UK and Australia

From UK and Australia: Make Aliyah! Call Jewish Agency (UK) 0800-085-2105 / 0800-051-8227 or email gci-en@jafi.org @JewishAgencyUK https://www.jewishagency.org/

 

The Truth about the Labour Party is shocking! For Example:

Expose-big-pharma-tweet-1September2025-UK grooming gangs-it is all True

Expose-big-pharma-tweet-1September2025-UK grooming gangs-it is all True

It is time for Jews to leave this HELLHOLE!

Christian Parents it is time to take action!

Australian antisemitism like Europe before World War II


Hen Mazzig-tweet-23August2025-Australian antisemitism like Europe before World War II
NEW: Australian Jews report that antisemitism has reached the point where it’s “reminiscent of the family stories we heard from Europe before World War II.”

Many Jews are scared to openly identify as Jewish, speak Hebrew in public, and live in certain areas.

What pains me almost as much as the unchecked bigotry is how complacent society and the government are with it.

Why does the world seem to think Jews should accept antisemitism as our reality?

We can’t fight this hatred alone. We shouldn’t have to.

Hen Mazzig-tweet-23August2025-Australian antisemitism like Europe before World War II

Hen Mazzig-tweet-23August2025-Australian antisemitism like Europe before World War II

 

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Campaign Against Antisemitism Victory for Niyak Ghorbani


Campaign Against Antisemitism-tweet-21August2025-Victory for Niyak Ghorbani
Last September, @GhorbaniiNiyak held his now-famous sign which read, “Hamas Is Terrorist”.

He was arrested on suspicion of breach of the peace. However, while in the back of the police van, he was de-arrested and then arrested again for allegedly assaulting two police officers who were on top of him during his arrest.

He was held in a cell until 4:00 the following morning, when he was then interviewed under caution for five minutes. He was not shown any evidence.

Yesterday, he finally faced trial at City of London Magistrates’ Court where he stood accused of “assaulting emergency workers”.

The Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence in relation to one of the alleged assaults. It maintained that it would still prosecute Niyak over the other officer, who told the court that Niyak had assaulted him. This claim was then comprehensively debunked and contradicted by police footage, which led to the Crown’s case falling apart completely.

We are pleased that the charges — which should never have been brought — against Mr Ghorbani were eventually abandoned.

We are proud to have supported Mr Ghorbani’s stand for justice and we will continue to support those who defend British Jews and defiantly stand up to the mob by calling Hamas and Hizballah exactly what they are: proscribed terrorist organisations.

Should you require free legal assistance over an incident relating to antisemitism or a wrongful arrest while standing up to extremists, you can contact us at investigations@antisemitism.org.
Niyak Ghorbani-tweet-21August2025-Thank you for standing with me
I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Campaign Against Antisemitism for their unwavering support throughout this ordeal.

The dedication, professionalism, and commitment shown by the Campaign Against Antisemitism ensured that the truth prevailed. I am proud to have stood firm, and even prouder to know that there are organisations like @antisemitism who stand by people defending British Jews and opposing terrorism in all its forms.

Thank you for standing with me🫡❤️🤝

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Campaign Against Antisemitism-tweet-21August2025-Victory for Niyak Ghorbani

 

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Muslim attacks Scottish Teen, Dundee’s Axe and Knife Girl


Basil the Great-tweet-24August2025-Muslim attacks Scottish Teen
⚠️This is absolutely HORRIFIC ⚠️

“DON’T F**KING TOUCH US”

Little girls scream at a migrant recording them before brandishing an AXE and a KNIFE to warn him off

What is happening to our country?

Basil the Great-tweet-24August2025-Muslim attacks Scottish Teen

Basil the Great-tweet-24August2025-Muslim attacks Scottish Teen

 

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Scottish Teen Reminds Great Britain of the Meaning of “Never Surrender”

As the Dundee Girl becomes the genuine face of a real crisis, the peoples of Great Britain engage in “Raise the Colours” protests.

Posted by Leslie Eastman 27August2025 at 01:00pm https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/scottish-teen-reminds-great-britain-of-the-meaning-of-never-surrender/

 

Dundee-Girl

 

For many years, globalists and mainstream media have pushed the image of a teenage Greta Thunberg as an icon of innocence lost because of the “climate crisis”.

 

The green grift began to collapse, so Thunberg ditched the manufactured catastrophe for the Hama-caused disaster in Gaza.

 

More recently, another teen has made herself iconic overnight.  Not because she is a favorite of the press or politically connected, but because she boldly defended her sister from the advances of an immigrant predator in Dundee, Scotland.

 

In other words, the Dundee girl is the genuine face of a real crisis.

In a viral video with nearly 40 million views on X reportedly connected to the arrest, two girls can be seen shouting back and forth with at least two alleged migrant men who allegedly attempted to assault one of the girls, with the two pleading for the men to leave them alone while one brandished an axe and a large knife. Police arrived on the scene after the incident to make the arrest, but did not charge any of the men in the video, the police told the DCNF.

 

“Around 7:40pm on Saturday, 23 August, 2025 we received a report of a female youth with a weapon in St Ann Lane, Dundee. Officers attended and a 14-year-old girl was charged in connection,” a Police Scotland spokesperson told the DCNF in a statement. “She will be reported to the relevant authorities.”

 

The other girl can be heard on the video repeatedly telling them men not to touch her sister while the men continued filming the pair. The exact details regarding the incident are currently not fully known.


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A 14-year-old girl in Scotland has been charged with possession of a knife after viral footage showed her and another minor being approached and filmed by at least one foreign man.

The girl brandishes a knife and an axe before walking away from the scene.

The incident occurred on Saturday evening in the Lochee area of Dundee.

“She will be reported to the relevant authorities,” said a Police Scotland spokesperson.

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Remix News & Views-tweet-26August2025-Scottish 14-year-old girl defends against Islamic Man

 

 

She was subsequently placed under arrest for possession of a knife.

The girl, aged 14, has been charged with possession of a bladed weapon after police were called to the scene in the Lochee district of the city at the weekend.

 

…It is not entirely clear what happened during the incident, but Police Scotland is understood to be aware of the claims surrounding the motive for her behaviour. As she has been charged, she cannot be identified under Scots Law.

The differences between the fabricated climate victim and a true warrior raging against a cruelly incompetent government could not be more stark. The Dundee girl is a real star of social media, and represents many in Great Britain who feel they are less than second-class citizens compared to the immigrants swamping their countries.

 

As she is Scottish, the connections to William Wallace and “Braveheart” have been many.

 


Tommy Robinson-tweet-26August2025-Weak politicians-authorities and a full two tier system
Weak politicians, “authorities” and a full two tier system rigged against them.

A legacy media demonizing the native at every given turn, in favour of the invader, all under the guise of “tolerance”.

Young girls have been forced to fend for themselves on their own streets.

Tommy Robinson-tweet-26August2025-Weak politicians-authorities and a full two tier system

Tommy Robinson-tweet-26August2025-Weak politicians-authorities and a full two tier system

The Dundee Girl is now the face of “Never Surrender”.

 


Knights Templar International-tweet-26August2025-girl the poster for British Resistance
This 14 year old girl is now the poster for British Resistance.

Knights Templar International-tweet-26August2025-girl the poster for British Resistance

Knights Templar International-tweet-26August2025-girl the poster for British Resistance

It has even inspired a ballad, likening the Dundee girl to Great Britain’s warrior queens.

 


Leslie Eastman-tweet-26August2025-The Ballad of Dundee’s Axe and Knife Girl
The Ballad of Dundee’s Axe and Knife Girl

In mist-veiled Dundee, where shadowed alleys curl,
A flame was kindled: one defiant Scottish girl.
Grasping steel in trembling hands, she stood the test—
Defender of her sister, undaunted, and possessed.

Not since Boudicca’s chariot stormed wild Roman lands,
Has such fierce courage blazed in youthful hands.
“Win the battle, or perish,” the warrior queen once cried;
Her spirit, now in Dundee, is undenied.

Children of Albion, remember Aethelflaed’s will—
Mercia’s Lady, who broke Viking ranks with skill.
As daughter, wife, and ruler, she forged England’s fate;
So too the Dundee girl, young, resolute, innate.

What beat in Elizabeth’s heart before the Armada’s night?
England’s red-haired sovereign, clad in shining light,
Spoke: “Though I have the body of a weak and feeble woman,
I have the heart and stomach of a king,”—her word a summons.

Now stands our axe and knife girl, in neon-shadowed dawn,
Her kin in peril, her innocence nearly withdrawn.
But in every strike and every cautious glance,
Britain’s daughters march anew; steel echoes their stance.

Brave Dundee maiden—like Matilda, wild and clever—
Daring escapes and battles, refusing to sever
The bond of sisterhood and Britain’s indomitable soul:
You, child of modern struggle, have claimed your warrior role.

So let the world remember, as legend starts to swirl,
The fierce defender standing tall—the Dundee girl.
As long as history’s heroines live in myth and word,
Your story, too, shall rise and never be unheard.
Lord Doomer Protector of the Omniverse-tweet-26August2025-There you go
There you go, it’s a song now…

Leslie Eastman-tweet-26August2025-The Ballad of Dundee’s Axe and Knife Girl

Leslie Eastman-tweet-26August2025-The Ballad of Dundee’s Axe and Knife Girl

 

Hot Air’s Beege Welborne notes that the anger in the United Kingdom will grow as its native populations are dealing with the new invasion.

Nigel Farage spoke of his deep concern that ‘Without action…I fear deeply the anger will grow.’ Even as he rattled off the statistics for the boats and bodies arriving, 600-some odd ‘migrants’ from France on British beaches just today, and 54,000 since Keir Starmer took office and swore to stop the flood.

 


GB News-tweet-26August2025-The mood in this country
‘The mood in this country is a mix between total dispair and rising anger. I fear that anger will grow…’

@Nigel_Farage lays out the issues facing Britain as a result of illegal immigration, as he launches ‘Operation Restoring Justice’.

GB News-tweet-26August2025-The mood in this country

GB News-tweet-26August2025-The mood in this country

 

Meanwhile, with limited speech and protest rights, the people of the United Kingdom have resorted to flying their own flags in protest.

The flag of St. George is being posted in England.

 


PeterSweden-tweet-21August2025-British people are out raising the England flag
British people are out raising the England flag in protest of the Socialist government.

Looks like people had enough.

PeterSweden-tweet-21August2025-British people are out raising the England flag

PeterSweden-tweet-21August2025-British people are out raising the England flag

 

 

“Raise the Colours” protests are also in Scotland.


The British Patriot-tweet-22August2025-Scottish patriots join Raise the Colours movement
🚨BREAKING: Scottish patriots join “Raise the Colours” movement, proudly raising Scottish flags across Glasgow.

This isn’t just flag waving — it’s a powerful display of unity.

Britain is awake.

The British Patriot-tweet-22August2025-Scottish patriots join Raise the Colours movement

The British Patriot-tweet-22August2025-Scottish patriots join Raise the Colours movement

 

The Welsh flag is being raised.

 


The British Patriot-tweet-18August2025-the Welsh flag can be seen almost everywhere
🚨NEW: In Wales, the Welsh flag can be seen almost everywhere, visible for miles as locals flood the streets, draping it everywhere.

This isn’t mere flag-waving—it’s a bold act of resistance, a striking display of unity.

Britain is uniting.

[@VoWalesOfficial]

The British Patriot-tweet-18August2025-the Welsh flag can be seen almost everywhere

The British Patriot-tweet-18August2025-the Welsh flag can be seen almost everywhere

 

Flying flags may feel good, but it’s time for the people of Great Britain to realize they must organize to defend themselves and to defend each other. Never give up your freedom, your dignity, or your safety to those who try to take it from you, either in the form of a government or an invader. Communities that organize, train, and support one another are far harder to exploit or silence.

Let Dundee Girl be an example for Great Britain.

Never surrender.

 


LXXIII-tweet-26August2025-We shall defend our Island
“We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches,
We shall fight on the landing grounds,
We shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
We shall fight in the hills;
We shall never surrender.”

~ Winston Churchill ~

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LXXIII-tweet-26August2025-We shall defend our Island

 


 

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Scottish Teen Reminds Great Britain of the Meaning: MORE REACTIONS

 

Scottish Dundee Axe Girl Strikes Back – AI Braveheart Parody/Tribute Song

From Dundee’s “axe/ hatchet girl” headlines to a Braveheart anthem

 

Expose-big-pharma-tweet-1September2025-UK grooming gangs-it is all True

Expose-big-pharma-tweet-1September2025-UK grooming gangs-it is all True

Expose-big-pharma-tweet-1September2025–UK grooming gangs-it is all True
The Most Offensive Thing about this cartoon is that it is all True.

We have to support our Patriot Princess!


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We have to support our Patriot Princess!

Knights Templar International-tweet-27August2025-We have to support our Patriot Princess

Knights Templar International-tweet-27August2025-We have to support our Patriot Princess

 

 

When I was her age, I carried a knife


Sinéad Watson-tweet-26August2025-When I was her age I carried a knife
I wasn’t going to comment on this, but after seeing some reactions, I’m going to.

When I was her age, I carried a knife. Never had to use it. Working-class Scottish girls are never protected. They’re judged as neds, bams, scum.

Some of you have no idea what it’s like. At all.

Sinéad Watson-tweet-26August2025-When I was her age I carried a knife

Sinéad Watson-tweet-26August2025-When I was her age I carried a knife

 

Britain Has NO MEN!


DeepThinker-tweet-26August2025-Britain Has NO MEN!
Why aren’t there any Men Helping Us?
Britain Has NO MEN!
We’re on our own

DeepThinker-tweet-26August2025-Britain Has NO MEN!

DeepThinker-tweet-26August2025-Britain Has NO MEN!

 

POV: you’re a 12 year old girl in Scotland that defended yourself from a foreign rapist


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POV: you’re a 12 year old girl in Scotland that defended yourself from a foreign rapist

Giga Based Dad-tweet-27August2025-you're a 12 year old girl in Scotland that defended yourself from a foreign rapist

Giga Based Dad-tweet-27August2025-you’re a 12 year old girl in Scotland that defended yourself from a foreign rapist

 

Together we will make this country yours. Thank you for being so weak


Expose big pharma-tweet-26August2025-Together we will make this country yours.
Together we will make this country yours.
Thank you for being so weak

Expose big pharma-tweet-26August2025-Together we will make this country yours.

Expose big pharma-tweet-26August2025-Together we will make this country yours.

 

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Support the Labour Party, Support Stalin!

LORD MONCKTON, The REAL Labour Party under Kier Starmer


Mickey-tweet-2September2025-The REAL Labour Party under Kier Starmer

Mickey-tweet-2September2025-The REAL Labour Party under Kier Starmer

Mickey-tweet-2September2025-The REAL Labour Party under Kier Starmer

 

 

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France

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Chacun de nous, ensemble Notre mission première est de connecter les juifs entre eux depuis 1929


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France quietly ends visas for El Al flight security guards in Paris amid Gaza war tensions

Amid tensions over Gaza war, France stops renewing work visas for El Al flight security guards, forcing them to stay without visas or return to Israel; guard says no renewals issued in 6 months; Israeli embassy in contact with French authorities over matter

 

Itamar Eichner | 11August2025 | 22:11 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjw8x3wdxl

 

Over the past six months, French authorities have quietly stopped renewing work visas for El Al flight security personnel employed in Paris as ITAN workers (Israeli citizens supporting diplomatic missions) through the Israeli embassy, sources familiar with the situation told Ynet on Monday, explaining that the decision stems from rising tensions between Israel and France over the Gaza war and attributing it to anti-Israel motives within Parisian authorities.

 

The work visas previously granted to the Israeli security staff allowed them to live and work legally in France. Now, with the visa renewals halted, some of these workers find themselves residing in the country illegally. While some remain in France without valid permits, others have been forced to obtain diplomatic visas through the Israeli embassy, granting them temporary status to continue their stay.

 

“In the past six months, none of the employees whose work visas expired have received renewals,” according to an El Al flight security guard stationed in Paris. “This has never happened before, and no one has been granted new approvals. It seems they are trying to end the employment of El Al security personnel in France.”
The security guard further noted that El Al management is “distancing themselves from the employees” and referring them to the Foreign Ministry, with some unable to secure new visas and forced to return to Israel.

 

In response to a Ynet inquiry, the Foreign Ministry said that “the matter is being handled by the embassy in coordination with the French Foreign Ministry.” The French embassy in Israel declined to comment, referring inquiries to the Israeli embassy. El Al also directed questions to the Foreign Ministry and the Shin Bet internal security agency, which did not provide a response.

 

Tensions between Paris and Jerusalem have deepened following a series of incidents involving the French authorities and pro-Palestinian activists. Last week, pro-Palestinian demonstrators vandalized El Al’s offices in Paris, splattering them with red paint and labeling the airline a “genocide airline.” In June, the Israeli pavilion at the Paris Air Show arms fair was unexpectedly blocked by organizers and covered with black cloth

El Al offices in Paris were vandalized

El Al offices in Paris were vandalized

 

 In June, the Israeli pavilion at the Paris Air Show arms fair was unexpectedly blocked by organizers and covered with black cloth

In June, the Israeli pavilion at the Paris Air Show arms fair was unexpectedly blocked by organizers and covered with black cloth

 

Speaking at a press conference Sunday night, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned plans presented by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take over the Gaza Strip, calling it a “disaster waiting to happen, and a step toward an endless war.” Speaking to reporters during a briefing from his office, he warned, “The Israeli hostages and the people of Gaza will be the first victims of this strategy. The government in Israel needs to stop the war now with a permanent ceasefire.”

 

Macron also proposed the formation of an international coalition under the United Nations aimed at combating terrorism in Gaza and stabilizing the region.

 

Last month, Macron announced on his X account that France would officially recognize a Palestinian state. He said he plans to make a “ceremonial declaration” to this effect at the UN General Assembly in September. His announcement sparked a wave of similar moves, with several countries expressing readiness to recognize Palestinian statehood. Australia announced Sunday night it would move in a similar direction, while New Zealand stated it was “considering the move.”

 

In his declaration, Macron emphasized the urgency of ending the war in Gaza and delivering aid to civilians. “Peace is possible. There must be an immediate ceasefire that includes the release of all hostages and massive humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza,” he wrote.

 

He also stressed the necessity of disarming Hamas, ensuring Gaza’s security and rebuilding the territory. “Finally, it is essential to establish the Palestinian state, guarantee its existence, and allow it, through receiving disarmament and full recognition by Israel, to contribute to security in the Middle East.”

 

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The E1 battle: Why Israel can’t bow to Macron’s Palestinian fantasy

The E1 corridor, connecting Jerusalem to Ma’ale Adumim, is a vital buffer against the encirclement of Israel’s capital by a hostile Palestinian entity.

https://www.jns.org/the-e1-battle-why-israel-cant-bow-to-macrons-palestinian-fantasy/

 

Fiamma Nirenstein

Dr. Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. An adviser on antisemitism to Israel’s Foreign Minister, she served in the Italian Parliament (2008–2013) as Vice President of the Foreign Affairs Committee. A founding member of the Friends of Israel Initiative, she has written 13 books, including Israel Is Us (2009), and is a leading voice on Israel, the Middle East, Europe and the fight against antisemitism.

 

(20August2025 / JNS) Israel’s recent approval of 3,401 housing units in the strategic E1 corridor has unleashed the usual chorus of outrage from world leaders and Palestinian statehood advocates. Chief among them is French President Emmanuel Macron, who is pushing to force a United Nations General Assembly vote on Palestinian statehood in September.

 

For Macron, it’s a grand gesture—a pacifist fantasy that pretends a Palestinian state is the antidote to war. But for Israel, it’s an existential threat.

