So much support

The latest Israeli conflict with Iran has accelerated support from Israeli organizations such as Hashomer Hachadash, the Kibbutz Movement Rehabilitation Fund, Yad Sarah, Leket Yisrael, and La’Aretz Foundation.  

Support for employees

During the war with Iran, Israeli tech companies are offering employees additional financial, emotional, and logistical benefits. Microsoft: 10 days emergency paid leave; Wix: funding credit cards; Matrix: NIS 5,000 to each evacuee; Others: safer housing, yoga sessions, childcare support, and more.

Using cyber to counter drones

The IDF has revealed that its 5114th Spectrum Battalion, a unit operating under the military’s Computer Service Directorate, is defending Israeli airspace from Iranian suicide drones. Its technology disrupts communications or guidance systems, rerouting or neutralizing the UAVs mid-flight.

All restrictions lifted

The IDF Home Front Command has lifted nationwide restrictions on civilian movement that had been imposed amid the conflict with the Islamic Republic of Iran. In most of the country, unlimited numbers of people can meet, pray, work, and study.  Schools, public offices, and the airports, have reopened.

The nation of Israel has risen

On 12th Jun, Israel’s Prime Minister placed a note into the Western Wall “Am Kalavi” (the operation’s name) “yakum” (The people will rise like a lioness). 10 days later, after the USA bombed Fordo, he returned to the Kotel to place another note: “The people of Israel have risen”.

Existential threat removed

With a stroke, America removed the last existential threat to Israel by striking Iran’s “impenetrable” Fordo nuclear site, plus its Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites. A ceasefire is now in place.

Cutting off the head of the snake

By now most readers will have read how Israel caught Iran by surprise with the most audacious and successful preemptive strike since the six-day-war.  The awesome events of Fri 13 June 2025 will be written down in many future history books. See , , , , , , and .

Hospital unit evacuated hours before missile hits

An Iranian missile destroyed a surgical ward at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva. Miraculously, Health Ministry Director General Moshe Bar Siman-Tov ordered the entire floor to be evacuated of patients the previous evening, as he said it was not safe.

Mazal Tov

Rabbi Leo Dee who has retained his positivity even after his wife and two daughters were murdered by terrorists in Apr 2023 has now announced his engagement to Aliza Teplitsky. Rabbi Dee wrote in a message in Hebrew: "For everything, G-d, we thank you."

World’s largest Torah ark

A Jewish-American philanthropist, a follower of the Bobov Hasidic dynasty, has funded the construction of the largest (and most expensive) Torah Ark (Aron HaKodesh). Inaugurated in Rishon LeZion, it is crafted from 2.5 tons of pure silver, with gold-plated sections adorned in 24-karat gold.