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Ali Larijani Guides Iran's Nuclear Diplomacy
Saudi Base Signals Iran Strike Readiness
Netanya Apartment Fire Injures Eleven

The time is now 9:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.

In the conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, tensions surrounding Tehran's nuclear policy and regional diplomacy remain at the forefront as Washington and Tehran maneuver ahead of talks. As Republicans look to the midterms, the president is expected to defend his tariff policy after a Supreme Court setback and outline his approach to Iran, while Democrats protest and some boycott the speech. Iran’s top security chief Ali Larijani will be Tehran’s key player behind the scenes, central to Tehran’s nuclear policy and strategic diplomacy; he will not attend the Geneva talks but has guided negotiations, including meetings with Russia and Gulf mediators, while coordinating defense strategies and nuclear policy as head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council—a role he has held at different times and which has placed him at the center of Tehran’s diplomacy after the Iran-Israel war in 2025. In regional developments, Germany’s Federal Foreign Office warned Germans in Israel and Lebanon of a worsening security situation, urging them to purchase supplies and to familiarize themselves with protection facilities and spaces, noting that embassy support could be limited if airspace closures occur. Satellite imagery of Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia shows six E-3G Sentry AEW&C aircraft and at least 15 KC-135R/T Stratotankers, underscoring the base’s role as a major support hub for potential strikes against Iran.

In Israeli Domestic Politics, animal rights group Let the Animals Live filed a legal petition with the Jerusalem District Court urging the Israel Nature and Parks Authority to stop the shooting of stray dogs around nature preserves. Let the Animals Live cites data indicating about 1,300 stray dogs were killed in 2025, up from 794 in 2024, and argues the practice is cruel and beyond moral standards. The petition contends that the INPA’s procedure for treating feral dogs contradicts Israel’s Animal Cruelty Law, rabies ordinances, and prior High Court rulings that require non-lethal options to be exhausted before euthanasia. Separately, in Netanya, an apartment fire left eleven people injured, with an 80-year-old man and woman in critical condition, a 73-year-old woman seriously injured from smoke inhalation, a 42-year-old woman in moderate condition, and seven others with minor injuries.

In uplifting news, nine students from Jewish day schools across the country have been named candidates for the US Presidential Scholars Program, one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for high school seniors. The candidates are Jonathan Beyderman of Yeshiva Tiferes Torah in Boca Raton, Akiva Cohen and Hillel Wolkenfeld of Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington in Silver Spring and Washington, DC; Adam Daniel of Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy of Connecticut in Stamford; Elizabeth E. Gabbay of Northwest Yeshiva High School in Seattle; Ruby C. Kotok of Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Gaithersburg; Shira Listokin and Ari Yellin-Levine of New Jewish High School in Newton Center and Providence; and Nathan Szubin of Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Washington, DC

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