{"id":611829,"date":"2026-09-10T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/611829\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:08:09","slug":"katz-warns-regime-against-attack-in-new-years-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/611829\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz warns regime against attack in new year&#8217;s message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-907809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel Katz<\/a> threatened to set Iran back decades if the Islamic regime attacked Israel in a Rosh Hashanah message to Iranian civilians on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Katz threatened to attack Iranian energy infrastructure if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-905101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">regime leadership<\/a> decided to strike Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any attack on Israel for any reason and anywhere will be met with a powerful response,&#8221; he said, &#8220;which will inflict severe damage on Iran that it has not yet suffered to this day, including on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-904243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">central energy facilities<\/a>, which provide resources and capabilities for the Iranian war and terror system and for harming the citizens of the State of Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He also said that Israel&#8217;s retaliation would set Iran&#8217;s progress back by decades, and that the IDF was &#8220;alert and ready&#8221; to carry out such a mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In his message, he wished Iranian civilians a new year in which their country would be free of oppression and tyranny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He also wished Iranian Jews a happy new year, telling them they were part of &#8220;a glorious Jewish history&#8221; and that they would &#8220;always be in our hearts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Katz concluded by wishing Israeli and global Jewry a happy new year, ending with a traditional<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/rosh-hashanah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Rosh Hashanah<\/a> blessing against Israel&#8217;s enemies: &#8220;May our enemies and our haters and all who seek our harm depart.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened to set Iran back decades if the Islamic regime attacked Israel in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,87,76277,46,2723,43,14868],"class_list":["post-611829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-iranian-jews","tag-israel","tag-israel-katz","tag-news","tag-rosh-hashanah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611829","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=611829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}