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Monday, March 2, 2026
Knesset committee members forced to take shelter during briefing on war
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee take shelter during an Iranian missile attack, which interrupts a special closed session in which they were receiving an operational intelligence review of Operation Roaring Lion as well as holding a vote approving the declaration of a “special situation” on the home front.
During the attack, members of the committee from both the coalition and opposition take shelter in the Knesset Diaspora Committee’s chamber, which is reinforced as a bomb shelter. The lawmakers snap a selfie together in a show of wartime unity.
The Times of Israel Community.