Europe Continues to Appease Iran While Ignoring Its Terrorist Activities on EU Soil
Exhibit A: a plot to kill Americans in France, directed by Iran’s embassy in Vienna.
July 25, 2018
How Israel’s Breakthrough Missile-Defense System Came to Be
The story of Iron Dome.
On July 13 and 14, over 200 rockets and mortars were fired at Israel from Gaza, one of which hit a playground and another a synagogue. One reason why more projectiles failed to hit their targets is the Iron Dome missile-defense system, which shoots incoming ordinance out of the sky. In 2006, after Hizballah launched thousands of rockets into Israel during the Second Lebanon War, the Israeli firm Rafael tasked an engineer named Chanoch Levin, whose own town was bombarded that year, with building a system to protect against them. Dan Raviv tells the story of Levin and his collaborators:
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The UK’s Labor Party Has Banned Anti-Semitism—Except for the Kind Practiced by Its Members
Labor is now institutionally anti-Semitic.
Charles Krauthammer’s Gift to Jewish Music
Remedying the impoverishment of the American Jewish imagination.
An Ambitious New History of Everything Succeeds at All but Its Stated Purpose
A purely scientific understanding can’t give us a sense of direction.
How Israel’s Breakthrough Missile-Defense System Came to Be
The story of Iron Dome.