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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 618

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In ‘most distant strike,’ IAF bombs Iranian plane at Mashhad Airport, northeast Iran

11 dead, 200 injured in Israel since start of Iranian strikes * El Al cancels all flights, works on plan to rescue stranded Israelis * Trump says Israel, Iran ‘should make a deal’ for peace

7:20 pm

Final three Gaza flotilla activists to be deported home via Jordan tomorrow
7:16 pm

FM Sa'ar to CNN: Israel doesn't seek regime change in Iran, up to US whether to join the fight
7:09 pm

US Embassy in Iraq warns of increased potential for violence, attacks targeting Americans
7:07 pm

Police detain at least 3 at small Tel Aviv protest against operations in Iran, Gaza

A plume of heavy smoke rises over an oil refinery in southern of Tehran, after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike, on June 15, 2025. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP)

Extensive strikes in Tehran after IDF warns Iranians near arms plants to evacuate

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

5 car bombs said to detonate in Iran’s capital, more nuclear scientists killed; IDF says it is hunting ballistic missile launchers aimed at Israel, and striking nuclear targets

Motorists wait at a petrol station in Tehran, Iran, on June 15, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Tehran roads reportedly gridlocked as some seek to flee to rural north

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Fire at Iran's Shahran oil depot, early on June 14, 2025 (X screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Israeli jets strike Tehran, oil fields as PM vows to ‘hit every target’ in Iran’s regime

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

An IAF fighter pepares to depart to carry out strikes in Iran in a picture released on June 14, 2023 (Israel Defense Forces)

Katz warns ‘Tehran will burn’ if Iran keeps up its deadly missile attacks on civilians

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, speaks during the first meeting of national security secretaries in the Iranian capital Tehran, September 26, 2018. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Top Khamenei adviser among senior Iranian officials killed in Israeli strikes

Rescue teams work to recover missing persons in a destroyed Bat Yam building following a deadly Iranian missile attack, June 15, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

In a race against time, amid grief and dust, Bat Yam searches for survivors of Iran strike

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Rescue efforts continue Sunday as residents recall near escapes and the city begins reckoning with its wounds; Netanyahu, Herzog, and Ben Gvir visit the scene

'I have never seen anything like this in my life'

7 dead, including 2 children, in Iranian missile strike on Bat Yam apartment building

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Nearly 200 hurt, three still missing, with mayor saying 61 buildings damaged in attack; at least 42 injured in Rehovot, including mother and toddler

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours the scene of a deadly Iranian missile strike in the city of Bat Yam on June 15, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu, at site of deadly Bat Yam missile strike, vows Iran to pay ‘very heavy price’

By Nava Freiberg and Sam Sokol

LiveUpdated 3min ago

In ‘most distant strike,’ IAF bombs Iranian plane at Mashhad Airport, northeast Iran

11 dead, 200 injured in Israel since start of Iranian strikes * El Al cancels all flights, works on plan to rescue stranded Israelis * Trump says Israel, Iran ‘should make a deal’ for peace

A plume of heavy smoke rises over an oil refinery in southern of Tehran, after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike, on June 15, 2025. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP)

Extensive strikes in Tehran after IDF warns Iranians near arms plants to evacuate

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

5 car bombs said to detonate in Iran’s capital, more nuclear scientists killed; IDF says it is hunting ballistic missile launchers aimed at Israel, and striking nuclear targets

Tehran roads reportedly gridlocked as some seek to flee to rural north

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Israeli jets strike Tehran, oil fields as PM vows to ‘hit every target’ in Iran’s regime

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Katz warns ‘Tehran will burn’ if Iran keeps up its deadly missile attacks on civilians

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Top Khamenei adviser among senior Iranian officials killed in Israeli strikes

Rescue teams work to recover missing persons in a destroyed Bat Yam building following a deadly Iranian missile attack, June 15, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

In a race against time, amid grief and dust, Bat Yam searches for survivors of Iran strike

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Rescue efforts continue Sunday as residents recall near escapes and the city begins reckoning with its wounds; Netanyahu, Herzog, and Ben Gvir visit the scene

