Despite fewer missiles per attack, Iran strikes still a lethal threat
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
The Times of Israel
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
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.
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.
Following a long weekend of Iranian and Hezbollah strikes that sent Israelis to shelter multiple times, Fabian notes that while the frequency of Iranian strikes has remained similar, the threat level is possibly lower, given the smaller number of missiles in each strike, making it easier for Israeli air defense systems to intercept each missile.
At the same time, Hezbollah in Lebanon has been ramping up its rocket strikes and drones on northern Israel, notes Fabian.
Israel's Air Force conducted many waves of strikes in Iran, bombing the regime's oil and fuel depots, Fabian reports, hitting the infrastructure involved in ballistic missile production, which forms the biggest threat to Israel.
Fabian also discusses the rare IDF operation to search for the body of airman Ron Arad in Lebanon, as ground forces have moved deeper into the country in recent days.
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
Black clouds over Tehran rain down oil drops after Israel strikes oil facilities
2 soldiers hurt in Hezbollah missile attack; IDF says it hit 600 of terror group’s targets
Israel pounds Iran missile sites, airport as Tehran fires back repeated salvos, threatens Europe
Israel says commando raid deep in Lebanon failed to find remains of Ron Arad
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IMAGE: Israelis take shelter in an underground parking lot in Tel Aviv during the war with Iran and Lebanon as missiles are fired toward Israel, March 6, 2026 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Isles Daily Briefing. It's Sunday, March 8th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. I'm speaking today with military correspondent Emmanuel Fabian. Mani, how are you doing? |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, good morning. Bit of a rough night. Yeah, very rough night. We'll talk about that, of course. A couple of the headlines. It's been a long night of missile attacks, primarily in the South Central and Northern Israel, with sirens continuing to sound across the north this morning. |
| 0:31.9 | Mani will certainly talk about that more as the IDF is tracking drones, sending residents into shelters, |
| 0:39.9 | but there are no reports at the moment of direct impacts or injuries. |
| 0:44.9 | Israeli military warns that it will continue pursuing every successor of Iran's slain supreme |
| 0:51.0 | leader. There is also a new wave of air strikes, uh, taking, being launched by |
| 0:56.9 | the Israeli Air Force against Iranian regime targets across Iran. Again, Mani will update us about that. |
| 1:04.6 | Uh, in other headlines, the first passengers are leaving the country after, uh, Telvius-Bangarian |
| 1:10.4 | airport was partially reopened for outbound |
| 1:12.6 | flights amid the conflict. There's also a plan to fly home thousands of Israelis stranded in the |
| 1:19.7 | United Arab Emirates. So we'll talk about more of those headlines in just a moment. Stay with us. |
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| 2:33.6 | Okay, Manny, take us through this very long night that was a very long Shabbat, very long Saturday, and a very long night. |
| 2:44.6 | Tell us what you can, the mix of strikes from Chzbollah and from Iran, but take us through what you can detail for us. |
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