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The Jerusalem Ledger
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Recent Briefings
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: a 110-0 Knesset vote to dissolve itself, paired with a coalition sprint to pass institutional-architecture bills on the way out the door. Trump's Iran deadline slides ag…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: a coalition racing to dismantle the attorney general's office before it dismantles itself, a draft-bill standoff that has the Knesset drafting its own funeral, and a Tru…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: the legal and fiscal architecture of a long war is being poured while the cameras watch the Knesset dissolution drama. A military commander has signed the West Bank deat…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: a coalition sprinting to legislate before it dissolves itself, a ceasefire architecture being extended on paper while the strikes escalate underneath it, and a drone fir…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: a 45-day Lebanon ceasefire that Israel celebrated by killing Hamas's last senior October 7 planner and bombing nine southern villages, an Israeli dissolution calendar in…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: Smotrich moves from settlement expansion to formal annexation, the Israel-Lebanon Washington round runs in parallel with live strikes on Tyre and a targeted hit on Hamas…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: a governing coalition formally drafts its own dissolution bill while the wars it inherited refuse to pause — Lebanon talks open in Washington under drone fire, the US En…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: Netanyahu's coalition is functionally dissolving over the Haredi draft, Israeli forces have crossed the Litani in force as Washington talks loom, and the Pentagon tells …
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: the Haredi draft fight finally cracked the coalition — Degel HaTorah withdrew confidence in Netanyahu and opposition tabled a dissolution bill. Around it, the 93-0 Octob…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: the Iran ceasefire is on what Trump now calls 'massive life support' after he rejected Tehran's latest counterproposal as 'garbage'; Netanyahu uses prime-time American t…