MTHEL IN SDEROT: That would have been the ideal. According to International Online Defense Magazine, MTHEL (Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser):

uses directed energy (laser beam) to intercept aerial targets such as rockets, missiles, artillery shells and other aerial threats. The target destruction is achieved by projecting a highly focused, high-power laser beam, delivered by a chemical laser, with enough energy to affect the target, and explode it in midair. This operational concept is offering the first "reusable" interception element. Existing interceptors use kinetic energy kill vehicles (such as fragmentation warheads), which are not reusable.

The problem, as Gabriel Schoenfeld explains:

Both the Pentagon and Israel were investing heavily in it up until 2005, when spending was abruptly cut. Although not much discussed, that decision seems to have been a far worse Israeli blunder than any committed in the course of last summer’s war.

Watch the video below (audio is uneven), which includes footage of MTHEL against Katushyas:

How about spending some money on Israel's defense instead of arming--and releasing--Palestinian terrorists?

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