Israel warned Trump of new Iranian assassination plot, sources say, as ceasefire frays

Israel’s warning this week landed at the exact moment the ceasefire had begun to fracture. While Trump weighs how far to go against Tehran, Iran’s new leadership is publicly promising blood for blood.
Turkey’s F-35 push, its march into Syria, and the Sanhedrin’s warning: “Whoever curses Israel will be cursed”

Turkey is positioning itself as the most consequential military threat facing Israel in the north, and this week’s NATO summit in Ankara has put that threat on full display.
Poll: American Jews rate anti-Israel NYC mayor above Netanyahu

A new national survey has found that American Jews view New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel who has refused to condemn calls for “intifada” and marked Nakba Day from City Hall, more favorably than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
U.S. strikes Iran for fourth straight day. IRGC answers by hitting five Gulf nations.

US forces struck Iranian military targets for a third consecutive night into Monday, hitting more than 140 sites in the heaviest barrage since the fighting flared anew last week.
Two Flags. One Covenant.

In August 1790, George Washington sat down to answer a letter. The Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, had written to their new president, anxious men in a young country, unsure whether the freedom they had just won would extend to a people rarely welcome anywhere
Trump declares U.S.-Iran truce “over” after Tehran’s tanker strikes, warns regime would use nuclear weapon “if they had it”

“I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum. They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people. They’re vicious, violent people. If they had a nuclear weapon, they’d use it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s over.”
6 Things you need to know about the special US-Israel relationship!

Although not an American, I am delighted to celebrate this wonderful day from Israel! In honor of this special day, here are 6 things you didn’t know about the unique Israel-American relationship:
Scientists build a living cell from scratch, its own creator calls it wimpy

A team of American scientists announced this week that they have built a cell from nonliving chemicals that can feed itself, grow, and replicate, a feat that pushes synthetic biology into territory once confined to science fiction.
Ministers, ambassadors, and top journalists headline Israel365’s Middle East Summit

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will share the stage with Amit Segal, Israel’s most-watched political analyst, in one of the marquee conversations of the second Middle East Summit, the first of several headline pairings planned for the July 9 event.
Praise Hamas, murder a Jew: Get one year in jail

Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji walked into a courtroom this week, having pled guilty to killing a Jewish man, and walked out with a sentence shorter than what many Americans get for DUIs.