From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

After President Trump's announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, all sides are claiming victory.

But perhaps no country has emerged as a bigger winner than Israel. Today, my colleague Patrick Kingsley explains how Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu helped to steer events to this moment and what might come next if the

C-spire holds. events to this moment. And what might come next if the ceasefire holds?

It's Wednesday, June 25th.

So, Patrick, early this morning, President Trump was furious that Iran and Israel had continued to attack each other in the hours before the ceasefire that Trump very proudly announced was supposed to take effect.

The president even said, they don't know what the blank they're doing, but he used a word that rhymes with schmuck. And what he was really angry about,

it seemed, was Israel. Specifically, he did not want Israel to continue dropping more bombs. He basically

said or demanded that they were going to turn their fighter jets around.

And so I think the question on everybody's mind right now is, will the ceasefire actually hold?

You never know with the ceasefire, particularly in its opening stages, these arrangements

can always break down and they can sometimes result in short spasms of violence before returning

to calm. But as we're talking on Tuesday night here in Jerusalem and 2pm Eastern time over

where you are, it does seem to be holding. The Israeli military issued an announcement a short while ago

in which they said life could return to normal in Israel. And that's a sign that the Israeli

security establishment no longer think that Iran is on the verge of firing missiles into Israeli

civilian areas.

Can you tell us a little bit about how this deal came about? Our colleague Maggie Hayes, firing missiles into Israeli civilian areas.

Can you tell us a little bit about how this deal came about?

Our colleague Maggie Haberman reported that even some of Trump's closest advisors were caught off guard by his announcement last night.

Well, everything happened in fast forward from roundabout Sunday morning onward.

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