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Amichai Stein discusses why Gulf countries have not openly attacked Iran, despite repeated Iranian missile and drone strikes on their territory.

The IDF says more than 200 targets across western and central Iran were struck over the past day as part of ongoing operations to degrade the Iranian regime’s ballistic missile array and air defense systems. According to the military, the strikes targeted command centers with regime operatives, air defense systems, and weapons storage and production […]

Neturei Karta Muslims dressed as Hasidic Jews participate in shocking rally in the U.K. where thousands chant “death death to the IDF”. Just another day in the life of the Neturei Karta terrorist organization.

More than 6,000 members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been killed and roughly 15,000 wounded since the launch of the joint Israeli-U.S. campaign against the Islamic Republic, according to Israeli military intelligence. The figures, cited by IDF intelligence officials in briefings reported by Israeli media, come as Israel expands its military campaign […]

Andy Thomson has officially been declared the winner of the Boca Raton mayoral election after both machine and manual recounts confirmed the results of the closely contested race.

The final tally showed Thomson prevailing by an extremely narrow margin of just five votes.

Election officials conducted the recount in the Boca Raton mayoral contest on Friday.

According to the updated results, Thomson edged out challenger Mike Liebelson after the manual review of ballots. The final count showed Thomson receiving 7,572 votes, while Liebelson finished with 7,567. A third candidate, Fran Nachlas, placed far behind with 3,967 votes.

In a separate contest in Lake Worth Beach, voters narrowly rejected a ballot measure known as Question 5. The referendum failed by only two votes, with 1,640 residents voting against it and 1,638 supporting it.

Question 5 asked Lake Worth Beach citizens: Since the City no longer operates its own police or fire departments, should the section of the City Charter that refers to those departments be removed to avoid confusion?

Meanwhile, in the race for a seat on the South Beach Town Council, five candidates competed for the position. Francesca Atardi led the field in the machine count with 262 votes, with Adrian Brucet and Sandra Beckett trailing behind.

Election officials said that differences between the machine totals and the manual recount were caused by overvotes and undervotes, which slightly altered the numbers but did not change the overall results.

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Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Saturday there is currently no serious initiative to resume negotiations between the United States and Iran, but he believes Tehran remains open to back-channel talks.

The Israel Defense Forces indicated that Israel is not running “critically low” on air defense interceptors amid the ongoing war with Iran, pushing back against recent international reports suggesting the country’s stockpile of interceptor missiles is nearing depletion. The military emphasized that it is “prepared and ready to handle any scenario,” though it declined to […]

A new academic study has identified dozens of social media accounts tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that researchers say are being used to push anti-U.S. and anti-Israel messaging online during the ongoing war between Iran and the United States. The report, released Wednesday by researchers at Clemson University, found at least 62 […]

The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday that the brother of the man who carried out a vehicle attack at a Jewish preschool in Michigan held a senior position in Hezbollah as a weapons commander.

Ayman Muhammad Ghazali, 41, was killed Thursday after ramming a vehicle into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.

According to a statement released by the IDF on Sunday morning, Ghazali’s brother, Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, oversaw weapons operations within a specialized division of Hezbollah’s Badr Unit.

The Israeli military said this branch of the Lebanese terror organization was responsible for firing hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians during the recent conflict with Iran.

Just days before the Michigan attack, several members of Ghazali’s family were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon. A local official told the Associated Press on Friday that two of Ghazali’s brothers, along with a niece and a nephew, died in the March 5 strike in the town of Mashgharah.

The relatives were reportedly gathered for their evening meal marking the end of the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan when the strike occurred.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Ghazali entered the United States in 2011 after marrying an American citizen and later obtained U.S. citizenship during President Obama’s administration in 2016.

On Thursday, Ghazali drove approximately 38 miles from his home in Dearborn Heights, a Detroit suburb with a large Muslim population, to Temple Israel — one of the largest Reform synagogues in the United States. The complex includes a synagogue building as well as a school and early childhood center.

After crashing his vehicle, which investigators said contained fireworks and containers of gasoline, Ghazali exchanged gunfire with an armed security guard. Authorities said he eventually died after fatally shooting himself when the burning vehicle trapped him inside.

All 140 children, teachers, and staff members inside the synagogue complex escaped unharmed, a result credited to the swift actions of the synagogue’s security personnel.

