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Netanyahu, IDF Chief Zamir, Defense Minister Katz hold meeting with Trump admin. officials

The meeting took place as the US was deliberating whether to join Israel in strikes against Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Ben-Gvir and Karhi crack down on foreign press coverage of war damage in Israel

A police officer investigates a crater at an impact site following Iran's missile strike on Israel, in Beersheba, Israel, June 20, 2025.

Top Gun over Tehran: An IAF fighter pilot shares his journey on the way to Iran

Israeli Air Force fighter jets seen attacking Iranian nuclear targets, June 15, 2025

Katz: Hezbollah chief 'is not learning a lesson from his predecessors, I suggest he be careful'

DEFENSE MINISTER Israel Katz speaks to the media at the scene of the Iranian missile attack in Holon yesterday. He says that he instructed the IDF to carry out attacks that would ‘undermine’ the Iranian regime.

WATCH: ‘If we hadn’t gone into safe room, we wouldn’t be alive,’ Tel Aviv resident says

“We had just finished dinner at the neighbors’ when the siren went off. Some of us stayed in their safe room, and some ran back to ours," Amit, a resident who survived the strike, said.

JUNE 20, 2025ByGABRIEL COLODRO/THE MEDIA LINE

People gather at the scene of a missile strike that, according to Israel’s military, was launched from Yemen and landed in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, Israel, December 21, 2024.

Seven lightly wounded in Beersheba after Iranian missile crashes in city for a second day

Red Alerts also sounded in the southern West Bank and parts of the Negev Desert also due to the missile.

JUNE 20, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Magen David Adom personnel arrive at the scene where an Iranian missile made impact, June 20, 2025.

Israeli drone reportedly kills nuclear scientist in Tehran, Katz threatens Hezbollah chief Qassem

Over 60 IAF jets strike Tehran overnight • IAEA chief identifies Isfahan as Iran's planned uranium enrichment site • Hezbollah leader offers help to Iran

JUNE 20, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

SMOKE RISES in the direction of Khojir complex in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

IAF intercepts three Iranian drones near Dead Sea

Iran has launched at least 1,000 drones against Israel since Operation Rising Lion began last Friday.

JUNE 20, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

A Shahed 129 drone, on exhibition in Tehran, 2019; illustrative.

Eretz Nehederet finds the funny amid the falling missiles

Host Eyal Kitzis was full of his usual befuddled energy in a broadcast that poked fun at virtually every aspect of the new and terrifying reality Israelis have been struggling with for the past week.

JUNE 20, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN

Shani Cohen portrays an Iranian news anchor on Eretz Nehederet, June 19, 2025.

Birthright participants demonstrate resilience and a deep love of Israel amid Iran war - interview

These young adults showed that resilience is not just within the bones of the citizens of Israel, but within the blood of the Jewish people, wherever in the world they may be from. Am Yisrael Chai.

JUNE 20, 2025ByFRAIDY MOSER

Participants from the Birthright group in Mitzpe Ramon, June 2025.

WATCH: Israel receives US-German military cargo shipment, Iran denounces US's 'complicity'

Since the start of Operation Rising Lion last Friday, 14 such planes have landed in Israel, along with over 800 others since the start of the Israel-Hamas War, the Defense Ministry noted.

JUNE 20, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF