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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 19, 2025

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The aftermath of an Iranian missile strike on Beersheba's Soroka Medical Center, June 19, 2025 (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Iran says it targeted military site nearby; there isn't one

Heavy damage, injuries as Iranian missile hits Beersheba hospital; dozens hurt in central cities

By Emanuel Fabian, Charlie Summers, Diana Bletter and Agencies

30 missiles fired in early-morning barrage, warhead causes extensive damage to Soroka, southern Israel’s main hospital; Israel calls attack a war crime; 6 people seriously injured in Ramat Gan and Holon

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to Bloomberg, June 10, 2025. (Screen capture via YouTube)

Some US diplomats leave Israel; embassy prepares to evacuate citizens who want to go

By Jacob Magid and Sharon Wrobel

Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks to press at the site of where a missile fired from Iran struck the central city of Holon on June 19, 2025. Several Israelis were wounded, some of them badly, in the strike. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu: US involvement 'up to Trump... he knows the game'

Ratcheting up threats, defense minister says Iran’s Khamenei ‘cannot continue to exist’

By ToI Staff, AP and Reuters

After Iran strikes hospital, Katz compares its leader to Hitler; Netanyahu says nobody is immune but words need to be ‘chosen carefully,’ apparently chiding defense chief for speaking out

A medical staffer walks along a damaged area at the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran in Beersheba, June 19, 2025. (AP/Leo Correa)

Israel vows to ‘exact full price from Tehran tyrants,’ calling hospital strike a war crime

By Sam Sokol, Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

AnalysisDo Tehran’s nuclear program and terror proxies legally justify Israel’s attack?

By Jeremy Sharon

Reporter's notebook

‘Like an earthquake:’ Ramat Gan reels after missile slams into financial hub

One of Israel’s busiest neighborhoods turns into a disaster zone after early-morning strike Thursday; residents say they’ve lived through seven nights of terror with no end in sight

Israeli emergency services work at the site of an Iranian missile attack in Ramat Gan on June 19, 2025. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

A man looks at a building in Holon damaged by a ballistic missile fired from Iran on June 19, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Reporter's notebookIn Holon, Iranian missile strike reduces residential block to rubble

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Ramat Gan mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen (second from right), deputy mayor Einav Bar Cohen (second from left) and a social worker from the Ramat Gan Municipality speak with a resident at a first aid center established within an hour of an Iranian missile attack on the night between June 13 and 14, 2025. (Ori Habushi)

Cities work to survey damaged buildings and support thousands evacuated to hotels

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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This handout satellite image released by Maxar Technologies on June 19, 2025 and taken on June 18, 2025, shows a view of the Iranian nuclear facility at Arak in central Iran. (Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

June 19: White House says Iran able to produce nuclear bomb in ‘a couple of weeks’

White House: Trump will decide whether to join war ‘within next two weeks’ * Outgoing flights from Israel to begin Monday * IDF chief says Israel is ‘changing the face of the Mideast’

8:52 pm

Iran summons German envoy after Berlin's backing of Israeli strikes
8:34 pm

Explosion at Norway ambassador's residence in Herzliya; no injuries
8:09 pm

United Airlines, American Airlines halt flights to Dubai, Doha amid tensions

Technicians work at the Iranian Arak heavy water reactor, 150 miles southwest of the capital Tehran, on December 23, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Arak site evacuated ahead of strike, no radiation risks

IDF strikes Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, Natanz site used for nuclear development

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Reports say Trump waiting on Iranians to see if they give up nuclear program, asked advisers if bunker busters can destroy Fordo, though Israel may destroy site ‘with humans’

Smoke rises after an apparent Israeli airstrike in Tehran on June 18, 2025 (Screen grab from social media/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IAF continues to strike Tehran, targeting police HQ and centrifuge production sites

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

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

ExplainerA look at US military bases in the Middle East as Iran threatens strikes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran blames Israel for hacking state TV broadcast with calls for uprising

