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Israel Summit Spurs Closer Cooperation with Mideast Allies on Iranian Drones
(Ha'aretz) Yaniv Kubovich - The foreign ministers who attended the Negev Summit in Israel this week reached understandings on defending their airspace from Iranian threats, Israeli defense officials said. Recent attacks by Iran and its proxies against Saudi infrastructure have prompted Israel and a number of Arab countries to develop a joint mechanism for detecting and intercepting missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. Since Israel's partner countries are geographically closer to Iran and Iraq - where a number of Iran-backed militias operate - this enables the Israeli Air Force to detect imminent threats earlier. Senior defense officials have said that coordinated air defense has in fact already occurred.