 

The E1 corridor, connecting Jerusalem to the city of Ma’ale Adumim, is a vital buffer against the encirclement of Israel’s capital by a hostile Palestinian entity stretching from Ramallah to Bethlehem. Without it, Jerusalem risks becoming isolated and vulnerable, as it was between 1948 and 1967, when Jews were barred from the Western Wall.

 

This is why Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich pushed the plan forward. Detractors dismiss him as a hardline minority voice. Yet the truth is that his stance reflects a sober reality: Israel cannot trade its survival for international applause.

 

The Palestinian leadership has never renounced its jihadist vision. It never condemned the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. It continues its “pay-for-slay” policy that rewards terrorism. And now it proudly declares that thanks to Oct. 7, it is winning the war of opinion.

 

Macron and his allies—Australia, Canada and others—are effectively rewarding Hamas by pressing for Palestinian statehood at the U.N.

 

Israel has been here before. The Arab League’s “three no’s” after the Six-Day War left no room for compromise. Every Israeli offer of peace has been met with terrorism, from Arafat’s rejectionism to Abbas’s intransigence. The so-called “Green Line” was never a border, merely an armistice line, and today it is being used as a weapon against Israel’s legitimacy.

 

E1 is more than a housing plan. It is a shield for Jerusalem and a message to Israel’s enemies: this nation will not be divided or surrounded again.

 

Whatever the U.N. decides, Israel will chart its own course. Macron may dream of playing Europe’s anti-American visionary, but Israel has a far more urgent role—to eliminate Hamas, protect its citizens and partner with moderate Arab states to build a safer, more stable Middle East.

 

The alternative—handing jihadists the victory they seek—is unthinkable.

 

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Israel Shows Some Diplomatic Spine

by 28August2025  https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/israel-shows-some-diplomatic-spine/

 

Israel is responding aggressively and appropriately to two recent public relations challenges, suggesting Jerusalem understands the gravity of its situation as well as the fact that it is in the right on both.

 

The first is the “famine” libel. Israel is asking the IPC, the multinational monitor, to retract its debunked report on Gaza City. According to Reuters, the Israeli Foreign Ministry is warning that “if a new report were not presented within two weeks, Israel would continue to challenge the assessment and would ask the IPC’s donors to halt their financial support.”

 

Good. Israel can no longer afford to simply be correct on the merits. If corrupt global agencies are going to insert themselves as partisans into this war then they’ll learn to take a (metaphorical) punch.

 

As a reminder, Israel first meticulously proved the report false based on the IPC’s own data, which suggests the agency is not merely incompetent but corrupt and compromised.

 

Indeed, it’s clear the report was released as a preemptive attack on Israel’s new operation in Gaza City. The IPC simply declared famine in the one place in Gaza that the IDF was looking to enter, which was also the one place in Gaza relatively untouched by the war. Still, it’s important to have the numbers on your side, and Israel did (all emphasis in the original):

 

“The report relied on only half of the data actually collected in July — five sub-samples covering 7,519 children, described on pages 49–50 of the FRC report, with a combined average of roughly 16% — just above the threshold.

 

“By contrast, a Nutrition Cluster presentation released on August 8 — a week before the August 15 cut-off date — reported the full July sample of 15,749 children. Those results showed unweighted and weighted GAM rates of 13.5% and 12.2%, respectively — both well below the famine threshold.”

 

So the data were clear: no famine. That the IPC chose to manipulate the data for political purposes suggests the agency has forfeited its legitimacy. Additionally:

 

“The IPC itself acknowledged that available data on non-trauma mortality were nowhere near the famine threshold of 2 deaths per 10,000 people per day. Based on its own population estimate for Gaza Governorate — about 937,600 people — this threshold would correspond to roughly 188 non-trauma deaths per day. By contrast, the Hamas-run Ministry of Health reported that as of 15 August the five-day moving average across all of Gaza was just six ‘malnutrition-related deaths’ per day.

 

“Even if every one of these had occurred in Gaza City and were actual malnutrition-related excess deaths, the non-trauma death rate would still be an order of magnitude lower than the famine threshold.”

 

It didn’t have the numbers on its side, so the IPC made them up, claiming that the difference was made up of unreported (imaginary) cases.

 

Again, Israel seems to understand the gravity of the IPC’s corrupt interference on behalf of a terrorist organization. There is no reason for Israel to let up on the agency, and so far, it isn’t.

 

Then there is the lingering question of how to respond to the impending recognition of a Palestinian state by France and others joining the bandwagon. As I argued previously, this is a unilateral move by the Palestinians and their supporters, and so it must be parried with a unilateral move by Israel.

 

As France continues to up the ante, so must Israel. France suggested—then claimed it was an error when Yigal Carmon caught it—that it would support a Palestinian “right of return,” a euphemism for the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state. So Israeli leaders know France is at least considering such a move. Paris is also contemplating opening an embassy in Ramallah.

 

What to do? Amit Segal points to an interesting piece by Yoram Ettinger (in Hebrew) on a meeting of Benjamin Netanyahu’s inner circle about whether, how, and where to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria. Certainly this is under consideration apart from the French declaration of Palestinian statehood, but apparently the Israeli government is considering making such action a direct response to unilateral measures by European states, France included.

 

This makes sense: Unilateral moves that chip away at Israeli sovereignty will be met with unilateral moves that reclaim Israeli sovereignty. At the same time, it’s a highly controversial step that will no doubt earn passionate denunciations and maybe more. Israel has to decide whether the reward is worth the risk, and will likely at least wait to see what happens at the UN General Assembly next month.

 

But here’s a key quote Ettinger supplies from an unnamed participant in the meeting with Netanyahu: “It is not enough to close a French consulate in the face of recognition of a Palestinian state.” The logic is clear: recognition of a Palestinian state on disputed land would contravene the Oslo Accords and all that followed directly from that track. If France—or anybody else—is going to take a lighter to three decades of diplomacy and compromise, they’re going to get burned.

 

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Emmanuel Macron President Second French Vichy government


Dr. Eli David-tweet-5October2024-Emmanuel Macron President Second French Vichy government
.@EmmanuelMacron will be known as the president of the second Vichy government in France 🇫🇷
MadJo_fr-tweet-5October2024-
.@EmmanuelMacron
– affirme que @Tsahal_IDF
tue des enfants intentionnellement
– n’a pas marché contre l’antisémitisme
– n’a rien fait contre l’antisémitisme
– n’a pas condamné le Hezbollah au Liban
– se réunit avec les mollahs
– Souhaite l’arrêt des livraisons d’armes
#trahison
Translated from French by Grok
.@EmmanuelMacron
– claims that @Tsahal_IDF kills children intentionally
– did not march against antisemitism
– has done nothing against antisemitism
– has not condemned Hezbollah in Lebanon
– meets with the mullahs
– wishes for a halt to arms deliveries
#trahison

Dr. Eli David-tweet-5October2024-Emmanuel Macron President Second French Vichy government

Dr. Eli David-tweet-5October2024-Emmanuel Macron President Second French Vichy government

 

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The Holocaust in France

https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/france.html

Paris, 12 June 1928. David and Renee-Rivka Ehrlich and their children.

Paris, 12 June 1928. David and Renee-Rivka Ehrlich and their children.

Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe to France

https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/france/jewish-immigration-from-eastern-europe-to-france.html

 

On the eve of the Second World War there were between 300,000 and 330,000 Jews in France. About two thirds of them were immigrants from Eastern Europe. Half of the immigrants arrived in France during the decade before the war. Many of them had first emigrated from Poland to Germany, which they left for France after the Nazi’s rise to power.

 

The Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe wanted to become integrated into French society, which they considered their adoptive country. Approximately one third of them received French citizenship. Most of their children attended the state-sponsored, secular, French school system. The Ort network of vocational schools initiated professional training for Jews, primarily in industry and agriculture. Most of the students in these schools were Jews who had immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. Many of the immigrants were employed in manual labor, but some of them obtained a higher education, studied French, pursued liberal professions and even acquired financial, social, political and intellectual status within French society, some volunteered to serve in the Foreign Legion of the French army. Prominent examples of the “upward mobility” of Eastern European immigrants to France include Helena Rubinstein and the Marxist thinker Charles Rappoport.

 

Former Polish Jews who had emigrated to France set up Jewish newspapers, which worked alongside the established French Jewish press. Organizations of Jewish immigrants cooperated with French Jewish organizations to produce significant cultural events, such as ceremonies held in 1939 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the French Revolution. Despite such cultural co-operations, many of the immigrants from Poland preferred to pray in synagogues of Jews from Eastern Europe. Some of the French Jews had reservations about the Eastern European Jewish immigrants and so created additional, exclusive, organizations.

 

During the 1930s many French Jews had reservations about the immigrants, claiming that they constituted an additional increase to the workforce in an economy that was already suffering from unemployment. Another argument was that the new immigrants would seek retribution against Nazi Germany for its actions against Jews, thereby entangling France in another war. In 1936 the Jewish Socialist Léon Blum was elected as Prime Minister. The result was a sharp increase in French antisemitism.

 

Most Jewish immigrants who successfully obtained French citizenship had immigrated to France from Eastern Europe before the First World War. The majority of the immigrants did not receive French citizenship, even after years of living in France. The importance of this status became very clear during the years of deportation (1942-1944), as the “stateless” Jews were the first to be deported.

 


 

A German military unit, marching down the Champs-Élysées; Paris, 4 July 1940

A German military unit, marching down the Champs-Élysées; Paris, 4 July 1940

The German Occupation of France

https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/france/german-occupation.html

 

In May 1940 France was invaded by German forces. Within a month France was defeated. An armistice was signed ​on June 22, 1940 and following it France was divided into a German occupied zone in the North, a French governed zone in the South, also known as Vichy, which collaborated with the Germans and had certain authority also in the German-occupied zone, and a small demilitarized Italian occupied zone in the Southeast.

 

In July 1940, a special commission (commission de revision des naturialsation) was set up to review naturalizations issued after 1927. Trials to denaturalize French citizens went on throughout the war. About circa 15,000 persons were de-naturalized. Of the 15,000 persons denaturalized during the war about 6,500 were Jews.

 

Anti-Jewish measures were placed in both zones ​the cornerstone being the Statut des Juifs (anti-Jewish law), promulgated by the Vichy Government, on October 3, 1940​; this Statute was later amended with additional anti-Jewish measures. The First Jewish Statute called for the drastic decrease of Jewish involvement within French society. It announced who in France was considered a Jew, a definition stricter than determined in Nazi Germany. It removed Jews from the army, civil service and closed off top public offices while putting a quota on Jews working in various professions. A law passed on October 4, 1940 allowed for the detainment of Jews of foreign nationality. By February of 1941, 40,000 foreign Jews were detained in camps of the Unoccupied Zone alone. Three arrest operations in the occupied zone throughout 1941 led to the detainment of close to 9,000 Jews in camps of the occupied zone, most of foreign nationality. Over time, these camps would claim the lives of some 3,000 Jews, the first victims of the Holocaust in France.

 

A Second Statut des Juifs was issued on June 2, 1941, ​in which the definition of who was a Jew became more rigid. It used the term religion, which was poignant on account of France’s liberal tradition. The new Statute called for the removal of Jews from industry, business, and liberal professions. The Statutes were enacted in both zones and​ in France’s overseas territories.

 

From June 1942, Jews in the Northern Occupied Zone had to wear the yellow star on their clothing. It was not required in the Southern Zone. ​A first deportation to Auschwitz – the first one from Western Europe – left France on March 27 1942. The July 16-17, 1942 “Vel d’Hiv” roundup of Jews in Paris instigated the ​systematic mass deportations from France which included three transports per week, through the summer and fall of 1942. In November 1942, the Germans occupied the Southern Zone and continued the ongoing actions to arrest Jews and deport them to their extermination. Thousands of Jews fled to the now expanded Italian Zone to escape persecution. On September 8, 1943, the Germans entered and occupied the now former-Italian Zone.

 

On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded the coast of Normandy in Northern France. In August 1944 Paris was liberated, and by the later part of the year France was free. Franco-German collaboration facilitated the arrests and deportations of approximately 78,000 ​Jews, about a quarter of French Jewry, to extermination camps.

 


 

May 1941, the flea market in the Jewish quarter in Paris.

May 1941, the flea market in the Jewish quarter in Paris.

The First Wave of Arrests in France: May 1941

https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/france/first-arrest-wave-may-1941.html

 

On the 14th of May, 1941, Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 40 were called to present themselves to the Paris police. They were summoned using a green postcard, for which this wave of arrests became known as the “billet vert”. More than 5,000 Paris Jews were taken into custody in this wave of arrests, almost all of them of Polish extraction. A few Jews of Czech and Austrian origin were also arrested. After their arrest, the prisoners were sent to the detention camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande.

 

“They wake them from their sleep at six o’clock in the morning, and at seven o’clock they get a kind of unsweetened coffee and no bread,” wrote the Jewish journalist Jacques Bielinky in his diary, “These people, who have committed no crime and will not stand trial, suffer from a well-organized hunger.”

 

The Jews of Paris were gripped with crippling anxiety. Many were afraid to sleep in their own homes, while others avoided going out. Entire synagogues, particularly those catering to émigrés from Poland, now stood vacant. A Jewish aid organization, formed after the wave of arrests, collected large sums of money for the families of the detainees.

 

In the beginning of June, 1941, a new and more severe Jewish statute was passed, and the propaganda against the Jews became even more acerbic. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, many Jews with Soviet citizenship were arrested in France. On the 20th of August some 3,000 Jews were arrested in a sudden operation, undertaken with joint French-German collaboration. These arrests were assisted by detailed lists prepared by French police officers. “In Drancy a Jew is walking in the street, carrying a doll. He went out to buy a doll for his little girl, but on the way home he was arrested and interned in Drancy,” wrote Bielinky in his diary.

 

In Autumn 1941, during the High Holidays, the turnout in French synagogues was even more meager than usual, primarily due to fear of further arrests during the holidays. However, by November 1941 many of the detainees had been released. There was widespread relief in light of this event, and many Jews considered the worst to be behind them. But in December 1941 the arrests resumed. This time they were conducted by the Germans. While the arrests were being carried out, the Germans sought to assuage Jewish fears by encouraging them to volunteer to help the war effort; pamphlets were circulated, advertising the need for thousands of Jewish volunteers in the Ardennes region in Northeastern France. Hundreds of Jewish men were arrested and sent to the Compiègne internment camp, north-east of Paris, yet in the months that followed they were released. Thus, before the arrests resumed in March 1942 – deportation to the East began in July of that year – there were less than 10,000 Jews interned in the concentration camps in France.

 


 

Deportation of Jews to the Gurs concentration camp in France

Deportation of Jews to the Gurs concentration camp in France

Concentration Camps in France

https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/france/camps-in-france.html

 

When, in May 1940, the Germans invaded France, thousands of immigrants who held German citizenship or were of German descent were concentrated in the “Winter Stadium” (Vel’ d’Hiv) in Paris. These immigrants were considered enemy aliens. Among those detained were thousands of Jewish men, as well as Jewish women who had no children. The detainees were deported to the Gurs concentration camp near the French-Spanish border.

 

After the anti-Jewish legislation of October 1940, the Vichy regime broadened its actions to arrest and detain Jews in its territory. They were incarcerated in 15 concentration camps which included the camps of Gurs, Le Milles, Rivesaltes and St. Cyprien. By the beginning of 1941 some 40,000 Jews had already been arrested. In addition to those arrested, some 35,000 Jewish men were conscripted by force into the “Labor Corps”, or Compagnies de Travail. Almost all the foreign Jewish men, more than a third of the population of foreign Jews in France, were either conscripted into the Labor Corps or incarcerated in concentration camps.

 

The concentration camps provided only meager nutrition and faulty sanitary facilities. The prisoners had no possibility of appealing their internment or of trying to alleviate their conditions. The food provided was not enough to sustain even a bare minimum of existence. Hundreds of prisoners died due to disease, cold and starvation; thousands of prisoners reached a state of malnourishment.

 

Dozens of Jewish and Christian aid organizations, both French and international, tried to infiltrate the camps in order to aid the prisoners, primarily by supplying them with food and care for the children. These organizations succeeded in smuggling children out of the concentration camps and transferring them to orphanages which were under their control, to Christian foster homes and abroad.

 

During the period of German occupation 26 concentration camps operated in the Occupied Zone. The central concentration camp in France was Drancy, not far from Paris. Following the German occupation in 1940, Drancy was initially used as a camp for French and British prisoners of war. Beginning in the summer of 1941, when the roundup of Paris Jews began, Drancy was used to imprison Jewish detainees. From March 1942 Drancy became a transit camp for Jews who were being deported to the East.

 

In the vicinity of Paris and in Northeastern France there were additional concentration camps run by the Vichy regime. Among these were Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande, Besançon, Compiègne and others. Of the 54,000 Jews who passed through the camp of Compiègne, 50,000 were deported to their extermination. The Jews who had been arrested in the big waves of arrests, in May 1941 and July 1942, were interned in Pithiviers. Just as in the case of Drancy and Compiègne, beginning in July 1942, thousands of Jews were deported from Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande to Auschwitz.

 

The concentration camps in France continued operating during the summer of 1944, which marked the height of the battle for Paris and the Allied campaign to liberate France.

 


 

Entrance to the Vel’ d’Hiv (the Winter Stadium, or Velodrome d'Hiver), where Jews were detained en-masse in preparation for their deportation to concentration camps in France.

Entrance to the Vel’ d’Hiv (the Winter Stadium, or Velodrome d’Hiver), where Jews were detained en-masse in preparation for their deportation to concentration camps in France.

The Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup

https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/france/vel-dhiv-roundup.html

 

In May and June, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich (head of the SS Sicherheitsdienst, or SD), Fritz Sauckel (who organized the employment of forced labor for the German armament factories) and Adolf Eichmann (the SS official in charge of Jewish Policy), visited Paris. In June and July 1942 the French administration in charge of the Jewish question in France was replaced by a German one. As a result, French anti-Jewish policies were exacerbated. At dawn on the 16th of July, 1942, some 4,500 French policemen began a mass arrest of foreign Jews living in Paris, at the behest of the German authorities.

 

Over 11,000 Jews were arrested on the same day, and confined to the Winter Stadium, or Velodrome d’Hiver, known as the Vel’ d’Hiv, in Paris. The detainees were kept in extremely crowded conditions, almost without water, food and sanitary facilities. Within a week the number of Jews held in the Vel’ d’Hiv had reached 13,000, among them more than 4,000 children. Children between the ages of two and 16 were arrested together with their parents. Among those detained were Jews from Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia. Though many Jews had been forewarned of the danger, they had assumed the deportation would only target men, as they had in the past; consequently, women and children did not go into hiding. In the week following the arrests, the Jews were taken from the Winter Stadium to the concentration camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande in the Loiret region south of Paris, and to Drancy, near Paris. At the end of July and the beginning of August, the Jews who were being detained in these camps were separated from their children and deported. Before deportation, each prisoner’s head was shaved, and his or her body was subjected to a violent search. Most of the deportees were sent to Auschwitz and murdered. More than 3,000 babies and children were left alone in Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. At the end of August and during the month of September these children were deported alone, among adult strangers, in sealed railway wagons, to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

 

In the two months that followed the Vel’ d’Hiv arrests some 1,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz every two or three days. By the end of September 1942 almost 38,000 Jews had been deported to Auschwitz from France. In 1945 only some 780 of them remained alive.

 

The French reactions to the arrest and deportation of Jews varied between active collaboration with the Germans, indifference, and empathy toward the persecuted Jews. Most of the civil administration and the French policemen who had been allocated to conduct the arrest collaborated with the authorities. A minority, however, tried to aid Jews in escaping, either by turning a blind eye toward escapees, or by actively aiding such escapes and providing Jews with hiding places. Many elements within French society – leading figures in the Church, the press and the underground – expressed revulsion at the events and protested against them. Public condemnation of the arrest and deportation of Jews was primarily sparked by the difficult sight of women arrested along with their babies. This negative public sentiment found its way into the official reports of governmental authorities and even the police.

