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What Matters Most On Friday, June 13, 2025

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Firefighters work at the scene of an explosion at a residence compound in northern Tehran the morning after Israel launched its wave of airstrikes on the country's rogue nuclear program, military commanders, scientists and others, on June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

After years of preparation, Israel launches major offensive against Iran and its nuclear program

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

IAF strikes hit nuclear sites and in Tehran; Natanz enrichment facility significantly damaged; IRGC chief, army head, commanders, scientists dead; Mossad active on ground

Screenshot from footage released by the Mossad showing strikes carried out by commandos of the Israeli spy agency on Iranian air defenses in Iran, June 13, 2025. (Mossad screenshot)

Mossad set up drone base in Iran, UAVs took out missile launchers overnight

By Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

US President Donald Trump listens during an event to sign a bill blocking California's rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, in the East Room of the White House, June 12, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Says 'Nobody knows' if Iran still has a nuclear program

‘Excellent’: Trump lauds Israeli strikes on Iran, says Tehran can still make a deal

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

President says he ‘gave Iran chance after chance,’ warns next strikes will be ‘even more brutal’; tells regime to reach agreement ‘before there is nothing left’

An explosion is seen during an Iranian missile attack in Tel Aviv, late on June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Tomer Neuberg)

Live updates (closed)

June 13: PM meets underground with security chiefs, ministers to discuss response to Iran missile fire

By Michael Horovitz, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Over 60 hurt in Iranian attacks * Air defenses said continuously firing in Tehran neighborhood where supreme leader, president live * Houthi missile lands in West Bank Palestinian town

10:29 pm

No immediate word on injuries as several impacts reported in Tel Aviv area
10:20 pm

IDF says Israeli warship in the Red Sea has downed 5 Iranian drones in past day
10:08 pm

Sirens activated as IDF says fresh Iranian missile barrage fired at Israel

(L) Chief of the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri near Tehran, Iran, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (C) Head of Iranian revolutionary guard corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami in Tehran on May 15, 2025. (AFP) and (R) head of the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, Gholam Ali Rashid (Tasnim News)

Iran’s IRGC chief Salami, army head Bagheri, commanders, scientists killed in IAF strikes

By Emanuel Fabian and AP

Salami, who rose to power in 2019, had a history of threatening the US and Israel, including calling for the ‘annihilation, the wiping out, and the collapse of the Zionist regime’

IDF says it partly destroyed Natanz nuclear facility, Iran says no jump in radiation

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Israeli defense officials believe damage to major facility is significant, while other enrichment facility at Fordo, nuclear sites in Isfahan, Busheir reportedly not targeted

Social media video shows Iran’s Natanz facility for uranium enrichment after it was hit by Israeli airstrikes early on June 13, 2025, with Israeli defense officials assessing the damage was significant. (X screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows President Masoud Pezeshkian (2nd R) and the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) chief Mohammad Eslami (R) during the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology,' in Tehran, on April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Explainer: The handful of facilities at the core of Iran’s nuclear program

By AFP

Iranian protesters chant slogans as one of them holds up a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an anti-Israeli gathering in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

At scattered protests, Iranians call for revenge against Israel, death to Netanyahu

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

‘An immediate operational necessity’: Why Israel finally attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities

For years, Israel has threatened to target Tehran’s rogue nuclear program. Lately, though, the regime’s enrichment and weaponization efforts have accelerated

This handout photo released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official Sepah News Telegram channel on June 13, 2025, reportedly shows a building in Tehran hit in an Israeli strike on the Iranian capital early in the morning. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement in the early hours of June 13 that Israel carried out strikes on Iran and the military operation against the Islamic Republic would "continue for as many days as it takes." (Photo by SEPAH NEWS / AFP)

An Israeli Air Force fighter jet departs for strikes in Iran, early June 13, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 13: Day 616 – Israel strikes Iran to thwart ‘imminent’ nuclear bomb

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, left, and Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar attend a wreath laying ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

