Israel Awakes to a New Reality After US Strikes Iranian Sites

A rescue worker evacuates two children from the site where a missile launched from Iran struck Haifa, Israel on June 22.Photographer: Baz Ratner/AP Photo

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June 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM EDT

Israelis woke up to a new reality Sunday after President Donald Trump confirmed that the US bombed Iran’s three main nuclear sites, diminishing a threat they’ve considered existential for decades.

The US attack was embraced across the Israeli political spectrum, lauded on hastily assembled TV panels as a historic symbol of unprecedented US-Israeli cooperation at a time when the Jewish state has been shunned by others for its war in Gaza.