Less than a day after the American attack, Israel is signaling a push for an end. The Natanz facility was destroyed, and according to estimates, the Fordow and Isfahan facilities were also severely damaged. How many launchers and missiles do the Iranians have left, and are new non-military targets on the agenda?
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Demonstration in support of the regime in Tehran (Photo: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iris Lipschitz-Kliger
A limit of 50 passengers per plane, no duty-free and no attendants in the terminal – Israeli airlines will begin operating flights from Israel tomorrow, according to the Ministry of Transportation's outline. Most of the tickets for the coming month have been sold.
More than a week after the opening blow of Operation "With a Dog," Transportation Minister Miri Regev updated a press conference that there are still 84,000 Israelis stranded abroad, after about 65,000 Israelis returned to Israel. This morning, following the American attack on Iran, Israel's airspace was closed again and rescue flights were canceled. It was reopened from to .
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Lior Ben Ari
Ali Shamkhani, one of the people closest to the Supreme Leader who was injured in the opening blow of Operation"Am Kalavi", claimed that"materials remained unharmed" - and emphasized: "Even if the (nuclear) sites were completely destroyed, the game is not over yet."
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US President Donald Trump's historic decision to attack Iran was made on Thursday, CNN reported, as part of a story about the dramatic decision. While Trump was still hanging out at his New Jersey golf club on Friday, American planes were already preparing to take off. To those present at the club, Trump seemed a little troubled by the decision to authorize an airstrike against the three Iranian nuclear facilities.
But according to eyewitnesses, as Trump accompanied Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, to an event for new members held in one of the club's guest rooms, he was"relaxed" and, at least outwardly,"in a relaxed mood." 24 hours later, the American president was already in the White House Situation Room, watching the strikes he had authorized a few days earlier - which were dubbed"Midnight Hammer."
The decision to carry out the attack directly implicated the US in the war in the Middle East. It was made after days of discussions, during which Trump oscillated between military threats against Iran on social media and concerns that the attack could lead the US into a protracted war. Still, CNN noted that on Thursday - the day Trump ordered the White House spokeswoman to announce that Iran was being given a two-week extension to return to the negotiating table - his associates said that it was already clear that the decision had been made.
Trump in the Situation Room, tonight (Photo: The White House)
Elisha Ben Kimon
The IDF spokesman published documentation of the first attack on Yazd, where the"Imam Hussein" strategic missile command is located, 2,200 km from Israel - where long-range"Khoramshahr" missiles were stored, and which served as a launch point for about 60 missiles at Israel.
"Air Force fighter jets flew over Iranian soil and began attacking storage sites for long-range surface-to-surface missiles, 'Khoramshahr' in Yazd," it was reported. Air Force Commander, Major General Tomer Bar, and Head of Air Operations, Brigadier General Gilad Keinan, commanded the attack in real time in the control room.
"In broad daylight, we surprised the Imam Hussein missile headquarters in central Iran, the furthest we have attacked so far, destroyed the Khorramshahr missiles before they were launched at the State of Israel, and hit the tunnels where the missiles were stored," said Bar."We are continuing waves of attacks throughout Iran and continue to disrupt the ability to launch barrages into Israeli territory, reduce the capabilities of the fire systems, and act decisively to defend and reduce the firing on the home front."
The Air Force attacks surface-to-surface missile depots in the Yazd area (Photo: IDF Spokesperson)
Air Force Commander and Head of Air Operations (Photo: IDF Spokesperson)
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Iranian President Masoud Pazakhian participated in a demonstration in central Tehran, in the shadow of the American attacks, and took advantage of the event to condemn the United States. This is according to footage broadcast on Iranian state television. The demonstrators shouted with raised fists, as they surrounded Pazakhian, who was trying to make his way through the crowd:"Revenge, revenge!"
Pazakhian at a demonstration in central Tehran
Shiloh Fried
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and prayed with the Rabbi of the Western Wall for the success of the continuation of the war in Iran - and for the peace of US President Donald Trump. Among other things, according to the text of the special prayer they composed for Netanyahu's arrival, it reads:"And may the President of the United States be exalted for taking upon himself to expel evil and darkness from the world." The Prime Minister also left a note at the Western Wall: "Am Kalavi has risen. Am Yisrael is alive!"
Netanyahu at the Western Wall
The special prayer for Trump's peace
The note from the Prime Minister is there at the Western Wall
Netanyahu prays at the Western Wall
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Gad Lior
Similar to the compensation plan given after 7/10, only this time for the entire country: The Treasury tried to buy time, but when it"became clear" that the Iran war would last more than a few days, they were forced to formulate a broad compensation plan that would cost billions of shekels. It is still unclear for how long business owners will be compensated for lost income.
The compensation plan for the business sector and indemnification for businesses for the hundreds of thousands of workers who are absent from work due to the war with Iran has already been formulated in almost all its details. The heads of the Ministry of Finance, the Histadrut, and the business sector will attempt to summarize the details that are still controversial tonight, but Ynet and Mammon have learned the main points of the plan: It will include compensation for businesses that were affected by a decrease in turnover of at least 25% and indemnification of 75% for employees' wages and reimbursement of expenses according to the degree of decrease in business turnover. The greater the decrease in turnover, the greater the compensation will be.
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The Treasury tried to buy time. Smotrich (Photo: Shalev Shalom)
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After the Iranian threats, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that responding to the US strikes on the nuclear facilities would be"the worst mistake they've ever made." In an interview with Fox News, Rubio said:"The world today is safer and more stable than it was. This is not a war against Iran, we are not looking for war with it, and regime change is not our goal." According to him,"The US is ready to talk to Iran, and the offer is still on the table. Iran is not going to play with Trump."
Rubio later explained that it is correct to say that Iran had everything it needed to produce nuclear weapons."Iran has enriched uranium in an amount sufficient to produce at least nine or ten bombs. They had everything ready, now not so much," he explained.
Rubio (Photo: Umit Bektas / POOL / AFP)
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