7 dead, including 2 children, in Iranian missile strike on Bat Yam apartment building

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Nearly 200 hurt, three still missing, with mayor saying 61 buildings damaged in attack; at least 42 injured in Rehovot, including mother and toddler

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours the scene of a deadly Iranian missile strike in the city of Bat Yam on June 15, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu, at site of deadly Bat Yam missile strike, vows Iran to pay ‘very heavy price’

By Nava Freiberg and Sam Sokol

4 Arab women – mother, 2 daughters and a sister-in-law – killed by Iranian missile near Haifa

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

10 injured in salvo from Islamic Republic on northern city of Tamra, where residents have warned about lack of bomb shelters

Fatalities in an Iranian missile attack on Tamra, northern Israel, June 14, 2025, all of whom are from the Khatib family: Top left: Manar Khatib; top right: Shada Khatib, 20; bottom left: Manar Khatib (Shada's mother); bottom right: Hala Khatib, 13 (Shada's sister). (Pictures from X; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Reporter's notebookDeadly Iranian missile ‘brought out the hatred’ inside Israel, Tamra residents say

By Diana Bletter

ExplainerAll 14 people killed were not in bomb shelters - authorities

Devastation grows as Iran targets Israel’s civilian areas, despite interceptors and shelters

IDF says rate of interception similar to 2024 attacks, denies Tehran has maneuverable missiles; missiles carry 1,100-lb warheads; US assisting with defense Continue Reading

The scene of an apartment building destroyed by an Iranian ballistic missile impact, in Bat Yam, June 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ballistic missile damage seen in Rehovot, on June 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Iranian missile attacks damage Haifa oil refinery and Rehovot university buildings

In this image courtesy of DVIDS, a US Air Force Airmen offloads a THAAD launcher from a C-17 GlobeMaster III at Nevatim Air Base, Israel for an exercise, March 1, 2019. (Robert DURR / DVIDS / AFP)

US air defense systems, naval destroyer help down Iranian missiles fired at Israel

By TARA COPP and Lolita C. Baldor

Vehicles jam a highway as a fire blazes nearby in the oil depots of Shahran, northwest of Tehran, on June 15, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Live updates (closed)June 14: Israel bombs oil depot in Tehran as missile strike near Haifa claims victims

An El Al plane parked at Ben Gurion Airport, May 7, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Stranded Israelis told not to go to Larnaca, Athens; not to use Egypt, Jordan land crossings

By Sharon Wrobel

With airspace closed amid conflict with Iran, authorities say it will take weeks before the tens of thousands of Israelis stuck abroad will get home; El Al works on rescue flight plan

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Those we have lost

Stories of the civilians and soldiers who have fallen in the Israel-Hamas war

Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Sahar Meidani, 20: Golani soldier who ‘loved this country’

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Those we have lost
Itai Houston Hadar, 27: Made a new friend every day

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Those We Have Lost
Staff Sgt. Eden Alon Levy, 19: Raised in a family of women warriors

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Those We Have Lost
Eden Abdulayev, 22: Killed one day before her birthday

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Rivka Ben Horin, 74, Yossi Gross, 75: Elders who found love again

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Ofer Udi, 41: Truck driver and dad who ‘really doted on his kids’

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Hayim Katsman, 32: US-Israeli scholar and peace activist

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Ran ‘Chepale’ Shefer, 48: Lived each day ‘full of light’ and gratitude

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Those We Have Lost
Mapal Adam, 25: Hid under a truck from Hamas terrorists for hours

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Those we have lost
Yoram Metzger, 80: Kibbutznik and war veteran spoke Arabic and Yiddish

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Those we have lost
Hezi Hanom, 31: Postal worker ‘lived life as a king’

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Those We Have Lost
Hadar Hoshen, 28: Travel enthusiast with a ‘radiant personality’

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Those We Have Lost
Eliyahu Orgad, 72: Grandfather who was ‘a true intellectual’

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Those We Have Lost
Bar Zohar, 23: Saved others at rave and ‘left us with so much pride’

