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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday morning 6 Nissan announced at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, made the following remarks:
“We have an absolute obligation to the security of Israel’s citizens. In the context of this obligation, we are working systematically to strengthen the offensive capability of the State of Israel against its enemies. We are also working, to the same degree, to strengthen our defensive capability against our enemies.
“This afternoon, the Magic Wand missile defense interceptor will become operational. This is important news; all of Israel’s citizens experienced the important achievement of the Iron Dome system against short range missiles in the last Gaza campaign. Of course, we also developed the Arrow system against strategic long-range missiles, as well as other systems.
“Magic Wand acts in the intermediate range and is of great importance to Israel’s security. I would like to commend the people at the Defense Ministry, the IDF, the R&D people and everyone who worked to make this system operational. We are defending the home front.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Israels’s missile defense program started 31 years ago, with the joint US SDI and Israeli MAFAT Arrow project together with the Green Pine radar and other less well-known joint projects).
This represents hundreds of millions of dollars the US has invested during that time. The Israeli efforts inform the development of US ballistic missile defense systems and concepts.