It's 12 p.m. on Friday, June 13th here in New York City. It is 7 p.m. on Friday, June 13th, in Israel,

as Israelis wind down their day, wind down their week,

and get ready for Shabbat, while remaining on high alert. They're on high alert because at around

8 p.m. New York time last night, the Israeli Air Force launched a historic preemptive strike

on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, military assets,

and military leadership. The Israel-Iran war has begun, or at least has entered a new stage.

In response, the IDF Homefront Command swiftly updated its guidelines, banning all educational,

social, and workplace gatherings. Israelis have been instructed to stay near bomb shelters

as the nation braces for Iran's counterstrike. As you try to process all the fast-moving

history-making developments, we want to offer an expanded suite of voices and content from Israel.

You might have noticed that over the past few months, I've referred to Call Me Back as an

Arc Media podcast. Well, after four and a half years of Call Me Back, standing on its own as a singular

podcast, we are now building a podcast network. Arc Media will be home to the topics bringing us

together, Jewish life, Israel's future, and our rapidly

changing geopolitics, even when many of our guests have spirited good faith disagreements about

some of these issues. About a month ago, ARC Media launched its second podcast called What's Your Number?

Hosted by Mikhail Levram and Yonatan Adiri.

And today we are excited to announce that Arc Media will be joined by a third podcast,

For Heavens Sake, co-hosted by Danielle Hartman and Yossi Klein-Halevi of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

Danielle is the Hartman Institute's president and Yossi, who has been a recurring

guest on Call Me Back, is a senior fellow. Now, I don't always agree with Danielle's or Yossi's views

on contentious political issues, but that's precisely the point. It's actually a feature,

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