Amichai Chikli is the Israeli minister of diaspora affairs.
Israelis were told that the war with Iran was over last week, and yet the shooting continued into the weekend. At least five soldiers were killed. The fighting, initiated by the Islamic Republic’s Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon, underscored why my countrymen are alarmed by Washington and Tehran’s “memorandum of understanding.” For us, this isn’t a policy debate; it’s an existential question of survival, deterrence and the balance of power in the Middle East.