# Israel Brief

The Mitzpe Institute's daily read on Israel — what moved overnight, and what it means. Free in your inbox, with the deeper work at mitzpe.org.

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## [Israel Brief: Wednesday, August 19](https://israelbrief.com/p/israel-brief-wednesday-august-19)

_2026-08-19 · Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי_

Iran fires ballistic missiles at Emirati waters and loses its last Gulf market by midnight, and Trump declares the talks over.

## [Israel Brief: Tuesday, August 18](https://israelbrief.com/p/israel-brief-tuesday-august-18)

_2026-08-18 · Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי_

Kushner leaves Jerusalem with Israel's sequence and the pullback still open — and Likud's members spare all three men the prime minister's circle marked.

## [Israel Brief: Monday, August 17](https://israelbrief.com/p/israel-brief-monday-august-17)

_2026-08-17 · Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי_

Iran comes out of the sixty-day memorandum with the Revolutionary Guards over the regular army and a bounty on any American soldier.

## [Israel Brief: Sunday, August 16](https://israelbrief.com/p/israel-brief-sunday-august-16)

_2026-08-16 · Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי_

Hezbollah spends a drone on a ridge it has already lost, and Katz moves to take civilian policing in Judea and Samaria off the army.

## [Watchwords: Thursday, August 13](https://israelbrief.com/p/watchwords-thursday-august-13)

_2026-08-13 · Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי_

The siege at Qusra brought Judea and Samaria before the Security Council, where the ask was that the policing pass to somebody other than Israel — with Britain drafting a September package and eight governments promising practical steps.

## [Israel Brief: Thursday, August 13](https://israelbrief.com/p/israel-brief-thursday-august-13)

_2026-08-13 · Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי_

Israel is putting soldiers and caravans onto ground it means to keep. And keeps reading the objections about it after.

## [Israel Brief: Wednesday, August 12](https://israelbrief.com/p/israel-brief-wednesday-august-12)

_2026-08-12 · Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי_

Israeli fire crosses the Yellow Line for the first time under the new approval rules, and Likud's own court freezes a Netanyahu slot.

## [Israel Brief: Tuesday, August 11](https://israelbrief.com/p/israel-brief-tuesday-august-11)

_2026-08-11 · Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי_

Trump parks the Iran strike until after November, and Netanyahu takes eleven of Likud's top twenty-nine places out of his members' hands.

## [Israel Brief: Monday, August 10](https://israelbrief.com/p/israel-brief-monday-august-10)

_2026-08-10 · Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי_

Netanyahu rejects a roadmap Israel is already performing, and nobody in Washington minds.

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## [Israel Brief: Sunday, August 9](https://israelbrief.com/p/israel-brief-sunday-august-9)

_2026-08-09 · Uriel Zehavi · אוריאל זהבי_

Israel has signed nothing, and the roadmap is running anyway.