 

The Vel’ d’Hiv round ups, organized by the French authorities and carried out by French policemen, became engraved in French national memory as a symbol of the responsibility of the regime and the French nation for the Holocaust of the Jews of France.

 


 

Paris, 20 August 1941: Jews on the street before deportation.

Paris, 20 August 1941: Jews on the street before deportation.

The Deportation of the Jews from France

https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/france/deportation-from-france.html

 

The Jews in France were deported to the East at the height of a two year process of persecution and aggressive legislation. The laws passed included statutes defining who was to be considered a Jew, isolating Jews from French society, divesting them of their livelihood, incarcerating many of them, and registering their names with the police.

 

From winter 1940-1941 French Jews began to be imprisoned in concentration camps. Thousands of Jews were imprisoned in camps in the vicinity of Paris and Southwestern France. In May 1941 many more thousands of Jews were arrested.

 

In March 1942 some 1,000 Jews were arrested and sent to the Compiègne detention camp, from where they were deported to Auschwitz. The transports took two days to arrive at their destination. Most of those who were still alive at the end of the jouney were murdered.

 

In July 1942 some 23,000 Jews were arrested in Paris and in the remainder of the Occupied Zone. At the initiative of Pierre Laval, the Prime Minister of the Vichy regime, most of the Jewish children were deported to the East together with their parents. The arrests and deportations were conducted in a very violent manner, often enforcing the separation of couples, parents and children, and brothers and sisters. “A cruel destruction of Jewish families,” wrote the Parisian Jewish reporter, Jacques Bielinky. In August 1942 the arrest of thousands of additional Jews began in the territories of the Vichy regime. The arrested Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps and deported to their destruction in the East. “The deportations are creating tremendous pressures in the concentration camps and wreaking havoc within the Jewish families,” wrote Bielinky on the 18th of August 1942. “To date,” he continues, “nothing is known about the fate of those who have been deported.”

 

In September, Paris policemen arrested some 1,000 Jewish immigrants from Romania, and sent them to the concentration camp of Drancy. Almost all of them were murdered in the extermination camps in the East within three days of their arrest. In November another wave of mass-arrests was carried out in Paris. More than a thousand Jews of Greek origin were arrested and deported to the East.

 

The Jews reacted to the deportations by ceasing to cooperate with the German and French authorities, and the Jewish aid organizations which they had founded. Many Jews went into hiding in some 6,000 villages and small towns across France. The German and French authorities responded by organizing raids in rural areas, including the territories of the Vichy regime.

 

Activists in the Jewish aid organization “Amelot” sent packages to the arrested Jews, helped maintain contact with the deportees, and procured permits which helped Jews escape deportation. Furthermore, they saved Jews from deportation by hiding children and distributing forged documents.  The UGIF (l’Union Generale des Israelites de France), a forced representative organization for French Jews set up by the French and German authorities, succeeded in saving more than 1,400 Jewish children with French citizenship from deportation. Their parents, however, were deported.

 

Jewish organizations helped the children by providing social welfare, opening shelters and sending the children to the villages. Jews joined the Jewish Resistance in France, as well as the French Resistance. A few Jews tried to escape the deportations by converting to Catholicism. Thousands of Frenchmen tried to help the Jews hiden from the deportations. Many of them paid for this with their lives. “Let  us thank those who threaten us,” reads an editorial in a French Socialist newspaper, “for it is thanks to them that we must think dangerously, and thereby restore our own dignity.” Since 1962 a total of 3,925 French men and women have been recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among The Nations (as of January 2016).

 

A total of some 76,000 Jews from France, most of them from Paris, among them 11,000 children, were deported by train to the East. Most of the deportees were murdered in Auschwitz. Most of the deportations left France from the concentration camp of Drancy. The deportations continued even as the Allies had begun to liberate France. The last transport left France in August 1944, while the battle for Paris was being fought. Of all the Jews deported from France to the extermination camps in the East, a total of some 2,500 survived.

 

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ISRAEL AT WAR 5785: Iran: Operation Rising Lion


Rabbi Shalom Arush-English-tweet-13June2025-Hope to God strengthen your heart
Hope to God, strengthen your heart, and Hope to God!
Do not be afraid for God goes before you, to smite your enemies
Repeat Psalm 121 “A Song of Ascents” over and over until you’re not afraid
Repeat Psalm 100 A Psalm of Thanks for how He has protected us with miracles until now!
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HERE IS ANOTHER ONE!
KEEP IT GOING!!!
Singing and dancing and thanking Hashem!
Also Psalm 100 “Psalm of Thanksgiving” for Hashem protecting us until now!
BETTER AND BETTER!
“and we’ll be safer and safer, safer and safer!”
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What do Israelis do when they’re in the shelter while sirens are blaring
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Amazing video of loads of people who took shelter from missiles in a tunnel in northern Israel all singing “Tamid Ohev Oti” together 💙🇮🇱

Rabbi Shalom Arush-English-tweet-13June2025-Hope to God strengthen your heart

Rabbi Shalom Arush-English-tweet-13June2025-Hope to God strengthen your heart

 

Rabbi Shalom Arush-English-tweet-14June2025-Also Psalm 100

Rabbi Shalom Arush-English-tweet-14June2025-Also Psalm 100

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Mossad Commentary-tweet-14June2025-What do Israelis do when they’re in the shelter while sirens are blaring

 

 

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Documenting Israel-tweet-14June2025-Israelis all singing Tamid Ohev Oti together

 

 

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According to the source, the operation – codenamed “Am KeLavi” (literally “Lion’s Might,” but codenamed in English “Rising Lion”)

Israel’s Operation Rising Lion


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Israel’s Operation Rising Lion

Numbers 23:24 in the Bible reads, in the context of Balaam’s oracle about Israel: “Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”

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USMC Lady Vet-tweet-13June2025-Israel’s Operation Rising Lion

 

 


 

Helping Iranians reclaim their flag — and their country


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Israel’s campaign is called Operation Rising Lion — a nod to the lion on Iran’s pre-1979 flag, before the mullahs hijacked the country.

The message is clear: this isn’t just about stopping nukes. It’s about helping Iranians reclaim their flag — and their country.

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Mark Dubowitz-tweet-13June2025-helping Iranians reclaim their flag-and their country

 


 

Defender of the Holy Land


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Defender of the Holy Land
Nethanel-tweet-11June2025

Uri Kurlianchik-tweet-11June2025-Defender of the Holy Land

Uri Kurlianchik-tweet-11June2025-Defender of the Holy Land

 

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Nefesh B’Nefesh Important Safety Guidance, Informational & Emotional Support Resources


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We’re here for you! ❤

In light of the current situation, we are sharing updated resources to help you stay informed, protected, and supported – physically, emotionally, and digitally.

Please note: the Homefront Command (Pikud HaOref) has updated its alert system. For the latest instructions, including shelter times by region, visit https://oref.org.il/eng or call 104 (24/7, multilingual assistance available). The Homefront Command is the official IDF authority for emergency preparedness. Their guidelines should be your first point of reference during this time.

If you hear a siren or receive an alert, use the designated time for your area to reach a protected space. The Homefront Command website outlines what to do before, during, and after alerts, and can help you prepare based on your location.

Given the current conflict with Iran, the risk of cyber attacks is also significantly elevated. Please be especially cautious online – including via email, WhatsApp, and social media. A few critical reminders from our IT team:

Don’t click on suspicious links or open unknown attachments – even if they appear to come from someone you know.

Don’t enter your password after clicking a link in an email – go directly to the official site instead.

Don’t approve two-factor authentication (MFA) prompts unless you personally initiated them. If unsure, deny and report.

Don’t trust emails or messages that urge urgent action.

Don’t plug in unknown USBs or devices – they may contain malware.

If something feels off, report it right away. Better safe than sorry.

You can also find a full roundup of safety, preparedness, emotional support, and cybersecurity resources at:
https://nbn.org.il/information/emergency-preparedness/emergency-resources/

For emotional and psychological support, English-language resources include:
• Natal – Israel Trauma & Resiliency Center: 1-800-363-363
• ERAN – Emotional First Aid: Dial *3201
• Talking to Kids About Terror: https://nbn.org.il/…/talking-to-kids-about-terror

Our thoughts and prayers remain with the entire nation – especially those protecting us and all affected across the country.

B’Sorot Tovot,
The NBN Answers and Advocacy Team
answers@nbn.org.il / *3680 (hotline available 9-5, Sunday-Thursday)

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Nefesh B’Nefesh-tweet-15June2025-Important Safety Guidance-Informational-Emotional Support Resources

 

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Important Emergency Phone Numbers

Police 100
Magen David Adom 101
Fire and Rescue Service 102
Home Front Command 104
Home Front Command WhatsApp 0529109104
Ministry of Aliya and Immigration *2994
Eran First Aid for Olim *3201
NATAL Trauma Call Center *3362

 


 

List of Municipal Support for English Speakers
Following the American attack on Iran, the Home Front Command has changed the defense guidelines to Level 4 – the highest level.

 

Jerusalem
https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/en/residents/security/messeges/situation-assessment_22_6/

For JLM’s English-language Emergency Portal, go to:
https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/en/residents/emergency/

To join the Municipality’s Telegram channel, go to:
https://t.me/jerusalemtelgram

To join the Jerusalem Municipality’s official WhatsApp group for English speakers, go to:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/G6IFeVwCCdB0sqYH7v8rUP 

 

Zichron Yaakov

Heidi Goldsmith, the Liaison from the Zichron Yaakov Municipality to English-Speaking Olim has been sending out information about Zichron’s emergency situation via WhatsApp groups.  If you want to be added to the “Emergency Zichron” WhatsApp group,  please email Heidi at heidig.zichron@gmail.com  and include your phone number.

 

Haifa 
The Haifa Municipality website: https://www.haifa.muni.il/ has a section in English “War with Iran” with all the up to date information.  Go to the left side of the screen and click on the arrow next to עברית and then click on English.

Haifa Aliya – https://www.facebook.com/groups/280775821996057/ is a facebook group for English speaking Haifa residents, monitored by Smadar Porat, the Haifa Municipality Coordinator of English Speakers.

 

Tel Aviv
The Tel Aviv Municipality English website: https://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/en/Pages/HomePage.aspx has security updates and guidelines. A municipal support and gathering point has been opened at Alliance School, 26 Reading Street.

 

Netanya
The Netanya Municipality English website: https://www.netanya.muni.il/en/Pages/Emergency.aspx has emergency information i.e. the location of public shelters.

 

Rishon Lezion
The Rishon Lezion Municipality English website: https://www.rishonlezion.muni.il/Eng/muni/Pages/Emergency.aspx has basic emergency information.

 

Ra’anana
The Ra’anana Municipality English website: https://www.raanana.muni.il/SafetyAndEmergency/Pages/default.aspx has general emergency information.

 

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National Emergency Portal https://www.oref.org.il/eng

HOMEFRONT GUIDELINES (ISRAEL'S PIKUD HAOREF)
Attention! ⚠ 
Civilians located in areas where a guideline was issued to stay near protected spaces are requested to avoid being outdoors.
Those who have not yet chosen their “best” protected space are asked to do so now and ensure they can reach it within the time available to reach shelter.
Unnecessary travel should be avoided.
We urge citizens not to spread messages received via Telegram, WhatsApp, or social media unless they have been published directly by the official Home Front Command channels!


Immediate Guidelines:

  • All educational activities are suspended until further notice.
  • Stay near a protected space and prepare it for emergency use (stock with water, food, medication, etc.).
  • Minimize movement in public areas and avoid gatherings.
  • Upon a siren or alert, enter a protected space and remain there until officially cleared.
  • Upon a siren or alert, enter a protected space and remain there until officially cleared.
  • Supermarkets and pharmacies are open in emergency mode. Please use them calmly and responsibly.
  • Synagogues and non-essential businesses are closed.

The silent wave on Shabbat

Please note:
On Shabbat, it is especially important to leave the radio on ‘Silent Wave’. If during Shabbat there is a need to provide life-saving guidelines, Dani, the Home Front Command spokesperson, will go on air and explain the guidelines to the religious-Haredi community.
This is your responsibility – and it saves lives.

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HOMEFRONT GUIDELINES (ISRAEL’S PIKUD HAOREF)
Ensure that you and your family know what to do if an alert is received, whether you’re at home, in the car, on public transport, or outdoors etc. Also, make sure your designated safe space is prepared and ready for use:


Defensive Policy

Home Front Command Guidelines

In order to protect the lives of the residents on the one hand and enable an emergency life routine on the other hand, the Home Front Command has the legal authority to establish and disseminate daily guidelines, which outline the mode of activity in the various areas of life. The guidelines are based on a daily assessment of the situation in the Home Front Command, which takes into account the danger to the population in a particular geographical area.

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Full Activity

Gathering and Services – can be held without restrictions.
Workplaces – can be held without restrictions.
Educational Activities – educational activities can be held without restrictions.

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Partial Activity

Gatherings and services: Outdoors – up to 30 people, Indoors – up to 300 people.
Workplaces – can be held in a building or in a place from which a standard protected space can be reached within the time available to reach shelter.
Educational Activities – educational activities can be held provided that there is a standard protected space that can be reached within the time available to reach shelter.

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Limited Activity

Gatherings and services: Outdoors – up to 10 people, Indoors – up to 100 people.
Workplaces – activities can be held provided that there is a standard protected space that can be reached within the time available to reach shelter.
Educational Activities – educational activities are prohibited.

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Essential Activity

Gathering and Services – are prohibited indoors and outdoors.
Workplaces – workplace activities are prohibited.
Educational Activities – educational activities are prohibited.

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The Home Front Command’s guidelines save lives

After receiving an alert, enter a protected space according to the time available to reach shelter, and remain there for 10 minutes.

 

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https://www.oref.org.il/en

https://www.oref.org.il/en

Israel Home Front Command (Pikud HaOref)

https://www.oref.org.il/en

Rocket and Missile Attacks

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Supplies for Emergencies

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In light of the development of fighting in the various sectors, you must prepare equipment that will allow you and your family to stay in the protected area for up to 72 hours:

  • Water supply of 3 liters per person per day, for 72 hours

  • Stock of dry and canned food

  • Battery operated lighting or flashlight

  • Means for receiving alerts and updates – a radio that runs on batteries and portable batteries for mobile phones

  • Medicines

  • First aid kit

  • Personal documents, certificates and cash

  • Equipment for babies or animals, depending on the needs of the family members.

 

Israel Home Front Command (Pikud HaOref) is the official address for Israeli citizens during these times Pikud HaOref / Phone: 104

Help Line for Holocaust Survivors

The Government has also opened a help line for Holocaust survivors to help with ANY NEED. For example, medical, social , psychological etc.. The number to call is *5105 or 03 5682651

 

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Choosing a Protected Space

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1. The residential protected room (MAMAD) or communal protected space (MAMAK) are the preferred option.

2. Shelters:
An apartment building shelter – provided it can be reached within the time to reach shelter and in addition,  if it can be reached by an internal stairway.

A public shelter (miklat) –
 provided that it can be reached within the time available to reach shelter.

3. An internal stairwell – with no windows, openings and external wall:

In a building with more than three floors, which has no residential protected rooms, floor protected spaces or a public shelter – stay in a stairwell with at least two floors above it. Do not stay in the ground floor. In buildings with more than three floors, the stairwells of each floor, other than the top two floors and the ground floor, are protected.

In a three-story building with no residential protected rooms, floor protected spaces or a public shelter – stay in a stairwell of the middle floor. In such a building, the most protected floor is the middle (second) floor.

4. An inner room – if there are no residential protected rooms, floor protected spaces, a public shelter or an internal stairwell, choose an inner room with as few external walls, windows and openings as possible. Do not choose kitchens, bathrooms or toilets and keep away from ceramics, porcelain and glass that might shatter. When recieving an alert, sit in an inner corner, below the window line and not facing the door.

The following cannot be used as protected spaces
Kitchens, toilets and bathrooms cannot be used as protected spaces; stay away from ceramics, porcelains and glass that may shatter.

Important Highlights

• If there is no access to a protected room, an internal stairwell or an inner room, lie on the ground and protect your head with your hands.

• If an alert is received while you are inside a prefabricated structure, leave the building and go into the protected space in the time available to reach shelter. If entering a protected space within the time available to reach shelter is not possible, leave the building, lie on the ground and protect your head with the hands. Read here why it is important to lie on the ground.

• Stay away from the building entrance area because of the danger of rocket fragments and blast waves due to impact near buildings.

• Building doors should be kept open, for those who are outdoors when the alert sounds.

• For a large portion of the population, the stairwell is the most protected space available. If possible, place chairs for elderly persons.

Remember: Choosing a protected space according to these guidelines significantly reduces the risk of injury from rockets and fragments, and can save lives.

For the protected space to fill its role in an emergency, it must be regularly maintained and the routes leading to it must be clear, in accordance with the following highlights:

• Plan your route to the protected space in advance, make sure it is cleared of obstacles and obstructing items to prevent possible falls and injuries. Ensure that all passageways and stairwells are not blocked.

• In our protected space is the residental protected room – you must maintain its integrity and refrain from making changes that are not authorized. Read about the permitted and prohibited uses of the protected room (MAMAD), including which changes may not be made to it, and how to maintain it regularly.

• If our protected space is the common shelter – you must maintain its integrity and refrain from making changes that are not authorized. Read about how to maintain the integrity of the common shelter.

• It is advised to prepare emergency supplies and a list of contact information for emergency services, family members and neighbors, and keep it in the protected space.

• In an emergency situation – the outer steel window and the inner glass window must be closed and locked at the beginning of the emergency situation until it ends. If a double-wing glass window is installed, it must be removed and placed outside the residential protected room.

Secure space for everybody

Secure space for everybody

The do’s and dont’s of the mamad

2024 ביולי 27 https://derorit.co.il/the-dos-and-donts-of-the-mamad/

What is the MAMAD?

MAMAD is an acronym for merkhav mugan dirati, or apartment-protected space.
There are also buildings in which you have a MAMAK which is a merkhav mugan komati meaning a protected space belonging to a floor in the building. These will come in buildings where there are no mamads in the individual apartments.

Any apartment built in Israel after the gulf war (1993) must have a mamad. The idea is that the mamad is conveniently located inside your home so you could reach it quickly and can also be considered as normal living space.

The mamad is a reinforced security room meant to offer protection against high impact projectiles and chemical weapons. Its walls are built out of reinforced concrete and it has airtight steel doors and windows. The room has 2 openings, usually one window and one door, never on the same wall. The minimal net area of the room is 9 square meters (In places where this is not possible a 5 square meter room may be approved).

The door to the mamad is a heavy iron door which will always open outwards. There must be a concrete wall protecting the door when opened.

The window consists of two parts; an outer iron cover, and an airtight sealed interior window. The iron cover slides into the wall or opens outwards, so it is not noticeable when not in use. The window will always open inwards into the room. The size of the window is no more than 1.21 square meters, where the width is between 60 to 100 centimeters. Usually, the window will be 100-110 centimeters wide.

There must be at least 3 electric sockets, one phone socket and one tv/radio socket in the room (this is especially important to realize when planning ultra orthodox homes where tv outlets are not installed in other rooms).

Another important component is the ventilation system (added to the regulations in 2010). This is a pretty big, clumsy looking piece.

MAMAD ventilation system

MAMAD ventilation system

In the past years they have designed some sleeker ones, looking more like an AC unit on the wall.

mazganit MAMAD ventilation system

mazganit MAMAD ventilation system

Ask your builder what model he is supplying. Take this element in account when planning the room and the closets as it does not show clearly on the floor plans.

How do I make use of this room? 
Since Israelis typically don’t have an entire room in their homes to leave empty in anticipation of a possible rocket attack, the mamad often has other uses as well: as an unofficial machsan (storeroom), or a playroom, study or bedroom.

