(Sunday Telegraph-UK) Raf Sanchez - No other country in the developed world is shot at as often as Israel - making it a forge of innovation for air defense systems. 1,300 rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel last year, according to the military, while a handful of missiles came from Syria and southern Lebanon. Later this year, Israel's military will become the first in the world to demonstrate a laser weapon for bringing down rockets. "The big question, the one that worries us, is whether we can stay ahead of our enemies," Col. Gil Dolov, deputy commander of Israel's Air Defense Array, told the Sunday Telegraph. "Right now, we are in a good position and we are at least one step ahead." Since it came online in 2011, Israel's Iron Dome has successfully intercepted more than 2,000 incoming rockets.
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