My young family and I were in Israel when the Israel Defense Forces and Mossad began their offensive operations against Iran on June 13, commencing what President Donald Trump has since called the “12-Day War.”

Although the Mossad’s intelligence and the Israel Defense Forces’ rapid establishment of air superiority inside Iran proved to be nothing less than extraordinary, my wife and I lived on pins and needles for those first few days of the war. We had to be ready day or night, at a moment’s notice, to drop everything we were doing, grab our 6-month-old baby, and race to the house’s “safe room” (that is, bomb shelter).

Trust me: This is not a fun way to live—especially not with an infant. Meanwhile, too many of Iran’s ballistic missiles—considerably more lethal than the rockets typically fired into Israel from Hamas and Lebanon—were evading Israeli air defense. They were finding their targets. Too many homes were being destroyed, and too many people, tragically, were being killed. Though a proud Jew, Zionist and even author of a recent book on the subject, I decided to do what any American father of a beautiful baby girl would do in such a situation: Get us home.

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