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What Matters Most On Friday, June 20, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press upon arrival at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 20, 2025. Trump is heading to his Bedminster golf resort for a MAGA Inc. fundraising dinner. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

June 20: Trump: Israel doesn’t have capacity to destroy Iran’s underground nuclear site on its own

By Jacob Magid and Shira Silkoff

President dismissive of European effort to de-escalate conflict and of Gabbard’s intel

12:36 am

Report: US seeking to boost Israeli air defenses as interceptors run low
10:10 pm

FM Sa'ar: Israel has delayed Iran nuclear bomb by 'at least two or three years'
9:58 pm

Global stocks mixed, oil lower as market digests latest on Iran

An Iranian carries a placard calling for the destruction of Israel during a rally in Tehran on June 20, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

Israeli drone strike said to target Iranian nuclear scientist in a Tehran safehouse

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Katz calls to ‘destabilize’ Islamic regime as Israel continues waves of strikes against nuclear and military targets in Iran; Iran stages anti-Israel, US protests

Illustrative: Logos of Bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies are displayed during the Token2049 conference at the Token2049 conference in Dubai on May 1, 2025. (Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

Hackers, reportedly linked to Israel, claim cyberattack on Iranian crypto exchange

By AP and Emanuel Fabian

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene of an Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beersheba, June 20, 2025. (Flash90)

For second day in row, Iran missile hits Beersheba, damaging buildings, wounding 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Iran planned larger barrage on southern city; none seriously hurt; IDF says four drones downed overnight; dozens of targets hit in wave of Israeli airstrikes on Tehran

The devastation from an Iranian ballistic missile is seen at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, June 19, 2025. (Yair Tirosh/Flash90)

‘God’s will’: Beersheba hospital moved patients underground hours before missile hit

Doctors wheel a patient to safety after a building at Soroka Hospital was struck by an Iranian missile in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 19, 2025. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

After devastating Iran strike, Soroka hospital closes to new patients, clears out wards

By Diana Bletter, ToI Staff and Agencies

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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)

European and Iranian diplomats to meet as US delays decision on joining strikes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Talks to be held in Geneva, with British FM saying there is a 2-week window for diplomatic solution, as Trump puts off decision on whether to join campaign against Iran

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, leads the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

AnalysisAyatollah Khamenei may fall, but there’s no telling what could come next

By Stuart Williams

This combination of pictures shows US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff after a meeting with Russian officials at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, 2025 (L); and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaking to AFP during an interview at the Iranian consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on March 7, 2025. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN and Amer HILABI / various sources / AFP)

Iran holding direct talks with US, says it could bend on nukes if attacks stop

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on June 19, 2025. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

PM: Israel will ‘hit all nuclear facilities,’ has destroyed half of Iran’s launchers

By Nava Freiberg

In rare Hebrew interview, Netanyahu says campaign ‘ahead of schedule’ and that IDF can strike Fordo without US if needed; also states offensive will aid hostages’ return as ‘Hamas relies on Iran’

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)

IAEA: No fear of ‘radiological effects’ after IDF hits Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Trump to decide ‘within next two weeks’ whether to join Iran strikes — White House

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Timeline to allow for diplomacy appears to clash with expectations in Jerusalem that US president will move to enter campaign against nuclear facilities in coming days

US President Donald Trump meets with members of the Juventus soccer club in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, June 18, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)

The Voice of America building is seen in Washington, DC, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Slashed by Trump, US-operated Persian-language news services jump in to cover Iran war

By David Bauder

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Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: How Israel stopped the bomb in 1981 and 2007

ToI’s diplomatic reporter delves into two previous operations in which Israel preemptively struck budding nuclear weapons programs — in Iraq and in Syria

Prof. Eldad Tzahor from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot visits the site where his lab used to stand after it suffered a direct hit from an Iranian missile on June 15, 2025. (Courtesy)

Inside storyIran missile strike Saturday destroyed life science building

From heart tissue to DNA samples, Weizmann scientists mourn work vaporized in Iran attack

By Rossella Tercatin

Some 45 labs in the prestigious sciences center were damaged and might take years — and tens of millions — to rebuild. Multiple researchers lost their life’s work

Mossad says Iran 15 days from bomb, US agencies still say up to a year – report

CIA director cited saying Tehran ‘very close’ to nuclear weapons; US officials tell NY Times assassination of Khamenei, US strike on Fordo could prompt breakout to bomb

Illustrative: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, second left, and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami, second right, are seen during the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology,' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iranian Jews hold an anti-Israel gathering at a Tehran Synagogue in support of Palestinians in Gaza on October 30, 2023, shortly after war between Israel and Hamas was sparked by the Hamas-led atrocities of October 7, 2023. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

'There is no evidence of a specific threat to Jews right now'

Its country at war with Israel, Iran’s Jewish community walks a delicate tightrope

The millennia-old community of some 15,000, the Mideast’s largest outside Israel, condemns Israel’s preemptive strikes on the Islamic regime. Experts say it’s not only for show

Splintered Iranian opposition sees opportunity, but activists remain wary of unrest

By Parisa Hafezi

Iran hit an Israeli hospital on Thursday – where is the global outrage?

