Middle East

As World Seeks War’s End, Israelis Hold Out for Full Victory

Emergency teams attend the site of an Iranian missile attack, in Tel Aviv, on March 24.Photographer: Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg

Every day, as energy prices rise, flights are canceled and death and destruction fill screens, people across the world ask when the Iran war — widely viewed as poorly planned, unwinnable and a peril to global well-being — will stop.

Not in Israel, where the public is strongly behind seeing the war through until Iran can’t threaten the country with ballistic missiles, a nuclear weapon or regional proxies.