A senior air force office quoted anonymously by Walla News explained that while the Iron Dome defense system performed admirably during the recent days of rocket fire from Gaza, the system is not perfect and one of the rockets that it failed to intercept landed in Ashdod, resulting in injuries and significant damage.
The officer explained that with the beginning of the warfare before Shabbos, intelligence officials began gathering information pertaining to Islamic Jihad, permitting the air force to eliminate many of the rocket-firing cells during the days of warfare, hitting 33 of these terror cells. He explained that since erev Shabbos when the fighting began, over 220 rockets were fired at Israel.
Responding to fears that the cost of the Tamir intercept missiles used by the Iron Dome may compel defense establishment officials to ‘think twice’ before using them, he stated there is no basis in reality to such fears for the safety of citizens remains the ultimate priority.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This is what is known as building a hospital beneath the broken bridge….
“Iron Dome Isn’t Perfect”
Give me a break! No defensive system is perfect. A perfect system would, by definition, cost an infinite amount of money.
This is a reasonable defense system, and has worked hard to mitigate the Cost Exchange at the Margin (CEATM) problem, discussed in the last paragraph. While each Tamir might cost $100,000, the real cost measure of effectiveness is cost per defended kill. That number is driven down by only shooting at threats headed for urban areas.
Of course, listening to the gedolim and NOT taking over Eretz Yisrael biChoma would have been far cheaper than any of this.
#3 HaKatan…
And since the umos ha’olam having been slaughtering us ALL over the world for millenia, INCLUDING in Eretz Yisrael BEFORE the “terrible” Zionists and the ‘medina’ (l’mashal – the Hevron massacre in 1929) – exactly where would you suggest that Jews SHOULD live?
If you follow the news you know that Europe is now reverting to it’s 1938 ways.
Perhaps you will say the U.S.?
Yeah, right… we may still have another couple of semi-safe years here.
If you can not see that after the unprecedented horror of the Shoah, that -after 2,000 years- the establishment of Israel (even with it’s many serious faults) WITH the haskama of a world body, is from HaSh-m, you are closing your mind.
I find it very strange that the nightmare of the Holocaust can be accepted by frum Yidden as min haShamayim, but the creation of the State of Israel just a few years after the Holocaust, was min haTziyonim.