Precision Rockets Pose a Strategic Threat to Israel—by Targeting Civilians
Thoughts from the man who created Israel’s missile defense.
October 23, 2018
Precision Rockets Pose a Strategic Threat to Israel—by Targeting Civilians
Thoughts from the man who created Israel’s missile defense.
In 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, Saddam Hussein began bombarding Israel with Scud missiles. The U.S., having prevailed upon Jerusalem not to retaliate or to destroy Iraqi missile launchers, provided its ally with Patriot anti-missile missiles—which proved entirely ineffective. Then the Israeli Ministry of Defense, overcoming longstanding objections from the IDF brass, decided to develop its own missile-defense system, and put Uzi Rubin in charge of it; his efforts led to the multilayered system that now protects the Jewish state from rockets of all kinds. In an interview with Yonah Jeremy Bob, Rubin assesses the current strategic threats to Israel from the precision rockets now used by Hizballah and Iran:
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