How Israelis are experiencing the latest war with Iran
The headline tells the story.
Beginning on the evening of March 2, Jewish communities around the world observed the holiday of Purim. The occasion marks the demise of the wicked Persian vizier Haman, who sought, some 2,500 years ago, to exterminate Jews throughout the vast Persian Empire. Only the impassioned importuning of the Jewish Queen Esther persuaded her husband, the hapless King Ahaseurus, to thwart Haman’s plans and eliminate the threat to the Jewish people.
In parallel, the Israel Defense Forces, in partnership with the United States Air Force and Navy, set out to degrade and hopefully destroy the evil regime of the modern-day Persian tyrants, which for five decades threatened to liquidate the Jewish state and posed an increasingly dangerous threat to the U.S. and other Western countries.
In a bold move undertaken in broad daylight on Feb. 28, Israeli fighter jets dropped thousands of pounds of explosives on a compound in Tehran where Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei was meeting with numerous key political and military officials. This decapitation blow was soon accompanied by a concerted bombing campaign joined by the USAF — Israelis call it Operation Roaring Lion; the U.S. labels it Epic Fury — that targeted critical regime infrastructure and triggered an immediate launch of hundreds of ballistic missiles at the Jewish state.
At left and center, underground metro stations used as bomb shelters in Ramat Gan, Israel, host a celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim, March 2, 2026, and makeshift sleeping quarters, March 10, 2026; at right, an improvised wedding in a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv, March 3, 2026. (Left and center, Oded Balilty/AP; right, Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty)
So how are Israelis handling the Iranian onslaught, which erupted a short eight months after the previous round of hostilities concluded? How is the IDF’s partnership with the U.S. military proceeding? And what is the long-term outlook for the Jewish state and the region as a whole?
Israeli resilience
Since its founding nearly 80 years ago, Israel has faced no shortage of aggression from its neighbors, and its citizens have weathered numerous bouts of punishing aerial assaults with a stubborn — if exhausting — equanimity.
And since Oct. 7, 2023, those attacks have been a near constant, with missiles from Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen. Iran itself is destroying homes and schools, killing and wounding dozens, and disrupting daily life, sometimes beyond recognition.
While …
The headline tells the story.
Beginning on the evening of March 2, Jewish communities around the world observed the holiday of Purim. The occasion marks the demise of the wicked Persian vizier Haman, who sought, some 2,500 years ago, to exterminate Jews throughout the vast Persian Empire. Only the impassioned importuning of the Jewish Queen Esther persuaded her husband, the hapless King Ahaseurus, to thwart Haman’s plans and eliminate the threat to the Jewish people.
In parallel, the Israel Defense Forces, in partnership with the United States Air Force and Navy, set out to degrade and hopefully destroy the evil regime of the modern-day Persian tyrants, which for five decades threatened to liquidate the Jewish state and posed an increasingly dangerous threat to the U.S. and other Western countries.
In a bold move undertaken in broad daylight on Feb. 28, Israeli fighter jets dropped thousands of pounds of explosives on a compound in Tehran where Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei was meeting with numerous key political and military officials. This decapitation blow was soon accompanied by a concerted bombing campaign joined by the USAF — Israelis call it Operation Roaring Lion; the U.S. labels it Epic Fury — that targeted critical regime infrastructure and triggered an immediate launch of hundreds of ballistic missiles at the Jewish state.
At left and center, underground metro stations used as bomb shelters in Ramat Gan, Israel, host a celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim, March 2, 2026, and makeshift sleeping quarters, March 10, 2026; at right, an improvised wedding in a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv, March 3, 2026. (Left and center, Oded Balilty/AP; right, Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty)
So how are Israelis handling the Iranian onslaught, which erupted a short eight months after the previous round of hostilities concluded? How is the IDF’s partnership with the U.S. military proceeding? And what is the long-term outlook for the Jewish state and the region as a whole?
Israeli resilience
Since its founding nearly 80 years ago, Israel has faced no shortage of aggression from its neighbors, and its citizens have weathered numerous bouts of punishing aerial assaults with a stubborn — if exhausting — equanimity.
And since Oct. 7, 2023, those attacks have been a near constant, with missiles from Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen. Iran itself is destroying homes and schools, killing and wounding dozens, and disrupting daily life, sometimes beyond recognition.
While …
How Israelis are experiencing the latest war with Iran
The headline tells the story.
Beginning on the evening of March 2, Jewish communities around the world observed the holiday of Purim. The occasion marks the demise of the wicked Persian vizier Haman, who sought, some 2,500 years ago, to exterminate Jews throughout the vast Persian Empire. Only the impassioned importuning of the Jewish Queen Esther persuaded her husband, the hapless King Ahaseurus, to thwart Haman’s plans and eliminate the threat to the Jewish people.
In parallel, the Israel Defense Forces, in partnership with the United States Air Force and Navy, set out to degrade and hopefully destroy the evil regime of the modern-day Persian tyrants, which for five decades threatened to liquidate the Jewish state and posed an increasingly dangerous threat to the U.S. and other Western countries.
In a bold move undertaken in broad daylight on Feb. 28, Israeli fighter jets dropped thousands of pounds of explosives on a compound in Tehran where Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei was meeting with numerous key political and military officials. This decapitation blow was soon accompanied by a concerted bombing campaign joined by the USAF — Israelis call it Operation Roaring Lion; the U.S. labels it Epic Fury — that targeted critical regime infrastructure and triggered an immediate launch of hundreds of ballistic missiles at the Jewish state.
At left and center, underground metro stations used as bomb shelters in Ramat Gan, Israel, host a celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim, March 2, 2026, and makeshift sleeping quarters, March 10, 2026; at right, an improvised wedding in a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv, March 3, 2026. (Left and center, Oded Balilty/AP; right, Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty)
So how are Israelis handling the Iranian onslaught, which erupted a short eight months after the previous round of hostilities concluded? How is the IDF’s partnership with the U.S. military proceeding? And what is the long-term outlook for the Jewish state and the region as a whole?
Israeli resilience
Since its founding nearly 80 years ago, Israel has faced no shortage of aggression from its neighbors, and its citizens have weathered numerous bouts of punishing aerial assaults with a stubborn — if exhausting — equanimity.
And since Oct. 7, 2023, those attacks have been a near constant, with missiles from Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen. Iran itself is destroying homes and schools, killing and wounding dozens, and disrupting daily life, sometimes beyond recognition.
While …
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