Here are some useful guidelines and tips:

  • It is important to keep in mind that the room is your protected space in times of need and therefore it has to be planned in a way that enables all house members to fit in there comfortably. Don’t overfill it with closets and don’t block the window or air ventilation system. It may not be used as a bathroom or a kitchen.
  • The heavy window opening into the room is not always so convenient. To bypass this, you can order the window with a two-way opening (tilt-and-turn), this is called a ‘dri kip’ window.

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    Viking_tilt_turn_windows

  • The mamad window must enable escape too; therefore if you decide to install protective bars on the window they must be foldable.
  • The mamad door is rather clumsy and hard to close. You could have a wood doorframe installed above the metal frame with a regular lightweight (and more attractive) door to be used on a regular basis. This door will open inwards like in all other bedrooms. Some people take off the heavy metal door and keep it in storage. This is not approved by the Israeli Home Front Command.
  • What about air conditioning? If you install an AC duct in the room you must add a removable steel cover to be placed instead of the air vent in case of attacks. If you install a separate wall unit there are specific instructions regarding the water drainage and opening in the wall for AC piping- make sure your installer is knowledgeable and complies with these rules.
  • Floors: you can tile the floors with any covering: tiles, parquet, linoleum etc.
  • Walls: can be painted any color you want. There is a recommendation to use glowing paint around the doors and light switches. You can cover the walls with wallpaper or wood covering but not tiles, as those pose a hazard in case of a shock wave.
  • If you are renovating and want to make changes to an existing mamad take in account there are two different aspects to consider:
  1. Structure. The mamad is also an important structural element and you must consult an engineer before making any change in these walls.
  2. Safety. There is logic and reasoning behind every one of the rules applying to the mamad. Any change needs to be approved by Haga (הג”א), the Israeli Home Front Command.

I will admit that in certain areas of the country we treated these rules and regulations with a certain level of disrespect. In most cases the mamad was planned as to maximize its use in days of peace- which are plenty- without adequately considering days of war. I hope this post will serve as a Tikun (correction) and a reminder to its important role in securing our homes and families.

Shalom Al Yisrael!


Why is it Important to Wait 10 Minutes in the Protected Space?

https://www.oref.org.il/12487-16151-en/Pakar.aspx

Why we Wait in the Protected Space for 10 Minutes?

Why we Wait in the Protected Space for 10 Minutes?

Lying down on the ground can save lives

https://www.oref.org.il/12487-15965-en/Pakar.aspx

Rockets and Missile Attack - Why is it important to lie on the ground

Rockets and Missile Attack – Why is it important to lie on the ground

During an alert – move away from the car

https://www.oref.org.il/12487-16149-en/Pakar.aspx

Why should I get away from my vehicle during a siren.

Why should I get away from my vehicle during a siren.

Unexploded and Unidentified Objects

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Watch Out! Staying near fallen projectiles endangers lives

Watch Out! Staying near fallen projectiles endangers lives

 

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Was your property damaged during the conflict with Iran?

Israel Tax Authority
Was your property damaged during the conflict with Iran? Here’s what you need to know:
🔹 Compensation from the Property Tax Authority is available for direct damage to property (buildings, vehicles, home contents).
🔹 Damage must be documented immediately after impact: photos, videos — before any repair or cleanup.
🔹 Do not move or repair anything without prior approval from a Property Tax Authority appraiser.
🔹 Claims must be submitted within 14 days to 3 months from the date of the damage.
🔹 Injuries (physical or emotional) – compensation may be available from the National Insurance Institute, depending on medical documentation.
📌 Guide for civilians whose property was damaged in acts of war or hostility:
https://www.gov.il/en/pages/guide-for-civilians-property-damaged-in-hostilities

 

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By The Numbers: Tens of thousands claim damages from war with Iran

Close to 50,000 compensation claims have already been submitted to the Property Tax Fund by tens of thousands of citizens and businesses. Tel Aviv leads in the extent of the damage.

Israel National News / 13July2025, 4:18 PM (GMT+3)

 

One month after launching the Property Tax Fund for damages incurred during Operation Rising Lion, the Tax Authority has released comprehensive data on compensation claims submitted since June 13.

 

According to the figures, a total of 49,943 claims have been filed so far for various types of property damage:

39,093 for structural/building damage

5,052 for vehicle damage

5,609 for damage to contents, equipment, and business inventory

Of these claims, 29,117 were submitted by private individuals and 18,075 by businesses. The remaining claims came from public institutions and apartment associations.

 

In 34,273 of the cases, an appraiser has already visited the property or the claim was handled via an expedited process that does not require an on-site evaluation.

 

So far, 4,398 claims have resulted in finalized appraisals and either full compensation or advance payments have been issued. To date, the Tax Authority has paid out a total of approximately 305 million shekels in compensation.

 

Many remaining claims are still under review—some pending appraiser visits, others relating to inaccessible or evacuated properties, or cases where appraisers were unable to locate the tenants.

 

The cities reporting the highest number of claims include:

Tel Aviv-Yafo – 11,083 claims

Ramat Gan – 7,793

Rehovot – 4,286

Bat Yam – 3,900

Petah Tikva – 3,613

Beersheba – 3,415

Bnei Brak – 3,189

Holon – 3,161

Rishon LeZion – 1,680

Haifa – 1,570

The Tax Authority emphasized that claim processing is ongoing and that additional resources have been deployed to accelerate appraisals and compensation disbursements.

 

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Chief Rabbis and Torah sages urge prayer, Torah study amid security emergency

Israel’s Chief Rabbis and senior rabbinic councils have called for synagogue closures this Shabbat and instructed the public to pray at home, in full compliance with Home Front Command directives.

 

Israel National News Published: 13June2025, 2:59 PM (GMT+3) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409943

 

In light of the current security situation, Israel’s Chief Rabbis and the Council of Torah Sages have issued a special call to the haredi public, instructing them on appropriate conduct during the emergency and emphasizing full compliance with security directives.

 

In their letter, the rabbis ruled that synagogue prayers must be canceled. Under the heading “It is a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved from it,” and referencing the verse, “When you go to war in your land against an enemy who oppresses you… you shall sound the trumpets and be saved from your enemies,” they urged the public to increase prayer this Shabbat. Specific Psalms were recommended: 20, 121, and 130, along with the prayer “Avinu Malkeinu.”

 

The halachic ruling’s central emphasis is the necessity “to uphold and follow Home Front Command instructions everywhere.” The letter clearly states: “No gatherings may be held in open areas or buildings.” This directly implies that synagogues across Israel will remain closed this Shabbat, and the public is asked to pray at home.

 

The Shas Council of Torah Sages called “to increase prayer and supplication to our Father in Heaven, that He have mercy on His people and inheritance, and that the security forces succeed in their mission and return home safely.”

 

They added, “It is self-evident that all government instructions and guidelines must be followed,” explicitly stating not to hold prayers in synagogues in accordance with Home Front Command directives.

 

The rabbis also emphasized the paramount importance of Torah study, urging yeshiva students “to strengthen themselves in Torah learning, day and night without interruption — for it is Torah that upholds us in battle.”

 

In addition to study guidelines, the rabbis called for increased private prayers, particularly at the opening of the Ark, with recitation of Psalms and “Avinu Malkeinu” following the Chazzan’s repetition of the Amidah.

 

Rabbi Dov Lando, a leading figure in the Lithuanian haredi community, upon being briefed on the security situation, stated, “We are in a time of danger and must intensify Torah study and prayer for the protection of the People of Israel.” He canceled a planned gathering of yeshiva heads and immediately took a Book of Psalms and began praying for the entire nation.

 

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No school or work nationwide on Sunday as emergency measures remain in effect

IDF lifts directive to remain near shelters for now, but extends state of special emergency protection measures through Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

14June2025 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409970


 

In the wake of Operation Rising Lion and the Israeli strike in Iran, a special state of emergency has been declared across the entire country.

 

According to the latest directive issued at 20:25, shortly before the end of Shabbat, all schools will remain closed nationwide on Sunday, and non-essential workplaces will not operate. The guidelines are in effect until Sunday at 20:00.

 

Earlier, the Home Front Command stated that there is no immediate need to remain near protected spaces. However, the IDF noted that 10-minute alerts will precede any anticipated impact, and this time there is an emphasis on using reinforced security rooms or bomb shelters rather than stairwells. In the event of a significant Iranian strike, residents may be required to stay in protected areas for extended periods.

 

Home Front Command Chief, Maj. Gen. Rafi Milo, emphasized: “In this campaign, broad alerts are expected. It is critical to seek optimal protection—whether in private or public spaces. The preferred options are fortified rooms, shelters, protected spaces in schools, or approved public shelters. If none are nearby, one should use stairwells or inner rooms.”

 

“Every citizen must know the best protected area in their vicinity,” Milo added. “Upon receiving an alert, enter the safe zone and remain there until officially cleared to exit. Minimize travel and movement. We are entering intense and complex days. We are strong and prepared — together we will protect the State of Israel.”

 

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🚨 The Wartime Censorship Law 📵


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🚨 The Wartime Censorship Law 📵

Due to the filming taking place across the country during wartime (regarding interceptions and missile impacts), and the enemy being given access to everything that’s happening, the time has come to pass the law — and fortunately, it was passed during the night.

After a broad vote in the Knesset, the law was submitted to the Attorney General and approved.

All members of the opposition voted in favor, as did all members of the coalition — it’s time to put an end to this.

1. The law prohibits filming interceptions and missile impacts.

2. The law prohibits uploading photos and videos to social media.

3. The law will ban all foreign media outlets that act against the state from filming within Israel during wartime.

4. The law prohibits filming sensitive and strategic locations within the country.

5. The new regulation replaces monetary fines with actual prison time — between 20 and 30 months.

We reiterate: anyone who endangers national security and disobeys the law will pay a very heavy price.

Stay safe and obey the law.

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Israel News Pulse-tweet-19June2025-The Wartime Censorship Law

 

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Information that leaks from missile impact footage

Footage of missile impact sites serves the enemy — but not only them. How does this happen, and who else receives the information? Dr. Zimmerman, an AI expert, explains.

Shimon Cohen Published: 24June2025, 9:02 PM (GMT+3) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/410596

 

Dr. Alexander Zimmerman, Head of the Innovation Department at Ramat Gan Academic College and an expert in AI, spoke with Israel National News – Arutz Sheva about the questionable contribution that videos of rocket barrages and impacts provide to the enemy who launches them.

 

Dr. Zimmerman begins by noting that identifying a location based on such footage does not necessarily require artificial intelligence. In fact, this is a technological capability that existed beforehand, where a computer can analyze two images and identify different features between them using mathematical and statistical data.

 

“The real breakthrough,” he says, “is that if we want to achieve greater accuracy, we can run the data multiple times through various algorithms and try to predict what might happen next. For example, if a missile is launched at us, based on previously received data and additional information, it’s easier for the machine to predict how it will behave in the air under certain weather conditions. However, even a light gust of wind, an unexpected object in its path, or remote guidance of the missile can render such predictions useless.”

 

The set of data collected to predict a missile’s trajectory has led to an 80% accuracy rate, “but of course, human lives don’t operate according to statistics, and we’ve seen that these predictions are not always accurate enough to prevent casualties.”

 

Regarding civilian phone footage, Dr. Zimmerman explains that current systems can precisely determine the location from which a video was sent. This is the reason for repeated warnings to the public not to record or share such footage on social media. “Every device that records, even if location services are disabled, leaves software traces that interact with multiple cell towers, which can pinpoint the device’s location. The video or photo sent includes all the geographic metadata necessary to identify the exact location of the recording.”

 

The accumulated knowledge allows experts to determine which tower transmitted the data, the distance of the mobile device from it, and many other details. This is precisely why soldiers are required to leave their phones behind — to prevent location detection in the field. “A cellphone transmits a tremendous amount of data, and we have the capability to analyze it quickly. Once such a video is uploaded to the web, it’s very easy to retrieve that information.”

 

Dr. Zimmerman adds that the very information we want to prevent from reaching the enemy — to avoid enabling accurate targeting of future strikes — is also what directs emergency services like MDA quickly to the impact site. “We are in the age of machines,” he notes, emphasizing the need to balance benefit against risk. In his opinion, if the benefit outweighs the risk by even one percent, it is worth taking — as long as it does not endanger lives but only raises issues of privacy and similar concerns.

 

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During the attacks in Iran: Shofar blasts at the Western Wall

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Watch: Shofar blasts at the Western Wall

Worshippers who were at the Western Wall plaza when news of the Israeli attack on Iran was made public recited Psalms and blew the shofar.

Israel National News 13June2025, 5:26 AM (GMT+3) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409911

 

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IRAN WAR UPDATE missile strikes


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IRAN WAR UPDATE

Another quiet night for the overwhelming majority of Israelis. Yes, Baruch Hashem, very few missiles were shot. And of those, even fewer actually landed and did any damage.

There wasone building in Be’er Sheva that was hit this morning, still waiting for any official update on casualties, but as of now, no confirmed serious injuries. We’re praying that stays the case.

Take a look at this graph, it tells the unbelievable story of this war and our amazing air force and defense systems.

A miraculous downward trajectory of missile attacks on Israel. Day after day, the number of launches is dropping. The number of impacts is plummeting. These are not statistics, these are miracles that we have an active role in as well.

We are literally living through open miracles, and I can’t say that enough!

But here’s what’s even more important for us to internalize right now:

We are not the same Israel of 1948 or 1967 or even 2024, where we were constantly fighting just to exist. This is not little Israel anymore.

We are now BIG ISRAEL, regional superpower Israel.

We are finally taking on the most evil regime on the planet, the Islamic Republic of Iran. A regime that the so-called “enlightened” West was too afraid to confront. A regime that the West actually empowered through appeasement and horrific business deals. But we’re not afraid. We are standing up when others cowered and appeased.

And we’re not just surviving—we are shaping the future.

We are not just surging, or ignoring, we are leading!

The message is clear: The future of the Jewish state of Israel is bright. Am Yisrael is strong, physically and spiritually. We have clarity, we have courage, and we are connected to Hashem, with deep appreciation for the miracles he is doing for us. We have God on our side.

These are geulah/redemption times!

I just feel bad for those Jews still not here with us during these transformative times.

Am Yisrael Chai!!!

Iran's missile strike 13-6-2025 - 19-6-2025

Iran’s missile strike 13-6-2025 – 19-6-2025

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Avi Abelow-tweet-20June2025-IRAN WAR UPDATE missile strikes

 

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Israeli scientist rescues vital samples after missile strike–publishes cancer breakthrough days later

Weizmann Wonder Wander-A New Blood Test May Detect Leukemia Risk and Replace Bone Marrow Sampling

Weizmann Wonder Wander-A New Blood Test May Detect Leukemia Risk and Replace Bone Marrow Sampling

A New Blood Test May Detect Leukemia Risk and Replace Bone Marrow Sampling

Just days after their labs were damaged in the Iranian attack, Profs. Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay publish a study expected to advance the field of blood cell medicine

27.06.2025 https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-blood-test-may-detect-leukemia-risk-and-replace-bone-marrow-sampling

What if a blood test could reveal the pace of our aging – and the diseases that may lie ahead? The labs of Profs. Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay at the Weizmann Institute of Science have been conducting in-depth studies into the biology of blood to better understand the aging process and why some people become more susceptible to disease over the years. Their research teams, made up of physicians, biologists and data scientists, have been tracking changes in the blood-forming stem cells, including the emergence of genetic changes in these cells in about one-third of people over the age of 40. These changes not only increase the risk of blood cancers such as leukemia, but have also been linked to heart disease, diabetes and other age-related conditions.

 

(l-r) Profs. Amos Tanay and Liran Shlush

(l-r) Profs. Amos Tanay and Liran Shlush

 

In a new study published today in Nature Medicine – just days after their labs were severely damaged in an Iranian missile attack – Shlush and Tanay present findings that may lead to an innovative blood test for detecting a person’s risk of developing leukemia. This test may potentially replace the invasive diagnostic procedure of bone marrow sampling.

 

The study focused on myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), an age-related condition in which blood stem cells fail to properly mature into functional blood cells. Diagnosing MDS and assessing its severity is crucial, as it can lead to severe anemia and may progress to acute myeloid leukemia, one of the most common blood cancers in adults. Until now, diagnosis has relied on bone marrow sampling, a procedure that requires local anesthesia and can cause discomfort or pain.


The findings are already being tested in a large-scale clinical trial at several medical centers around the world


In the new study, a research team led by Dr. Nili Furer, Nimrod Rappoport and Oren Milman, in collaboration with physicians and researchers in Israel and the United States, showed that rare blood stem cells – which occasionally exit the bone marrow and enter the bloodstream – carry diagnostic information about MDS. The researchers demonstrated that with a simple blood test and advanced single-cell genetic sequencing, it is possible to identify early signs of the syndrome and even assess a person’s risk of developing blood cancer.

 

(l-r) Oren Milman, Dr. Nili Furer and Nimrod Rappoport

(l-r) Oren Milman, Dr. Nili Furer and Nimrod Rappoport

 

The researchers also discovered that the migrating stem cells can serve as a clock for our chronological age, and that in males, their population changes earlier than in women in a way that increases the risk of cancer. This finding may explain the higher prevalence of blood cancers among men. The scientists believe that using the test to diagnose MDS and leukemia is only the beginning, and that in the future it could be applied to a range of other blood-related disorders. The current findings are already being tested in a large-scale clinical trial at several medical centers around the world.

 

In addition to his laboratory research, Shlush is also a senior physician at Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod and at Maccabi Healthcare Services, and he heads the newly established Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Medical School at the Weizmann Institute. The school was founded to address the emerging needs and challenges of the worlds of medicine and research and to bridge, as much as possible, the gap between today’s science and tomorrow’s medicine. Unlike existing programs around the world that combine medicine with research, the new program is expected to unify and intertwine the clinical and research components. The school is scheduled to open its doors for the first time this coming October and aims to train the next generation of physician-scientists.

 

Prof. Liran Shlush’s research is supported by the Abisch-Frenkel RNA Therapeutics Center; the Sagol Institute for Longevity Research; the EKARD Institute for Cancer Diagnosis Research; the Swiss Society Institute for Cancer Prevention Research; the Moross Integrated Cancer Center; the Laura and Anthony Beck and Family Fund for Research in a Data-Driven Approach to Fighting Blood Cancer; and the Redhill Foundation – Sam and Jean Rothberg Charitable Trust. The Applebaum Foundation Research Fellow Chair funds a staff scientist in Prof. Shlush’s lab.

 

Prof. Amos Tanay’s research is supported by the Adelis Foundation; the Laura and Anthony Beck and Family Fund for Research in a Data-Driven Approach to Fighting Blood Cancer; and the Moross Integrated Cancer Center.

 


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Israeli scientist rescues vital samples after missile strike–publishes cancer breakthrough days later

Weizmann’s Prof. Liran Shlush tells Jewish News how his team rescued critical samples hours after a Iranian strike and then published a life-changing blood cancer study

By Annabel Sinclair 3July2025, 4:01 pm  https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/israeli-scientist-rescues-vital-samples-after-missile-strike-publishes-cancer-breakthrough-days-later/

 

Prof. Liran Shlush. Photo Credit: AML Hub

Prof. Liran Shlush. Photo Credit: AML Hub

 

When an Iranian ballistic missile tore through the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Professor Liran Shlush feared everything he had worked towards for the past five years had been obliterated.

 

His team’s lab, one of around 45 affected in the 15 June attack, was based in a building that was “badly damaged, but not destroyed,” he said. The other half, he added, was “completely destroyed”.

 

“We lost around one quarter of what I define as irreplaceable,” Shlush told Jewish News. “But the rest – we were able to rescue.”

 

His voice was calm, but the reality was anything but. “We came very early after the missile – about an hour later – and saved everything we could,” he said. “Some of the freezers were buried under the ruin, so we couldn’t reach those. But the rest – the samples from patients we’d collected, that were frozen – we managed to recover.”

