CONGRESS TO VOTE ON FUNDS FOR ISRAELI MISSILE DEFENSE. US to fund defense systems for Israel:

Congress to vote on DoD budget proposal asking for tens of millions of dollars for development, purchase of new systems to defend Israeli skies against ballistic missiles

Unfortunately, this seems to be a case of both too little and too late:

David's Sling, a collaborative effort between Israel's RAFAEL (Armaments Development Authority) and US military contractor Raytheon, is expected to be operational within four years and is designed to defend against Fajar missiles, which during the Second Lebanon War were fired at Israeli cities. The system does not provide defense against the shorter range Katyusha rockets however.

And the defense that could have stopped the Kayushas--had its funding stopped.

See MTHEL and Sderot.

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