• Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg Britain’s deputy prime minister; the foreign secretary post went to the Tory William Hague. [NYT]
• Don’t look now, but things are maybe starting to heat up on the Lebanon border. [Haaretz]
• Egypt’s parliament further extended the emergency law, albeit (ostensibly) only to terrorism and drug crimes. The law has been in effect for nearly three decades. [LAT]
• Defense Minister Ehud Barak stood behind Israel’s strategic nuclear “ambiguity” and said President Obama does, too. [Arutz Sheva]
• The banality of love in the case of Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. [WP]
• A gray whale was spotted off the coast of Herzilya: The first sighting not in the Pacific Ocean in 300 years. Blame melting ice caps, obviously. [USA Today]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.