‘Beware of Tisha B’Av’: Will Iran Attack Israel Next Tuesday?
If Iran and proxy Hezbollah are to launch a major attack, as they are vowing to do, it might start on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, which is marked by fasting to commemorate the destruction of two Jerusalem temples.

The buzz in Israel is that if Iran and Hezbollah are to launch a major attack, as they are vowing to do, it will start next Tuesday. As Jews have said for centuries, “Beware of Tisha B’Av.”
The ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, which starts Tuesday night, is marked by fasting to commemorate the destruction of two Jerusalem temples. A Babylonian, Nebuchadnezzar, destroyed Solomon’s temple in 586 B.C.E. The Romans destroyed the rebuilt temple in 70 C.E.
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