By AFP and ToI Staff

Transmission interrupted with footage from 2022 women’s protests against the regime; state broadcaster later warns viewers that ‘Zionist enemy’ is disrupting satellite service

Screen capture from video of an interruption by hackers to Iran's state television network broadcast showing past protest by women against the regime, June 18, 2025. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Illustrative: A man typing on a computer keyboard, January 24, 2017. (Flash90)

Iran imposes restrictions on internet, claims Israel using it for military purposes

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin greet each other during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, July 19, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Putin says Israel agreed to ensure security of Russians working at Iran nuclear plant

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks as a flag pole is installed on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, June 18, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP)

US wants 'total and complete victory,' not ceasefire - Trump

‘Nobody knows what I’m going to do’: Trump won’t say whether he’ll strike Iran

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg, Sam Sokol and Agencies

US president says Iran was only ‘a few weeks’ from the bomb; says he’s ‘had it’ with negotiations while also declaring it’s ‘not too late’ for Tehran to reach a deal; Iran denies seeking talks

Smoke rises from where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, June 19, 2025. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 19: Day 622 – Iran hits Israeli hospital; will US join the fray?

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

This handout picture provided by the Iranian foreign ministry shows Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meeting with ambassadors of foreign countries in Tehran on June 15, 2025. (Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs/AFP)

FMs of France, Germany and UK to meet Iranian counterpart for nuclear talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Enthralled by Israel’s successes, Trump appears poised to join campaign against Iran

US president kept his options open in case operation went awry, but with Israel racking up stunning achievements against Tehran, he sees an opportunity, Tucker Carlson be damned

Then-President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, November 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Alex Brandon)

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as a flag pole is installed on the South Lawn of the White House, June 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says supporters ‘more in love’ with him than ever, as base splits on Iran strike

By MEG KINNARD and CHRIS MEGERIAN

Maryam Rajavi, leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) group, looks on during a meeting with Italian deputies of the House of Representatives in Rome, on July 12, 2023. (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

Exiled opposition leader says only Iranians can bring about regime change

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

Quietly transforming Mossad, David Barnea paved the way for triumph in Iran

Israel’s spy chief worked from the shadows to build a campaign that has crippled Tehran, winning the backing of a once-reluctant IDF and shocking Iran, and the world, yet again

Mossad chief David Barnea in Tel Aviv, on February 25, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on an archive brought out of Iran by the Mossad that documents Iran's nuclear program, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Netanyahu’s political woes take back seat as critics unite behind him over Iran

By Reuters, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

A poster of slain Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Gholam Ali Rashid, killed in an Israeli strike, is set up at a Tehran square on June 16, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

In Persian-language message, IDF suggests Iranians make contact with Mossad

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Cochav Elkayam-Levy

The unheard sirens coming from Iran itself

The global norm called ’Responsibility to Protect’ demands action against a regime that brutalizes women, exports terror, and destabilizes the world

Critics ignore the key justification for Israel’s attack on Iran

The entire self-defense paradigm is redundant, as Foreign Minister Sa’ar persuasively explained in a letter to the UN

Staff Sgt. Stav Halfon, killed in Khan Younis, June 18, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces).

Soldier killed in south Gaza as IDF pursues its ground offensive in shadow of Iran war

By Emanuel Fabian, Reuters and ToI Staff

Staff Sgt. Stav Halfon shot by sniper in Khan Younis; Hamas claims 140 killed in Strip over past day, including people shot seeking aid; IAF strikes 75 targets throughout Strip

Part of the Rotstein family at a hotel in the northern city of Haifa after their apartment was destroyed in an Iranian missile attack on the northern city of Haifa on June 15, 2025, photographed on June 16, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Soaked in sewage but alive, missile-struck family relies on kindness of strangers

In Haifa, the now-homeless Rotstein family of 10 wonders what lies ahead now that they’ve been reduced to the clothes on their backs and two miraculously saved phylacteries

Inside story

With Israel’s airspace closed, fleeing tourists and homeward-bound Israelis take to the sea

