Anonymous Leak Hits Israel With Espionage Claim — White House and Israel Call It “False”

Today’s lead: an anonymously-sourced report claims the Pentagon raised Israel’s counterintelligence threat level to “critical” over the Iran talks — a claim the White House dismissed as “false,” and the Israeli Embassy called “completely false.” The more telling story is the leak itself: who floats an unverifiable spying allegation against Israel during a sensitive negotiating window, and why now.

Also tracking: the Lebanon ceasefire collapsing in real time — Hezbollah fires rockets, Israel strikes Beirut’s Dahiyeh for the first time since the latest deal — and two Canadian synagogues hit in 24 hours: arson in Montreal, a smashed window in Toronto on the eve of Walk for Israel.

In the wire: a new anti-AIPAC super PAC bankrolled by Muslim donors, Britain’s Muslim police association labeling the IDF a “Zionist terrorist group,” and Greece arresting a Hamas operative who planned to bomb an Israeli cruise ship in Crete.