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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 18, 2025

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June 18: Netanyahu convenes cabinet as Israel awaits US decision on joining Iran fight

By ToI Staff and Luke Tress

Trump says possible Iranian regime could fall * Iran TV broadcasts hacked with calls for uprising as Israel hits government targets in Tehran * IDF soldier killed in Gaza

8:59 pm

US starts evacuating some diplomats from its embassy in Israel
8:36 pm

USS Ford to sail for European deployment, giving US a 3rd carrier option if Iran-Israel conflict widens
8:10 pm

IDF says jets hit 20 nuclear and weapons production sites in Tehran

Op-ed: Day 621 of the war

How close was Iran to the bomb, and how far has Israel pushed it back?

The more we learn, the clearer it becomes that Israel struck in the nick of time: Iran was very close to the bomb. Its ballistic missiles were becoming a dire threat. And then there’s that derided ‘Destruction of Israel Plan’

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, arrives at a graduation ceremony of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, May 20, 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) building in Tehran on June 16, 2025. (AFP)

Five days into Iran war, Israel emanates confidence, flirts with regime change

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

Smoke rises up after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Inside storyHow Israel used spies, smuggled drones and AI to stun and hobble Iran

By Julia Frankel and SAM MEDNICK

'The Iranian nation is not one to surrender'

Beleaguered Khamenei warns of ‘irreparable damage’ to US if it strikes, vows to ‘punish’ Israel

In low-resolution video aired on state TV from undisclosed location, supreme leader vows defiance in face of Trump’s demand for ‘unconditional surrender,’ says Israel made a ‘huge mistake’

This photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, shows Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a televised speech, under a portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, June 13, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

A handout picture provided by the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office shows him addressing the nation on the first anniversary of the death of Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi, May 20, 2025. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Sources close to Khamenei warn of growing risk he could miscalculate

By Reuters and ToI Staff

FILE - A WhatsApp icon is displayed on an iPhone, November 15, 2018, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Iran state TV urges public to delete WhatsApp, claiming app gathered info for Israel

By Kelvin Chan and Barbara Ortutay

Rescue teams inspect a damaged building following a strike by an Iranian ballistic missile in Bat Yam on June 15, 2025. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

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Report reveals Trump’s winding path from skeptic to backer of Israel’s Iran strike

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Private conversations, public denials, and high-level briefings outline how the US president drifted from peace overtures to aiding a bold Israeli assault

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (Pool via AP)

An Iranian refueling plane is seen on fire at Mashhad Airport in northeast Iran following an Israeli strike on June 15, 2025. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran’s efforts to ‘annihilate’ Israel justify offensive, Sa’ar tells UN Security Council

By Jeremy Sharon

US President Donald Trump (left) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington on April 7, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Trump speaks with Netanyahu and advisers as he weighs strike on Iran

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Iran’s nuclear program has been hit hard, but won’t be knocked out if Fordo remains

Trump is convening his national security team to decide whether to take out key enrichment facility; but even if he opts against it, Israel still has options

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Calgary International Airport, Monday, June 16, 2025, in Calgary, Canada, on his way back to Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Portraits of Iranian military generals and nuclear scientists, killed in Israel's June 13 attack, are displayed above a road, as a plume of heavy smoke rises from an oil refinery in southern Tehran, after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike, on June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 18: Day 621 – How warfare is being rewritten in the skies of Tehran

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

This photo released November 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility near Natanz, Iran. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

IAEA says Israeli strike directly hit Iran’s Natanz underground enrichment plant

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People take shelter in a parking lot in Tel Aviv amid a fresh barrage of Iranian rockets on June 17, 2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

IDF eases some restrictions 6 days into Iran conflict; schools stay closed

By Emanuel Fabian

Small gatherings now permitted, workplaces can open if shelter can be reached in time; Katz calls reopening of economy a ‘message of victory over the Iranian enemy’

A phone screen shows the Home Front Command app on August 8, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

IDF Home Front Command no longer issuing pre-launch alerts to stay near shelters

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli air defense systems fire to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack, as seen near the border with Lebanon June 18, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/ Flash90)

More than a dozen drones from Iran also intercepted

Iran fires two overnight missile barrages at Israel; Khamenei: ‘The battle begins’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

