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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

IDF Home Front Command

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
Emanuel Fabian
ExplainerDevastation grows as Iran targets Israel’s civilian areas, despite interceptors and shelters
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli teams work to assess the damage and clear the rubble in Bnei Brak after a local school was the target of a direct missile strike by Iran, June 16, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
Reporter's notebookFrom shelters to shattered streets: The night war came to Petah Tikva and Bnei Brak
By Stav Levaton
A munition from an Iranian cluster bomb that fell in central Israel, June 19, 2025. (Courtesy)
June 19, 2025, 6:26 pm
Iranian missile with cluster warhead scattered bombs in central Israel, IDF says
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
By Emanuel Fabian
A man looks at a building in Holon damaged by a ballistic missile fired from Iran on June 19, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
June 19, 2025, 5:14 pm
In Holon, Iranian missile strike reduces residential block to rubble
A direct impact destroys buildings and injures dozens, but officials hail residents’ discipline during the attack, saying adhering to Home Front Command guidelines saves lives
By Stav Levaton 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)
June 18, 2025, 4:52 pm
IDF eases some restrictions 6 days into Iran conflict; schools stay closed
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’
By Emanuel Fabian
A phone screen shows the Home Front Command app on August 8, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
June 17, 2025, 7:00 pm
IDF Home Front Command no longer issuing pre-launch alerts to stay near shelters
Civil defense authority gave much shorter warnings during overnight attacks, apparently due to fewer launches
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli teams work to assess the damage and clear the rubble in Bnei Brak after a local school was the target of a direct missile strike by Iran, June 16, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
June 16, 2025, 5:12 pm
From shelters to shattered streets: The night war came to Petah Tikva and Bnei Brak
Residents of central Israel’s secular and haredi cities grapple with the Iranian missile barrage’s bloody wake that left five dead, hundreds injured with wounds physical and emotional
By Stav Levaton
Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile from Iran hit a building in Rehovot, June 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 16, 2025, 4:23 pm
News you can use: Five practical points about the Israel-Iran war
As Israel is being hit by Iranian missiles and the toll of deaths and injuries rises, life has mostly come to a standstill. Here’s what you should know
By Rossella Tercatin and ToI Staff
Responders inspect a damaged building following a strike by an Iranian missile in Petah Tikva on June 16, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
June 16, 2025, 1:20 pm
IDF reiterates safe rooms still best option against Iran’s missiles, despite 2 fatalities
Home Front Command finds those in reinforced rooms above and below direct impact site in Petah Tikva high-rise were unharmed, notes that reinforced spaces have saved many lives
By Emanuel Fabian
The scene in Haifa after an Iranian ballistic missile attack, June 15, 2025. (Magen David Adom)
June 15, 2025, 11:49 pm
Iranian missile barrage sparks fires in Haifa, Kiryat Gat; eight people hurt
IDF says more missile attacks expected, urges citizens to follow instructions; also says it has shot down more than 100 drones since Friday, and not one drone has impacted
By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
The scene of an apartment building destroyed by an Iranian ballistic missile impact, in Bat Yam, June 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 15, 2025, 2:11 pm
Devastation grows as Iran targets Israel’s civilian areas, despite interceptors and shelters
IDF says rate of interception similar to 2024 attacks, denies Tehran has maneuverable missiles; missiles carry 1,100-lb warheads; US assisting with defense
By Emanuel Fabian
Israelis take cover in a public shelter in Jerusalem, during a ballistic missile attack fired from Iran into Israel on June 13, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)
June 14, 2025, 11:21 pm
Home Front issuing warnings 15-30 minutes before missiles hit; bomb shelters, safe rooms proving effective
Bomb shelters, safe rooms vital in saving lives, analysis shows; most underground parking lots not considered shelters; gatherings banned, schools, non-essential workplaces closed
By Emanuel Fabian
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)
June 13, 2025, 1:50 pm
Chief rabbis call on public to adhere to IDF guidelines, stay home from synagogues
Shas party’s ruling Council of Torah Sages calls on Israelis to pray and for yeshiva students to increase their Torah study, without specifying if people should adhere to rules
By Rossella Tercatin and Sam Sokol
Hamas terrorists are seen in the Home Front Command's Southern District base near Urim, on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot: Channel 12 news)
May 30, 2025, 6:01 am
Terrorists took wrong turn trying to reach sensitive intel base on Oct. 7, probe finds
10 Hamas infiltrators instead attacked adjacent Home Front Command base, where 8 soldiers were killed; troops from another nearby base and other forces eliminated all attackers
By Emanuel Fabian
Firefighters work to extinguish a forest fire burning in the Jerusalem hills, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
April 30, 2025, 10:45 pm
Hundreds battle blazes ripping through Jerusalem area; fire may be Israel’s largest ever
IDF helps fire service, police fight wildfires in Jerusalem hills as towns evacuated, Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road closed; dozens suffer smoke inhalation, burns, but nobody seriously hurt
By Charlie Summers, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
IDF vehicles drive outside the Zikim training base in southern Israel, November 16, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
April 27, 2025, 6:00 am
Commanders battled terrorists, saving 100 rookies at Zikim training base on Oct. 7
Junior officers swapped out trainees at guard posts when Hamas’s rocket fire began, exchanged fire with gunmen; only one new recruit was killed
By Emanuel Fabian
Smoke billows from a fire in the Jerusalem Hills, near the city of Beit Shemesh, apparently as a result of interceptor shrapnel following a missile attack by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, April 18, 2025. (Israel Police)
April 18, 2025, 1:20 pm
IDF intercepts Houthi missile after massive US strikes on Iran-backed Yemeni rebels
Some Israelis injured rushing to shelter, ambulance service says; sirens across central Israel and West Bank preceded by glitchy first-ever use of early warning system
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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