The fiscal year 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama January 17, provides $235 million for Israel to procure the Iron Dome defense system to counter short-range rocket threats. The bill says of the $4.2 billion appropriated for defense-wide procurement and $17.1 billion for defense-wide research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E); $504 million shall be for the Israeli Cooperative Programs, in which the U.S. and Israel work together to help Israel develop and improve its indigenous…
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