A growing maritime travel route is helping stranded people get in and out of the Jewish state amid war with Iran, but prices for the yacht and ferry trips are stratospheric

Passengers stranded in Larnaca readying to board a sailing boat chartered by Israel's Sailor Yacht Club to return home to the Herzliya harbor, June 2025. (Courtesy)

Evacuees from Israel arrive at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Stranded Israelis, evacuees from Israel find shelter and kosher meals in Cyprus

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

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

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

By Sharon Wrobel and Rossella Tercatin

Reporter's notebook'Somebody up there is watching over us'

Shuttered Old City, lively Mahane Yehuda market share faith God shields the holy city from Iran

By Rossella Tercatin

While the Western Wall and Temple Mount are closed off along with the rest of the ancient quarters for security reasons, the ‘shuk’ in the new city remains open with music blaring

Illustrative: In this photo released on January 15, 2021, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are launched in a drill in Iran. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP)

Interview

Could Iran’s missiles carry nuclear warheads? An expert breaks down the threat

Veteran analyst Tal Inbar details the Islamic Republic’s missile technology, nuclear ambitions and the challenges of verifying its secretive activities

Shrapnel is seen falling over East Jerusalem on June 16, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

With few shelters but plenty of roadblocks, East Jerusalem Arabs squeezed by war

By Nurit Yohanan and Charlie Summers

As heavy police deployments and concrete barriers raise tensions, residents with nowhere to go during missile attacks worry what will happen if disaster strikes their underserved neighborhoods

Herzog visit ‘warms our hearts,’ say Tamra residents mourning 4 killed in Iran strike

By Diana Bletter

Dror Miro, a fourth-generation coppersmith, holds his 'Rising Lion' plate he designed and made in the old city of Acre on June 16, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'All of us, Jews and Arabs, we all just want to work'

In the mixed Jewish and Arab city of Acre, residents push for a united front against Iran

By Diana Bletter

The eerily quiet bazaar of the coastal Western Galilee city has been rocked by riots, COVID-19, and now another conflict – yet residents can’t imagine another home

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a Democratic mayoral primary debate, June 4, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani compares Intifada to Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, drawing fire

US Holocaust Memorial Museum says likening calls to ‘globalize the Intifada’ to Jewish rebellion during World War II is ‘outrageous’

More Headlines

MK Shelly Tal Meron leads the lobby for releasing the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli political figures receive threatening phone calls, apparently from Iran

Illustrative image of a Wix-made app. (Courtesy/Wix)

Six-month old Israeli startup is bought up by website builder Wix for $80 million

By Sharon Wrobel

Chancellor Shuly Rubin Schwartz speaks at the institution's 131st commencement ceremony, May 22, 2025. (Ellen Rubin Photography via JTA)

Conservative flagship’s 1st woman chancellor, Shuly Rubin Schwartz, to step down in 2026

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Flames erupt after an Iranian missile attack in Haifa, northern Israel, June 15, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Mayors demand government take quick action to compensate victims of Iranian strikes

This image obtained from the Iranian news agency IRNA on October 16, 2022, shows a fire truck in front of Evin Prison, in the northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran. (AFP)

Families of prisoners held in Iran are ‘truly terrified’ for loved ones amid conflict

By Stuart Williams and Pauline Froissart

A greenhouse of khat plant in the south of Israel, on October 20, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Houthi military chief was at khat-chewing party when targeted in Israeli strike – report

File: A natural gas refinery at the South Pars gas field on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, in Asaluyeh, Iran, on March 16, 2019. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

ExplainerWhy Israel-Iran tensions might not raise prices at the pump as much as feared

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A six-pack of 'Ah Sheli,' a craft pale ale brewed by BeerBazaar and parents of soldiers held hostage in Gaza, whose official launch was planned for June 22, 2025 (Courtesy)

A beer for the boysBrewery creates ‘My Brother’ pale ale for kidnapped soldiers

By Jessica Steinberg

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