FM speaks with counterparts around the world following Israeli strikes on Iran

By Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a memorial in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2025 for late president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last year. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran vows ‘painful fate’ for Israel, fires 100 drones in 1st response to attack; IAF downs them

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Khamenei says Israel ‘opened its wicked and blood-stained hand… by striking residential centers,’ after attack on Islamic Republic’s nuclear program kills commanders, scientists

An empty departure hall at Ben Gurion Airport, on November 9, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israeli airspace closed, flights diverted as IAF carries out strikes on Iran

A Chinese paramilitary policeman guards the Israeli embassy near a poster calling for the return of hostages taken by Hamas during the one-year memorial for victims of the Hamas attack on Israel in Beijing, on Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Foreign Ministry says embassies closed, urges Israelis abroad to register locations

By Nava Freiberg and Reuters

Israelis shop for food in Tel Aviv, as the country braces for an Iranian response to Israel's attacks on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, on June 13, 2025. (Michael Giladi/FLASH90)

Israelis wake to new uncertainty after overnight attack on Iran’s nuclear program

By Agencies and Stuart Winer

As military strikes targets a thousand miles away, citizens on the homefront are roused by emergency alerts and return to sleep in shelters ahead of Iran’s expected response

Handout photo released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) official Sepah News Telegram channel on June 13, 2025 shows smoke billowing from a site apparently targeted by an Israeli strike in the capital Tehran early in the morning. (Sepah News / AFP)

As Israel hits Iran, prayers, fortitude at home amid alarm, concern from abroad

By Stuart Winer, Agencies and ToI Staff

Rabbi Kalman Ber attends a vote for the new Chief Ashkenazi rabbi, at the Chief Rabbinate headquarters in Jerusalem, October 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Chief rabbis call on public to adhere to IDF guidelines, stay home from synagogues

By Rossella Tercatin and Sam Sokol

Analysis

Iran declared war on Israel long ago; now it is facing the consequences

When it comes to the security of the people of Israel in the face of our enemies, we are one people, with one mission. Our children will not live in fear of an Iranian nuclear bomb

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Rerouted to Cyprus

I don’t know how long I’ll be stuck on this island, but with a whole planeful of people suddenly looking out for each other, at least we’re in it together

Aron Schoenfeld

While the world slept, Israel drew a line

By striking the regime that turned itself into a launchpad for hate, the Israeli air force began the essential work of rooting out evil at its source

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

Trump administration distances US from Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear program

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

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

AnalysisIsrael’s strike on Iran: How we got here, what we don’t know and what happens next

Peter Svarzbein, national director of Jewish Voters United, outside the group's office on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, June 11, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Jewish voter campaign seeks ‘generational shift’ as it hits streets for NYC primary

Ahead of June 14 early voting, Jewish Voters Unite canvasses kosher markets, delis, pizzerias, senior centers to rally voters in tight mayoral election focused on Israel, antisemitism

Nasal airflow monitoring may be a window into well-being

The nose knows: Humans’ nasal breathing patterns are like fingerprints, Israeli scientists find

By Diana Bletter

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers develop device to recognize people’s unique respiration, allowing scientists to determine physical health, depression and anxiety

A Weizmann Institute device to identify respiratory 'fingerprints.' (Ofer Perl/Weizmann Institute)

UN humanitarian agency calls Israel-backed GHF aid mechanism in Gaza ‘a failure’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Gaza Humanitarian Fund is ‘not doing what a humanitarian operation should do, which is providing aid to people where they are, in a safe and secure manner,’ says OCHA spokeswoman

Palestinians walking near an aid distribution point in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip on June 9, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

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

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

Yasser Abu Shabab (right) and members of his group in Gaza are seen in an undated video posted by the group. (screen capture: Facebook, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Has Israel finally launched a counterinsurgency in Gaza?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

ToI’s diplomatic reporter on Israel’s arming of the southern Gaza criminal gang headed by Yasser Abu Shabab, a former drug smuggler turned humanitarian aid protector

