Great Technical Achievement

Israel has over the years found herself under attack by various missiles and rockets. American produced Patriot anti-missile missile batteries provided a limited degree of protection from longer range missiles such as the Scuds launched by Saddam Hussein's forces during the First Gulf War from Iraq. These Patriots and similar indigenously produced Israeli anti-missile missiles provided absolutely no defense against shorter range rockets like Kassams and Grad Katyusha rockets. Now, Israel has for the first time on earth managed to develop a system that can actually knock down these tools of terror and murder harmlessly from the sky. Israel has used a locally created system called Iron Dome to knock out incoming terrorist launched rockets. Israel has almost miraculously hit a bullet with a bullet, but much work still needs to be done to insure the safety of innocents in Israel and other places where rockets may be employed to terrorize civilian communities.