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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

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Daily Briefing June 23: Day 626 – After sending the B-2s, Trump talks Iran regime change
By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz
Times of Israel editor David Horovitz discusses assessments by US president and Israeli PM of strikes on Iran, notes Tehran’s absent allies and highlights intrepid returning Israelis
The IDF pilots who participated in the Operation Opera bombing of Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981. (Israel Defense Force archive)
ToI podcastFriday Focus with Lazar Berman: How Israel stopped the bomb in 1981 and 2007
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
This handout satellite picture provided by Maxar Technologies and taken on June 22, 2025, shows Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), northeast of the city of Qom, after US strikes on the site. (Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)
June 23, 2025, 2:48 pm
Daily Briefing June 23: Day 626 – After sending the B-2s, Trump talks Iran regime change
Times of Israel editor David Horovitz discusses assessments by US president and Israeli PM of strikes on Iran, notes Tehran’s absent allies and highlights intrepid returning Israelis
By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz
Illustrative: A B-2 Stealth Bomber flies somewhere over the state of Missouri, October 30, 2002. (TIM SLOAN / AFP)
June 22, 2025, 2:06 pm
Daily Briefing June 22: Day 625 – US joins the Israel-Iran war, ‘obliterating’ 3 nuclear sites
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman and US bureau chief Jacob Magid on overnight strikes on Iran, US President Trump’s statements, Democrat pushback and where the war may go from here
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid
Israeli soldiers and first responders check the damage caused to a building from an Iranian strike in Beit She'an on June 21, 2025. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
June 21, 2025, 2:52 pm
Daily Briefing June 21: Day 624 – IDF head cautions no quick win in ongoing Israel-Iran war
Over a week into the conflict, military reporter Emanuel Fabian on overnight success, the IDF chief’s warning Israel must brace for a prolonged campaign and the ‘Red Wedding’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
The IDF pilots who participated in the Operation Opera bombing of Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981. (Israel Defense Force archive)
June 20, 2025, 8:44 am
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
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Smoke rises from where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, June 19, 2025. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
June 19, 2025, 2:17 pm
Daily Briefing June 19: Day 622 – Iran hits Israeli hospital; will US join the fray?
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses Trump’s shift in tone regarding Iran, along with what Republicans are saying, and a review of Gaza aid and hostage talks
By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid
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)
June 18, 2025, 2:12 pm
Daily Briefing June 18: Day 621 – How warfare is being rewritten in the skies of Tehran
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on how Israel’s tech tweaks and integration of intelligence and IDF prowess have shifted military thinking in the region
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Handout image of Israeli fighter jet lifting off to strike Iran, June 17, 2025. (IDF)
June 17, 2025, 2:52 pm
Daily Briefing June 17: Day 620 – Israel rules Tehran skies. Is greater turbulence on the horizon?
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on new hope for a ceasefire in Gaza, what Netanyahu says about Israel’s war goals, and a black day in Paris for Israel
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and 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)
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
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
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
An Israeli Air Force fighter jet departs for strikes in Iran, early June 13, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 13, 2025, 11:51 am
Daily Briefing June 13: Day 616 – Israel strikes Iran to thwart ‘imminent’ nuclear bomb
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian and diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman update us on the overnight attacks and weigh in on this unprecedented preemptive operation
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman
Members of the Abu Shabab gang in Gaza, seen in a recent video posted by the group. (screen capture: Facebook)
June 13, 2025, 9:54 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Has Israel finally launched a counterinsurgency in Gaza?
ToI’s diplomatic reporter on Israel’s arming of the southern Gaza criminal gang headed by Yasser Abu Shabab, a former drug smuggler turned humanitarian aid protector
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Podcaster Theo Von hosted US Vice President JD Vance on his show on June 7, 2025. (Screenshot via JTA)
June 13, 2025, 2:06 am
Meet Theo Von, the popular podcaster who asked JD Vance about Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza
With the third-biggest podcast on Spotify and 4 million YouTube followers, the reality TV personality and comic has a large audience for his frequent criticisms of the Jewish state
By Grace Gilson
French President Emmanuel Macron, right, speaks with Saudi Arabia's Prime Minister and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud prior to a group photo at an EU-Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)
June 12, 2025, 1:59 pm
Daily Briefing June 12: Day 615 – Will France declare a Palestinian state to please the Saudis?
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses latest on Gaza aid, Saudi-France deliberations for UN meetup, Trump on Iran, and whether Netanyahu is bluffing on hostage talks
By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid
Illustrative: An LRAD missile is launched from the Sa’ar 6-class corvette INS Magen during a test in November 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 11, 2025, 2:23 pm
Daily Briefing June 11: Day 614 – 1st IDF naval strike on Yemen leaves Houthis undeterred
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on the war in Gaza; political reporter Tal Schneider on a potentially pivotal day in the Knesset, nations’ sanctions on 2 Israeli ministers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Emanuel Fabian and Tal Schneider
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