No injuries reported after some 30 projectiles fired; 50 IAF jets hit Iranian centrifuge production site and 20 arms sites in Tehran after issuing evacuation order

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrives to be greeted by Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit at the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, on June 16, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Germany’s Merz threatens destruction of Iran’s nuclear program if it bucks talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli air defense systems fire to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, June 18, 2025. (AP/Leo Correa)

Israel running low on Arrow interceptors, US burning through its systems too – WSJ

Residents seeking shelter from Iranian missile attacks in Ramat Gan's Bialik Light Rail Station, June 16, 2025. (Ariela Karmel)

Reporter's notebookNight in the heart of Israel’s most densely populated region

Echoes of the Blitz in Ramat Gan’s underground Bialik Station, an unlikely wartime refuge

By Ariela Karmel

As Iranian missiles hit central Israel, many residents without adequate bomb shelters have found safety in the Tel Aviv-adjacent city’s well-maintained light rail station

Smoke billows in the distance from an oil refinery following an Israeli strike on the Iranian capital Tehran on June 17, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

IDF general says strikes to continue until threat eliminated

Israel will achieve goals in Iran within a week or two, including in Fordo, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian

Air force striking ballistic missile launchers and stores, air defense systems and radar sites; IDF believes smaller salvos now being launched at Israel due to successful Israeli strikes

A firefighter calls out to his colleagues at the scene of an explosion in a residential compound in northern Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Inspired by brutal TV scene, first strikes on Iran said code-named ‘Red Wedding’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A crashed Hermes 900 drone in Iran, June 18, 2025. (IRIB screenshot)

In first, Israeli drone shot down over Iran; IDF says no fear of information leaking

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli passengers on Arkia's first repatriation flight leaving from Larnaca to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on June 18, 2025. (Courtesy Arkia)

Chief rabbi forbids El Al repatriation flights on Shabbat

First repatriation flights spirit Israelis home from Cyprus as air mission takes off

By Sharon Wrobel and Rossella Tercatin

El Al, Arkia, and Israir planes from Larnaca and more flights from around Europe land at Ben Gurion Airport; will gradually bring back 100,000 people stranded abroad by war

People arrive with their luggage before the departure of a bus slated to evacuate foreign passport holders, mainly Europeans, out of Israel, at a meeting point in Tel Aviv on June 17, 2025. The operation, coordinated by the Polish embassy, aims to evacuate several hundred people who will board buses headed to Sinai in Egypt, and from there continue to Warsaw, Poland. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Evacuees from Israel arrive in Slovakia, Czech Republic as foreigners flee conflict

By Agencies and Sharon Wrobel

File: Parked airplanes at Ben Gurion Airport, August 8, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Israeli airlines set to launch repatriation flights Wednesday to bring citizens home

By Sharon Wrobel

Then the Republican nominee running for a second nonconsecutive term, Donald Trump speaks with Tucker Carlson during a Tucker Carlson Live Tour show at Desert Diamond Arena, October 31, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

'At some point, the warmongers will have to answer for this'

As US appears increasingly likely to enter Iran conflict, tensions roil MAGA movement

Strong isolationist faction within the Republican party vocally opposes entering fight against Iranian nuclear threat; Vance indicates it can still fit with America First approach

Shira Lankin Sheps

I found the secret to Israeli resilience in my local bomb shelter

We joke about our pajamas and lack of sleep. We share family updates in a mix of Hebrew and English. And it is my neighbors’ calm that calms me

Operation Rising Lion is Zionism in action

This operation isn’t only to prevent a nuclear Iran, but to reshape the strategic landscape of the region so that a different future is possible

One of the victims in Bat Yam strike: A Ukrainian girl who came to Israel for cancer care

By Michael Horovitz

Grandmother and two young cousins also killed in Sunday’s Iranian missile impact, mother missing; father said fighting in Ukraine’s war against Russia

Nastia Borik (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebookA lifeline lies in ruins: Iranian missile destroys a rehab center for disabled kids

By Stav Levaton

Top (L-R): Yaakov and Hadassah Belo, Uri Levy; Bottom (L-R): Daisy Yitzhaki, Daniel Avraham, Igor Fradkin. All were killed in Iranian ballistic missile strikes on Petah Tikva and Haifa on June 16, 2025. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Five more victims of Iranian missile strikes in Petah Tikva and Haifa named