 

Firefighters douse the remains of Prof. Eldad Tzahor’s lab at the Weizmann Institute, destroyed in an Iranian missile strike. Photo: Prof. Eldad Tzahor/X

Firefighters douse the remains of Prof. Eldad Tzahor’s lab at the Weizmann Institute, destroyed in an Iranian missile strike. Photo: Prof. Eldad Tzahor/X

 

Among them were vials of material intended for a large-scale, international clinical trial – part of the next phase of a study that may now help revolutionise blood cancer diagnosis.

 

Just one week after the strike, Nature Medicine published the results of that research: a study showing that rare stem cells which occasionally migrate from bone marrow into the bloodstream can be used to detect myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a condition that can progress into acute leukaemia.

 

Crucially, the test – developed in collaboration with Prof. Amos Tanay and a wider team – could eliminate the need for painful bone marrow biopsies, offering instead a simple blood test with potentially global diagnostic value.

 

“We show that we can diagnose the disease without the bone marrow,” said Shlush. “Whether it will allow early diagnosis, the future will tell – but for now, we can say, at least for one disease, we can diagnose it without the need for [a biopsy].”

 

The paper, years in the making, was completed before the attack – but the symbolism of its publication date wasn’t lost on him. “We knew it was accepted before,” he said, “but the date that it was meant to be published became symbolic. It was a very nice day to see it finally out.”


“Israel is a depressed country right now. So, after those bad days, this gave us a reason to smile.”


 

The research itself involved extensive single-cell RNA sequencing – a technique allowing scientists to study individual blood stem cells at the highest level of detail available. “We built something like a blood count,” said Shlush. “But at the stem level – cells that were inaccessible in normal blood tests.”

 

Rather than simply measure cell numbers, his team analysed the genetic profiles and characteristics of those cells, drawing samples from hundreds of healthy individuals to create a detailed “reference map”. They then compared this to samples from patients with MDS.

 

The results were compelling – and far-reaching.

 

Researchers like Prof. Liran Shlush are studying how rare blood stem cells signal early signs of disease. Credit: Weizmann Institute.

Researchers like Prof. Liran Shlush are studying how rare blood stem cells signal early signs of disease. Credit: Weizmann Institute.

 

“We were able to extract information that no one else was able to do before,” said Shlush. “We studied the ageing of the blood system, discovered novel mechanisms, and found the ability to compare patients to healthy individuals.”

 

Even among healthy people, they found the number of stem cells varied significantly. “Unless you capture this variability in the healthy population,” he explained, “you cannot define what is unhealthy.”

 

The team is now preparing the follow-up: an international trial involving hospitals in Japan, Taiwan, Canada, the United States and across Israel. “Those samples were kept frozen,” he said. “We saved the samples of the next clinical trial – and that is heavily built on the results of the first.”

 

Feedback from the medical community has been swift and enthusiastic. “All over the world, people are thrilled,” he said. “My student presented it at the European Haematology Association meeting. It was selected as the main plenary talk. Physicians are joining us – and patients come to say, ‘I think it will be soon in the clinic.’”

 

Still, Shlush is careful not to overplay the backdrop to their achievement.

 

“I must say, the science is so important – and we are so proud of it,” he said.

 


“But I hope the tragedy won’t somehow distract from the importance of the finding. It could be an excellent discovery regardless of the situation.”


 

Exterior view of the Weizmann Institute building housing Prof. Eldad Tzahor’s lab, showing missile damage and burned-out upper floors. Photo: Prof. Eldad Tzahor/X

Exterior view of the Weizmann Institute building housing Prof. Eldad Tzahor’s lab, showing missile damage and burned-out upper floors. Photo: Prof. Eldad Tzahor/X

 

A physician-scientist by training, Shlush describes the study as a defining moment in his career. “It’s probably one of the highlights in my research career,” he said. “I really want to advance medicine for my patients – and this is a really big step.”

 

Despite the destruction around him – with nearly half the campus buildings damaged and others, like cardiac biologist Prof. Eldad Tzahor’s lab, completely levelled – he’s determined not to be derailed.

 

“We will stand up from this stronger and better,” he said. “Buildings will be built. This is a place for science – and I see a good future.”

 

His hope now is that clinicians around the world will join the effort and help validate the test on a global scale. “I hope this will reach as many people in position as possible,” he said. “So, they will participate in our trials – and this thing will essentially become a common, trusted clinical tool.”

 

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Why Russia does not attack Israel


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Putin was asked why he is not assisting Iran.

His response: “Israel today is almost a Russian-speaking country, two million people from the Soviet Union and Russia live there. We take that into account.” 👇

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Deputy Mayor of Beer Sheva: ‘We could have seen a tragedy, instead we saw a miracle’

Oshri Avichzer, Deputy Mayor of Be’er Sheva, responded to the Iranian missile strike that hit Soroka Medical Center earlier this morning.

Israel National News 19June2025, 2:34 PM (GMT+3) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/410305


 

In a statement to Arutz Sheva – Israel National News, Oshri Avichzer, Deputy Mayor of Be’er Sheva, responded to the Iranian missile strike that hit Soroka Medical Center earlier this morning.

“It’s a very stormy morning here in Be’er Sheva,” Avichzer began. “A rocket hit Soroka Hospital—this is a hospital, a place with sick people who can’t run, who can’t do anything. It’s a red alert, not just for us, but for the entire world.”

 

The attack on Soroka Medical Center, the main hospital serving the southern region of Israel, occurred amid the ongoing Operation Rising Lion. No casualties were reported, as authorities had ordered an evacuation of parts of the hospital building the previous night—an action Avichzer called a “big miracle.”

 

“We thank God for the miracle that happened here last night. We were ordered to evacuate all the people from the building that was hit this morning. It could have been a horrible morning,” he said.

Avichzer called on the international community to take note of Iran’s role in the escalation. “We call on the world to see—to see what Iran is doing. To see the cruelty and evil of a country that targets hospitals.”

 

Despite the severity of the attack, the deputy mayor affirmed the city’s preparedness and resilience. “Here in Be’er Sheva, we are ready for any kind of event that may come. We pray to God that it doesn’t—but we are ready.”

 

He concluded by thanking emergency responders, security forces, and the citizens of Be’er Sheva for their swift and coordinated response. “We say thank you to all the authorities and everyone who came here. This could have been a tragedy. Instead, it was a miracle.”

 

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Military Rabbinate updates guidelines for soldiers

Following Israel’s attack on Iran, Military Rabbinate updates guidelines for soldiers.

Military Rabbinate 13June2025 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409948

 

Following the Israeli military operation in Iran, the IDF’s Military Rabbinate has issued detailed guidelines for soldiers and commanders regarding conduct on Shabbat during emergency situations.

 

The purpose of the guidelines is to ensure adherence to Jewish law while fully addressing operational security needs.

 

At the outset, the directive states: “The State of Israel has launched an offensive in Iran – all necessary actions for the success of the operation must be carried out on Shabbat, even until its conclusion.”

 

Key points from the guidelines include:

 

1. Air Force units and supporting systems will continue normal operations throughout Shabbat.

 

2. In the event of civilian or military casualties, full rescue and evacuation operations should proceed as they would during any Shabbat emergency.

 

3. Combat forces in all active sectors, including Gaza, will continue their missions as required operationally.

 

4. Soldiers must adhere to all defense directives, including the cancellation of prayers or gatherings as necessary.

 

5. Training activities on Shabbat require approval from the command’s rabbi and must be justified by urgent operational needs.

 

6. Construction and logistical preparations are permitted for combat purposes, preferably completed before Shabbat begins.

 

7. Soldiers must remain on-call throughout Shabbat; commanders will initiate contact only if operationally necessary.

 

8. Emergency mobilization kits should be prepared in advance, including items classified as muktzeh. If not, handling is permitted with a modification in manner.

 

9. No updates to military records should be made on Shabbat unless operationally essential; reports should be pre-prepared.

 

10. Equipment should not be removed without an eruv unless there is no risk involved. Essential items such as weapons and vests may be carried.

 

11. Food and drink preparations must be made ahead of time. Cooking on Shabbat is prohibited except in emergencies with approval; boiling is allowed only by a non-Jew or with a halachic modification.

 

12. Transporting cold water and ice on Shabbat is permitted in enemy territory to prevent dehydration.

 

13. In cases of doubt, soldiers should consult their unit rabbi, command rabbi, or the Military Rabbinate hotline.

 

The Rabbinate stressed that in any situation involving potential danger to life, action must be taken immediately without delay.

 

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Last night marked one of the most inspiring moments at @NefeshBNefesh.

On Monday, every single person scheduled to make Aliyah in the first two weeks of July was personally contacted. Despite ongoing missile fire from Iran, nearly every single Oleh and Olah said they still wanted to come and many even said, “the earlier the better.”

As soon as Israel reopened its airspace, the NBN Flights Team sprang into action. Late into the night, calls were coming in non-stop, the inbox was overflowing, and the team worked hand-in-hand with @ELALUSA
to rebook every single flight. Staff from both the Aliyah Guidance Division and the Flights team coordinated tirelessly to ensure that no dream was delayed.

The result? In 14 hours, 90 Olim were successfully rebooked and will be landing in Israel throughout the first weeks of July. These are individuals and families who chose faith over fear – even in the midst of a war.

This is what Aliyah looks like. This is what it means to come home.

Welcome to Israel. We can’t wait to greet you.

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Benjamin Netanyahu has fixed one of the sins of 1967

Israel was guilty of two great sins in the wake of its miraculous victory in 1967. Netanyahu has just fixed one of them. But his version of Zionism makes it unlikely that he’ll fix the other.

Press conference given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of Israel's 12-day war with Iran, June 22, 2025. Source: Screenshot.

Press conference given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, June 22, 2025. Source: Screenshot.

 

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Shlomo Vile is the webmaster and digital marketing director for JNS. Professionally, Vile is a digital marketer who specializes in working for pro-Israel organizations, like JNS. Vile earned two degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has worked in a number of fields, including engineering, printing management, direct mail marketing, and financial services. Shlomo made aliyah to Bat Ayin in 2010 with his wife and four children.  He is living out a long-time dream to live as a native Jew in the land of our ancestors, following in their footsteps,  and working towards the fulfillment of our collective messianic vision for humanity.

 

(3August2025 / JNS) Israel’s two sins were:

 

1) Giving away ‘Har Habayit’ (The Temple Mount)

Jerusalem is the heart of the Land of Israel, and Har Habayit is the heart of Jerusalem. It’s the center of our historical connection to the land, and it’s the focus of Jewish destiny. When, in the wake of Israel’s conquest of the Old City, Israel gave away Har Habayit to the Jordanian Waqf (Muslim religious authority), it caused grave damage to the relationship between the people of Israel and the Land of Israel.

 

2) The failure of Israel’s leaders to publicly thank God for Israel’s miraculous victory

The people who led Israel in 1967 were, unfortunately, estranged from their Jewish connection to the Torah and from their ancestral traditions. They played a critical role in bringing the modern-day State of Israel into being, but the name of God was seldom on their lips. For them, Israel’s miraculous victory was due to the greatness of Israel’s army and the mistakes of its enemies.

 

This estrangement of Israel’s leaders was not merely from the Jewish religion. The word Jew comes from the name of Jacob and Leah’s son, Yehudah. The name Yehuda, according to the Torah (Breishit 29:35), means to thank and acknowledge God. To carry a Jewish identity means having an intensified sensitivity to acknowledging and thanking God. To be a Jew at heart means to be thankful to and cognizant of our Creator. The leaders of Israel represent the nation. The failure of Israel’s leaders to thank God for their miraculous salvation was a deep spiritual blemish in the Jewish identity of the State of Israel.

 

The events that accompanied the 12-day war against Iran in mid-June were in some ways even more spectacular and miraculous than the Six-Day War in June 1967. Before this war, Israel’s military leaders briefed the government ministers on what to expect— how many Israelis would be killed, how many Israeli planes would be lost, how much of Iran’s capabilities would be left afterwards, etc.

 

What actually happened was much better than their most optimistic scenario. Israel’s attack plan was extremely complicated. It involved many active participants separated by hundreds of miles from one another who had to act in synchrony and with stealth. Miraculously, everything worked out perfectly, and it continued to do so. Over the next 12 days, Israel’s Air Force flew hundreds of missions over enemy territory 1,500 miles away. Every mission required complicated mid-air refueling, and Israel’s refueling planes are 60 years old, basically flying museum pieces. So much could have gone wrong, but all the planes and their pilots returned safely.

 

This recent miracle has a long history. Some 3,000 years ago, the Red Sea parted, the Jews crossed through safely, and our persecutors were all drowned. What we just witnessed was no less miraculous.

 

In the desert, just before Moses died, he delivered a speech in which he encouraged the Israelites as they prepared to enter the Promised Land. He said: “The Lord, your God will go before you and He will fight for you, just as He did for you in Egypt before your very eyes” (Deuteronomy 1:30). In the history of the modern State of Israel, there have been many examples of God fighting for the Jewish people, but this 12-day war with Iran tops them all.

 

This time, however, unlike in 1967, Israel’s leader—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—prayed to God for success before the 12-day war, and thanked God, both privately and publicly, for the miraculous salvation afterwards.

 

Here (translated) are the introductory remarks that Netanyahu gave at the beginning of his press conference on June 22—10 days after Israel’s initial attack, and one day after American B-2 bombers destroyed the Fordow nuclear facility.

 

“Citizens of Israel, when I was first elected prime minister, I participated in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz extermination camp. There, I wrapped myself in a tallit and said, ‘Shema Yisrael, H’ Elohenu, H’ Echad.’ Ten days ago, a few hours before the historic operation against the evil regime of Iran, I visited the Kotel (Western Wall), and there, too, I wrapped myself in a tallit and offered a prayer for the success of our heroic pilots, our soldiers, our excellent commanders, for the security of our country, and for the peace of our people. I wrote on a note that I placed between the stones of the Kotel: Am kelavi yakum, vekeari yitnaseh (“Israel is like a lion, rising boldly,” Numbers 23:24). That is the name I gave to the operation, and today, after ten days, I returned to the Kotel with my wife. I again wrapped myself in a tallit and offered a prayer of thanks and a plea for continued success.”

 

For the next 30 minutes, Netanyahu took questions from the press. He concluded the press conference with the following:

 

“I say, not jokingly, but from the depths of my heart and my innermost faith, that the most important faction (in Hebrew, the word for faction is See-yah) in Israel is See-yah-ta di-shmayah (Aramaic for “Divine assistance”). Our warriors and citizens showed tremendous heroism. We had tremendous help from our friend (President Trump), but there was also the Divine assistance of Hakadosh Baruch Hu (The Holy One, blessed be He), and for that I want to give thanks and acknowledgement on behalf of the generations of Jews who hoped and waited to establish a state that would protect them. That is what we’re doing. Thank you.”

 

In the spirit of our ancestor Yehuda—the leader of the Jewish nation—Netanyahu thanked and acknowledged God for God’s salvation. He fixed the second sin of 1967. However, Netanyahu’s understanding of Zionism makes it unlikely that he will fix the first sin.

 

Auschwitz Zionism vs. biblical Zionism

For Netanyahu, the central goal of Zionism is making sure that the Jews will never again be without a nation to defend them when Jew-haters rise up against us. It’s no accident that, immediately upon first taking office, he went on the March of the Living. He has stated on innumerable occasions that “The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives.” Donning a tallit and reciting Shema Yisrael at Auschwitz was his way of swearing himself in as Israel’s leader to take up the role of defender of the Jewish nation that defends the Jewish people.

 

But this is not how the Bible understands Zionism. The term “Zion” is mentioned more than 150 times in the Bible, particularly in the Psalms of King David, in the words of the prophets. Sometimes, Zion refers to the Land of Israel, sometimes to the Jewish people, and sometimes to Jerusalem. However, the most common and specific meaning of “Zion” is Har Habayit and the Beit Hamikdash (the holy “Temple” in Jerusalem).

 

From a biblical perspective, “Zionism” is a movement centered on Har Habayit, with its central goal being the rebuilding of the Beit Hamikdash.

 

Western Wall Zionism vs. ‘Har Habayit’ Zionism

It’s also characteristic of Netanyahu’s understanding of Zionism that he went to the Kotel (the Western Wall) to pray before the attack on Iran and afterward to give thanks to God for its miraculous success.

 

On June 7, 1967, Israeli paratroopers liberated Har Habayit and the Western Wall. Israel then created a large plaza in front of the Western Wall and gave away Har Habayit. I heard an apt characterization of these actions from Moshe Feiglin. Israel, he explained, was given the most precious gift imaginable, wrapped in an impressive box. In response, Israel gave away the big gift and pretended that the box was the real gift.

 

The Western Wall is the retaining wall for Har Habayit. Without it, Har Habayit would collapse. The Western Wall creates the framework or the “box” on which Har Habayit exists and on which the Beit Hamikdash will one day be built.

 

For Netanyahu, Zionism is about building a strong national framework for the Jewish people, building a “box” where the Jewish people can live in security. Netanyahu has been true to his oath, taken three decades ago, at Auschwitz. There is no Israeli leader in the last 50 years who has done more than Netanyahu to make Israel a strong nation. His economic reforms in the early 2000s helped make Israel an economic powerhouse. His recent Churchillian leadership has broken the back of the existential threats that surrounded us two years ago and helped Israel become the dominant military power in the Middle East. He has reinforced Israel’s “retaining walls,” and helped make Israel stronger and more secure than at any time in its history.

 

Authentic Zionism yearns for God’s return to Zion

Three times a day—in the morning, afternoon, and evening prayers—Jews pray to “see with our own eyes the return of the Shechinah (“The Divine Presence”) to Zion.” Three times a day, our prayer liturgy invites us to visualize what it will be like when God’s Presence returns to Zion—the Beit Hamikdash—on Har Habayit.

 

When we pray for the rebuilding of the Beit Hamikdash, we’re not just praying for a building. We’re praying for a re-energized, loving relationship between the Creator and His creation. We’re praying for the Shechinah, the Divine Presence, to rest on Earth. We’re praying for a spiritual light to radiate from Zion onto our entire planet, connecting us to God and one another, and guiding our planet toward a future free from poverty and war. This is the “Zionism” that is most authentic to Jewish tradition.

 

Whether one supports all of his policies or not, we are fortunate to have Benjamin Netanyahu as our leader during this critical time in Israel’s history. I pray every day that God will give him strength and courage. However, he is ultimately a transitional figure. He has helped build the foundation for the next, more Jewishly authentic stage of Zionism, which will reclaim Har Habayit and direct our energies towards rebuilding the “Sacred House,” where God’s Presence can rest.

 

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The Real War

Despite a ceasefire with Iran, we are still at war! Rabbi Shalom Arush teaches us what each and every one of us needs to do in order to WIN!

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The Real War by Rabbi Shalom Arush

The Real War by Rabbi Shalom Arush

This is a direct translation of a class given by Rabbi Shalom Arush on the 24th of Sivan, 5785 (June 19, Thursday night, 2025).


 

The truth is that we need to thank Hashem because we’ve had so many miracles every day, every second. You don’t understand what kind of miracles! We must sing the song: To Him who does great wonders alone, for His kindness is eternal.1  That’s just like we say in Hallel: Praise Hashem,  all nations; praise Him, all the states!  For His kindness has overwhelmed us.2

 

Praise Hashem, G-d, all other nations (the non-Jews) and praise Him all the nations because His mercy has overcome them. We don’t know what kind of miracles Hashem is doing for us, but our non-Jewish enemies do know. Their own missiles are falling on them. They see how many miracles Hashem is doing for us. And therefore, we say, “Praise Hashem, all nations”, that all the non-Jews should praise Hashem.

