Amir Ohana of Likud will be in the speaker's chair when the new Knesset sits for the first time at four this afternoon, and he's already promised a vote on replacing him once 61 MKs sign. That's about as settled as anything in Jerusalem gets this week. Eisenkot, who has held President Herzog's mandate since Sunday, still needs a government, and the parties he needs for one are setting their terms in their own newspapers. Abroad, nobody with plans for Israel is waiting for it to get a government first.

Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less

• Iran: Trump shelves another strike at Gulf leaders' request, keeps the blockade, and says Iran "militarily is effectively over." See The War Today.
• RAF Mildenhall: US refueling tankers leave over an Iranian threat, and two American bases in England go on likely-attack alert. See The War Today.
• Samaria: Troops take a ten-man Islamic Jihad cell in Arraba, the Menashe Brigade's fourth network broken up in two months. See The War Today.
• The Knesset: The new Knesset is sworn in this afternoon, and Eisenkot gives Liberman the committee that will write the draft law. See Inside Israel.
• Defense budget: Defense industries are owed close to NIS 20 billion, and shell lines could stop with no government to close the gap. See Inside Israel.
• Jericho: The PA arrests the brokers who sold houses at Ad-Duyuk to Jewish families, under a law that calls it treason. See Briefly Noted.
• Gaza: Trump's Board of Peace says Israeli delays held up Hamas's disarmament, and the IDF says half its approvals wait on the UN. See Israel and the World.
• France: Paris blames a Revolutionary Guards cyber unit for cooking the fridges in some 700 French shops, and seeks arrest warrants. See Israel and the World.
• Britain: Seventy-eight percent of Britons call Israel a serious threat to world peace in a NatCen survey, three points above Iran. See Israel and the World.
• New York: Jews are the targets in 26 of October's 45 confirmed hate crimes, as shootings and murders hit record lows. See Briefly Noted.
• Tel Aviv: Leaflets from Handala, the hacker front Iran's intelligence ministry runs, turn up in mailboxes, and the Shin Bet is investigating. See Briefly Noted.
• Reservists: Order 8, the army's authority to call up reservists, runs out on 30 November, and the new Knesset has no committees yet. See Developments to Watch.

Trump says Iran is effectively over as a military power, and he can point to a blockade that's holding. It can't stop a Guards unit cooking French supermarket fridges from Iran, though, and it can't find the uranium nobody outside Iran has seen in more than a year. Whoever forms Israel's next government inherits that part of the war, with or without another American round.