A fair share of Israel's campaign since Thursday has been run by people who don't get a ballot. Some of that is friendly, and some of it comes with a case number. Tehran's contribution would come by air. The army is planning the 27th with that in mind.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Hormuz: The Revolutionary Guards declare the strait closed again, and Katz says Israel is ready to hit Iran's energy targets. See The War Today.
Saudi Arabia: Saudi-led forces shoot down Houthi missiles aimed at the kingdom's energy hubs, and Brent touches $110. See The War Today.
Lebanon: Hezbollah claims the explosives Lebanese troops seized and wants them back, with Beirut due in Tampa tomorrow. See The War Today.
Gaza: Israeli officials say Hamas's truck levy funds its payroll, and the Board of Peace rejects COGAT's plan to cut entries. See Briefly Noted.
Olive Leaf: Police and the Shin Bet arrest ten men before dawn over the weekend beatings at Abu Falah and Taybeh. See Inside Israel.
Ben-Gvir: Netanyahu says Defense stays with Likud, and Ben-Gvir claims European governments were promised he'd be left out. See Briefly Noted.
The doctrine: Netanyahu wants NIS 450 billion more for defense over a decade, and the cabinet cuts ministry purchasing 4.9 percent. See Inside Israel.
Trump: Trump endorses Netanyahu in a letter to Israelis, warning that anyone else leaves the Iran work to America. See Israel and the World.
Rome: Prosecutors add Katz and Zamir to their criminal investigation over Israel's interception of two Gaza flotillas. See Israel and the World.
Wikipedia: An ADL report finds 91 percent of a banned editor's assessable edits to six of the site's biggest pages still live. See Israel and the World.
France: Riots leave 997 police officers and gendarmes hurt, and Marseille's synagogues stay open under the community's own guards. See Briefly Noted.
Hamburg: A court jails a Dane for preparing to murder Josef Schuster and Volker Beck, and writes Iran into the verdict. See Briefly Noted.
Catching the man who did the legwork is the easy part, and a lot of institutions stop there. Courts in Hamburg and London jailed Tehran's hired hand and a Foxtrot recruit last week without getting anywhere near the men who hired them. Israel had its own suspects in custody within three days, and now we find out whether its courts treat that as the end of it.
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Will the Italians be filing charges against the Spaniards for intercepting them and kicking their asses with gusto? Excellent reporting, only a thousand police injured in France with 1500 no go zones 🤦🏼😿