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      <title>The IDF will need to drastically update its multi-year program</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Participant Kim Scop from South Africa, who hadn’t seen her son for four months, said “all of us understand that every day is a worry.”]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Brig. Gen. (Res.) Dr. Sasson Hadad, a former financial adviser to the Israel Defense Forces’ Chief of Staff, said a gap exists of two billion to three billion shekels between the Defense Ministry’s request and the approved budget of 58 billion shekels.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Israeli military is developing a new system to intercept rockets at their ascent stage, using a network of sensors and missiles to destroy active enemy launchers within 10 to 15 seconds.]]></description>
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