Hi, welcome to the Times of Isual's Daily Briefing. It is Tuesday, May 26. I'm Jessica Steinberg,

here today for the first time with editor and analyst Ben Sails. Ben, thanks for joining me.

Glad to be here. Thanks for having me. Very happy to have you. Before we get started, we're still

in this ad about our amazing tote bags from the Times Visual community that you can get when you join the Times of Israel community at Times of Israel.com slash join. And that's just until the end of the month, until the end of May. Okay, we're going back to our headlines.

The U.S. right now on the top of our pages, the U.S. attack missile sites in Iran despite the ceasefire, as Iranian officials are currently in Qatar for talks about the Strait of Hormuz. We're going to be discussing Iran and Israel and what this latest bend in the talk seems to

mean for Israel and for our relationship with the U.S.

We're also going to talk about, these are all from Ben's analyses that he's been doing.

We're also going to talk about how Israelis are dealing with this ongoing ceasefire and what it all means and what we're looking at ahead.

So stay with us for all of that.

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So Ben, you've been writing analysis pieces for a few months now.

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