 

Precision-guided Missiles

Hashem is guiding all of the wars. But in all of the other wars we thought it was the army, the cannons, or the tanks; but here we can see that it’s really only Hashem. From thousands of kilometers away they’re shooting missiles at us — not on soldiers, but on civilians. Hashem, May His Name be blessed, is guiding every single missile to exactly where it should fall. Everything is exact.

  • Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva had just emptied its Surgical ward on the third floor the night before. The next morning, a ballistic missile hit … an empty floor!
  • A missile hit the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange … but the building was empty.
  • A building was slated to be demolished by a contractor. Instead, a missile landed in the building, and Hashem demolished the building for free!
  • During an air raid alert, a group of people fled to a particular public bomb shelter, but it was locked. So, they went to find a different place to hide. A missile hit the locked (empty) shelter, and everyone who went elsewhere was saved.

Hashem decides where everyone is going to be and where every missile is going to fall. Therefore, this war is only about emunah – not logic, rational thinking, or reasoning. Only emunah!

 

Our  Secret Weapon

We need to bring merit to the Jewish people. In Eretz Yisrael, go building by building and apartment by apartment to put in a Likutei Moharan to protect the residents from missiles.  [Note: Outside of Israel, it is also a segula to have Likutei Moharan in your home, office, and car.] Rabbi Nachman says that the moment that Likutei Moharan is in most Jewish homes, Mashiach comes. Every book that you put into a house helps to bring Mashiach. We need to distribute the Likutei Moharan – it is a secret weapon of protection.

 

Sirens and Songs

What do we need to do when there’s an air raid siren? In Torah portion Beshalach, Moshe Rabbeinu is praying to Hashem at the Yam Suf while the Egyptian army races toward them. “And Hashem says to Moshe Rabbeinu,Why are you crying out to Me?’ 3

 

The Tanna Yossi HaGalili says that Hashem replied, “Moshe, My children are suffering. The sea is in front of them. The enemy is chasing after them. And you’re standing here and praying?” Moshe said, “I’m standing here and praying. And you’re telling me not to pray? What am I supposed to do?” The Tanna tells us: You need to raise up and give songs and praises and thanks to the One Whose wars are His, meaning Hashem.

 

Hashem Fights the War

It’s written “The Lord will fight for you.3 The Midrash says, not only at this hour will God fight for you, but forever. God is always fighting for you against your enemies. Even more so if you praise God, meaning He’ll fight for you even more.

 

At that moment, Am Israel opened their mouths and started singing Shir shel Yam (Song of the Sea)4,  “I shall sing to Hashem for He is exalted above the arrogant, having hurled horse with its rider into the sea”.

 

We need to sing songs and especially to say lots and lots of Mizmor L’Todah, which is Psalm100 – Song of Thanksgiving.

 

And through this, we give a garment to the splendor of God.  And now, Hashem will get up and He will have vengeance against the enemies of Israel. And He will do all sorts of miracles and wonders for us. That’s what it’s written – to sing and thank Hashem.

 

We must strengthen ourselves so that we trust only in Hashem and we believe that we are only in God’s hands.

 

We must understand that this is a war in emuna. The most important thing to do is to say “Thank You”.  Say Give thanks to Hashem for He is good, because His kindness endures forever5. Say it again with a tune. Sing! Praise Hashem! If you know Hallel by heart, say Hallel.

 

Always remember – THIS IS A WAR OF EMUNA. Be strong in emuna and give Likutei Moharan to as many people as possible.

 

In the Torah portion, Baha’alotcha, it’s written that the day they erected the Mishkan, the Cloud of Glory came and covered it. The Cloud provided shade. At night, there was the Cloud of Fire until the morning.  So, during the day the entire area was covered with shade, but at night the area was lit by fire.6

 

Every time the Cloud moved forward, the Kohanim would disassemble the Mishkan  and pack up the various pieces. Only then would the camp move forward. The Jews would come to a nice place where it’s comfortable. “What a great place!”, they’d say. But in the morning, the Cloud would start moving to indicate that the Jews were not to stay in that wonderful spot. So, the Jews moved on with the Cloud. Eventually, the Cloud stops at a terrible-looking, burnt-out, and destroyed place. The Jews stopped there and remained at the spot for as long as Hashem wanted.

 

The Ramban, the Sforno, and the Ohr HaChaim expound on this. Not once did the Jews complain about this [staying in terrible locations]. Think about that! The Cloud stops at some place. Everyone starts to assemble things to set up the camp. In the morning, the Cloud moves on, and everyone needs to disassemble what they assembled only the night before.

 

What suffering! Yet, we never hear – not once – that the Jewish people complained. Why not?!  My son, Natan Arush, brought me an idea from the Midrashim of the Chumash. Everyone said that this lack of complaining shows the greatness of the Jewish people because they saw Hashem. The moment that we see Hashem—this is what He wants? Hashem wants us to move onward? OK, we’ll move on. He wants us to camp here in this “not good” place? OK, we’ll camp here. The Jews saw Hashem. The Cloud is Hashem. The Cloud parks, then the camp stays. The Cloud moves forward, then the camp moves forward.

 

When did the Jews cry and complain? When they didn’t see Hashem! They blamed Moshe Rabbeinu, “You took us out of Egypt!”. When we don’t see Hashem, that’s when we complain. This is an important lesson for all of us. When we see Hashem, then we’re singing and thanking Him even for the difficulties. We sing and say, “Thank You”. But when we don’t see Hashem, we start complaining and crying.

 

I want you to be very strong on this idea: WE ARE ONLY IN HASHEM’S HANDS – ONLY IN HIS HANDS. He will fight for us.

 

Some non-Jew said to a Jew, “What a fool! You don’t see that Hashem is fighting for you? You don’t see? You should be happy!”  A non-Jew said this to a Jew!

 

We remember to sing often to Hashem; we sing a lot to Hashem. Do you want to help Am Yisrael, the Jewish people? We’re not better than Moshe Rabbeinu, so what are we doing? We’re singing, we’re praising Hashem, we’re thanking Him.  Gd willing, Hashem will make us victorious in all of the wars.

 

Ashreinu (Happy are we)! How fortunate we are! Always remember – THIS IS A WAR OF EMUNA. Be strong in emuna and give Likutei Moharan to as many people as possible.

 


Editor’s Notes:

1 Tehillim (Psalms) 136:4

2 Tehillim 117

3 Shemot (Exodus)14:14-15

4 Shemot 14:30-15:19

5 Tehillim 118:1

6 Bamidbar (Numbers) 9:15-23

 

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Mossad established explosive drone base — in the heart of Iran

Israeli security source reveals: How the IDF and Mossad carried out an operation deep inside Iran.

Israel National News 13Jnue2025 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409930

 

An Israeli security source revealed dramatic new details on Friday morning regarding the extensive Israeli strike against strategic infrastructure deep within Iran. According to the source, the operation – codenamed “Am KeLavi” (literally “Lion’s Might,” but codenamed in English “Rising Lion”) – was years in the making and executed through close cooperation between the IDF, the Mossad, and Israel’s defense industries.

 

In preparation for the operation, the IDF and Mossad worked side by side to assemble detailed intelligence dossiers on senior Iranian defense officials and nuclear scientists, enabling precise targeted assassinations. Concurrently, a covert campaign was launched to neutralize Iran’s strategic missile array through a combination of airstrikes and deep-cover operations on the ground.

 

According to the source, in recent years, the Mossad, in conjunction with the IDF and leveraging advanced technologies from Israel’s defense sector, carried out a series of covert sabotage missions within the heart of Iran. These actions directly degraded Iran’s air defense capabilities and strategic missile systems.

 

The covert campaign involved the activation of three distinct and complex operational systems:

 

1. Commando Teams Inside Iran:

Special Mossad units infiltrated central Iran and pre-positioned precision-guided weapon systems near Iranian surface-to-air missile (SAM) batteries. As the Israeli Air Force launched its aerial assault, these systems were activated and launched precision strikes simultaneously, striking key targets with exceptional accuracy.

 

2. Vehicle-Based Strike Systems:

To further neutralize Iran’s air defense systems – which posed a threat to Israeli aircraft – the Mossad covertly deployed attack technologies embedded within civilian vehicles across Iran. When the operation commenced, these concealed platforms launched powerful munitions that destroyed their assigned targets: Iran’s air defense infrastructure.

 

3. Covert Drone Bases:

The Mossad established a secret base of explosive-laden drones, smuggled into Iran long before the strike. During the Israeli offensive, these drones were launched toward Iranian surface-to-surface missile launchers located at the Esfajabad base near Tehran – a strategic site posing one of the greatest threats to both Israeli military and civilian targets – and successfully destroyed them.

 

The senior source emphasized that the operation “required bold and sophisticated planning, groundbreaking strategic thinking, and intricate deception.” He added: “This mission – made possible by accurate intelligence, cutting-edge technology, and the brave execution by operatives on the ground – delivered a painful blow to Iran’s strategic capabilities and a clear message: Israel will not allow its enemies to acquire weapons of mass destruction.”

 

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IDF strikes Iranian nuclear facility in Isafahan

IDF Spokesperson Effie Defrin confirms that Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facility in Isfahan, part of “Operation Rising Lion.” The strike targeted a uranium “reconversion” site.

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Nuclear site in Isfahan IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

IDF Spokesperson Effie Defrin confirmed on Friday evening that Israel struck the nuclear facility in Isfahan, Iran, as part of Operation Rising Lion.

 

His statement followed reports of explosions in Isfahan earlier in the day.

 

“It can now be revealed that we struck the nuclear facility in Isfahan earlier today, in addition to the attack in Natanz,” Defrin said during a press briefing.

 

The IDF later said in a statement, “A short while ago, IAF fighter jets completed a strike on the Iranian regime’s nuclear site in the Isfahan area, guided by precise intelligence from the Intelligence Directorate. At the site, a process of ‘reconversion’ of enriched uranium takes place. This is the stage after uranium enrichment in the nuclear weapons production process.”

 

According to the IDF, the strike dismantled a facility for producing metallic uranium, infrastructure for reconverting enriched uranium, laboratories, and additional infrastructure.

 

Defrin in his remarks reiterated calls for the Israeli public to follow Home Front Command guidelines and cautioned that, despite the damage inflicted, Iran still possesses the capability to harm Israel.

 

“The strikes we carried out in Iran throughout the day have had an impact on Iranian operations. That said, the Iranians still retain significant capabilities to harm Israel’s home front,” he stated.

 

Defrin emphasized that “the operation is still ongoing. We are acting according to a structured plan and continue to strike.”

 

(Israel National News’ North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)

 

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Watch: IAF strikes Iranian nuclear reactor in Arak

The IDF released footage of the airstrike on the inactive nuclear reactor near Arak in Iran.

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Published: 19June2025, 3:30 PM (GMT+3)  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/410309

 

 

The IDF on Thursday published footage of the IAF airstrike on the inactive nuclear reactor in the Arak area of Iran earlier in the day.

 

As part of the broad effort to prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon, strikes targeted the nuclear reactor, including the structure of the reactor’s core seal, which is a key component in plutonium production.

 

Construction of the reactor began in 1997 but was not completed due to the international community’s intervention.

 

The reactor was originally intended for the production of weapons-grade plutonium, capable of enabling the development of nuclear weapons. In light of various agreements, in recent years the Iranian regime advanced its conversion to produce low-grade plutonium, which is not suitable for the production of nuclear weapons. However, the regime deliberately ordered not to complete the conversion that would have prevented its use for nuclear weapons — in order to exert pressure on the West.

 

The strike targeted the component intended for plutonium production, in order to prevent the reactor from being restored and used for nuclear weapons development.

 

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Pager operation #2? Reports of sabotage among Iran’s missiles

Beni Sabti, an expert on Iran, describes a new sign of sabotage among Iran’s missiles.

Israel National News Published: 21June2025, 10:53 PM (GMT+3) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/410406

 

Beni Sabti, an Iran expert at the Institute for National Security Studies, spoke in the Channel 12 News studio about an unusual series of incidents reported in Iran’s missile corps.

 

“Something strange is happening to Iranian technology,” he stated. It is so far only a few Iranian citizens reporting this, and they have not been able to film it happening.”

 

“From their descriptions, missiles fired from western Tehran are detonating just a few dozen meters out of the launchers,” he described. “This has happened more than a few times

 

“It is like the Hezbollah pager explosions, but with different technology,” he added.

 

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Operation Midnight Hammer: The US attack on Iran step-by-step

Gen. Dan Caine hails Operation Midnight Hammer as largest-ever B-2 strike, targeting key Iranian nuclear sites with unprecedented precision.

Israel National News 22June2025, 4:21 PM (GMT+3) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/410462

 

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, in a briefing to the press at the Pentagon on Sunday, went into detail about the successful covert military operation targeting Iranian nuclear infrastructure.

 

Dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, the mission struck three nuclear facilities inside Iran. Gen. Caine described the strike as “deliberate and precise,” emphasizing the exceptional coordination and professionalism exhibited by US joint forces in what he characterized as a “complex and high-risk mission.”

 

The objective, according to Caine, was to severely degrade Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure. He noted that the operation was planned and carried out across multiple domains and theaters, showcasing the US military’s global reach and precision.

 

“Very few people in Washington knew about the timing and nature of the plan,” Caine stated.

 

The operation commenced at midnight on Friday into Saturday morning, with a large B-2 bomber strike package departing from the continental United States. A portion of the formation flew westward toward the Pacific as a decoy, a deception maneuver known only to a select group of planners and key officials in Washington and Tampa.

 

The main strike force, consisting of seven B-2 Spirit Bombers, flew eastward under radio silence, conducting several in-flight refuelings over the course of the 18-hour journey to the target area.

 

Once in proximity to Iranian airspace, the bombers joined with escort and support aircraft in a meticulously coordinated air maneuver. Minimal communication and exact timing were critical in this synchronized effort across a confined airspace.

 

At approximately 5:00 p.m. EST, a US submarine in the Central Command’s area of responsibility launched over two dozen Tomahawk missiles at strategic infrastructure in Esfahan. As the strike package entered Iranian territory, additional deception tactics were employed. Fourth and fifth-generation aircraft flew ahead of the bombers to counter aerial and surface missile threats.

 

Multiple US commands supported the operation, including US Strategic Command, US Transportation Command, US Cyber Command, US Space Command, US Space Force, and US European Command.

 

As the aircraft approached their targets at Fordow and Natanz, protection assets deployed high-speed suppression weapons and pre-emptive fire to neutralize surface-to-air threats. According to Gen. Caine, no shots were fired at the strike package during ingress.

 

At around 6:40 p.m. EST (2:10 a.m. local time), the lead B-2 bomber dropped two GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators on targets at Fordow. In total, 14 such weapons were used across two nuclear sites.

 

All designated targets were hit between 6:40 p.m. and 7:05 p.m. EST. The Tomahawk missiles struck Esfahan last to preserve the element of surprise throughout the mission.

 

Following weapons release, the strike package exited Iranian airspace without incident. Caine confirmed there was no engagement from Iranian air defenses, and Iranian fighter aircraft did not respond.

 

The operation employed approximately 75 precision-guided munitions, including the first operational use of the 4,000-pound GBU-57. More than 125 US aircraft participated, supported by extensive aerial refueling, reconnaissance, and maintenance operations.

 

Gen. Caine noted that this mission represented the largest operational use of B-2 bombers in US history and the second-longest B-2 mission ever flown.

 

While force protection levels were raised across US positions in Iraq, Syria, and the Gulf, US forces remain on high alert. Caine issued a warning against Iranian retaliation, stating that the US is fully prepared to defend its personnel and interests.

 

“This mission demonstrates the unmatched reach, coordination, and capability of the US military,” he concluded. “In just a matter of weeks, this went from strategic planning to global execution.”

 

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Ethnic Groups in Iran

Iranian ethnic areas (Image by Mapper 01 – Own work, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)


 

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Iran: State disintegration, not regime change

Israel must aim at dismantling Iran into separate ethnic entities to ensure that, in the future, it will not become the grave menace that it was in the past.

Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman spent seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli defense establishment. He is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a member of the Habithonistim-Israel Defense & Security Forum (IDSF) research team, and a participant in the Israel Victory Project.
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(26June2025 / JNS) Despite the uneasy and artificial “peace” agreement, imposed recently (and arguably prematurely) by U.S. President Donald Trump, the debate still rages and speculation still swirls around the Iran-Israel conflict, particularly over the irksome question as to how it will play out in the long run.

 

A war concluded, not resolved

In this regard, it should be clear to any sober observer that the current Iranian regime cannot ever agree to genuinely forgo its pursuit of nuclear weapons—even if it does so temporarily, in the short run, as a survival tactic. After all, for the last quarter century, it has been the flagship enterprise of the regime.

 

Accordingly, abandoning its nuclear ambitions now, under duress, will be indelible proof of error, failure, and worse, of weakness. Clearly, for a regime that rules solely on the basis of might, this is an unacceptable situation, tolerable only as a transitory deception.

 

Indeed, in a recent paper entitled “The Israel–Iran War: Concluded but not Resolved,” a well-known research institute cautioned: “Iran is expected to portray the battle as a success, regardless of its military outcomes” and pondered “whether Israel’s gains can be preserved through diplomatic arrangements, or whether it will need to enforce them militarily.”

 

Adding to this concern are numerous reports that the aerial bombardment of Tehran’s nuclear installations may have been less devastating than originally thought, raising the specter of a resurgent Iranian nuclear program.

 

A tapestry of ethnicities

This is the reason that regime change must be a minimal imperative for Israel at the end of the hostilities, which are likely only to delay, not eradicate, the perils that precipitated the recent conflict.

 

It is because of this that, to ensure the permanent defanging of Iran, Israel must aspire to a goal beyond regime change. It must focus its efforts on inducing the disintegration of the country in its present configuration into several self-governing ethnic entities, principally non-Persian ones.

 

It is important to note that Iran’s population is far from monolithic. To the contrary, it is a heterogeneous mixture of diverse ethnicities, almost equally divided between Persians (50-60%) and non-Persians.

 

Thus, as a recent publication by the MEMRI research institute points out, the overall population comprises, among others, Kurds in the west, Baloch in the southeast, Ahwazi Arabs in the south, Azeris in the northwest and Turkmen in the northeast. Other groups include the Lurs and the Lak people.

 

Conditions ripe for secession?

As the MEMRI document points out, there have been tensions between Tehran and the more remote ethnicities, who have suffered varying degrees of oppression for decades. Among their grievances are: Having no rights to speak their language, no political power, and often being targeted with violence by the central regime.

 

All this enhances their motivation for resistance. Moreover, as they typically live in the border regions, this makes it easier for them to conduct contacts with neighboring countries and challenge Tehran’s control. Harboring a sense of betrayal at the hands of both the Ayatollahs and the Shah, they have a deep distrust of central authority emanating from Tehran.

 

These are conditions ripe not only for insurrection but for possible secession, particularly as the Iranian military has been significantly weakened.

 

This is something Israel—and hopefully the US—must seize on, employing covert subversive tactics, presumably via the Mossad, CIA and perhaps other Western intelligence agencies.

 

Israel cannot rely solely on regime change to ensure its post-war security, for at least two reasons.

 

The first relates to what the successor regime might be, with no guarantee that it will be at all amicable towards the Jewish state, particularly given the widespread negative view of Israel prevailing in large segments of the Iranian public.

 

The second relates to the uncertainty of the fate of any successor regime, no matter how benign and the possibility of itself being overthrown by some other regime, which might well be far more malevolent than its deposed predecessor.

 

Accordingly, in order to address these unknowns, Israel must go beyond the goal of regime change. Instead, it must aspire for Iran to be dismantled into separate self-governing ethnic entities to ensure that, in the future, it will not become the grave menace that it was in the past.

 

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Israel ‘Achieved Its Objectives’ in Iran Operation, Says Leading War Studies Think Tank

by Jack Elbaum
26June2025 2:07 pm https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/06/26/israel-achieved-objectives-iran-operation-says-leading-war-studies-think-tank/

 

A leading war studies think tank has assessed that Israel “achieved its objectives” in its recent operation against Iran’s nuclear program.