“If they had not all done their jobs almost perfectly, we would be talking about an immense tragedy here with children gone,” US Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Dem., M-17) told a news conference Friday.

In Dearborn Heights, a mosque hosted a memorial service last weekend for Ghazali’s relatives who were killed in Lebanon.

The mosque’s imam, Hassan Qazwini, said he had encountered Ghazali only once and condemned the attack on the synagogue.

“Islam forbids holding innocent people accountable for acts done by others,” Qazwini told AP.

“The unjustified Israeli attack on civilians in Iran and Lebanon gives no blank check to anyone attacking synagogues, civilians and peaceful communities,” he said.

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Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu responded Sunday to a wave of online rumors and conspiracy theories circulating on social media that falsely claimed he had died and that a recent video appearance of him was generated using artificial intelligence.

The speculation spread rapidly after internet users shared a still image from a video of Netanyahu, arguing that one of his hands appeared distorted and appeared to show six fingers — a mistake often associated with AI-generated images and video.

WATCH:

אומרים שאני מה? צפו >> pic.twitter.com/ijHPkM3ZHZ

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) March 15, 2026

During a conversation in which he was asked directly about the claims, Netanyahu was told: “On the internet they’re saying you’re dead.” The Prime Minister answered humourously, using the term “dead” as the Israeli slang for in-love: “I’m dead for coffee, for my people. They behave fantastically.”

Netanyahu also addressed the allegation in a playful manner by raising his hands toward the camera and joking, “Want to count my fingers?” — a sarcastic reference to the supposed evidence cited in the viral conspiracy theories.

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A home in Petach Tikva was severely damaged last night after being struck by a fragment from an Iranian cluster missile during a barrage of ballistic rockets fired toward Israel. For homeowner David Zuaretz, the attack was particularly shocking because the same house had already been hit earlier this year.

Zuaretz said the residence had only recently been repaired following damage sustained during June’s Operation Rising Lion. “Just four months ago, we finished renovating the house after the last missile hit it,” Zuaretz told TPS.

Although the building suffered major structural damage, the family escaped injury after following safety instructions issued by Israel’s Home Front Command. “We heard the siren, and we entered the protected room,” David recounted. “Suddenly, we heard a very loud explosion. When they said that we could go out, we saw the ruin. The shrapnel hit the house and ruined the roof, the pergola, and the shingles.”

Surveying the destruction outside his home, Zuaretz spoke openly about the strain of living under repeated missile attacks. “We can’t live like this, constantly going in and leaving the shelters,” he said painfully. “This war must end once and for all, so that we won’t have to renovate our houses every few months.”

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The Israel Defense Forces released extensive new information about Operation Roaring Lion in Iran, outlining how the campaign was prepared, how the opening strike was carried out, and the operational progress made since the fighting began.

According to the military, months before the launch of the operation, the Intelligence Directorate invested major efforts in preparing for the campaign, incorporating lessons learned from earlier confrontations with Iran. The army stressed that planners approached the operation with the clear understanding that Iran possesses substantial military capabilities and cannot be underestimated.

The military said the campaign now underway in Iran is being executed according to a detailed operational framework that had been carefully developed in advance. Thousands of personnel from Military Intelligence and other IDF units, including both regular and reserve forces, participated in building the plan. Officials added that the overwhelming majority of targets struck during the current operation were newly identified by Military Intelligence after Operation Rising Lion, the result of years of intelligence gathering and analysis.

The IDF also reported that Hezbollah’s capabilities were drastically reduced following Operation Northern Arrows. According to the army’s assessment, roughly 90 percent of the organization’s weapons arsenal was destroyed, weakening the group significantly. Combined with Israel’s defensive preparations, that damage has provided the military with increased operational freedom in both Lebanon and Iran.

Israeli security officials had anticipated the possibility that Hezbollah could enter the conflict, prompting extensive preparations and adjustments to operational plans ahead of time. The army said it remains ready for both defensive and offensive action along the northern border.

As part of the broader preparation for the campaign, Israel also deepened coordination with the United States. The IDF said both countries worked to align intelligence assessments and operational understanding through a series of meetings and visits by senior military officials to the United States in recent months.

Military officials also highlighted the impact of Operation Rising Lion, stating that the earlier campaign prevented Iran from immediately advancing its nuclear program and significantly reduced the threat posed by its ballistic missile arsenal. According to the IDF, without that earlier operation Iran would currently possess more than a thousand additional missiles.

