Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-06-14 at 07:01

HEADLINES
1) IDF strikes Hezbollah HQ in Beirut's Dahiyeh
2) 1906 Bialystok Pogrom: seventy killed
3) Doctors weigh relocation to Israel amid war

The time is now 7:01 AM 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, the IDF is conducting strikes in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut in response to Hezbollah fire toward Israeli territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed in a joint statement. “Israel will not tolerate fire directed at its territory,” the statement said. The strikes targeted one Hezbollah headquarters located within Dahiyeh. Since early Sunday morning, several drones launched by Hezbollah have crossed into Israeli airspace, prompting sirens in northern Israel. In response, several Israeli ministers called on the government to intensify attacks against Hezbollah and Dahiyeh. Last week, Iran said in a statement published by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-run Fars News Agency that its several hours of attacks had come in response to Israel's actions against Lebanon, warning that if aggression continues, “much more severe and crushing measures will be on the way.” This remains a developing story.

In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate, on June 14, 1906, the Bialystok Pogrom killed at least 70 Russian Jews and injured about 90 over a three-day period in Bialystok, an industrial town in what is now Poland that had a large Jewish population. In the 1910 census, roughly 68.5% of the city’s population was Jewish. The pogrom was the bloodiest incident against Russian Jews that year. Bialystok was known for its textile industry, with many mills owned by Jews and employing Jewish workers; the Jewish Labor Bund, a Yiddishist secular socialist Jewish labor organization, had a strong presence there, as did Jewish anarchist movements and the Polish Socialist Party. Three days before the pogrom, the city’s police chief, Derkatcheff, was killed and was generally viewed as benevolent toward the city’s Jewish population. Chief Derkatcheff reportedly said that a pogrom would happen, a detail that underscores the volatile climate surrounding the events.

In Uplifting News, Cinderella in Jerusalem presents a one-time opera event by The Jerusalem Opera in cooperation with The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Cinderella, or Cendrillon in the original French, by Jules-Émile Frédéric Massenet is set for a single performance on June 18 at the Jerusalem Theatre, Henry Crown Hall, at 7:30 p.m. The work, written for an adult audience and first premiered in Paris in 1899, is based on a tale by Charles Perrault. The production brings together a long-standing collaboration between local opera and symphony forces, with co-founder and conductor Omer Arieli highlighting Jerusalem as the setting for presenting this rarely staged work.

Also in Uplifting News, doctors are considering moves to Israel in a time of war, as hundreds of medical professionals spent a Sunday at a New Jersey hotel weighing relocations. One example is Lance Dunlop, a psychiatrist who plans to begin work as an attending physician at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa this August; he already holds an Israeli medical license and board certifications. Dunlop, who has built a life in Alaska, says he would not be truly happy unless he is in Israel. He first came to Israel in 1984 at the age of eighteen.

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https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-899341
https://www.jpost.com/history/article-899338
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-899148
https://www.jpost.com/aliyah/article-899155