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Israel and Greece Ink $3.5B Deal
Israel and Greece sign a $3.5 billion defense deal. Athens is buying "Achilles Shield," a layered missile-and-drone system combining David's Sling and Rafael's Drone Dome. It's the largest defense deal in Israel-Greece history. Defense…
Read this one →“Defense Minister Israel Katz didn't name Iran or Turkey outright, but nobody signs a $3.5 billion shield for the weather.”
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Julie Menin
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Dana Nessel
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Germany is building its first foreign military base since World War II, and it landed in the Lithuanian forest where about 400 Jewish partisans hid out and sabotaged Nazi convoys after escaping the Vilnius ghetto. Five thousand German soldiers move in this fall. The eight…
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