Entry №1 — Thursday, July 9, 2026
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Twice the number of targets as the Americans — Tehran's threatened exchange rate for the next round over Hormuz. The threat is arithmetic; the ships in the strait are the units. — Jerusalem Post
A second night of American strikes on Iran — and Israel counts the hours to a war restarting — Times of Israel
Israel
- A soldier missing since 1948 is accounted for at last, to be buried near Jerusalem — Times of Israel
- Rioters briefly breach the base that holds the army's own prison — the draft fight reaches the stockade — Times of Israel
- Trump says Israel will draw down in southern Lebanon; Jerusalem has not said it — Jerusalem Post
- The shekel strengthens, and foreign buyers lose their edge in the housing ledger — Times of Israel
Iran
- Iran buries Khamenei in his hometown while the strikes continue overhead — Al-Monitor
- With the deal declared over, the IRGC takes the pen on Iran's response — Al-Monitor
- Tehran–Mashhad trains stop after a bridge goes down; the war reaches the timetable — Jerusalem Post
- Families testify to how the regime killed their sons in the January massacres — the names, kept — Jerusalem Post
Gulf & Region
- Tehran claims strikes in Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain — the Gulf pays the toll of a war it didn't pick — Jerusalem Post
- Washington takes Syria off the terror list; Sharaa banks another boost — Times of Israel
- The UN's shipping chief asks the world's tankers to stop counting on Hormuz — Al-Monitor
- Riyadh sketches an IMEC route through Syria that skips Israel — Jerusalem Post
Washington
- The White House plans for a long Hormuz war, whatever the memorandum was called — Jerusalem Post
- CENTCOM strikes as Tehran condemns the sanctions-waiver revocation — the escalation, itemized — Long War Journal
- The restraint case: Washington and Tehran are talking themselves out of their own memorandum — Responsible Statecraft
- NATO's secretary general defends the allies' share of an American war — Breaking Defense
The Long Column
- The nuclear file never left: why Hormuz is, underneath, about enrichment — Jerusalem Post
- What the Houthis can actually do to shipping — capability, counted — War on the Rocks
- Trump wants to leave the Iran war behind; it isn't done with him — Al-Monitor