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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

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IAF launches major strike on Iran’s nuclear program; sirens wail across Israel to warn of ‘new situation’

Home Front Command spokesman says Israel could experience ‘heavy missile attack’ in coming hours, but no fire from Iran as yet and no need to go to bomb shelters * Israel closes airspace

IDF Home Command: No change in guidelines for the public

US President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on June 12, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump says he doesn’t want Israel to attack Iran, but strike ‘could very well happen’

By Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

President says he’s ‘committed to diplomatic resolution’ and deal may be close, but Tehran ‘must give up hope’ of obtaining nukes; US ambassador: Israel unlikely to strike without American okay

An IAF Boeing 707 refueling plane and several F-35 and F-15 fighter jets carry out a drill just off the coast of Israel, August 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel said ready to strike Iran, possibly within days, even as nuke talks set to resume

By ToI Staff and Reuters

A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows President Masoud Pezeshkian, second left, and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami, second right, during the "National Day of Nuclear Technology", in Tehran, on April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iran vows to ramp up enrichment after UN watchdog finds it breached nuke safeguards

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

US President Donald Trump applauds on stage at the Al Udeid Air Base, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US begins evacuating Mideast embassies, army bases as Iran nuclear talks come to a head

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

LiveUpdated 5min ago

IAF launches major strike on Iran’s nuclear program; sirens wail across Israel to warn of ‘new situation’

Home Front Command spokesman says Israel could experience ‘heavy missile attack’ in coming hours, but no fire from Iran as yet and no need to go to bomb shelters * Israel closes airspace

US President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on June 12, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump says he doesn’t want Israel to attack Iran, but strike ‘could very well happen’

By Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

President says he’s ‘committed to diplomatic resolution’ and deal may be close, but Tehran ‘must give up hope’ of obtaining nukes; US ambassador: Israel unlikely to strike without American okay

An IAF Boeing 707 refueling plane and several F-35 and F-15 fighter jets carry out a drill just off the coast of Israel, August 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel said ready to strike Iran, possibly within days, even as nuke talks set to resume

By ToI Staff and Reuters

A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows President Masoud Pezeshkian, second left, and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami, second right, during the "National Day of Nuclear Technology", in Tehran, on April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iran vows to ramp up enrichment after UN watchdog finds it breached nuke safeguards

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

US President Donald Trump applauds on stage at the Al Udeid Air Base, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US begins evacuating Mideast embassies, army bases as Iran nuclear talks come to a head

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 28, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images via AFP)

Witkoff said to warn Iranian response to Israeli strike could lead to mass casualties

According to Axios, Trump’s envoy told Senate Republicans US concerned Israel’s air defenses could be overwhelmed by a retaliatory attack involving hundreds of ballistic missiles

View of the US Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, May 7, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US restricts staff’s travel in Israel as Iran drills its military amid soaring tensions

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

People walk next to a sign with a portrait of US President Donald Trump in central Jerusalem, May 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘No disrespect’ to Netanyahu, but Trump could do his job while president, says Witkoff

US President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Poll finds Israelis high on Trump, while rest of world takes dim view of US leader

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Palestinian waves a knife and shouts to the camera in Arabic, 'We get food with the taste of death and blood,' as he carries a bag containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Hamas police says it killed 12 members of Gaza’s Israeli-backed Abu Shabab militia

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

US-and-Israeli-backed aid agency accuses Hamas of blocking its employees from receiving treatment after attacking them, as terror group says 21 aid-seekers killed by IDF

Palestinians wait for food at a distribution point in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 11, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

IDF says documents show Hamas has been confiscating aid as a matter of policy

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Local Palestinian staffers of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in blue vests form a human chain to protect female aid recipients at one of GHF's distribution sites on June 9, 2025. (GHF)

Gaza aid group says Hamas killed at least 8 local staffers, possibly abducted others

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Gazans gather relief supplies at a distribution center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Gazans seeking aid from Israel-backed GHF forced to contend with chaos, peril

By Nurit Yohanan

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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
Cpt. Elhanan Kalmanson, 41: Family man who saved dozens of lives

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Those we have lost
Maj. Peleg Salem, 30: Career logistics officer and dad of 4 daughters

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Those we have lost
Sgt. Danit Cohen, 19: Aspiring actress with seven siblings

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Master Sgt. Shai El Knafo, 30: Police officer and father of three

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Elitzur Hagbi, 60 & Yizhar Hagbi, 66: Cousins and neighbors

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Dr. Victoria & Prof. Sergey Gredeskul, 81: Acclaimed BGU scientists

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Sgt. David Mittelman, 20: Ex-Haredi who hovered between worlds

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Cpt. Amir Zur, 23: ‘You will always be our guardian angel’

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Dor Nahum, 24: Partygoer ‘filled home with light and laughter’

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Ilay Nachman, 23: Off-duty Shin Bet agent defended friends at rave

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Ori Tchernichovsky, 29: Rave bartender in final year of studies

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Olga Naomi Romashkin, 28: Devoted sister was ‘loyal, funny, generous’

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Amir Tanbora, 20: Palestinian from Sderot; Family: ‘eliminate Hamas’

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Those We Have Lost
First Sgt. Uriel Avraham, 29: Police officer who headed to front line

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Israel Chana, 30: Civilian who ‘saved a whole neighborhood’

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Noy Shosh, 36: Fought terrorists outside his front door

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Osama Abu Madiam & Ghaliya Abu Madiam, 28: Cousins were in greenhouse

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Chief Petty Officer Ofek Rousso, 21: Naval commando and musician

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Cpt. Yuval Halivni, 30: Saved wife’s life 2 months before his death

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Hava Ben Ami, 78: Walked to pre-state Israel by foot from Syria

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Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

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

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

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Segev Kalfon, last seen running across Highway 232

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

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

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Taken captive: Matan Zangauker ‘is a survivor’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Avinatan Or, planning to move in with girlfriend

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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Seed funding
Former hostage honored for pioneering farming work in Africa

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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

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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

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Driving up the wall
Israeli racer crashes out of Indy 500 after losing control

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Love and romance
Keshet romcom about wedding planner comes to Netflix Israel

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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

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

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Sound of Silence
Art Garfunkel to join Aviv Geffen on stage in Israel at end of month

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

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

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

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

By Jake Coyle

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