 

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) released a report on Tuesday explaining that, in the 12-day operation, “Israel achieved its objectives vis-a-vis the nuclear program by destroying nuclear facilities and enrichment capacity with US support and killing key nuclear scientists who were instrumental in the development and weaponization of the program.”

 

ISW, in conjunction with the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project (CTP), explained the details and implications of the conflict in their daily Iran Update, “which provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests.”

 

Israel launched a broad preemptive attack on Iran earlier this month, targeting military installations and nuclear sites across the country in what officials described as an effort to neutralize an imminent nuclear threat. Over the next several days, Israeli forces systematically dismantled Iran’s nuclear and ballistic-missile capabilities, destroying much of the infrastructure and killing top military leaders and nuclear scientists.

 

The US on Saturday night joined Israel’s campaign by bombing three key Iranian nuclear sites, before President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire to the conflict between the two Middle Eastern adversaries that went into effect on Tuesday.

 

Debate has raged this week over how extensive the damage was to Iran’s nuclear facilities, especially in the wake of the US bombings.

 

In the immediate aftermath of the strike, Trump declared that the Iranian nuclear facilities were completely destroyed. However, CNN and other media outlets subsequently reported on a leaked preliminary assessment from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon’s intelligence arm, which found that key elements of the nuclear program were not destroyed and that the strikes only set the program back a few months.

 

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lambasted the fact that the “top secret report” was leaked, adding that “it was preliminary; it was low confidence.” Trump and other senior administration officials have similarly dismissed the findings of the DIA report, saying that the Iranian nuclear program has been decimated.

 

ISW indicated it believes the US and Israeli strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites were successful.

 

“The destruction of the centrifuges and equipment inside does not necessarily require the collapse of the facility itself,” the think tank wrote in its Iran Update published on Wednesday. “The Institute of Science and International Security, a nuclear nonproliferation think tank that has long studied the Iranian nuclear program, assessed that it was very likely the strikes destroyed or damaged most of the centrifuges at Fordow on the basis of the impact locations and the effects of the blast waves.”

 

The Institute of Science and International Security said in its own report that although there are “non-destroyed parts [of the Iranian nuclear program] … [that] can be used in the future to produce weapon-grade uranium,” the US and Israeli attacks “have effectively destroyed Iran’s centrifuge enrichment program. It will be a long time before Iran comes anywhere near the capability it had before the attack.”

 

Meanwhile, Israeli assessments found that “significant damage” was done to the nuclear sites. Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said that based on the assessments of senior military intelligence officers, the damage “is … systemic … severe, broad and deep, and pushed back by years.”

 

The Israeli Atomic Energy Commission added that “the devastating US strike on [the Iranian nuclear site Fordow] destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes … have set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years.”

 

Axios reporter Barak Ravid noted that Israeli officials were reportedly “perplexed by a leaked US intelligence report that suggested otherwise.”

 

Ravid also reported that an Israeli official with direct knowledge of intelligence on Iran told Axios that “intercepted communications suggest Iranian military officials have been giving false situation reports to the country’s political leadership — downplaying the extent of the damage.”

 

Then, in a new assessment on Wednesday, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the strikes had “severely damaged” Iran’s nuclear program. He explained that they had gained additional intelligence since the initial DIA report. “This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years,” Ratcliffe wrote.

 

The central goal of the Israeli campaign, known as Operation Rising Lion, was to disable Iran’s nuclear program, ISW explained. And this main effort was supported “by conducting a campaign designed to prevent Iran from conducting effective retaliatory strikes on Israel by degrading its ballistic missile capabilities.”

 

“The IDF sought to limit Iran’s ability to respond to Israel at the start of its campaign and continued to destroy Iranian missile launchers and stockpiles throughout the air campaign,” ISW wrote. “Iranian leaders originally planned to launch up to one thousand ballistic missiles at Israel in the immediate aftermath of an Israeli strike, presumably in multiple barrages. The first Iranian missile barrage included about 30 missiles, and Iran never managed to launch over 40 ballistic missiles in a single barrage throughout the 12 days of attacks.”

 

This aspect of the operation, likewise, was a success. ISW reported that over the entire two-week operation, Iran fired a total of only 543 missiles, of which 89 percent were intercepted (and many that were not intercepted hit open, not residential, areas).

 

Still, “Iranian ballistic missiles did penetrate Israeli air defenses striking populated areas in some instances, however. Air defense systems are not perfect, and some projectiles will penetrate the system.”

 

Additionally, the missiles Iran used were not particularly helpful in a military sense. “The relatively poor accuracy of these missiles compared to a precision-guided munition means that even in instances when Iranian missiles struck military targets, they were largely ineffective and caused no casualties and limited damage,” ISW noted.

 

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IDF Summarizes War Against Iran – Operation “Rising Lion”


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IDF Summarizes War Against Iran – Operation “Rising Lion”: “The Most Complex Operation in IDF History”

The IDF states that the operation fully achieved its objectives, yielding the following results:

1. Iran’s Nuclear Program Significantly Damaged: Iran currently lacks the capability to enrich uranium to 90%, which has been neutralized for an extended period. The regime’s ability to produce the core of a nuclear weapon was eliminated. Thousands of centrifuges were destroyed, exceeding the original plan.

2. Iran’s Missile Production Capabilities Severely Impaired: Iran will be unable to produce thousands of missiles as planned in the coming years, with its missile production capacity currently neutralized. A significant reduction in missile production is expected, and rebuilding capabilities will require a lengthy process. Approximately 200 missile launchers, about 50% of Iran’s arsenal, were destroyed.

3. IDF Achieved Air Superiority Over Iran: 80% of Iran’s air defense systems in the operational areas were destroyed, equating to roughly 80 out of 100 air defense batteries. Additionally, about 70 Iranian radars were destroyed. In the opening strike, 60% of Iran’s strategic air defense batteries were eliminated, a key enabler for the operation’s continuation.

Additional Data:

– Interception Rates: 86% of Iranian ballistic missiles and 99% of drones were intercepted by air defense systems.
– Air Force Operations: The Israeli Air Force conducted over 1,500 sorties, striking more than 900 targets across Iran.
– Tehran Strikes: In the final 24 hours of the operation, widespread attacks on Revolutionary Guard Corps headquarters in Tehran resulted in an estimated 200–300 Revolutionary Guards and Basij fighters killed.
– Limited Involvement of Pro-Iranian Militias: Shiite militias in Iraq participated minimally, launching about 40 drones toward Israel. The Iranian axis did not fully engage—Hezbollah did not fire at all, and Houthi attacks were limited to 2–3 missiles.
– Disruption of Iranian Missile Launches: The IDF estimates Iran launched only 60% of the planned missile barrages, meaning 40% of the missiles intended for Israel were not fired.
– Damage to Israeli Home Front: 2,305 apartments in 240 buildings were damaged, leaving 13,197 Israelis homeless.

The IDF concludes that while the Iranian threat persists and Iran will not disappear, Israel is now entering a phase of force buildup, prepared for future confrontations. The IDF is ready to approach the next round of conflict with Iran better equipped and more prepared.

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THE OPEN MIRACLES FOR ISRAEL CONTINUE


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An engineer in the Israeli Air Force relates the following:
“It doesn’t make any sense.
I’ve worked with engines my whole life.
Every flights caused wear and tear.
A round trip flight to Iran – 3,000 kilometers – should exhaust the engine.
But I saw it with my own eyes.
The engines looked as if they had just come out of maintenance.
And the computerized diagnostic systems confirmed it – almost no wear.
One by one the planes were inspected and to everyone’s amazement 70 percent of them didn’t require any serious maintenance.
Only routine servicing.”

Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep – Psalms 121:4

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How to preserve the gains of the Iran War

The Lebanese model should be applied to Iran. Israel has redrawn the map of the Middle East, emerging as the region’s top military power, cornering Iran and outpacing Turkey.

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser – Published on 06-29-2025 13:22 – Last modified: 06-29-2025 13:22 – https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/how-to-preserve-the-gains-of-the-iran-war/

 

The announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran, coming just as Iran appeared to be buckling under the weight of the blows it had suffered, has taken many back to November 2024. That was when, under US pressure, a ceasefire was declared to end the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

 

Back then, too, the ceasefire came as a surprise and even carried a bitter aftertaste, as it was seen as a lifeline to Hezbollah, which had been brought to its knees by Israel’s assault. There were widespread concerns the ceasefire would enable the terrorist group to regroup and eventually return to threaten Israel once more.

 

And yet, surprisingly, the Lebanese ceasefire model, with its conditional terms allowing Israel full freedom of action against any threats or violations, has thus far proven effective. Israel kept up the pressure on Hezbollah, with full American backing, and struck the group whenever it tried to smuggle weapons into Lebanon or rebuild its capabilities. The outcome was clear in the war with Iran: Hezbollah refrained from breaching the quiet along the border, even under Iranian pressure and temptation to join the fight.

 

This Lebanese model must now be replicated in Iran. Only such an approach can ensure the war’s gains are preserved, gains that are not only substantial but historic. Over the 12-day First Iran War, Israel redrew the regional landscape and became the dominant military power in the Middle East, sidelining Iran and leaving Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey trailing behind.

 

Since the ayatollahs seized power in Tehran 46 years ago, their regime has relentlessly pursued a sphere of influence stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. Iran established proxies and bases across the Arab world, in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Gaza and Lebanon. To cement this control, it worked to develop nuclear capabilities and an arsenal of missiles capable of striking anywhere in the Middle East, and potentially Europe.

 

The destruction of Israel was viewed as a necessary step toward Iran’s vision of regional hegemony and aligned with the ideological aims of the ayatollahs’ regime. Iran invested hundreds of billions of dollars into this campaign, known as the “Axis of Resistance”, or as Israelis call it, the “Axis of Evil”, making it the regime’s central, and perhaps sole, strategic objective.

 

All of this now lies in ruins. Over the past two years, Iran’s strongholds in Gaza, Beirut and Damascus have been dismantled. Its nuclear program has been eliminated, and its long-range missile project has been severely damaged. The war has rolled back the ayatollahs to where they began nearly 50 years ago, stripping them of the vast resources that could have been used to build the country and improve the lives of its people. Every Iranian now sees this failure, and one day, inevitably, the regime will face a reckoning.

 

Yet the Iranian regime remains determined to rebuild and resume its campaign. It makes no effort to conceal these intentions, as its very identity and raison d’être are rooted in the struggle to destroy Israel and impose its will on the region.

 

It is therefore essential to reach an understanding with the US, similar to the Lebanese case. Despite the differences between the two theaters, Israel, and the US, must retain the freedom to act whenever they detect a growing threat or any attempt by Iran to revive its nuclear or missile projects.

 

Otherwise, the countdown to the next round of conflict with Iran will begin, and the hard-won achievements of this war will be lost.

 

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THE ISLAMIC CHRONICLES PT I: WHAT NOW?

THEY HAVE FLED. WE ARE STILL HERE. WE WIN, THEY LOSE!

Andrew Benjamin
29June2025

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IRANIAN AUTHOR AMIL IMANI: The ayatollahs, cloaked in false piety, have looted Iran’s wealth to build missiles and militias, leaving millions in poverty while their Revolutionary Guards crush skulls and break spirits. This is not governance—it is slavery. The regime’s nuclear ambitions, a dagger aimed at the world, have only tightened the noose around Iran’s neck, chaining its people to a future of isolation and fear.

Iranians support the Shah and Israel

Iranians support the Shah and Israel

But the chains are breaking. Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, a relentless storm of precision strikes, has smashed the regime’s nuclear facilities, obliterated its military command, and gutted its ballistic missile arsenal. Over 200 targets— command centers, enrichment sites, fuel depots—lie in ruins, their ashes a testament to Israel’s resolve.

Netanyahu, a warrior-king in the mold of ancient heroes, has not merely attacked; he has unleashed a reckoning. “We will hit every site, every target of the ayatollah regime,” he declared, his words a clarion call to a people yearning for liberation. The regime’s leaders, from Khamenei to his bloodthirsty generals, are not just shaken; they are packing their bags, their grip on power crumbling as Israel’s jets roar over Tehran.”AMERICAN THINKER

HOW DONALD TRUMP AND BIBI NETANYAHU, TWO CHURCHILLIAN STATESMEN, CHANGED THE WORLD!

THEY FLED TEHRAN – NOW WHAT?

Israel’s lightning campaign has shattered Iran’s air defences, decapitated its military command, and sent members of the regime’s leadership fleeing to Russia.

Several senior Iranian political and religious leaders have reportedly fled to safe havens in Russia: a dramatic signal of collapsing confidence. This exodus of the ruling elite, if accurate, delivers a decisive psychological blow. We are not there yet, but Khamenei himself fleeing would be comparable to the Shah of Iran boarding a plane in 1979 or Afghanistan’s president fleeing Kabul in 2021. It telegraphs to both regime loyalists and the public that the ship of state is sinking, potentially eroding any remaining will to resist.

Israel’s offensive seems aimed beyond just neutralising nuclear threats. It is “clearing the path” for Iranians to reclaim their freedom, as Prime Minister Netanyahu put it in a direct appeal to Iran’s people. In other words, regime change is an implicit objective of this campaign.

AGB, my own take:

The Ayatollahs will dig their heels in and it will take another war to dislodge them.

MESSAGE FROM IRAN

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THE PLANET’S ANTISEMITES, NOTE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE:

There are 200,000 Americans in Israel, and tens of thousands of American troops throughout the mideast, being bombed by the Iranian regime that has murdered thousands of Americans already. Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Col. Doug MacGregor, Senator Ron Paul, convicted pedophile Scott Ritter, and far leftist former SALON writer Dan Greenwald, are unaware of this fact.

“According to Grok, Iran (which has officially been at war against the U.S. since the 1979 hostage crisis) is known or is believed to have been responsible for the following terrorist attacks:

  • The 1983 Beirut U.S. Embassy and Barracks bombings
  • The 1985 TWA Flight 847 Hijacking
  • The 1987 orchestration of riots in Mecca during the Hajj pilgrimage
  • The 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing in Argentina.
  • The 1994 Argentine Israelite Mutual Association
  • The 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia
  • The 1992 targeted assassinations of Iranian dissidents all over Europe
  • The 2011 plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador in D.C.
  • The 2012 bus bombing in Bulgaria
  • The 2018 foiled bomb plot at a massive MEK rally in Paris
  • The 2021 thwarted plot against the Israeli embassy in East Africa
  • The 2021 bomb attack outside Israel’s embassy in New Delhi

In addition, Iran funded and often controlled the insurgency in Iraq that killed and wounded thousands of Americans, and, as noted, it’s the actual power behind Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, which have been responsible for worldwide terrorist attacks. There’s also reason to believe that Iran has been relentlessly trying to assassinate President Trump.” – Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN THINKER

​IS THERE A LESSON TO BE LEARNED HERE?

IT IS THIS: AM YISRAEL CHAI!

We. Are. Here. And We. Will. Never. Leave.

We are not going anywhere.

We are not folding.

We are not bowing.

We are not trembling before death cults and fanatics who chant for blood and scream for annihilation.

We are the people of Israel, and we are alive — bruised but unbreakable, crying but undefeated.

We fear God.

Not missiles. Not monsters. Not madmen in turbans playing God from bunkers.

Right now, as you read this, the people of Israel — from Efrat to Sderot, from Jerusalem to the Galil — are standing together. Not hiding. Standing.

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And they, our enemies, and not us, are fleeing! The rest, decomposing.

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We, the People of the United States, Israel and Iran, are celebrating victory together!

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The first Olim since the war ended just landed in Israel


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The first Olim since the war ended just landed in Israel!

100 new immigrants from France, Spain, the U.K., and Holland arrived home today. Some of them intend on drafting to the IDF.

Who is like our nation, the nation of Israel?

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The Peace of the Victor: Israel’s Transformation from Defender to Guarantor

October 7, 2023, Was Not a Failure of Intelligence. It Was a Failure of Imagination

24July2025 – Gregg Roman – https://www.meforum.org/the-peace-of-the-victor-israels-transformation-from-defender-to-guarantor

 

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Now comes a third option: Pax Israeliana. An Israeli Peace. Not a request but a statement of fact, forged in the fires of Gaza, proven in the skies over Iran, and now being written into the soil of a shattered Syria. Shutterstock

 

The wire was cut. The sirens were silent. Then the world broke.

 

October 7, 2023, was not a failure of intelligence. It was a failure of imagination. It was the final, bloody refutation of a doctrine that had governed Israel for fifty years. The doctrine of the strong fence and the quiet life. The doctrine of deterrence. The doctrine of “mowing the grass.” It was a doctrine that assumed a rational enemy. It was a doctrine that believed one could contain a firestorm with a garden hose.

 

In 1928, writing from Paris, Ernest Hemingway observed that “the first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war.” The Middle East has tried both. Neither worked. Now comes a third option: Pax Israeliana. An Israeli Peace. Not a request but a statement of fact, forged in the fires of Gaza, proven in the skies over Iran, and now being written into the soil of a shattered Syria.

The Arithmetic of Failure

Consider the arithmetic of containment. Fifteen years. Five major operations in Gaza. Thousands of rockets. Billions in defense spending. Zero strategic progress. This was not a strategy; it was lawn maintenance with F-16s. Israel called it “mowing the grass,” as if Hamas were dandelions rather than an ideological cancer metastasizing on its border. The metaphor itself revealed the poverty of ambition. Gardens require more than mowing. They require uprooting.

 

As Daniel Pipes and the Middle East Forum have long argued through the Israel Victory Project, the fundamental error lay in seeking to manage rather than win.

 

As Daniel Pipes and the Middle East Forum have long argued through the Israel Victory Project, the fundamental error lay in seeking to manage rather than win. For decades, Israel was the defender. It absorbed the first blow. It managed the conflict. It sought ceasefires. It accepted a level of violence that no other Western nation would tolerate for a single afternoon. That Israel is gone. Buried with its dead.

 

The Western mind, particularly the comfortable, post-historical European mind, is addicted to a single, fatal fallacy: the belief that all Palestinians are, at their core, rational in a way the West understands. They believe every problem has a solution that can be found in a seminar room. They believe every grievance can be assuaged with cash and concessions. This was the intellectual architecture of Oslo. It was the foundation of the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza. Give them land, give them autonomy, give them billions in aid, and they will build a Singapore on the Mediterranean.

 

Instead, they built a fortress of terror. They elected Hamas. They dug tunnels not for subways, but for slaughter. They used the cement given for schools to build bunkers for their leaders. They used the water pipes provided for plumbing to build rockets to fire at Israeli children.

 

Clausewitz taught that war is the continuation of politics by other means. For the Islamists who rule Gaza and Tehran, it is the other way around. Politics, diplomacy, and ceasefires are merely the continuation of war by other means. Their goal is not a state alongside Israel. Their goal is a state instead of Israel. It is a theological imperative, not a political dispute over borders.

The Death of Deterrence

Thomas Hobbes, that grim philosopher of power, wrote that “covenants without the sword are but words.” For 75 years, Israel believed the sword alone would suffice. Deterrence would hold. Enemies would calculate costs and benefits. Rationality would prevail.

 

October 7 shattered this delusion with the force of thousands of Hamas terrorists streaming across what Israel had convinced itself was an impermeable border. They came on motorcycles and paragliders, with GoPros and Kalashnikovs, to commit acts of medieval barbarism with modern tools. The footage they proudly broadcast was not meant to hide their crimes but to advertise them. This was not war as Clausewitz understood it. This was Thanatos unleashed—death as its own reward.

 

Thomas Hobbes, that grim philosopher of power, wrote that “covenants without the sword are but words.” For 75 years, Israel believed the sword alone would suffice.

