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Sunday, October 25

The army takes Friday's attack back to Hebron, and the campaign's last weekend runs on sanctions, a TV channel, and the draft.

The war and the campaign are sharing Israel's last weekend before the vote, and they don't want the same things from it. The army would like Tehran to hear nothing it could take for the start of another round. Washington keeps handing Tehran some anyway, and so does the campaign. Abroad, what's pencilled in for after Tuesday is already being drafted, by friends and by people who aren't.


Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less

  • Hebron: Two soldiers hurt at Judea Junction die, and the army goes into the Hebron neighborhoods the gunmen came from. See The War Today.
  • Iran: Washington reloads a carrier and thins its embassies while saying no strike before 3 November, and Tehran lists targets. See The War Today.
  • Crypto: Netanyahu wants a crypto plan against banking sanctions, and the Bank of Israel says crypto can't get around them. See Inside Israel.
  • Golan: Yair Golan asks for four ministries and says Channel 14 signs the Press Council's code or gets shut down. See Inside Israel.
  • The draft: Achi quits on a Likud deal, and Porat Yosef's dean tells voters to skip Shas over the draft of haredi yeshiva students. See Briefly Noted.
  • Ankara: Britain, France, and Germany join Ankara's line against a new Iran strike, and an Istanbul court tries Netanyahu in absentia. See Israel and the World.
  • Falklands: Israel's UN ambassador calls for direct British-Argentine talks on the Falklands, reportedly on Netanyahu's order after London's sanctions. See Israel and the World.
  • UNRWA USA: The Brandeis Center asks the Justice Department to probe UNRWA's $51 million American fundraiser as an unregistered foreign agent. See Israel and the World.
  • New York: The Chabad rabbi stabbed on 47th Street is back at work, and a Long Island shul's door holds against arson. See Israel and the World.
  • Jordan: Gunmen kill at least seven at a Greek Orthodox funeral in Jordan's Karak governorate, and nobody has claimed it. See Briefly Noted.
  • Hezbollah: Hezbollah reportedly tells Berri it won't fight for Iran if the war with America and Israel resumes. See Developments to Watch.

Israel's going into Tuesday answering whatever comes at it with what it already has. In Hebron that's soldiers searching houses. With London it's one sentence at the UN. The answers that take longer, a draft law the High Court won't throw out among them, are waiting on whoever forms the next government.


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