Agudah wants all 48 of Eisenkot's MKs signed up for an exemption, Netanyahu's judges send for the attorney general, and Jeffries wants the aid deal changed.
Trump told Stephen A. Smith yesterday that he's holding off on Iran because Saudi Arabia and its neighbors asked him to wait. Then he added, "I'm not sure I agree with it," which is about as shaky as a pause gets. Netanyahu reportedly wants the next round now, Israel's own army would rather wait until the country has a government that isn't a caretaker, and the Saudis asked for "a while" without saying how long.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
- Iran: Trump takes Iran off Vance's desk, and the Revolutionary Guards claim a hit on an American radar in Bahrain. See The War Today.
- Gaza: Trump's Board of Peace answers the Nasser Hospital strike by condemning Hamas for turning hospitals into military sites. See The War Today.
- The haredi seats: Netanyahu lobbies rabbis past Degel HaTorah's Landau, and Agudah's rabbis reportedly want all 48 of Eisenkot's MKs signed up for an exemption. See Inside Israel.
- Din rodef: A former Haifa rabbinical court head applies din rodef to leaders who seat Arab parties, and twenty ex-security chiefs want him questioned. See Briefly Noted.
- The trial: Netanyahu's judges order Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to appear on Wednesday, a day after she sent her prosecutors instead. See Briefly Noted.
- Washington: Chris Van Hollen challenges Schumer for Senate leader, and Jeffries puts the aid memorandum on his list for "dramatic change." See Israel and the World.
- France: Sa'ar bars Jean-Luc Melenchon after Paris turned back Samaria's Yossi Dagan, and hosts Britain's Conservatives in Jerusalem. See Briefly Noted.
- The wires: HonestReporting finds the big newsrooms calling Judea and Samaria "occupied" in more stories, and more often in their own voice. See Israel and the World.
- New York: Seven city health workers sue after their department turns down a Jewish staff group by filing Jews under religion. See Israel and the World.
- Montreal and Philadelphia: A third Jewish-owned business in Montreal is hit in a week, and Philadelphia's boycott riders call off their second ride. See Briefly Noted.
- Nvidia: Jensen Huang quits, and Israel, home to Nvidia's biggest operation outside America, waits to see who replaces him. See Briefly Noted.
- The committee: Avigdor Liberman's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee sits for the first time Monday, and he plans to call in Zamir on Iran. See Developments to Watch.
The fight over Nasser Hospital went to the side with names. The IDF put on the record the commander it was after, the Nir Oz raid he led, and the hostages it says he kept, some of them inside Nasser itself, and the Board of Peace, which spent last week blaming Israeli paperwork for Hamas's guns, came down on Hamas for turning hospitals into military sites. Hamas now says the Board is repeating "the occupation's claims and lies."
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