VFI News Israel Strikes Iran’s Regime Targets as Its Defenses Stand Firm

Israel struck regime targets across Tehran, Isfahan & Karaj in the early hours of June 8 after Iran shattered the ceasefire with 10 missiles. Here's everything that happened overnight.

Iran breached the ceasefire on Sunday, June 7, firing ten ballistic missiles at northern Israel, the Sharon region, and Samaria. Every projectile was intercepted by Israeli air defenses. Within hours, the IDF struck back — 15 strikes across Tehran, Isfahan, and Karaj, including a drone storage facility and Mehrabad International Airport.

In this VFI News update, we also cover:

— Trump urging Netanyahu to stand down and return to nuclear deal talks

— The US moving to redirect frozen Iranian assets toward Gulf state rebuilding

— A terror attack in central Israel that killed one and wounded five

— The school closures, shelter guidelines, and Home Front Command updates

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The Israeli Air Force struck military targets belonging to the Iranian regime across western and central Iran in the early hours of Monday, June 8, the IDF announced. Iranian sources described strikes in the capital Tehran, in Isfahan, and in Karaj, with Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran among the sites hit. Explosions were heard across several areas, and a drone storage facility in Tehran was among the targets.

A total of 15 Israeli strikes were carried out. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed that Israel had struck Iranian territory, claiming the attack was delivered with ballistic missiles. The operation followed Iran’s breach of the ceasefire on Sunday, June 7, when it launched three barrages totaling ten missiles at northern Israel, the Sharon region, and Samaria. Every incoming projectile was intercepted, and the Home Front Command cleared residents to leave shelters about half an hour later.

Magen David Adom treated two people injured while rushing to safe rooms, and crews in the Galilee and the Golan Heights extinguished brush fires sparked by interception debris. Ahead of the strikes, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir completed a situational assessment with the General Staff and declared the military’s operational plans finalized and its forces fully prepared. “The IDF will strike the enemy with determination as soon as the order is given,” he stated.

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Dear Lord, we pray in Yeshua’s Name that You guard the people of Israel from the Iranian regime and terror group that seeks their harm. Strengthen the pilots, commanders, and defense personnel who stand watch, and grant them precision, wisdom, and safety in every mission. We thank You for shielding the land during the incoming barrages and ask that not a single weapon formed against Israel would prosper. We pray for true and lasting peace in the region, that hearts set on destruction would be turned toward You or turned away from their plans.

Sirens sounded across northern Israel on the evening of Sunday, June 7, after Iran violated the ceasefire and fired three missile barrages — ten missiles in all — toward the Jewish state. The IDF said every missile was intercepted. Magen David Adom teams treated two people hurt while hurrying to shelter.

The launches came after an Israeli strike on Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s Dahieh district and a wave of threats from senior Iranian figures. In response, the Home Front Command tightened guidelines nationwide, shifting the country to a stricter posture, and Education Minister Yoav Kisch announced that classes and matriculation exams would be suspended across Israel the following day, with all schools closed.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a limited security consultation with Defense Minister Israel Katz and senior defense officials, while the US military released footage of a significant deployment across the Middle East and said its forces in the region remained alert and ready. A senior Israeli security official said Israel was taking Iran’s threats seriously while judging the likelihood of an immediate large-scale attack to be low. “We are prepared for every scenario,” the official said. “Our assessment is that it will not, but if it does, it will face a powerful response.”

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“He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.” – Psalm 91:4

US President Donald Trump publicly urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from striking Iran in retaliation for the recent Iranian missile attack, in comments on Sunday, June 7. Trump said Israel “has responded enough, no need for more,” adding, “We can achieve peace after 3,000 years.” The appeal came as Israel weighed how and when to answer Iran’s ceasefire breach.

Trump said the United States was “very close to a final deal with Iran” and did not want negotiations to collapse over the latest exchange. He claimed Iran’s strikes on Israel “didn’t hurt anybody” and voiced hope that Israel would not retaliate. “If Netanyahu strikes them back, it’s just gonna keep going like the last 47 years, or last 3,000 years,” he said.

Earlier, Trump urged Tehran to return to the negotiating table. “What I would suggest to Iran: You’ve shot your missiles, that’s enough. Get back to the table and make a deal,” he said. He also said he had been unaware of the strikes on Lebanon, contrary to earlier accounts, and expressed anger over them.

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“When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.” – Proverbs 16:7

The United States will seek to redirect Iranian assets toward Gulf states to fund rebuilding and repairs for damage caused by Iran, a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday, June 6 — one day after a wave of Iranian attacks struck Kuwait and Bahrain.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has directed a team to assess the costs of damage already inflicted on Gulf allies by Iran, and Washington will consider using Iranian assets for those repairs as well. The disclosure followed a claim by an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader that any peace deal hinged on the release of $24 billion in Iranian assets frozen by the United States. The language describing the new measures did not appear limited to frozen holdings.

Peace negotiations appear to have stalled, though a minister from mediator Pakistan traveled to Tehran on Saturday, June 6, carrying a letter for Iran’s leadership. The move to tap Iranian assets could add a new strain to a fragile US-Iran ceasefire, which was tested again over the weekend. American forces had struck Iranian coastal radar sites at Goruk and on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz after downing Iranian drones, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it retaliated against US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.

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Holocaust survivors in Israel live off very small stipends, and the cost of living in Israel can be a heavy burden on them. In special events that we organized for the survivors, they were able to choose from thousands of clothing items and received money vouchers to help them with their needs.

