[HIGHLIGHTS] The lesson from the night of the interceptions: we received a gift of enormous value from Iran

The Iranian threat also had a positive side: Israel received a live experiment for free that was worth huge sums. The success will fuel the local industry, while Iran will be forced to give explanations to the Russians and Chinese.

The development of defense systems against aircraft and missiles costs the Ministry of Defense in Israel together with the generous help from the American defense budget tens of billions of shekels over the years. The experiments, the deductions, and the learning of the lessons cost a fortune. We need vast airspace and spaces that we have not tried before, far from the prying eyes of the enemy. The Israeli system was able to intercept high-altitude targets outside the atmosphere during a series of tests, using the American Missile Defense Agency, MDA, on July 3, 2019. The air defense plant of the Aerospace Industry, "Integrated Combat Systems," as well as other Israeli defense industries participated in the test field. The "Wall" Administration at the Ministry of Defense, the Department for Research, Development of Military Intelligence, and Technological Infrastructures in the. Ministry of. Defense, together with the American Missile Defense Agency, MDA, conducted a series of successful tests of Arrow 3 in Alaska. The Arrow 3 system had previously also managed to intercept a number of Iranian-made ballistic missiles launched from Yemen by the Houthis, Iran's proxies. The Iranians gave Israel a "gift" of an experiment in space and field conditions. Israel's civilian R&D expenditures as a percentage of GDP are the highest in the world, 6.1% of GDP in 2022, compared to 2.8% in South Korea. The IDF cultivates outstanding and dedicated technological personnel for the fields of research and development in the IDF and the security systems, including Talpiot and Psagot. The investment in Israel's missile and defense systems is also bearing fruit, writes Yossi Ben-Ghiat, an analyst at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDS) in Tel Aviv, in a letter to Haaretz. The letter was written by Ben-Ghiat on behalf of MDA, which was founded in 2002 and represents Israel's aerospace industry. It is hoped that not only the Aerospace Industry Orders for the supply of the system are guaranteed from various countries in the world.