IDF's probes into Oct. 7Despite vulnerabilities, troops blocked capture of Gaza Division base on Oct. 7 — probe

By Emanuel Fabian

Zar Amir Ebrahimi as coach Maryam and Arienne Mandi as judoka Leila Hosseini in 'Tatami,' making the rounds of 2023 film festivals (Courtesy PR)

‘We speak judo, not hatred,’ say Israeli and Iranian co-directors of film ‘Tatami’

By Jessica Steinberg

Inspired by real-life political dilemmas faced by athletes from Islamic Republic, movie about female Iranian judoka and Israeli competitor, set to reach US theaters June 13

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, March 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Extremely disappointed’ reservist groups slam government’s deal on Haredi draft

Committee chairman Edelstein reportedly tells organizations that he stands by compromise as basis for talks, but will consult with them in the future

AnalysisWhy did the Haredim agree to an enlistment plan containing sanctions?

Podcaster Theo Von hosted US Vice President JD Vance on his show on June 7, 2025. (Screenshot via JTA)

'I’m not a geologist or geographer, but I know the basics'

Meet Theo Von, the popular podcaster who asked JD Vance about Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza

By Grace Gilson

With the third-biggest podcast on Spotify and 4 million YouTube followers, the reality TV personality and comic has a large audience for his frequent criticisms of the Jewish state

Dillon Perez (L) and Yoanna Chaya Kollin at the closing party of Jewish Federations of North America’s LGBTQ+ Pride Mission to Israel, June 12, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Spurned after October 7, American LGBTQ+ Jews find healing in Tel Aviv Pride Week

Anti-Israel sentiments in the global queer community have alienated many, pushing them to develop their Jewish identities instead

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Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu speaks at a conference of the Sovereignty Movement, June 12, 2025. (Screenshot, courtesy Sovereignty Movement)

Cabinet ministers vow to annex West Bank, Gaza and more at far-right confab

By Jeremy Sharon

Three individuals hold a sign reading 'Jews Against Deportations' during an interfaith vigil in Los Angeles on June 10, 2025. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images via JTA)

California ICE protests spur Jewish community leaders to call for ‘nonviolence’

By Grace Gilson

The tail of the airplane is seen stuck in a building at the site of an airplane that crashed in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, June 12, 2025. (AP/Ajit Solanki)

More than 240 people killed in Air India plane crash, with only one known survivor

By AP and ToI Staff

The Swissotel in Sarajevo, Bosnia. (Google Maps)

Meeting of European rabbis in Sarajevo canceled after anti-Israel pressure

By Shira Li Bartov

(From left to right) Avner, Sara, Benjamin and Yair Netanyahu tour the Golan Heights, on April 23, 2019. (PMO)

Tight security, roadblocks and closed airspace around site of Netanyahu’s son’s wedding

Activists from the Madleen boat, Rima Hassan (left) and Reva Viard, seen on a plane departing Israel after they were deported on June 12, 2025. (Foreign Ministry/X)

Six more flotilla activists who tried to sail to Gaza deported from Israel

By Jeremy Sharon and Agencies

L to R: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the District Court in Tel Aviv, before the start of his testimony in the trial against him, March 12, 2025. (Tomer Appelbaum/POOL); Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

PM appoints Shin Bet deputy as acting chief, AG signs off on one-month tenure

By Jeremy Sharon

El Al airplanes on the tarmac at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, October 4, 2022. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90/ File)

‘Exploiting national tragedy’: El Al faces class action over war price gouging claims

By Sharon Wrobel

Pakistanis watch a news channel telecasting report about the Israeli attacks on Iran, in Peshawar, Pakistan, on June 13, 2025. (AP/Muhammad Sajjad)

Oil prices surge, stocks fall, as Mideast braces in wake of Israel’s attack on Iran

By AFP

Zaka personnel collect clothes that belong to the victims of the October 7 Hamas massacre, near the Israel-Gaza border, southern Israel, November 19, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Report: Millions of shekels of post-October 7 donations to ZAKA have gone missing

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