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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.

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”.

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.

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 .

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.

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."

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.

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews donated five new armored ambulances at a cost of nearly 6 million shekels to Israeli emergency services Magen David Adom. The ambulances will be assigned to communities still facing ongoing threats, including Gaza border and the north.

All that was left of the Rothstein family home were two sets of tefillin (phylacteries) and their family of 10. Kind strangers invited them home to bathe, launder and change their filthy clothes. Men on motorbikes went to get baby formula. “They were like angels”, said Mrs. Rotstein.

Rescued unscathed from Iranian missiles were Torah scrolls from a Holon synagogue, several babies, pets, and at least three sets of Tefillin (phylacteries).