HAPPENING NOW: Tehillim being recited now in Yeshiva Ponevezh as the IDF carries out its operations to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program

FULL STATEMENT:,Prime Minister Netanyahu: “Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival. This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.”

BREAKING: Israeli intelligence reports suggest that the entire Iranian general staff, including the chief of the general staff and several senior nuclear scientists, were eliminated tonight. Details are still emerging.

One of the Israeli strikes earlier on the Iranian capital of Tehran reportedly targeted Iran’s Chief of General Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri.

Residents of Tehran are reporting that Iranian MiG-29 fighter jets are taking off from Mehrabad Airport.

An apartment building in the Farahzad Neighborhood of Tehran engulfed in flames following IDF airstrikes.

The IDF says that Israelis have a 10-minute warning ahead of missile fire from Iran.