Just about everyone with a stake in October 7 picked this week to put their own account of it on the record — the army, both camps of bereaved families, Simcha Rothman's Knesset committee, and a French MEP in Strasbourg who'd rather the day was about something else. The Israeli accounts fight over who failed, and even harder over who gets to judge it. Three weeks out from the vote, that fight is the campaign.

Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less

• The envelope: The army's three-year report lists about 40 new posts and a rebuilt barrier, and reservists serve nearly double their planned days. See The War Today.
• Judea and Samaria: Troops reportedly pull down dozens of terror monuments, and Katz lays out a war plan against the PA. See The War Today.
• Iran: Satellite images show Tehran digging out a weapons site Israel bombed in March, and officers warn of a missile miscalculation. See The War Today.
• The inquiry: Protesters block the Ayalon for a state commission, and other bereaved families demand a national one instead. See Inside Israel.
• E1: Smotrich petitions the High Court himself against the attorney general's freeze on opening the 1,234-home E1 tender. See Inside Israel.
• The tribunal: A Defense Ministry paper says October 7's captured invaders won't face a judge before 2028. See Inside Israel.
• Visa waiver: Washington sends a team to review Israel's visa waiver after the flydubai attack, and the UAE pulls rescue-flight slots. See Israel and the World.
• The Palestinian vote: Kallas offers EU observers for Abbas's 28 November legislative election, and Hamas says it's running. See Israel and the World.
• The Greens: Labour all but rules out working with the Greens after their conference brands Zionism a form of racism. See Israel and the World.
• Strasbourg: Rima Hassan takes Israel's flag down from the European Parliament's October 7 memorial, and Metsola weighs discipline. See Israel and the World.
• New York: Mamdani doubles an anti-hate fund that paid CAIR through a grantee, as Jews take 53 percent of hate crimes. See Israel and the World.
• Off Oman: A projectile wounds 12 of a tanker's 19 crew, days after American escorts get ships moving through Hormuz. See Developments to Watch.

Outside Israel, the anniversary drew the gestures it always draws, and this year a few of them come with a cost — a party Labour now says it won't work with, an MEP who has to explain herself to her own president. Tehran is paying by the day for a strait it shut itself. The cheapest thing anyone offered this week was a European stamp on a Palestinian vote, and it would help Hamas more than anybody.