Author: David Leibermann

The Maccabiah Games scheduled for Tel Aviv next month will be postponed to 2026 amid widespread disruption wrought by the Israel-Iran war. The games, seen as akin to a Jewish Olympics, had been set to open July 8, with preliminary activities beginning earlier in July. It would have brought 8,000 athletes and their families and […]

Why did Israel attack Iran now? Is Israel trying to force regime change, or just end Iran’s nuclear program? And how is Israel able to assassinate Iranian officials with pinpoint accuracy while struggling to defeat a more ragtag foe closer to home? We posed these questions and more to Yaakov Katz, the former editor of […]

TEL AVIV — The booms from the night’s Iranian missile strike could be felt across the region, including in my home in Jaffa. In that moment, it felt — to this former Londoner’s ears — like a scene from the Blitz, when the Nazis pounded England with nightly bombs. Then, Brits poured into Tube stations […]

The Israeli Ministry of Defense condemned a decision by French authorities to erect a black wall around some Israeli defense industry stands at the Paris Air Show Monday. Pro-Israel advocates graffitied the black wall with messages praising the technology as protecting Israelis from Iranian missiles — before the messages were themselves obscured. The Paris Air Show, […]

U.S. officials confirmed over the weekend that America helped Israel stop drone and missile fire from Iran on Friday. In turn, Tehran reportedly issued a warning that it would take aim at U.S., British and French forces in the region if they assist Israel in thwarting future Iranian attacks. The latest developments come as leaders […]

At least 11 Israelis have been killed in multiple cities as Iran continues to pound the country in response to Israel’s ongoing attacks on Iran’s nuclear program. Most missiles sent from Iran were shot down but ones that got through Israel’s air defense system struck in cities in the country’s center and north. At least […]

Just minutes after Shabbat began in Israel, sirens sounded, sending Israelis back to their shelters to await the next salvo in their country’s new war with Iran. Roughly 100 missiles were on their way from Iran, officials warned, teeing up a repeat of an April 2024 attack that marked the first direct exchange of fire […]

This is a developing story. At least one Iranian missile fell in Tel Aviv on Friday evening amid a barrage responding to Israel’s early-morning attack on Iran’s nuclear program. More than 100 missiles were fired in a first barrage, and a second wave were on their way toward Israel, officials said. Sirens sounded across the […]

In ordering a preemptive strike aimed at significantly setting back Iran’s nuclear program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was following in the footsteps of two of his predecessors. Menachem Begin ordered an attack in 1981 that destroyed Iraq’s nuclear reactor. And a quarter-century later, Ehud Olmert gave the green light in 2007 to destroy a nuclear […]