Live Updates June 21, 2026Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeJune 21, 2026UpdatesNetanyahu: Israel will remain in Lebanon buffer zone as long as necessary; will not allow Iran nuclear weaponSpeaking at the memorial of his late brother Yonatan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the IDF will remain deployed in the southern Lebanon "buffer zone as long as necessary."IDF soldiers in Al-Khiam, southern Lebanon, in May. Credit: Bar PelegIDF soldiers in Al-Khiam, southern Lebanon, in May. Credit: Bar PelegReferring to Iran, he said that he would not let Iran arm itself with nuclear weapons, "I have dedicated my life to this sacred goal since your fall, Yoni," he added.Huckabee: Iran is not going to be able to support its proxies; the U.S. and Israel have an unbreakable bondU.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee reiterated that "Iran is not going to be able to continue flowing its support to its proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, and that the United States and Israel have an unbreakable bond, and it really is really is still true today," speaking at a Jewish News Syndicate conference."The one thing that the President has said as consistently as any man has ever said anything is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, that Iran will never have enriched uranium," he added."Let's be clear, the Iranian threat is best served when the spigot is turned off at the source, and no more forces flow to Hezbollah, to Hamas, or the Houthis, and that's why this challenge with Iran, if we can get peace, wonderful," he said.U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Credit: JNSU.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Credit: JNS"But even this afternoon the President has issued very clear understandings to the Iranians that if they think that the United States is going to fold and collapse and let them have their way, he has made it clear what he will do, and what he said, well, it's words that I don't use those words, folks, even in private, and certainly not in public," Huckabee added.Read the full articleIn the NewsHealth Ministry Eases Ban on West Bank-educated Staff After Hundreds FiredSlovenia's Last Jewish Institution Endures Through Desecration and DecayJewish Activist Deported for Her Book. 100 Years Later, Still No NYC ApologyNetanyahu's Israel Needs to Lay Off the 'Blood Libel' AccusationAIPAC Identity Crisis: A Decade Since Fighting Obama on Iran, It Now Faces TrumpRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIIsrael Is Conducting a Systematic Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank'Once-in-a-lifetime Discovery': 1,700-year-old Roman Busts Found in IsraelNetanyahu's Mouthpieces Turn on Trump, Revealing a Deeper Israeli IngratitudeTrump and Netanyahu Hurtling Toward a Rupture That Could Shock U.S.-Israel TiesIsrael Is Bleeding Support in U.S. and Pouring Tens of Millions to Change ThatReport: Netanyahu 'Likely' to Sabotage Iran Deal, U.S. Officials Tell Trump