(Times of Israel) Judah Ari Gross - Israel and the U.S. kicked off their biennial ballistic missile defense exercise - Juniper Cobra - on Sunday. Over "1,700 U.S. Service members, civilians and contractors" will take part in the multi-day drill, the eighth such exercise since the Juniper Cobra program began in 2001," said Maj.-Gen. Mark Loeben of U.S. EUCOM. "Support for Israel's defense has been an integral part of U.S. policy in the region for decades, and this exercise has, and will continue, to directly support that policy."
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