Gaza City Encircled

Israel’s military said on Monday that its troops had encircled Gaza City, effectively splitting the Gaza Strip in half, as the NYT reports.

Blinken Wraps Mideast Tour

Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a grueling Middle East diplomatic tour on Monday in Turkey after only limited success in efforts to forge a regional consensus on how best to ease civilian suffering in Gaza, as the AP reports.

U.S. Plans $320 Million Weapons Transfer to Israel

The Biden administration is planning a $320 million transfer of precision bombs for Israel, as the WSJ reports.

Executive Education

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Audio Briefs

CSIS experts give short, spoken-word summaries on the biggest takeaways from their latest reports, white papers, and commentaries—in their own words.

Listen here: "Analyzing the Role of Blockchain Technology in Strengthening Democracies" with CSIS's Noam Unger.

In That Number

18

The Israeli labor ministry says that 18 percent of the country’s workforce is not working after being called up for reserve duty.
Source: FT

Critical Quote

“We’ve completed our encirclement, separating Hamas strongholds in the north and the south, and it’s proving to be effective.”

—Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, IDF Spokesman

iDeas Lab

Updates to the Wassenaar Arrangement are made annually in plenary sessions in Vienna, Austria. A new CSIS report details this process while analyzing the argument for a new multilateral export control regime, discussing five key potential avenues.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.

Optics

(Photo credit: Jonathan Ernst/POOL/AFP/Getty Images.) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas at the Palestinian Muqataa Presidential Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 5, 2023.

This Town Tomorrow

At 9:00 a.m., the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues holds a conversation on the findings of PONI's forthcoming Project Atom report.

Then, at 12:00 p.m., the CSIS Korea Chair discusses the US-Japan-ROK trilateral relationship following the Camp David Summit in August 2023.

Later, at 1:30 p.m., the CSIS Transnational Threats Project examines the tactics, scale, and global ramifications of the Hamas October 7 attack.

Video

The CSIS Middle East Program and Energy, Security, and Climate Change Program hosted Sh. Nawaf Al-Sabah, deputy chairman and CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, for a discussion on the energy transition and decarbonization efforts throughout the region. Watch the full video here.

Podcasts

Dr. Courtney C. Radsch, director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute, joined CSIS's Caitlin Chin-Rothmann to discuss the state of the news media in an evolving technological landscape.

Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

Smiles

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