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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 620

Benjamin Netanyahu

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) waves to the crowd in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, in Jerusalem, October 27, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)
Netanyahu says Israel won’t rule out killing Khamenei: It would ‘end the conflict’
By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid
PM makes case for Americans to support Israeli offensive, likening Tehran’s nuclear program to a ‘cancer’ and revealing that other sites Israel hit in Iran will be revealed soon
L to R: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on May 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Opposition Leader MK Yair Lapid at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); National Unity Party leader MK Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Opposition rallies around Iran campaign, despite long opposing PM’s leadership
By AP and Sam Sokol
Lazar Berman
AnalysisMany doubted Netanyahu would follow through. It’s a new era for him, and the region
By Lazar Berman
Israelis at scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Tel Aviv, June 16, 2025. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 16: Day 619 – Will Israeli strikes push Iran to end its nuclear program?
By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) waves to the crowd in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, in Jerusalem, October 27, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)
June 17, 2025, 3:17 am
Netanyahu says Israel won’t rule out killing Khamenei: It would ‘end the conflict’
PM makes case for Americans to support Israeli offensive, likening Tehran’s nuclear program to a ‘cancer’ and revealing that other sites Israel hit in Iran will be revealed soon
By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid
L to R: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on May 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Opposition Leader MK Yair Lapid at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); National Unity Party leader MK Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 16, 2025, 8:03 pm
Opposition rallies around Iran campaign, despite long opposing PM’s leadership
Lapid says Netanyahu must go, but not during ‘existential fight’; former PM Bennett: ‘There is no left, no opposition and no coalition’ when it comes to preventing Iranian nukes
By AP and Sam Sokol
Palestinians carry bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Rafah, southern Gaza, June 9, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
June 16, 2025, 4:02 pm
Netanyahu admits Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was Israeli initiative
Speaking to Fox News, PM says aid group was devised with the help of ‘American firms’ to distance Hamas from control over aid deliveries
By Lazar Berman, Stav Levaton and Emanuel Fabian
Israelis at scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Tel Aviv, June 16, 2025. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 16, 2025, 3:25 pm
Daily Briefing June 16: Day 619 – Will Israeli strikes push Iran to end its nuclear program?
ToI founding editor David Horovitz on the IDF’s progress in Iran, how Israelis are faring during nightly barrages, US-Israel coordination, and Israel’s war goals
By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen gives a press conference in Brussels on June 10, 2025. (Nicolas TUCAT / AFP)
June 16, 2025, 9:03 am
EU chief blames Iran for conflict, but says she told Netanyahu diplomacy ‘best solution’
Von der Leyen tells PM ‘without any question’ Iran shouldn’t have nuclear weapons, notes ‘same type of Iranian drones, ballistic missiles are indiscriminately hitting cities in Ukraine, Israel’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in the capital Tehran, June 13, 2025. Above him is a portrait of his late predecessor Ruhollah Khomeini. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)
June 16, 2025, 5:12 am
Trump said to veto Khamenei assassination; Netanyahu: Conflict may result in regime change
Israel denies series of reports that US president opposed Israel killing Iran’s supreme leader in early Friday’s opening strikes; PM insists Iran nuclear program must be dismantled
By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours the scene of a deadly Iranian missile strike in the city of Bat Yam on June 15, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
June 15, 2025, 7:11 pm
Netanyahu, at site of deadly Bat Yam missile strike, vows Iran to pay ‘very heavy price’
Herzog, Ben Gvir also visit building where 7 killed, 100 wounded; president plans to visit Arab city where four women killed, notes missiles don’t discriminate
By Nava Freiberg and Sam Sokol
Rescue teams work to recover missing persons in a destroyed Bat Yam building following a deadly Iranian missile attack, June 15, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
June 15, 2025, 5:04 pm
In a race against time, amid grief and dust, Bat Yam searches for survivors of Iran strike
Rescue efforts continue into Monday as residents recall near escapes and the city begins reckoning with its wounds; Netanyahu, Herzog and Ben Gvir visit the scene
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Illustrative: US President Donald Trump gets out of a THAAD missile truck at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
June 15, 2025, 3:15 pm
Daily Briefing June 15: Day 618 – How involved is the US in the Israel-Iran war – so far?
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on the progress of the ongoing aerial conflict, a daring Mossad mission, and how Israel is going it alone in attacking the Islamic Republic
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Fire at Iran's Shahran oil depot, early on June 14, 2025 (X screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
June 15, 2025, 2:07 am
Israeli jets strike Tehran, oil fields as PM vows to ‘hit every target’ in Iran’s regime
Senior official says ‘no declared goal’ of regime change, but all ‘on the table’ if Iran keeps attacking Israeli cities; security cabinet huddles, as new missile barrage hits Haifa
By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff
June 14, 2025, 11:52 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War
ToI’s senior analyst weighs in on the prime minister’s courage for taking on Iran before it achieves a nuclear bomb and his hope that the Iranian people will overthrow the regime
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he leaves the West Wing of the White House, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mark Schiefelbein)
June 14, 2025, 11:20 pm
Netanyahu wishes Trump happy birthday, appreciates help ‘against criminal regime in Iran’
PM says Tehran sought to give nukes to proxies in ‘nuclear terrorism on steroids’; US president celebrating 79th birthday with military parade honoring US Army’s 250th anniversary
By ToI Staff
Avner Netanyahu and fiancee Amit Yardeni. (Instagram)
June 14, 2025, 7:55 pm
Monday’s wedding of PM’s son postponed amid conflict with Iran
Avner Netanyahu’s nuptials delayed a second time: last year saw fears it could be targeted by Hezbollah after drone hit family residence
By ToI Staff
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in the capital Tehran, June 13, 2025. Above him is a portrait of his late predecessor Ruhollah Khomeini. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)
June 14, 2025, 3:58 pm
Israel’s strikes on key Iranian figures hint at a bigger ambition: regime change
In video appeal to Iranians, Netanyahu says attacks ‘also clearing the path for you to achieve your freedom,’ as analysts say Israel needs US help to take out nuclear program
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Iranian people in a video released by his office on June 13, 2025. (X screenshot)
June 14, 2025, 4:29 am
Netanyahu to Iranian people: We hope our operation will clear path to your freedom
In video, PM urges Iranians ‘to unite… by standing up for your freedom,’ tells them that Israel is fighting ‘the murderous Islamic regime that oppresses and impoverishes you’
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
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