{"id":315482,"date":"2026-03-01T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315482\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:00:18","slug":"effie-defrin-releases-message-to-public-amid-iran-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315482\/","title":{"rendered":"Effie Defrin releases message to public amid Iran tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IDF Spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin released a video message Friday in light of concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-888218\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">escalation with Iran<\/a>, assuring that the military is &#8220;aware of the uncertainty and the tension felt by the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-888207\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IDF<\/a> is closely monitoring the situation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-888219\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> and is alert and prepared to defend you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are operating in full coordination with our partners with the aim of strengthening the defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that for now, there has been no change in the guidelines given by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-888059\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home Front Command<\/a>, and that if something changes, he will &#8220;issue an alert accordingly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He gave a reminder that the US embassy updated its travel warning to level 3, &#8220;reconsider travel.&#8221; Meanwhile, Washington announced approval for non-essential US government employees and family members of American personnel stationed at US diplomatic missions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-888204\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leave the country<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF Spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin released a video message Friday in light of concerns about escalation with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19345,1031,85,87,70687,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-315482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-home-front-command","9":"tag-idf","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-iran-israel","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}