A short while ago, approximately 20 IAF fighter jets completed a series of intelligence-based strikes in western Iran. In all of the strikes, surface-to-surface missile infrastructure sites and soldiers in Iran’s military forces were struck. In addition, the IAF identified the movement of trucks carrying surface-to-surface missiles. The trucks were struck when they arrived at the launch sites.

The IDF releases footage showing its strike this morning on Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor. The reactor was only partially built, and Iran had informed the IAEA that it planned to begin operating the facility next year. The military says the strike “targeted the component intended for plutonium production, in order to prevent the reactor from being restored and used for nuclear weapons development.”

Israel’s envoy to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, drew a striking comparison between Israel’s success in its military campaign against Iran and Russia’s prolonged struggle in Ukraine, emphasizing the swiftness of Israel’s achievements.
“We’ve achieved air superiority over the skies of Iran in three days. What Russia did not accomplish over Ukraine in three years, we accomplished in three days,” he says.
Leiter emphasized the disparity in size between the nations, noting that Iran significantly outweighs Israel in both geographical scope and population, just as Russia dwarfs Ukraine.
He also praised the role of U.S.-supplied fighter jets in the conflict, singling out the synergy between Israeli skill and American technology.

In a powerful address delivered at the conclusion of a shiur klali in his yeshiva, Rav Moshe Shternbuch spoke about the war with Iran and the fear it has instilled across the country.

At least six people were seriously wounded by an Iranian missile barrage on Israel on Thursday morning. Be’er Sheva’s Soroka Medical Center sustained a direct hit, and impacts were also reported in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Cholon.
Four serious injuries were caused by a direct hit on a residential building in Cholon, south of Tel Aviv, according to Wolfson Medical Center. The hospital said it was also treating 19 people listed in mild condition.
Two people were seriously wounded in the direct hit in Ramat Gan.

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
I was listening to Israeli radio to hear the latest on the war. As I tuned in, there was an interview being conducted with a man who lived in the building in Bat Yam right next to the one that was directly hit by an Iranian ballistic missile. He was describing how powerful the bomb was. He described the deafening boom, the shockwave that shattered every window in his apartment, and how he felt as though he was about to be sucked out through the gaping hole that had once been his dining room window.
The reporter asked him, “So would you say that you were saved by a neis (miracle)?”
The survivor responded, “Lo! No!”

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, describes the ‘only question’ being discussed about America’s direct involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict on ‘Kudlow.’
WATCH:

A piece of missile shrapnel as big as a bus fell in the Shomron following Iran’s launch of a missile barrage on Thursday morning. This is not the first time that a huge shrapnel part fell in the Shomron. Over 100 shrapnel parts have fallen in the area since the beginning of the war, some of them huge. Yossi Dagan, the head of the Shomron Regional Council, slammed the Defense Ministry following the incident, saying that tens of thousands of residents of Yehudah and Shomron lack adequate protection and many homes and even buildings lack bomb shelters. “Tens of thousands of people in Yehudah and Shomron, which has become Israel’s missile target zone, lack protection,” he said. “Every night, interceptor shrapnel falls on homes, yards, and vehicles.