HEADLINES
- Iran Missiles Target US Base in Jordan
- Saudi Israel Talks Hinged on Netanyahu Exit
- IDF Plans Northern Gaza Outposts

The time is now 2:01 AM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.

In Iranian Retaliation, Tehran says ballistic missiles targeted an American air base in Jordan and US military systems in Bahrain after Washington struck sites across Iran for a third straight night; Jordan says it intercepted four Iranian missiles.

In US Policy Concerning Israel, Saudi Arabia has signaled that it may be prepared to reopen negotiations over normalizing relations with Israel, but only after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is replaced and key policies advanced by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in Judea and Samaria are reversed, according to an Israeli media report. The report says representatives of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman delivered the message to the White House, the State Department, and several members of Congress, though the White House and Israel have not publicly confirmed. The two main conditions cited are that Netanyahu no longer serves as prime minister after Israel’s October election and that a future Israeli government cancel measures implemented by Smotrich in Judea and Samaria.

In Israeli Domestic Politics, the editorial argues that failures around October 7 extended beyond a single unit and that new documents show Hamas planned an invasion force of up to 10,000 attackers targeting more than 200 southern communities and IDF outposts, with the actual invasion involving about 5,600 attackers across several waves. The massacre killed more than 1,200 people and left 251 hostages, underscoring what the piece calls the scale of the breach and prompting a deeper reckoning within Israel. Separately, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that the IDF will establish three outpost settlements in northern Gaza on sites of former Israeli communities from the 2005 Disengagement, reviving a plan to build a permanent Jewish presence there and strengthen protection for communities near the Gaza border. Katz spoke during a tour with senior military commanders, in an interview aired on Channel 14, and did not name the locations. Police reported that ultra-Orthodox protesters blocked roads near Bar Ilan Street and near Zaks Junction, disrupted the light rail construction site, and, when orders were ignored, police used crowd dispersal measures to restore order; traffic disruptions and deliberate fires accompanied the protests, which had damaged the Jerusalem light rail to the tune of more than 400 million shekels.

In Uplifting News, Honduras’ president asked for help, and Israel sent eye surgeons, with a medical mission treating 155 Hondurans, including 136 who underwent eye surgery, as ties with Jerusalem were strengthened. Israeli archaeologists also announced rare Second Temple-era discoveries at Shiloh in southern Samaria, including a lavish ritual bath, a clay cooking pot, and a rare purple-dye snail shell used for tzitzit and the High Priest’s garments. The finds, uncovered during ongoing excavations led by the Civil Administration’s Archaeology Unit with the Binyamin Regional Council, illuminate Jewish religious life at the ancient site where the Tabernacle stood, and they come during the Three Weeks, a period of mourning ahead of Tisha B’Av.

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