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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Lapid calls on Trump to join Israel’s military operation against Iran
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"
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid in front of a bus hit by an Iranian ballistic missile, June 18, 2025 (Screen grab from video distributed by Lapid)
Standing at the site of an Iranian missile strike in the central Israeli city of Herzliya, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid calls on US President Donald Trump to join Israel’s military campaign against Iran.
“I trust President Trump to do the right thing for the United States. Still, both in talks with international officials and in the international media, I keep repeating that the United States needs to join this campaign,” he says, standing in front of a burned-out bus destroyed in one of yesterday’s barrages.
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