 

As this author wrote in the immediate aftermath, this was “an invasion, an orchestrated massacre gleaming with the sinister glare of genocidal intent.” The Israeli response marked a turning point as decisive as any in the nation’s history. Previous Gaza operations had names suggesting limited aims: “Cast Lead,” “Protective Edge,” “Guardian of the Walls.” Defensive nomenclature for defensive thinking. This time was different. The goal was not degradation but elimination. Not management but victory.

 

Victory. The word itself had become almost foreign to the Israeli strategic lexicon, a relic from 1967 gathering dust in the museums of military history. Modern democracies, the conventional wisdom held, don’t seek victory. They seek stability, equilibrium, sustainable security arrangements. October 7 revealed these euphemisms for what they were: sophisticated forms of self-deception.

 

The Gaza War was different. A nation fights differently when fighting for survival than when fighting to prove a point. The Israel Defense Forces were not sent into Gaza to mow the grass. They were sent to pave it over. The mission was the total dismantlement of Hamas as a military and governing entity.

 

It was grim, hard business. The enemy had spent fifteen years turning Gaza into the most formidable terrorist fortress in human history. A subterranean kingdom of tunnels, laced with booby traps, built beneath hospitals, schools, and mosques. Every building was a potential ambush. Every doorway a threat.

 

The world, from the safety of its television screens, condemned the cost. They counted the dead in Gaza but forgot to count the living in Sderot and Kfar Aza who could finally sleep without fear. They demanded proportionality. But what is the proportional response to a death cult that celebrates martyrdom and seeks to murder every Jew in the world? There is no proportional response. There is only victory or extinction. Israel chose victory.

The Head of the Octopus

For decades, the West, and often Israel itself, made another critical error. It treated the symptoms while ignoring the disease. The disease has a name: The Islamic Republic of Iran.

 

Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the militias in Iraq and Syria—they are not independent actors. They are tentacles. The head of the octopus sits in Tehran. For forty years, the regime of the Ayatollahs has waged war on Israel and the West, but it has done so by proxy. It paid others to do the dying. It believed its own territory was sacrosanct. This was the second great fallacy the old doctrine tolerated.

 

As Jonathan Spyer has documented extensively, Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” was never about resistance—it was about expansion, domination, and the eventual destruction of Israel.

 

As Jonathan Spyer has documented extensively, Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” was never about resistance—it was about expansion, domination, and the eventual destruction of Israel. In the aftermath of the October 7 attack, the octopus overreached. Emboldened by what it mistook for Israeli vulnerability, Iran directed its proxies to launch a multi-front assault. It was to be their master stroke. It was their final mistake.

 

The Israeli response after two years of war was not what they expected. It was not another strike on a Hezbollah weapons depot in Syria. It was a war of twelve days.

 

On the first night, the lights went out in Isfahan. The last night saw the nuclear facility at Fordow, buried deep beneath a mountain, hit by something the world had never seen. The first Israeli missiles struck Natanz at 3:17 a.m. Tehran time on June 13. By sunrise, Iran was burning. Much of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program—that sword of Damocles hanging over the region for two decades—was reduced to radioactive rubble in 12 days.

 

Iran’s response was predictable in its desperation: 550 ballistic missiles, over 1,000 drones, the full arsenal of four decades of military buildup launched in spasms of rage. The result? An 86 percent interception rate by Israeli defense systems. The emperor had no clothes. The regional hegemon was revealed as a paper tiger—dangerous still, but vincible.

 

The psychological impact exceeded the physical destruction. Khamenei’s regime had built its entire legitimacy on resistance to the “Zionist entity.” When that entity struck the Islamic Republic’s most protected assets with impunity, the myth died.

 

The 12-Day War established the second pillar of Pax Israeliana: Israeli hegemony is the new organizing principle of the Middle East. The American security umbrella is tattered and unreliable. The only hard power that can and will act to neutralize a regional threat is the State of Israel.

From Abraham Accords to Abraham Alliance

Peace agreements in the Middle East traditionally follow a predictable script. Land for peace. Recognition for withdrawal. Economic incentives for political concessions. The Abraham Accords shattered this template by acknowledging a simple truth: Israel’s enemies were also the enemies of the Gulf states. Common threats create more durable bonds than common history.

 

The Abraham Accords had evolved into an Abraham Alliance—a regional security framework with Israel as its technological and military cornerstone.

 

But October 7 tested these new relationships in ways their architects never anticipated. Would the familiar Arab street pressures force a retreat to the old reflexive anti-Zionism?

 

The answer came not in words but in actions. Joint naval exercises in the Red Sea. Intelligence sharing during Iranian missile attacks. Quiet but crucial overflight permissions. The participation of Israeli F-35s alongside Emirati Mirages and Bahraini observers in Greece’s Iniochos 2025 exercises sent a message more powerful than any diplomatic communiqué. This is not merely normalization. This was integration.

 

Defense exports from Israel to Abraham Accords nations reached $791 million. Cybersecurity cooperation was formalized through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Abraham Accords had evolved into an Abraham Alliance—a regional security framework with Israel as its technological and military cornerstone.

The Syrian Laboratory

Power creates vacuums. And vacuums must be filled. Bashar al-Assad’s regime died as it had lived—not with a bang but with a whimper. When Hezbollah’s forces withdrew to Lebanon to lick their wounds from Israeli strikes, the Syrian army simply melted away. December 2024 saw the end of over five decades of Assad family rule, creating the greatest strategic opportunity and danger since the Arab Spring.

 

The old doctrine would have seen this as a crisis. A failed state. A breeding ground for jihadists. A quagmire. The new doctrine sees it as a laboratory for building a new reality.

 

Israel’s response was swift and decisive. Within 48 hours, Israeli forces had destroyed 70-80 percent of Syria’s military infrastructure. Not as conquest—the age of territorial expansion ended long ago—but as preventive architecture. Every destroyed weapons depot was one that couldn’t fall into jihadi hands.

 

Israel sent its drones. The Druze of southern Syria suddenly found Israeli aircraft overhead providing protective cover.

 

More significantly, Israel moved to fill the security vacuum before others could. When the remnants of ISIS and Bedouin militias began to encroach on the Druze heartland of Jabal al-Druze, the world did nothing. The UN issued a statement. Washington expressed “deep concern.”

 

Israel sent its drones. The Druze of southern Syria suddenly found Israeli aircraft overhead providing protective cover. Kurdish forces in the northeast received intelligence that helped them preempt ISIS resurgence attempts. Christian villages discovered that their calls for help were answered not by the UN or the EU, but by the IDF.

 

This was not altruism. It was strategy. Every minority group protected was a potential ally gained and a certain enemy denied. A stable, friendly, and grateful Druze entity on the Golan frontier is a far greater strategic asset than a thousand kilometers of smart fence.

The Guarantor Doctrine

What emerges from these transformations is nothing less than a new regional order—Pax Israeliana. But this requires careful definition. It is not a blueprint for empire. Empires extract; guarantors protect. Empires impose uniformity; guarantors preserve diversity. Empires inevitably decline; guarantor systems can endure.

 

Consider the precedent of Pax Britannica. For a century, the Royal Navy suppressed piracy, protected trade routes, and maintained a general peace that allowed global commerce to flourish. Britain profited, certainly, but so did everyone else. The system’s genius lay not in British dominance but in British indispensability.

 

Pax Israeliana operates on similar principles but with crucial differences. Where Britain had the luxury of geographic distance, Israel must create strategic depth through relationships. Where Britain could retreat to splendid isolation, Israel must remain perpetually engaged. Where Britain exported power, Israel must export security.

 

This new architecture rests on four pillars:

 

Imagine a regional security architecture including Israel, the Gulf states, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, potentially a post-Islamist Turkey, and a post-military-ruled Algeria.

 

First, military supremacy—not merely defensive capability but offensive dominance that can strike anywhere in the region within hours. As Efraim Inbar notes, “Fear remains the most effective political currency in the Middle East.” When enemies know that aggression guarantees swift and devastating response, aggression becomes irrational.

 

Second, alliance networks that transform bilateral peace agreements into multilateral security arrangements. The Abraham Alliance represents just the beginning. Imagine a regional security architecture including Israel, the Gulf states, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, potentially a post-Islamist Turkey, and a post-military-ruled Algeria—a Middle Eastern NATO united not by ideology but by shared interests in stability and prosperity.

 

Third, minority protection that provides security guarantees for the region’s vulnerable populations. For centuries, the Middle East has been a graveyard for its minorities. The Christians, the Druze, the Kurds, the Yazidis, Berbers, Alawites —all have been victims of the same intolerance that targets the Jewish state. As Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar declared, these communities are Israel’s “natural allies.” Israel’s emergence as their explicit guarantor creates not just moral capital but strategic depth.

 

Fourth, economic integration that makes conflict economically irrational where countries, not like Russia and Iran, have previously not engaged in direct kinetic conflict with Israel. The planned India-Middle East-Europe Corridor, with Israel as a crucial node represents this logic. When breaking relations means breaking supply chains, when war means economic suicide, peace becomes not an aspiration but a necessity.

The Kurdish Paradigm

No element of Pax Israeliana generates more controversy than the Kurdish dimension. Forty million people, divided among four states, denied self-determination for a century—the Kurds represent the Middle East’s greatest unresolved question. They also represent Israel’s greatest strategic opportunity.

 

As Loqman Radpey has written, the Israeli-Kurdish relationship represents an “asymmetrical alliance,” a nation-to-nation relationship that transcends traditional state boundaries. The relationship dates to the 1960s when Mossad trained Mustafa Barzani’s peshmerga. But nostalgia is not strategy. What matters is the present convergence of interests.

 

Critics warn of the Turks’ fury. Let them fume. Erdoğan’s Turkey has chosen the path of Islamist revisionism, supporting Hamas and hosting its leadership.

 

Kurdish forces control 40 percent of Syrian territory. They have proven themselves the region’s most effective fighters against ISIS. Most importantly, they share with Israel the experience of being a minority under perpetual threat. Israeli support for Kurdish autonomy serves multiple strategic purposes. It creates a buffer against both Iranian expansion and Turkish neo-Ottoman ambitions. It shows that alliance with Israel brings tangible benefits.

 

Critics warn of the Turks’ fury. Let them fume. Erdoğan’s Turkey has chosen the path of Islamist revisionism, supporting Hamas and hosting its leadership. A Turkey that threatens Israeli interests deserves Israeli opposition.

The American Question

No discussion of Pax Israeliana can ignore the American dimension. For three-quarters of a century, Israeli strategy has assumed American support. But assumptions are dangerous things.

 

America in 2025 faces its own reckonings. Washington’s overstretch manifests in simultaneous commitments to NATO expansion, Asian pivot strategy, and Middle Eastern entanglements—all while the national debt exceeds $35 trillion. Domestic division runs deeper than at any time since the 1960s, with fundamental disagreements about America’s role in the world cutting across traditional party lines. The pivot to Asia represents a fundamental reallocation of military assets, diplomatic attention, and strategic planning away from the Middle East toward containing China.

 

The rise of isolationist sentiment in both parties represents a tectonic shift. On the right, some supporters of President Trump’s “America First” movement questions why American tax dollars should underwrite the security of prosperous allies. On the left, progressive activists frame Israel through the lens of settler colonialism, apartheid, and systemic oppression. A young generation that came of age during the Iraq War’s failures views Middle Eastern involvement as inherently suspect. The campus protests of 2024, which saw elite universities become hotbeds of anti-Israel activism, revealed how thoroughly the old bipartisan consensus on Israel has fractured.

 

This reality demands not despair but adaptation. Pax Israeliana represents Israel’s evolution from security consumer to security provider—a transformation that actually serves American interests better than the old dependency model. Consider the concrete manifestations of this shift:

 

Pax Israeliana represents Israel’s evolution from security consumer to security provider—a transformation that actually serves American interests better than the old dependency model.

 

When Israel destroyed Syria’s military infrastructure in 48 hours, it eliminated weapons stockpiles that might have required American intervention to secure. When Israeli intelligence networks provide early warning of Iranian nuclear activities, they save American lives and resources. When Israeli technology secures critical infrastructure in Abraham Accord states, it reduces the need for American military presence. The successful defense against Iran’s missile barrage demonstrated that Israeli systems can protect not just Israel but American assets and allies throughout the region.

 

Every Israeli military action that degrades Iranian capabilities is one less threat that American forces must confront. Every minority group that Israel protects is one less humanitarian crisis demanding American intervention. Every stable zone that Israeli power guarantees is one less failed state that could become a terrorist haven.

 

The message to Washington is clear: Israel is not requesting charity but offering strategic value. The annual American military aid to Israel—approximately $3.8 billion—represents less than what the United States once spent in Afghanistan every two weeks. In return, America gains a regional stabilizer that requires no American boots on the ground, no American casualties, and no American occupation forces. Israel provides intelligence that American agencies cannot gather, tests American weapons systems in actual combat conditions, and serves as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in a critical region.

 

More fundamentally, Pax Israeliana offers America something it desperately needs: a way to maintain regional influence while reducing regional presence. As American forces withdraw from Syria and Iraq, Israeli power fills the vacuum in ways that serve American interests. When Washington seeks to counter Iranian influence without direct military involvement, Israeli action provides the solution. When American policymakers need to demonstrate commitment to allies while avoiding new military entanglements, Israeli security guarantees offer the perfect mechanism.

The Price of Leadership

The critics are already screaming. They call this vision neo-colonialism, warning of imperial overreach and lamenting the death of the two-state solution. Their arguments deserve examination, if only to demonstrate their fundamental disconnection from Middle Eastern realities.

 

The charge of neo-colonialism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of Pax Israeliana. Colonial powers extract resources and impose foreign rule. Israel seeks neither. The minerals of Syria hold no attraction; the oil of Iraq is not the objective. Israel offers security partnerships to minorities who request them, not colonial administration to subjects who resist it. When Druze leaders appeal for protection against jihadist massacres, when Kurdish forces seek intelligence sharing to prevent ISIS resurgence, when Christian communities request assistance in maintaining their ancient presence—these are not colonial relationships but survival partnerships among Middle Eastern peoples facing common threats.

 

Israel’s interventions are precisely calibrated: air power not ground occupation, intelligence sharing not direct administration, security guarantees not territorial annexation.

 

The imperial overreach argument fails on empirical grounds. Israel’s interventions are precisely calibrated: air power not ground occupation, intelligence sharing not direct administration, security guarantees not territorial annexation. The destruction of Syrian military assets was accomplished without a single Israeli soldier occupying on Syria’s coast. The protection of Druze communities requires no Israeli governance structures. This is not empire-building but threat elimination.

 

As for the two-state solution, its death certificate was signed not by Israel but by Palestinian leadership—in 1947, 1967, 1993, 2000, 2008, and every moment in between. Palestinian political culture remains saturated with eliminationist ideology. School textbooks deny Jewish history, television programs celebrate martyrdom, and political leaders promise not statehood alongside Israel but statehood instead of Israel.

 

The only viable future for Palestinians requires what Germany and Japan experienced after 1945: complete ideological defeat followed by comprehensive transformation. This means dismantling the entire infrastructure of hatred—the prisoner payments, the posters glorifying martyrdom, the terror tunnels, the educational incitement, the religious glorification of genocide. It means accepting that Jewish sovereignty in the ancient Jewish homeland is permanent and irreversible. It means building a political culture based on construction rather than destruction.

 

Pax Israeliana is not a promise of a quiet life. It is the acceptance of a heavy burden. The burden of power means making decisions that determine the fate of millions—decisions that will be condemned by comfortable observers who never face the consequences of failure. It means accepting that every action will be scrutinized through a microscope while enemies’ atrocities pass unnoticed. It means knowing that restraint will be interpreted as weakness, while strength will be condemned as aggression.

 

The burden of clarity requires abandoning the comfortable ambiguities that have long characterized Israeli policy. No more strategic ambiguity about nuclear capabilities—enemies must know that existential threats will meet existential responses. No more apologetic language about security measures—a nation surrounded by those seeking its destruction need not justify its vigilance. No more defensive crouch in international forums—a democracy protecting minorities from genocide need not bow to dictatorships that sponsor terror.

 

The burden of being the only adult in a room of arsonists manifests daily. When the United Nations condemns Israeli defensive actions while ignoring Syrian chemical weapons, Iranian nuclear programs, and Turkish occupation of Kurdish lands, Israel must proceed regardless. When European diplomats propose “peace processes” that would create terror states on Israel’s borders, Israel must say no without apology. When American progressives demand concessions to those who seek genocide, Israel must resist without concern for popularity.

 

A guarantor power must possess the psychological strength to act decisively, to ignore international condemnation when necessary, and to prioritize strategic objectives over global popularity.

 

This requires a steeling of the national will that goes beyond military preparedness. It demands an end to the moral confusion that has plagued Israeli discourse—the endless self-questioning, the disproportionate concern for enemy casualties, the apologetic tone when discussing legitimate security needs. A guarantor power cannot afford the luxury of self-doubt. When protecting Druze villagers from massacre, there is no moral ambiguity. When preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, there is no room for hesitation. When ensuring that October 7 never happens again, there is no space for equivocation.

 

The psychological transformation may be the hardest burden of all. For decades, Israeli culture celebrated its moral superiority through restraint, its enlightenment through self-criticism, its sophistication through acknowledging enemy narratives. This luxury is no longer affordable. A guarantor power must possess the psychological strength to act decisively, to ignore international condemnation when necessary, and to prioritize strategic objectives over global popularity.

 

This is not a call for brutality or abandonment of moral principles. It is recognition that true morality sometimes requires hard choices, that protecting the innocent may require defeating the guilty, that building peace may require winning war. The Middle East respects strength and exploits weakness. Pax Israeliana represents the choice to be authoritative rather than loved, to be secure rather than applauded, to be effective rather than popular.

The Choice

History presents certain moments when the possible expands, when the constraints of the past loosen, when new orders can be born: the Peace of Westphalia in 1648; the American victory in the Revolutionary War in 1783; the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Middle East in 2025 is such a moment. The old order—built on Arab nationalism, sustained by petrodollars, defined by hostility to Israel—is dying. What replaces it remains unwritten.

 

Great powers are not born; they are forged in the crucible of crisis. October 7 was Israel’s crucible. From it emerged not just survival but transformation. The path forward requires three forms of courage: physical courage to confront enemies directly, moral courage to accept the responsibilities of regional leadership, and intellectual courage to abandon outdated paradigms.

 

The old Middle East is dead. The new one is being born. Israel can be its midwife or its victim. The choice, as always, is Israel’s.

 

In 1923, Jabotinsky wrote that “the only way to reach an agreement in the future is to abandon all idea of seeking an agreement at present.” A century later, his insight takes new form. The only way to achieve peace in the future is to abandon the illusions of the peace process and create the conditions—through strength, through protection, through leadership—that make peace not a dream but an inevitability.

 

This is Pax Israeliana. Not perfect peace—perfection is not a Middle Eastern virtue. But a practical peace, a possible peace, a peace that emerges not from documents but from facts on the ground. The peace of the victor. The only peace that matters is the peace of the defeated.

 

The wire has been restrung. The sirens have new meaning. The world has been remade. The old Middle East is dead. The new one is being born. Israel can be its midwife or its victim. The choice, as always, is Israel’s.

 

But some choices are clearer than others. And this one is crystalline in its clarity. The age of the defender has ended. The age of the guarantor has arrived. Israel must rise to meet it.

 

Gregg Roman

Gregg Roman is the executive director of the Middle East Forum, previously directing the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. In 2014, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency named him one of the “ten most inspiring global Jewish leaders,” and he previously served as the political advisor to the deputy foreign minister of Israel and worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. A frequent speaker on Middle East affairs, Mr. Roman appears on international news channels such as Fox News, i24NEWS, Al-Jazeera, BBC World News, and Israel’s Channels 12 and 13. He studied national security and political communications at American University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, and has contributed to The Hill, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, and the Jerusalem Post

 

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