Hebrew → English transcript

Dear citizens of Israel, for decades I have been fighting Iran's efforts to arm itself with nuclear weapons. I can define this as my life's mission. I have stood by it until today, and I will stand by it in the future as well.

With or without an agreement, Iran will not have nuclear weapons. Not today, not tomorrow. As long as I am the Prime Minister of Israel, this will not happen.

Now I hear people asking, 'What have we achieved?' And I answer them, 'What have we achieved?'

We warded off the threat of immediate destruction. Together with our American friends, we embarked on the largest strike mission in Israel's history.

We neutralized the nuclear scientists, decapitated the leaders of the terror regime, crushed the nuclear plants, and destroyed missiles and the vast majority of the factories that produce missiles.

We struck countless infrastructures and military infrastructures, destroyed their navy, their air force, neutralized base commanders who massacred the Iranian people, and caused immense damage.

We estimate it at hundreds of billions of dollars, and some estimate it at even close to a trillion dollars.

Tremendous damage to Iran's economy, which took them decades to build.

But here is the most important thing: we saved the State of Israel from the threat of nuclear destruction.

Because you have to understand, Iran was rushing toward a nuclear weapon, right before Am Kalbi, it was rushing toward a nuclear weapon and rushing to bury its nuclear and missile industry deep underground.

If we hadn't acted when we did, and with the strength we did, both in Am Kalbi and later in Shege Tari, in historic cooperation with President Trump and the US military,

If we hadn't acted this way, Iran would already have atomic bombs.

And what is the meaning? The meaning is that millions of Israeli citizens, you who are listening to me now, would all have been in terrible danger of a horrific death.

We were all in this danger, and we kept this danger of the annihilation of Israel's population away from us for years.

This is what we achieved: we saved the State of Israel from destruction.

But I tell you, citizens of Israel, the struggle is not over and done with.

We will need to continue to stand guard, to continue to be strong and determined, to defend ourselves as much as required.

This is true not only against Iran, it is also true against Iran's terror proxies, which we have struck in an unprecedented way.

We did this in Gaza, we did this in Lebanon, in Syria, in Yemen, we did this in the refugee camps in Judea and Samaria, we did this everywhere.

We eliminated Deif, Haniyeh, and Sinwar, along with many of the Hamas leaders, actually almost all of them, everyone who was there in the terrible massacre, I think there is one left, he too will be eliminated.

We destroyed thousands of terrorists and countless terror infrastructures.

We brought back all of our hostages from Gaza, down to the very last one of them.

No one believed we would do it, I believed.

They told me, "Prime Minister, we must give in, do not enter Rafah, end the war, we will bring the hostages, we will frame our exit from Gaza as a victory."

I did not accept this nonsense.

We entered Rafah, we entered Gaza City, contrary to the opinion of many, and we brought back all the hostages, down to the very last one of them.

And not only that, we blew up the pagers, we eliminated the tyrant Nasrallah, we prevented the Radwan Force's invasion of the Galilee, and we destroyed the vast majority of the 150,000 rockets and missiles that Nasrallah built to destroy Israel's cities.

Do you remember what they told us? If we enter a battle with Hezbollah, we will have tens of thousands of casualties, and the towers will fall in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, and Beer Sheva.

Israel's cities will turn into heaps of ruins. Do you remember that? I did not accept that.

We fought them, and how we fought them!

We also captured their key positions, like the Beaufort, from which Hezbollah threatened the northern communities for years, actually the entire country.

And at the same time, we did something else.

We established deep security zones around the State of Israel.

We did this in Gaza, in Lebanon, and in Syria, where by the way we eliminated all the weapons of Assad's army, which was a key link in the axis of evil.

And I want to make it clear, we will remain in the security zones as long as necessary to protect our country.

Because after October 7, I established a simple principle.

Israel will not allow terrorist organizations to establish themselves on our borders, to dig terror tunnels into our territory,

to prepare for a massacre near our citizens.

Today, our heroic IDF fighters stand between the terrorists and our citizens.

And actually, what we did, we changed our entire security doctrine.

We also changed ourselves.

We broke through the barrier of fear.

We initiate, we attack, we surprise, and we strike those who seek our lives.

Israel is stronger than ever, and Iran's axis of evil is weaker than ever.

And if anyone had told you at the beginning of the war that we would achieve everything I detailed, and I haven't detailed everything,

you would have said he was daydreaming.

Well, they talk, they promise.

No, we did it.

And today, after we have achieved all this, there are those who want to downplay it, to dismiss our tremendous achievements.

And I tell you, we are going to achieve many more great things.

We will continue to thwart threats in the region, we will build new alliances with countries in the region and beyond,

We will guarantee our armaments independence, this is another principle I have established,

and I am allocating a 350 billion shekel addition to the defense budget.

We will develop technologies that push the boundaries of imagination,

and we will make Israel an even stronger power,

because our strength guarantees our future, guarantees our security, guarantees our economy,

guarantees our alliances, because alliances are made with the strong, and Israel today is a very strong country.

And it is strong, thanks to you, citizens of Israel.

I want to thank you for your steadfast standing, for the backing you give me as Prime Minister,

and above all, I want to thank our heroic fighters, men and women, in the regular service and reserves, at sea, on land, and in the air, in the IDF and in all security forces.

There is no one like you, heroes of Israel.

Together we will continue to stand, and together we will continue to win.

Fear not, My servant Jacob, and do not be dismayed, Israel.

Together, with God's help, we will guarantee the eternity of Israel.