Iron Dome

Israel’s defense ministry announced Monday that it had acquired a new laser beam system for downing projectiles — one that will not replace the Iron Dome missiles, but will run alongside it, and that will be much cheaper to operate.

The Israel Heritage Foundation led a historic mission to Israel with a high-level U.S. delegation to express solidarity with the Jewish state and its residents, as well as to gain a firsthand understanding of Israel’s existential struggle, meeting with prominent Israeli policymakers and visiting key sites, including the “Ground Zero” of Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

Iran’s state-controlled PressTV on Monday quoted officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who claimed they launched “hypersonic missiles” at Israel on Saturday night and that the fast-moving weapons were able to evade Israel, the U.S., and all of their allies to strike their targets in Israel.

Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq claimed responsibility for five drone and missile attacks against targets in Israel.

Democrats blocked American taxpayer funding for Israel’s Iron Dome multiple times during the last major conflict with Hamas in 2021.

The U.S. Marines will purchase three Iron Dome batteries from Israel, obtaining the advanced anti-missile system that the Jewish State has used to protect civilian areas from barrages of rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists.

Israel resumed airstrikes against Iran-backed Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday after the terror group launched rockets against Israeli civilians, breaking a ceasefire that had been under way.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday said Israel would not provide weapons to Ukraine, but would help the wartorn country build a civilian warning system against aerial threats.

Cyprus has signed paperwork towards the purchase of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system in a bid to counter the threat of Turkish drones, a Greek newspaper reported on Friday.

An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire began Sunday evening at 11:30 p.m. local time between Israel and the Iranian-backed terrorist militia known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) after two days of fighting in which Israel had the clear upper hand.

Rocket sirens were heard in the Jerusalem area on Sunday morning, in the first occurrence of missiles launched by Gaza terrorists towards the Israeli capital since Israel’s military operation began two days ago.

Israel will ask President Joe Biden to deliver an Israeli laser-based air defense system to Arab countries opposed to Iran, an Israeli TV report said Monday.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has made dramatic developments aimed at preparing for an attack on Iran, including integrating a precision one-ton bomb in the belly of its F-35s, and updating the stealth fighter jets for long-haul flights direct to the Islamic Republic.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said Israel was spearheading many efforts to hold talks between his country and Russia and suggested Jerusalem might host a peace summit between the two sides.

Hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a bitter speech to the Israeli parliament on Sunday condemning Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s mediation efforts with Russian President Vladimir Putin as an attempt to mediate “between good and evil,” the Ukrainain leader reversed course and said his country was “grateful” to Israel’s prime minister.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request to provide military assistance to the embattled eastern European nation, Israeli media reported Sunday.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the Israeli military have confirmed a successful test of the Arrow-3 missile defense system, which will help Israel defend against potential future aggression from nations such as Iran.

Jewish-American comedian Sarah Silverman slammed “her girls” in the Squad last week over their attempt to defund Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, and called the congresswomen out for failing to denounce the Hamas terror group, which launches the rockets that the Iron Dome intercepts.

Left-wing comedian Sarah Silverman voiced rare criticism of the radical “Squad” on Sunday, attacking the far-left for “proving” that only dead and suffering Jews are liked.

Vice President Kamala Harris applauded a student who accused Israel of “ethnic genocide” and who expressed “hurt” at the U.S.’ decision to fund the Iron Dome missile defense system.

AOC reaped a whirlwind of criticism this past week when she attempted to explain her “present” vote for a bill funding Israel’s Iron Dome.

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) said the Iron Dome also saves the lives of Palestinians because if Israel didn’t have the Iron Dome, it would take a “far greater, more

Friday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) reacted to the House of Representatives passing a stand-alone bill to provide Israel with $1 billion to fund its Iron Dome missile defense system. The bill’s passage came two days after the funding was removed from a larger spending bill following pressure from members of “The Squad.”

Pelosi’s concession to AOC and the Squad in dropping Iron Dome funding from the budget resolution is proof Democrats cannot be trusted to support Israel.

The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a stand-alone bill to provide Israel with $1 billion to fund its Iron Dome missile defense system, two days after the funding was removed from a wider spending bill following pressure from the Squad.

After House Democrats announced they will nix roughly $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system from the short-term government funding bill, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein blasted the move, calling Democrats who supported the move “overt Jew haters” while urging the president and Democrat leaders to issue a condemnation.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) stated that it’s “very telling” that House Democrats are “not lighting their hair on fire with regards to billions of U.S. weapons and equipment going

Facing growing unrest in the Democrat party, President Joe Biden plans to host meetings at the White House on Wednesday to save his $5 trillion domestic spending agenda.

The ranking member of the Rules Committee Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) knocked President Joe Biden and Democrats for defunding Israel’s Iron Dome, which is simply a defense mechanism to reduce deaths from launched rockets from terrorists.

Cotton pointed out House Democrats will nix $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome from its short-term government funding bill as Biden told the United Nations his administration will stand with its foreign allies.

Republicans slammed Democrats on Tuesday for defunding Israel’s Iron Dome within a government funding bill after several radical Democrats threatened to vote against the funding bill due to signing a resolution this summer to block arms sales to Israel.

The far-left Democrats forced out provisions to fund Israel’s Iron Dome from the continuing resolution (CR) that would keep the government funded and raise the debt ceiling, according to reports.

Three terror rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon on Wednesday, prompting thousands of people to take cover in bomb shelters.

I have introduced legislation that would redirect foreign assistance away from Hamas-controlled Gaza and toward efforts to replenish and upgrade Israel’s Iron Dome interceptors.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold in the early hours of Friday morning after the worst violence in years, with U.S. President Joe Biden joining the United Nations in urging renewed dialogue between the two combatants.

President Joe Biden said his administration had worked on “intensive high-level discussions” to bring about peace in the region and thanked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for negotiating a Hamas ceasefire.