According to a video posted on JNS TV, on Monday June 29, 2026, Alex Traiman, Chief Executive Officer of the Jerusalem News Syndicate, recounted a striking disclosure made at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, where the head of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems revealed that during Israel’s military campaign against Iran, approximately 200 Israeli warplanes flew into Iranian airspace without being detected by Iranian air defenses.
Traiman shared the detail during Jerusalem Minute while reflecting on highlights from the summit, which he described as one of the most substantive gatherings of pro-Israel policy thinkers, journalists, and officials in recent memory.
The summit featured over 230 speakers across three days and was addressed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, among others.
The disclosure about the air campaign came during remarks by Yoav Stein, the head of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, who described the first ten minutes of the war against Iran.
Traiman said the revelation underscored just how comprehensive Israeli air superiority had become and how completely Iran’s air defense network had failed during the opening phase of the operation.
In his words, Alex Traiman said, “The head of Rafael, Yoav Stein, was there and talked about the first ten minutes of the war and how Iran was not able to see 200 planes flying into its territory,” he said.
Traiman connected the disclosure to the broader point he made throughout the programme about the exceptional capability of Israeli fighter pilots and the technological superiority of Israel’s military aviation.
He noted that Israel had conducted these strikes as part of a coordinated effort alongside the United States under Operation Epic Fury, and that the combined campaign had succeeded in dismantling Iran’s nuclear weapons program and degrading its ballistic missile production capacity.
He said the full extent of what Israel achieved in that conflict had still not been adequately recognised by the international community.