Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli submitted a response to the Supreme Court on Sunday morning regarding the petitions against the proceedings to remove Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and called on the court not to interfere in the process. Minister Chikli is the chairman of the ministerial committee established by the government to replace Baharav-Miara. The ministers’ response was not submitted as an official legal response with legal arguments but as a “statement on behalf of the government,” after Levin decided to deny the Supreme Court’s authority to stop the Attorney General’s ouster process.

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)’s Dror 1 communications satellite was successfully launched into space early Sunday morning from the SpaceX launch facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch took place shortly after 8 a.m. (Israeli time) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher. The Dror 1 satellite, Israel’s first communications satellite, weighs 4.5 tons, has a wingspan of 17.8 meters, and bears the largest transmission and reception antennas ever built in Israel. It is intended to serve Israel’s strategic and civilian communications for about 15 years.   (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was lightly injured during the Israel-Iran war last month, the Fars news agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported on Sunday. According to the report, Israeli strikes targeted a session of the Supreme National Security Council held in a building in western Tehran on June 16. The meeting was attended by Pezeshkian, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the head of the Iranian judiciary, and other senior officials. The report added that Israel aimed six bombs at the entrances and exits to the building to prevent escape, in a similar method to the assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Narallah in Beirut last year.

In a dramatic new revelation from last month’s 12-day war between Israel and Iran, an Israeli fighter jet that had penetrated deep into Iranian airspace suffered a critical fuel malfunction that nearly forced it to make an emergency landing in a neighboring country, Channel 12 reported — the first public disclosure of the near-disaster. According to the report, the incident occurred during Israel’s daring surprise air campaign on June 13, which targeted Iran’s top military leadership, nuclear infrastructure, and missile program. While maneuvering over Iranian territory, the pilot of an Israeli F-15 detected a serious issue with the aircraft’s fuel tank. With no aerial refueling tanker in the air at the time, the situation was grim. A frantic response unfolded behind the scenes.

Prominent British Islamic Sheikh Asrar Rashid accused Western powers of enabling “Jewish supremacism” in the Middle East through their military support for Israel — and went as far as voicing support for future attacks on Tel Aviv by Muslim-majority nations. The remarks came during a June 21 livestream on Rashid’s official YouTube channel, where he launched into a conspiratorial tirade alleging that British-manufactured weapons are being used not merely to defend Israeli security, but to fulfill a so-called apocalyptic, messianic vision of a “Super Jewish State” stretching from the Euphrates to the Nile. “You, in your policies, are supporting Jewish supremacism through Western weapons,” Rashid said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is pressing Iran to agree to a “zero enrichment” deal with the United States, Axios reported over the weekend. According to the report, Putin told President Trump and Iranian officials that he supports a nuclear deal in which Iran would not be able to enrich uranium. At the same time, three European officials and an Israeli official confirmed to Axios that Russia encouraged the Iranians not to enrich uranium. Two sources said that Russia even briefed Israel on Putin’s position on the matter. The Iranian Tasnim agency, which is affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, denied the report. The development is a significant one, as Russia has been Iran’s main diplomatic support on the nuclear issue for years.

During their meeting at the White House, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned U.S. President Donald Trump that Israel would not hesitate to take military action against Iran again if it resumes its activity to develop nuclear weapons, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to the report, Trump, for his part, made it clear that he prefers to try to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomatic means but refrained from expressing strong opposition to another Israeli attack if necessary. The report stated that Israel views the possibility of a resumption of the Iranian nuclear program as a real threat, and does not intend to sit idly by if Tehran resumes uranium enrichment for military purposes.

Ceasefire negotiations in Doha aimed at ending the conflict and securing the release of hostages have stalled over the past 24 hours, Kan News reported. The talks have made no headway on several critical points, including the IDF’s withdrawal lines from Gaza, the list of hostages and prisoners to be released, and assurances for ending the war. However, the discussions have not significantly deteriorated either. The only reported progress involves the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff has not yet traveled to Doha, reportedly waiting for more substantial developments before joining the talks. Separately, Al Jazeera released what it claims is a map of Israel’s proposed military deployment during a possible ceasefire, allegedly shared during the negotiations.

A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks. The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles. It signals there will be no quick end to the long struggle by the U.S. military and successive administrations to bring to justice the man charged with planning one of the deadliest attacks ever on the United States.

Iran’s security services have threatened the life of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi after her native country’s war with Israel, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and activists said Friday. Mohammadi said that the threats have come through both her lawyer and other indirect channels as she’s kept up public statements about the Islamic Republic’s theocracy, women’s rights and others issues, the committee said. “The clear message, in her own words, is that ‘I have been directly and indirectly threatened with ‘physical elimination’ by agents of the regime,’” the committee said in its announcement. The Free Narges Coalition Steering Committee, which advocates for the 53-year-old laureate, said that the threats came from Iran’s Intelligence Ministry.