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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5271
Israel: Missile Fire on Tel Aviv Will Unleash Unprecedented Response
(Israel Hayom) IDF Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, Military Intelligence chief from 2006-2010 who heads the Institute for National Security Studies, told a conference on "Israel's Homefront Preparedness" on Thursday: "Israel is not threatened by 200,000 missiles, as previously claimed. It is under threat of perhaps 1,000 effective missiles and another 9,000 long-range rockets, but the rest of the 190,000 rockets in the region are inaccurate and short-range." In a future confrontation, "a few more" missiles would strike the greater Tel Aviv area "than the number that hit in 1991 [during the Gulf War] - but today we have the Arrow [anti-missile interception system], better intelligence and a better air force. A large number of the rockets will be stopped, but some of them will indeed hit." "When missiles start hitting Tel Aviv - and this will happen - and people will be killed, Israel's legitimacy to take action will drastically increase and our ability to do things that we have not done until today will be much greater," Yadlin added. Yadlin, a former deputy commander of the Israel Air Force, participated in the bombing of the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq in 1981.