Inside its own borders, Israel's been bargaining — with a crowd that turned out to stop an arrest, with a candidate the bench didn't want to rule on. Pointed outward, it isn't haggling with anybody. London is finding that out about a consulate, a documentary's makers are learning it too, and the army is hunting down the men who crossed the fence three years ago tomorrow, one at a time.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Gaza: Katz orders the last 2,000 October 7 invaders hunted down as the Shin Bet warns of a pre-election kidnapping. See The War Today.
Bab al-Mandab: Yemeni government forces take the airfield on the strait's narrows, and Turkey and Pakistan pledge forces to Riyadh. See The War Today.
The draft: Hundreds of haredi men pen Military Police in a Modi'in building until the police trade away the arrest. See Inside Israel.
The ballot: The High Court restores Ra'am, the Joint List, and Cassif, and talks Balad into pulling Abu Shehadeh without a ruling. See Inside Israel.
Due process: Zini asks to hold Jewish suspects without charge, while a lecturer who recruited nobody is charged in open court. See Inside Israel.
London: Britain threatens to expel 27 Israeli diplomats if Sa'ar's order closing its Jerusalem consulate stands Thursday. See Israel and the World.
NAZA: The IDF answers the film claim by claim, after a Times review that skipped everything Israelis had published against it. See Israel and the World.
The anniversary protests: Israel maps 262 anti-Israel events worldwide, and the Met and New South Wales say they can't stop theirs. See Israel and the World.
Somaliland: Hargeisa asks Israel, the one country that recognizes it, for air defenses against Turkey. See Briefly Noted.
The radio gap: Police and the IDF still have no shared emergency radio — on October 7, an officer used WhatsApp. See Briefly Noted.
Tehran: Pezeshkian nominates the man who ran Iran's missile industry to rebuild it as defense minister. See Developments to Watch.
Whatever a state gives up under pressure at home, it ends up teaching. A crowd that gets its man back once knows to come again, and Hamas is betting its rebuild on an Israeli government that settles. Facing outward, Jerusalem names a date and holds to it, and it puts its own name to a denial anyone can check. It could stand to bring that habit home.
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Tomorrow, three years to the day: the Nova site, live
David Sussman, the licensed Israeli guide who's taken AIC groups through the country since 2020, walks the Nova festival site and the communities along the Gaza border live on Zoom, Wednesday, October 7, at 9:00 AM ET. It's free. Can't make the hour? Register anyway, and AIC will send you the recording.