The IDF is currently carrying out one of the largest military exercises in its history. The exercise simulates the outbreak of an all-out confrontation on several arenas at once.
Israel assumes that a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities will prompt Tehran to respond by targeting deep inside Israel and trying to storm the border. Israel sees Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapon as an existential threat to its security, writes David Rothkopf, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and U.N.