How Israel Defended Itself Against Iran’s Missile Attacks

Iran fired 181 long-range ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday, each capable of killing dozens in a single strike. But, according to Israel Defense Forces’s spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, after the millions of Israelis emerged from the air raid shelters where they had hunkered down, he was not aware of a single casualty. How? The answer lies in Israel’s multi-layered missile defense system, built with the assistance of the United States. Tim Ripley, a military analyst and editor of the Defence Eye website, said Israel’s different missile defense systems come under the umbrella of a single structure. He told The Epoch Times: “The key thing is that all these different systems are integrated into a coherent network. They recognize that no one system has everything covered.”...