Diplomatic response

Iranian Parliament Speaker Qalibaf: “We will not surrender to threats. If the Americans want war, we will fight. If they act rationally, we will respond accordingly.”

*Prime Minister’s Office:*

The Advisory Committee for Senior Appointments, headed by former President of the Supreme Court Asher Grunis, approved this evening the candidacy of Major General Roman Gofman for the position of Director of the Mossad for Intelligence and Special Operations.

Following the committee’s approval, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the letter of appointment for the next head of the Mossad, Major General Roman Gofman, who will assume his post on June 2, 2026, for a term of five years.

– Attached are the committee’s decision and the letter of appointment signed by the Prime Minister.

Gofman was appointed contrary to the position of the committee chair, Asher Grunis.

The Prime Minister may shorten the term of office, or extend it by one year.

I’m extremely tense about what the Attorney General’s position will be in the Supreme Court petition that will surely be filed against the appointment. As is known, she herself was appointed despite Grunis’s opposition on the selection committee he chaired.

Chief of Staff Zamir to the committee members: Had Gofman not been appointed head of the Mossad, it would have been appropriate and right to promote him within the General Staff — and perhaps even to the position of Chief of Staff.

The current head of the Mossad has raised doubts as to whether Gofman is suitable for his position, following his conduct in the case of the youth Ori Almakaies (the only case in which the committee chair, Grunis, saw a problem in Gofman’s conduct).

Meanwhile, in Hungary, the vote counting has begun, and Polymarket is already giving a 95% chance of a political upset.

Upset in Hungary: Orbán congratulated Magyar on his election victory.

An interesting dictatorship in which the dictator loses in free elections and doesn’t even barricade himself in his palace.

Orbán: We will serve the people from the opposition.

By the way, the irony is that what gave Orbán a much more dramatic defeat in parliament than in the popular vote is the very electoral system he introduced.

Israel Katz once said long ago that any change to the electoral system always ends up hurting the person who initiated it.

Too bad Orbán didn’t consult with him.

I’d love to talk more about the electoral system, which is truly one of the things that excites me most in the world, but I’m afraid of losing followers.

Alright, I won’t give in to you.

So, the thing is that a district-based system allows a party with a strong core of control to win far more decisively.

For example, in the previous election, Orbán got about 54 percent of the votes and won an enormous majority of about 70 percent, which allowed him to make constitutional changes—because of which people in Kaplan said we were on the way to becoming Hungary or Poland.

In such a system, in Israel, Likud would have won something like seventy seats.

That’s when it works for you.

When it doesn’t—you get slaughtered.

And that’s what happened to Orbán this evening. With over forty percent of the votes, he’s left with only about a quarter of the seats in parliament, and all his constitutional changes are now at risk of being overturned.

The Israeli system doesn’t provide stability, but it does provide representativeness. That’s why you can have five elections in a row and many parties, but a party doesn’t disappear just because it lost ten percent.

Personally, I support the Israeli system for Israel. We’re not a country built for a large public that feels entirely unrepresented.

Each country has what works best for it.

I wrote a book about it a few years ago. You're welcome to read it if you have trouble falling asleep.

U.S. Central Command announced: Tomorrow at 17:00 Israel time, we will begin blocking all ships entering and leaving Iranian ports, including those in the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

IDF Spokesperson:

Yesterday (Sunday), two IDF soldiers from the 98th Division were moderately injured as a result of a blast impact from an anti-tank missile fired at them in southern Lebanon.

The soldiers were evacuated to a hospital for medical treatment, and their families have been notified.

Emergency consultations at the White House following another tweet by Fogel

A Hezbollah tunnel in southern Lebanon before it was destroyed by our forces.