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🗓️ 15 June 2025
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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
Over the past night, 10 Israelis were killed and 200 injured in Iranian barrages, in addition to three killed the previous night and dozens injured, including seven IDF soldiers. Berman fills us in on the overnight strikes.
We turn to a discussion of Iran's military capabilities and what's known about its missile arsenal. And Borschel-Dan poses the to-date hypothetical question of Iran's naval fleet reaching Israel.
So far, American air defense systems and a Navy destroyer have helped Israel shoot down incoming ballistic missiles that Tehran has launched in response to Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and top military leaders. We hear how the US has used both ground-based Patriot missile defense systems and Terminal High Altitude Air Defense systems that are capable of intercepting ballistic missiles. A Navy destroyer in the eastern Mediterranean Sea also shot down Iranian missiles heading toward Israel, one official said. Berman weighs in on whether the US may step up its efforts and join Israel in the possible scenario of a ground offensive on Iranian soil.
To close out, Berman describes the daring Mossad operation in Iran that allowed Israel to launch the airstrikes. We hear that Israel spent years preparing for the operation against Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, including building a drone base inside Iran and smuggling precision weapons systems and commandos into the country.
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.
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IMAGE: Illustrative: US President Donald Trump gets out of a THAAD missile truck at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. Today is Sunday, June 15th, day 618 of the war. |
0:10.7 | Amanda Borschal Dan here with our diplomatic reporter, Laser Barman. Hi, Layser. Thanks so much for |
0:15.0 | joining me today. Hi, Amanda Chavuatov. Shavu atov, we can only hope, right? But on Friday, IDF spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Deffron, told Israelis that Israel is in an |
0:25.9 | ongoing war against Iran and to be prepared for many days of a campaign against the Islamic |
0:31.9 | Republic. |
0:33.1 | In the meantime, following Israel's surprise June 13th attack, Iran has launched waves of explosive-laded |
0:39.4 | drones and missiles over the Jewish state and hitting many, many spots over the past night. |
0:45.6 | For example, 10 Israelis were killed, 200 injured in the Iranian barrages, in addition to the |
0:52.0 | three Israelis killed the previous night and dozens injured, |
0:55.5 | including seven IDF soldiers. So Laser will fill us in on Operation Rising Lion, how it's going |
1:02.3 | so far, including the daring Mossad operation that launched the operation inside Iran. We'll discuss |
1:09.8 | Iran's capabilities for retaliation and what roles |
1:13.4 | the U.S. has and perhaps could play in this war. All of this and more when we're back. Nothing has given me such delight as the proposal to establish a Hebrew university in Jerusalem. |
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1:52.1 | present and future of the Hebrew University. |
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2:09.4 | And we're back. I'm Amanda Borsel, Dan, here with our diplomatic reporter, Laser Bearman. Obviously, this is a very changing story. So listeners, please check out our live blog |
2:15.0 | on the site for updates. Now, Laser, during Saturday night's barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles, |
2:22.0 | one slammed into a nine-floor building in Batyam. |
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