US Iron Dome funding holdup feeds internal Israeli political dispute - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Sep 23, 2021

PAUL HANDLEY/AFP via Getty Images — (L to R) Benny Gantz, Israel's alternate prime minister and defense minister, presents US Defense Secretary Mark Esper with a model of the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system as they pose together with Israeli Lt. Tovah Winick, a US-born Iron Dome launch site commander, in front of an Iron Dome launcher in Tel Aviv on Oct. 29, 2020. — PAUL HANDLEY/AFP via Getty Images

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