A US Senate panel approved an increase in US financial aid to Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system yesterday.
The Senate Appropriations defence subcommittee agreed to allocate $351 million to finance the anti- missile system during fiscal year 2015 beginning on October 1, compared to $235 million in 2014.
President Barack Obama requested only $179 million to support the system in 2015.
The US spent $700 million since 2011 to support developing the anti-missile system designed to counter short and medium range rockets and artillery shells.
The 2015 loans which include another $270 million to support other anti-missile systems need the approval of the Senate by September.
The US House of Representatives approved a similar amount in May.
In total, the US has agreed to spend $30 billion on military aid in Israel between 2009 and 2018.
In 2014, Israel received $3.1 billion in military aid.
Unless otherwise stated in the article above, this work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If the image(s) bear our credit, this license also applies to them. What does that mean? For other permissions, please contact us.
Spotted an error on this page? Let us know