Raja Khatib mourns over a casket during the funeral of four members of his family killed in an Iranian missile attack which destroyed their home in the northern Arab-Israeli city of Tamra, June 17, 2025. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

‘What are these wars for?’: Arab Israeli city of Tamra shattered by Iran strike

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hundreds line the streets as Raja Khatib lays to rest his wife, two daughters and sister-in-law killed by a ballistic missile

Benny Gantz and other National Union MKs visit the city of Tamra on June 16, 2025, after it was hit in a Iranian missile strike. (Courtesy National Unity)

Opposition MKs visit Arab town where four residents were killed by Iranian missile

By Sam Sokol and Michael Horovitz

Approximately 1500 Birthright Israel participants board a cruise ship in Ashdod, Israel headed for Larnaca, Cyrpus. (Erez Uzir/Birthright Israel via JTA)

About 1,300 Birthright participants still in Israel

With skies shuttered, Birthright participants leave Israel on Cyprus-bound cruise ship

By Grace Gilson

Some 1,500 young adults set sail on secret voyage after start of Israel-Iran war puts halt to all flights, requiring visitors to seek alternative ways to depart the Jewish state

On the last Friday of the season at Camp Ramah Nyack in 2019, anyone spending the next year in Israel is called up and invited to dance with the Israeli staffers in a Zionist celebration. (Courtesy of Ramah Nyack via JTA)

Their counselors stuck in Israel, US Jewish camps are putting out ‘Help Wanted’ signs

By Grace Gilson

Stranded Israelis gather at the Chabad Piazza Bologna Center in Rome ahead of Shabbat after Israel closes its airspace following the tensions with Iran on Friday, June 13, 2025. (Courtesy)

‘We’re all in this together’: Rome’s Jews rally to help Israelis stranded by Iran war

By Rossella Tercatin

With Israel’s skies closed, local expats and institutions provide shelter, meals and medical help to hundreds stuck in the Eternal City — reviving a network born after October 7

Antisemitic streamer Sneako (left) and New York City Mayor Eric Adams smoke cigars at Gracie Mansion. (Screenshot via JTA)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams puffs cigars with antisemitic streamer Sneako, sparking outcry

By Grace Gilson

Running for reelection on the ballot line ‘EndAntiSemitism,’ the mayor says he didn’t know and didn’t arrange to meet the influencer, who has promoted Holocaust conspiracies

More Headlines

A screen capture of attendees at a virtual meeting of Shift 101, the mostly silent protest for the hostages who met online on June 16, 2025 (Courtesy)

Parents of hostages and their supporters gather online amid Iranian conflict

By Jessica Steinberg

Hapoel Jerusalem soccer club fans model new 'away' uniforms in a bomb shelter, in a sign of the times, on June 17, 2025 (Courtesy)

Signs of the timesHapoel fans model new uniforms, with Hersh logo, in bomb shelters

By Jessica Steinberg

Energean floating production, storage and offloading vessel. Energean's floating rig arrived at the Karish field in June 2022. (Energean / Suez Canal Authority / AFP)

Israel will resume natural gas exports once it is deemed safe, says minister

By Steven Scheer

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attend a signing ceremony for a partnership treaty to deepen their ties after their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Jan. 17, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

AnalysisPutin eyes role as Israel-Iran peacemaker to boost wilted Mideast influence

By AFP and ToI Staff

A musical interlude at the Israel Museum on June 12, 2025, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the museum, hours before Israel attacked Iran. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

Underground artIranian missiles force museums to move valuables to safe areas

By Jessica Steinberg

The opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem on July 14, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 )

Maccabiah Games delayed from next month until 2026 due to Israel-Iran war

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A member of Irish band Kneecap wears a Hezbollah flag at a concert in London on November 21, 2024. (Screen grab/YouTube)

Member of Irish band Kneecap to face UK court over charge of backing Hezbollah

By AFP and ToI Staff

An explosion is seen during a missile attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

S&P warns long war with Iran could sink Israel’s credit rating

By Sharon Wrobel

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