The army said the opening strike of Operation Roaring Lion was designed and executed as a surprise attack. Although Iranian authorities had maintained a heightened state of alert in recent months, the IDF said it successfully caught the regime off guard and dealt major blows to key Iranian capabilities.

The military explained that the initial phase of the campaign aimed to significantly weaken the Iranian regime’s military power, reduce the threats it poses, and create conditions that could potentially allow the Iranian public to challenge and topple the regime.

During the first wave of strikes, numerous senior figures in Iran’s government and security establishment were killed. According to the IDF, this was made possible through close intelligence monitoring of the Iranian Defense Council and other strategic targets, enabling the military to identify a moment when several senior officials were gathered in specific locations simultaneously.

At the current stage of the operation, the military said its focus has shifted to systematically targeting the regime’s centers of power, including command headquarters, control centers, Basij facilities, and units responsible for suppressing internal dissent.

The IDF noted that Operation Roaring Lion differs from Operation Rising Lion in scope and purpose. While the earlier operation concentrated on neutralizing an immediate threat, the current campaign allows Israel to target a broader range of Iran’s strategic military capabilities.

In the initial days of the fighting, Israeli forces concentrated on striking Iran’s ballistic missile infrastructure in an effort to reduce the number of launches toward Israel. According to the military, more than two weeks into the conflict, the volume of missiles fired at Israel has declined significantly compared with the earlier Operation Rising Lion.

The IDF also reported that it achieved air superiority over much of Iran’s airspace within just 24 hours of the campaign’s start, allowing Israeli aircraft to operate widely across the country. As part of the early strikes, the military destroyed 120 detection components and 100 air defense systems.

According to the army, a majority of Iran’s missile launchers have now been struck, with roughly 85 percent of the regime’s detection capabilities damaged. In addition, about 70 percent of Iran’s launchers have been rendered unusable.

Israeli strikes against Iran’s military industries also caused substantial damage to the country’s missile production capabilities. The IDF said the attacks have effectively halted Iran’s current ability to manufacture missiles, while continued strikes are aimed at preventing the production chain from recovering.

In recent days, Israeli forces have also targeted the command structure overseeing Iran’s missile operations. Strikes were carried out against command officers, missile bases, and alternative command locations and residences. According to the military, these actions have further reduced the volume of missile launches toward Israel.

The army said its operations across Iran are being conducted in an organized and methodical manner, focusing on regime security bodies such as the Revolutionary Guards and other internal security forces. According to the IDF, more than 2,200 components tied to the Iranian regime have been destroyed so far.

Security officials reported signs of severe damage within Iranian forces, including thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of wounded among regime personnel. They also pointed to declining morale, along with reports of soldiers refusing orders or abandoning their positions.

The campaign has also targeted the Quds Force, with Israeli operations directed at the organization both inside Iran and in other regional arenas.

In the nuclear sphere, the military said it is attempting to damage the entire infrastructure supporting Iran’s nuclear program. Officials stated that the goal is to inflict broader harm than what was achieved during Operation Rising Lion.

The IDF stressed that the operation is not constrained by a fixed timetable. Instead, it will continue until the defined objectives are achieved. Officials explained that dismantling a threat that has been developing for decades requires sustained military pressure and sufficient operational flexibility.

At the same time, the military continues to gather intelligence to detect and prevent terrorist attacks, with particular attention on developments in Iran and Lebanon while maintaining surveillance throughout the wider Middle East.

The IDF also said Iran has adopted a broader strategy of attacking multiple countries in the region, particularly Gulf states. Although Tehran claims that its strikes target only American interests, Israeli officials say civilian infrastructure has also been hit, including hotels, commercial hubs, and densely populated areas.

Looking ahead, the IDF said the next phase of the campaign will focus on expanding the gains already made by continuing to target Iran’s missile capabilities and its military-industrial infrastructure.

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Iranian authorities announced the arrest of 20 individuals in the country’s northwestern West Azerbaijan province who are accused of cooperating with Israel by allegedly providing sensitive information about military and security assets. According to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, the province’s prosecutor’s office said the suspects were detained for allegedly sending location details of Iranian military […]

Average gas prices across the United States have surged to $3.70 per gallon, marking an increase of nearly 24 percent since the war with Iran began on February 28, according to new data released by AAA. The sharp spike comes as global oil prices continue climbing amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. Brent crude […]