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Those we have lost
Lt. Sahar Tal, 20: Intelligence officer who loved basketball

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Those we have lost
Raz Bokovza, 23: Fearless future chef who refused to be kidnapped

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Those We Have Lost
Limor Vaknin Permuter, 49: Mom of 3 whose ‘true love was to dance’

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Those we have lost
Eli and Arye Uzan, 68 & 42: Father and son slain during fishing trip

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Those we have lost
Yehoshua Hatav, 66: Devoted grandfather and retired military man

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Those we have lost
Master Sgt. Avihay Amsalem, 30: Elbit engineer counseled at-risk youth

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Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Those we are missing
Taken captive: Bar Kuperstein, last seen tied up by Hamas

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Elkana Bohbot, young son asking, ‘Where’s Daddy?’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ariel Cunio told brother ‘We are in a horror film’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ziv Berman, from his home in Kfar Aza’s young generation neighborhood

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Informal educator Eitan Horn visiting from Kfar Saba

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Alon Ohel, pianist’s family recorded song for him

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Gali Berman, from Kfar Aza’s ‘young neighborhood’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tamir Nimrodi, walked by gunmen to base gate

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Matan Angrest, turned 21 while held hostage in Gaza

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Guy Gilboa-Dalal, took a selfie with his brother for mom

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: David Cunio, abducted from burning house

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Rom Braslavski, rave guard who saved others

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Bipin Joshi, Nepalese student who deflected grenades

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Matan Zangauker ‘is a survivor’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yosef-Haim Ohana, helped injured at Supernova rave

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Eitan Mor, guard at rave who helped save others

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Maxim Herkin, was attending his first trance rave

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Omri Miran, driven in his own car to Gaza

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Nimrod Cohen, twin working to bring him home

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Evyatar David, IDed in a Hamas photo on Telegram

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

Travel buddies
Lior Raz and Rotem Sela star in ‘Off Road,’ new Netflix reality show

By Jessica Steinberg
Unity in song
Orchestra pauses concert to play hostage Alon Ohel’s favorite song

By Jessica Steinberg
Academic kudos
Dan David prize goes to 9 historians, archaeologists and filmmakers

By Jessica Steinberg
Rhyme and reason
‘I’m a Zionist,’ rapper Azealia Banks declares in latest tweet spree

By Grace Gilson
Cultural celebration
Israel Museum launches 60th year with live ‘One Night’ event

By Jessica Steinberg
Seed funding
Former hostage honored for pioneering farming work in Africa

By Jessica Steinberg
Troubled waters
Aviv Geffen hosts Art Garfunkel in Tel Aviv, calls for end to war

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Reflections
Kusama infinity room joins Tel Aviv museum’s permanent display

By Jessica Steinberg
Craft and commerce
Fresh Paint fair brings new Israeli art to potential collectors

By Jessica Steinberg
Palm Monday
Macron’s office downplays shove in the face from his wife

By AFP and ToI Staff
Driving up the wall
Israeli racer crashes out of Indy 500 after losing control

By AP and ToI Staff
Love and romance
Keshet romcom about wedding planner comes to Netflix Israel

By Jessica Steinberg
Great expectations
Scarlett Johansson makes directorial debut with Holocaust-tied film

By Hanna Rantala
The write stuff
Sami Rohr prize awarded for novel about Jewish life in Soviet Union

By Jessica Steinberg
Quick starter
Shocking field, rookie Israeli-born driver wins pole at Indy 500

By AP and ToI Staff
Sound of Silence
Art Garfunkel to join Aviv Geffen on stage in Israel at end of month

By ToI Staff
Scaling new heights
Israeli opera star who sings about chocolate heads to Carnegie Hall

By Jessica Steinberg
Gefilte fresh
Azealia Banks goes on social media rant defending Jewish cuisine

By Grace Gilson
America first class
MAGA influencers call out Trump for plan to accept jet from Qatar

By ToI Staff
Silence is golden
Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Gold Rush’ restored a century after release

By Jake Coyle

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