Tzvi Joffre is a journalist and sometimes sofer based in central Israel. He worked for a number of years as a breaking news editor at The Jerusalem Post and is studying political science and Middle Eastern studies at Bar-Ilan University.
If the regime is overthrown, could Israel and Iran once again be friends? It may sound absurd, but so did the idea 50 years ago that the two countries would one day be at war.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the first waves of Israeli and American strikes on Tehran, along with dozens of other Iranian military and government leaders.
U.S. Maj.-Gen. Jasper Jeffers, the head of the International Stabilization Force, revealed that five countries have committed to sending troops to the ISF, including Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, and Albania.
His mother, Talik, recounted the day of the October 7 attacks. “I asked him where he was going, and he told me ‘Do you really think I’ll stay home when I know my guys are fighting? No way.'”
Thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of protesters in Iran have been killed in recent days as government forces crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.
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