He also helped persuade key politicians to support the project. Gold was a strong backer of the antimissile project, even skirting army contracting regulations to secure financing. Daniel Gold as the head of the research and development bureau of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In 2004, the idea for Iron Dome gained momentum with the installation of Brig. defense officials cautioned that it would be 'doomed to fail'. Israel had floated the idea of its own short-range antimissile system, but U.S. Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, fired rockets into northern Israeli population centers in the 1990s, posing a security challenge for the Israel Defense Forces. See also: Second Lebanon War § Israeli civilians, and Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel

11.1.2 Analysis based on YouTube video footage.

7.3.1 July 2014 Operation Protective Edge.

7.2.3 November 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense.

7.1.2 August 2011 Supreme Court decision.

7.1.1 Response by Palestinian militants.

5 Plans for co-production with the United States.

In addition to their land-based deployment, it was reported in 2017 that Iron Dome batteries would in future be deployed at sea on Sa'ar 6-class corvettes, to protect off-shore gas platforms in conjunction with Israel's Barak 8 missile system. By late October 2014, the Iron Dome systems had intercepted over 1,200 rockets.

In November 2012, official statements indicated that it had intercepted over 400 rockets. In late 2012 Israel said that it hoped to increase the range of Iron Dome's interceptions, from a maximum of 70 kilometres (43 mi) to 250 kilometres (160 mi) and make it more versatile so that it could intercept rockets coming from two directions simultaneously. On 10 March 2012, The Jerusalem Post reported that the system shot down 90% of rockets launched from Gaza that would have landed in populated areas. On 7 April 2011, the system successfully intercepted a rocket launched from Gaza for the first time.

Iron Dome was declared operational and initially deployed on 27 March 2011 near Beersheba. The system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances of 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to 70 kilometres (43 mi) away and whose trajectory would take them to an Israeli populated area. Iron Dome ( Hebrew: כִּפַּת בַּרְזֶל, romanized: Kippat Barzel) is a mobile all-weather air defense system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries.

US Ambassador Dan Shapiro visits the Battle Management & Control (BMC) unit of the Iron Dome

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