Last month Zach Hyman, who plays for Canada’s Edmonton Oilers, joined the elite list of now 99 players in the NHL who have scored more than 50 goals in a single season. Hyman, Armin Rosen notes, is “a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto.”

He is both the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s most gentlemanly player of 2011, and the University of Michigan athlete of the year for 2015. On the ice for Edmonton, he wears number 18—the traditional Jewish good luck symbol for chai, life.

Fifty goals in a season means you’ve now vaulted over the New Jersey Devils’ Jack Hughes as the greatest Jewish hockey player in history, I declared to Hyman after the game, a 6-1 thrashing of Anaheim in which he’d notched a late goal. Hyman let out an embarrassed laugh. “I don’t know about that,” he replied. “Jack’s a pretty good player.” When I suggested to Hyman that his own success, along with that of Hughes and the Rangers defenseman Adam Fox, meant the Jewish people were now in an unprecedented hockey golden age, his first reaction was to add another name to the list. “I also saw [that] Jeremy Swayman said he had a bar mitzvah,” Hyman said, mentioning the Bruins netminder. “So you can throw that in there. He’s a pretty good goalie.”

I observed to Hyman that he had likely been one of the only Jewish members of just about every team he’d ever played on.

Israel will likely respond directly against Iran after yesterday’s attack, and has made known that it will calibrate its retaliation based not on the extent of the damage, but on the scale of the attack. The specifics are anyone’s guess, but Edward Luttwak has a suggestion, put forth in an article published just hours before the missile barrage: cut off Tehran’s ability to send money and arms to Shiite Arab militias.

In practice, most of this cash comes from a single source: oil. . . . In other words, the flow of dollars that sustains Israel’s enemies, and which has caused so much trouble to Western interests from the Syrian desert to the Red Sea, emanates almost entirely from the oil loaded onto tankers at the export terminal on Khark Island, a speck of land about 25 kilometers off Iran’s southern coast. Benjamin Netanyahu warned in his recent speech to the UN General Assembly that Israel’s “long arm” can reach them too. Indeed, Khark’s location in the Persian Gulf is relatively close. At 1,516 kilometers from Israel’s main airbase, it’s far closer than the Houthis’ main oil import terminal at Hodeida in Yemen—a place that was destroyed by Israeli jets in July, and attacked again [on Sunday].