An Arab Israeli terrorist opened fire at several locations across central Israel on Sunday, June 7, killing one person and wounding five before security forces shot him dead. Police later arrested a second man suspected of involvement in the attack.

Magen David Adom treated two men in their 30s shot at a gas station near Kochav Ya’ir, one of them seriously; a 31-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman shot at the entrance to Tzur Yitzhak, both in moderate condition; and two men shot on the road outside Tzur Natan — a man of about 35 who died of his wounds and a man in his 40s left in serious condition. As the attack unfolded, sirens warned residents of Tzur Natan and Tzur Yitzhak of a terrorist infiltration and urged them to barricade themselves indoors.

The three neighboring communities lie north of Tel Aviv near the Judea and Samaria security barrier on the Israeli side. The gunman drove onto the nearby community of Sal’it, fired at its entrance, and fled after the local security chief returned fire, with no injuries there. Israeli forces caught up with him on the outskirts of Tayibe and shot him dead, identifying him as Omar Yassin, an Israeli citizen who lived in the town. The military said it was conducting further searches for additional suspects.

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Our Heavenly Father, we lift up the family mourning the life taken in this attack and ask that You wrap them in Your comfort and peace. We pray for the wounded, that You would heal their bodies and steady their hearts, and for the communities shaken by this violence, that they would know Your protection and not live in fear. We thank You for the swift response of the security forces and ask that You grant them wisdom and safety. In Yeshua’s Name we pray that terror would find no foothold in the land.

Turkey’s Interior Minister, Mustafa Ciftci, said he had prayed, “O Lord, grant me the governorship of Jerusalem,” during his years as governor of Corum and Erzurum, recounting the appeal at an AK Party provincial council meeting in Corum on Saturday, June 6.

Pointing to the fall of the Assad regime, Ciftci said he hoped to see Jerusalem “liberated” in the same manner as Damascus, and that one day “those lands will be ours once again.” He credited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, declaring, “God willing, they will come under our sovereignty and dominion once more. Because we have a global leader like Recep Tayyip Erdogan at our helm. A world leader.”

The Assad regime in Syria collapsed in December 2024 after former Islamist insurgent Ahmed al-Sharaa seized control, and the country has since been gripped by sectarian violence, even as Western governments moved to embrace Sharaa and lift sanctions on Damascus. The Ottoman Empire ruled the land of Israel for more than four centuries before its defeat by the Allied powers in World War I, signing the Armistice of Mudros and surrendering to Britain in 1918.

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“As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.” – Psalm 125:2

An object was hurled through the window of a Toronto synagogue on the night of Friday, June 5, the Toronto Police Service said — the second attack on a Canadian synagogue within 24 hours. A window of the Mishkan Avraham synagogue was shattered, though no one was injured, and an investigation was opened with no suspects identified.

Toronto’s Israeli Consul General, Idit Shamir, said the time for symbolic gestures had passed, with Canadian Jews left to wonder which Jewish institution would be targeted next. Synagogues were still being shot at and firebombs still thrown, she said, insisting that Canada must confront antisemitic violence “with the full force of the law.”

The attack came a day after an attempted arson at the Temple Emanu-El-Beth-Sholom synagogue in the Montreal area overnight on Thursday, June 4. The building was not significantly damaged and remained open for Shabbat. Officers quickly arrested a suspect, identified as a local resident facing six charges including arson and possession of an explosive device. Both incidents followed a week in which Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged that Canada’s civic compact was failing Jewish Canadians.

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Father God, we pray for Jewish communities across Canada and throughout the diaspora who gather to worship under the shadow of hatred and threat. Surround synagogues, schools, and homes with Your protection, and let no scheme of violence against them succeed. We ask that You move the hearts of leaders and authorities to act with courage and justice, defending Your people in word and in deed. Comfort all who are afraid, and raise up neighbors and friends to stand beside them. In Yeshua’s Name we pray for safety and peace.

The National Library of Israel has acquired a rare original copy of what is widely regarded as the world’s earliest kosher cookbook, an English-language volume from 1846 that opens a window onto Jewish cooking and household life in Victorian England. Titled “The Jewish Manual of Modern Cookery, With a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to the Toilette,” it was published anonymously under the byline “A Lady” and is widely attributed to Lady Judith Montefiore, wife of the British Jewish philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore.

Unveiled ahead of the Shavuot holiday, the volume preserves some of the earliest known cheesecake recipes in Jewish culinary literature, alongside dairy dishes that echo the holiday’s traditional foods. First identified in the Jewish Division of the New York Public Library and later reprinted in facsimile in 1983, the book was connected to Montefiore through scholarly research noting that its recipes mirror dishes served in her household — she was one of the few Jewish women in Victorian England to carry the title “Lady.”

Among its pages are cheesecakes and dairy fare, a “Palestine soup” made with veal, chicken, Jerusalem artichokes, and spices, and household and beauty advice of the era. The author wrote that she hoped to guide “the young Jewish housekeeper in the luxury and economy of ‘The Table.’” Curator Dr. Chaim Neria said obtaining a physical copy fit the library’s mission to collect and preserve the heritage and culture of the Jewish people, the State of Israel, and the Land of Israel. Montefiore, who journeyed with her husband to the Land of Israel several times, died in 1862.

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“Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.” – Proverbs 31:31

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