Israeli Government Secretary Yossi Fox stated that thousands are fleeing Tehran as Israel continues its military campaign with no defined endpoint, emphasizing that the nation will press on until its strategic goals are met.

“Symbolically,” he noted, “this week falls in the month of Sivan, the same time when King Ahasuerus gave Mordecai and Esther the house of Haman—the enemy of the Jews—and empowered them to rise up against their foes. Then, we were in exile. Today, we are a free people in our own land.”