Israel at war day 625
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9:30 am
- The Ministry of Transportation confirms:
The Home Front Command has approved operating outbound flights abroad - starting tomorrow.
A limit of 1,500 passengers at the same time at Ben Gurion Airport will apply - and only 50 people per flight.
- Vice President Vance was asked on ABC how long they have delayed Iran's nuclear program, and replied: I won't go into intelligence details, but I estimate it will take years before they can develop nuclear weapons. "However, our goal is that they never can," he added
8:45am
- The IDF confirms that the bodies of three slain hostages, on October 7th, Ofra Keidar, Jonathan Samerano, and Staff Sgt. Shay Levinson, were recovered in a joint military and Shin Bet operation from the Gaza Strip overnight.
- A senior US official acknowledged that the B-2 attack on the Fordo site did not destroy the heavily fortified facility but severely damaged it.(NYT)
- The assessment in Israel: Natanz reactor destroyed; awaiting confirmation regarding Fordow and Isfahan. Most of the enriched uranium was likely at the sites that were damaged
- US Defense Secretary Hegseth: This was the most significant attack in American history involving B2 bombers and the second longest flight operation is called "Midnight Hammer"
-General Caine: We dropped 14 MOP bombs in the operation (12 on the Fordow facility and 2 on Natanz). In total, 75 precision munitions were dropped during the operation, and 125 US military aircraft participated in it.
-Russia's Dmitry Medvedev says "a number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads."
-Update on missile impacts this morning
At least 86 wounded as Iran launches two missile barrages at Israel.
Broad devastation at impact sites in Tel Aviv and nearby Ness Ziona
failed Israeli interceptor crashes in Haifa
The injuries were largely at the two impact sites in Tel Aviv and its Ness Ziona suburb, according to medical officials.
The frum community in Chaifa was hit by a direct missile damaging homes.
Following US strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear Jewish communities across Israel offered special prayers of thanks, calling it a historic turning point and a modern-day Purim. At the Churva shul in the old city they said hallel and danced after davening.
-Miracle in Chaifa: A family of Belz Chasidim were at home without a option for a shelter room. When the sirens went off arrived the family ran and hid under the "living room table." The house took a direct hit, half of it collapsed!!! B"H the entire family emerged unharmed, wearing pajamas.
Students from the nearby Chabad yeshiva danced on the spot in honor of the enormous miracle.
-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine just gave us the operation’s name: “Midnight Hammer.” He called it a “highly classified mission with very few people in Washington knowing the details of the plan.” General Caine said that the B-2 bombers took off from the United States.
- About 240 buildings in Israel, including more than 2,000 residential apartments, have been severely damaged or destroyed by Iranian missile fire since the fighting began on June 13, according to the Israeli military’s home front command. It said that about 9,000 people have lost their homes.
- In the three days prior to the U.S. strikes, a flurry of abnormal activity was observed near an entrance tunnel at Iran’s Fordo nuclear site, according to satellite imagery with convoys kf 16 trucks. An analysis by the Open Source Centre in London had suggested Iran may have been preparing the facility for a strike.
- A tefilah shared today that Hashem protect the Trump administration
הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה לַמְּלָכִים, וּמֶמְשָׁלָה לַנְּסִיכִים, מַלְכוּתוֹ מַלְכוּת כָּל עוֹלָמִים, וּמֶמְשַׁלְתּוֹ בְּכָל דּוֹר וָדוֹר. הוּא יְבָרֵךְ, וְיִשְׁמֹר, וְיַצֵּל, וְיָרוּם, וְיִנָּשֵׂא, וִיגַדֵּל, וִירוֹמֵם, אֶת נְשִׂיא אַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית
דּוֹנַלְד טְרַאמְפּ בֶּן פְּרֶד
יָרוּם הוֹדוֹ וְאֶת כָּל סְגָנָיו, וְשָׂרָיו וְיוֹעֲצָיו
וְיִתֵּן בִּלְבָבָם, וּבְלֵב כָּל יוֹעֲצֵיהֶם וְרֵעֵיהֶם, לַעֲשׂוֹת חֶסֶד וּמִשְׁפָּט עִם עַמּוֹ יִשְׂרָאֵל, וְעִם כָּל יוֹשְׁבֵי אַרְצוֹ.
בְּיָמָיו וּבְיָמֵינוּ תִּוָּשַׁע יְהוּדָה, וְיִשְׂרָאֵל יִשְׁכּוֹן לָבֶטַח
וְנֹאמַר: אָמֵן.
Satellite image Fordow after the attack
