
The draft: Deri says the rabbis' orders are to buy time, and Breslov buses schoolchildren to a military prison. See Inside Israel.
Qatargate: Channel 12 airs Urich asking ChatGPT, a year into the war, how to improve Qatar's image. See Briefly Noted.
Fairford: Britain pins the plot at the bomber base on the Revolutionary Guards, and Netanyahu says Israel tipped London off. See Israel and the World.
60 Minutes: CBS builds a Judea and Samaria segment on a UN count that files Jews visiting Har HaBayit as incidents. See Israel and the World.
Manchester: Britain sends the Heaton Park synagogue killings to a public inquiry that can hear MI5 in private. See Israel and the World.
Alkmaar: A Dutch city bars Hapoel Be'er Sheva's fans from Thursday's match, citing the 2024 attacks on Israeli fans in Amsterdam. See Briefly Noted.
Election day: Intelligence reportedly picks up talk of an attack around the vote, and the Elections Committee says it wasn't told. See Developments to Watch.
Much of what went wrong yesterday can be fixed by people already on the payroll. The IDF spent the week blowing up Hezbollah tunnel routes inside the security zone, and that's what getting to a problem early looks like when somebody owns it. The draft is harder. The people who'd have to legislate it are asking for votes right now, and two of the parties that would hold the pen would rather it waited.
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