How dare media denounce Israel for bombing Gazan hospitals that harbored terrorists and now ignore how Iran’s missiles crumbled an Israeli hospital’s walls?

Tucker Carlson doesn’t matter. How we talk about him does

He gets Israel wrong, but he could simply be misinformed, traumatized, in love with his own contrarianism, or all of the above. The real problem is his influence

Grown-up love: Rewriting the story of the spies in our time

Look to our fighter pilots, who carry with them our long, tumultuous history of hope, through which we eventually learned to handle complexity (Shelach)

Peter Himmelman

I’m a songwriter, not a warmonger. Confronting evil gives me hope.

Those surprised by an artist’s support for the strike on Iran don’t get that Israel is fighting a threat to the fragile idea of a civilized world

A munition from an Iranian cluster bomb that fell in central Israel, June 19, 2025. (Courtesy)

Iranian missile with cluster warhead scattered bombs in central Israel, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian

Home Front Command says warhead dropped around 20 munitions randomly over 8-kilometer radius, with one hitting home and others unexploded but still posing threat

First plane operated by El Al bringing back Israelis from Larnaca arrives at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, June 18, 2025. (video screenshot/courtesy of Israel Airports Authority)

Carriers expand airlift to bring Israelis home; outbound flights set to begin Monday

By Sharon Wrobel

Subject to approval by a government-led exceptions committee, diplomats, tourists, foreign youth and sports groups stranded in Israel will be able to return home from next week

A nearly empty Ben Gurion Airport is seen after all flights were canceled following the start of Israeli strikes in Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Ban on Israelis flying out raises legal red flags, with many needing to leave

By Jeremy Sharon

30-year-old Maria Peshkurova (Courtesy)

Authorities identify body found in Bat Yam rubble as mother of slain Ukrainian girl

Maria Peshkurova, 30, confirmed dead four days after Iranian ballistic missile hit high-rise apartment in central Israel; family arrived in Israel for daughter’s cancer treatment

Ukrainian makeup artist Tetiana Kurakova, 40, sits in a hotel in Tel Aviv on June 17, 2025, that was turned into a shelter for evacuees from Bat Yam, which was hit by an Iranian strike. (AP/Leo Correa)

A Ukrainian fled to Israel, then an Iranian missile shattered her new life

By Melanie Lidman and ILLIA NOVIKOV

Former Hamas hostage Edan Alexander returns to his US hometown of Tenafly, New Jersey, June 19, 2025. (Liri Agami/Flash90)

'A reminder that we must not rest' until all are home

Freed hostage Edan Alexander given jubilant welcome as he returns home to New Jersey

IDF soldier who Hamas released from captivity last month as gesture to Trump is welcomed by crowd of hundreds in his hometown of Tenafly

An Israeli military handout issued on June 20, 2025, shows Mujahideen Brigades commander Ali Saadi Wasfi al-Agha. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF kills Gaza terrorist commander who it says helped bury hostages’ bodies

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Naftuli Moster, then-executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Yaffed, speaks at a news conference, July 24, 2019. (Yaffed via JTA)

Interview'I'm still a boogeyman. I want people to know I've moved on'

Once the poster child of the US yeshiva reform movement, Naftuli Moster now has regrets

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The founder of Yaffed, a group decrying lack of secular education in Haredi schools, is having a reckoning fueled by distrust of progressive politics and concern for his former community

More Headlines

Police vehicles at the scene of a grenade attack targeting the home of Norway's ambassador to Israel, in Herzliya, June 19, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Grenade thrown into yard of Norwegian ambassador’s residence; no injuries

By AFP and ToI Staff

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)

Defense minister warns Hezbollah to stay out of Israel-Iran war

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: A Royal Air Force F-35 lands at the Farnborough International Air Show in Farnborough, England, on July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Anti-Israel activists damage, spray red paint on planes at UK military base

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in conversation after the New York City Democratic mayoral primary debate at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater on June 12, 2025, in New York City. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times via AP)

Muslim NY mayoral candidate reports receiving threats from anonymous caller

Oil tankers ADALYNN and Front Eagle on fire in the Strait of Hormuz, June 19, 2025. (X/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Greenpeace warns tanker crash in Strait of Hormuz may cause environmental disaster

The cover of 'Brothers,' Tuval Haim's ode to his brother Yotam, a hostage accidentally killed by IDF fire in December 2024, was to be performed at the Israel Festival, July 2025, now postponed due to the Israel-Iran conflict (Courtesy)

Iran-Israel conflict postpones Israel Festival themed on months of war

By Jessica Steinberg

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