U.S. provides Israel with $205 mln in anti-rocket system funding

U.S. provides Israel with $205 mln in anti-rocket system funding

PanARMENIAN.Net - Barack Obama's administration has allocated $205 million toward funding Israel's advanced anti-rocket system, the Iron Dome.

The House of Representatives made the decision 212-206 after it passed a continuing resolution regarding funds for the 2011 fiscal year.

"This was a priority of Congress and President Obama, and it is the first funding of its kind for this important short-range rocket and artillery shell defense system," said Representative Steve Rothman (D-NJ), a member of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.

The funds are in addition to the more than $200 million allocated for the Arrow and David's Sling, joint U.S.-Israel anti-missile systems, Haaretz reported.

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