Israelis grapple with Iran’s attritional missile fire
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
The Times of Israel
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 29 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.
ToI founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.
Following overnight Iranian cluster warhead fire that killed four, Horovitz discusses the complex challenge of intercepting the warheads that can fall in multiple locations. He also details the specific aspects of safeguarding Ben Gurion International Airport, which is now reducing the number of people allowed on each outgoing flight due to the fraught realities.
As the war nears the end of its third week, Horovitz examines the attritional aspects of the missile attacks, as Iran and Hezbollah keep up multiple strikes.
He also talks about what he regards as the existential threat posed by the Islamic Republic, as well as whether the Iranian people will rise against the regime if and when the US and Israel signal that the time is ripe to do so.
Horovitz looks at the divergence in messaging from US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even as they and their militaries maintain close alignment, and whether this war will end with Iran retaining its enriched uranium stockpile and able to advance its rogue nuclear program.
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
Iranian cluster bombs kill foreign worker in Israel, 4 Palestinian women in West Bank
Passenger limits reimposed on outbound flights after private jets hit by missile debris
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IMAGE: A U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is seen on the runway at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv amid ongoing missile attacks from Iran toward Israel, March 5, 2026 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Visuals Daily briefing. It is Thursday, March 19th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. I'm speaking today with Times Visual founding editor, David Horvitz. Hey, David. |
| 0:14.5 | How you doing, Jessica? Okay, hanging in there? As well as can be. Okay. How about you? All right. So let's go to the headlines of the latest couple of hours. |
| 0:23.3 | Sirens were activated six times overnight as North and Central Israel were pummeled with missiles. |
| 0:29.9 | Iranian cluster bombs killed a foreign worker and three Palestinian women in the West Bank. |
| 0:35.4 | We'll talk about where we are right now, where the country |
| 0:37.9 | really sits and feels about the cluster bombs, about how Israelis are feeling about the war, |
| 0:45.0 | the latest statements from U.S. President Donald Trump, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, |
| 0:51.3 | stay with us. |
| 0:55.0 | When war is erupting, how do Israeli families and communities live with constant loss? |
| 1:01.2 | When you think about the many sacrifices made in these two, two and a half years, how do you make sense of sacrifice? |
| 1:09.3 | On the latest episode of texting IRL, Alana Steinhain and Hartman Research Fellow David Dishon |
| 1:15.0 | turned to the book of Vajikra and to David's experience as a bereaved grandparent of a soldier |
| 1:20.6 | killed in the Israel-Kamas war. |
| 1:23.0 | Together they discuss sacrifice, grief, and spiritual resilience. |
| 1:27.4 | Everybody who's risking their life is risking their life for something that they believe they discuss sacrifice, grief, and spiritual resilience. |
| 1:31.7 | Everybody who's risking their life is risking their life for something that they believe is greater than their own life. |
| 1:35.2 | Listen to Vaikra, living with sacrifice and closeness in the shadow of war, on texting |
| 1:40.2 | IRL from the Shalom Harman Institute, wherever you get your podcasts. |
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