Israel considering anti-missile system

Israel is considering a system of anti-missile batteries that would be able to intercept short-range missiles. Such a system, were it to encompass all of Israel, would cost some $2.5 billion and take two to three years to build, officials said this week – coincidentally, the same cost and time frame of the West Bank security barrier.The battery would protect Israel from the missiles used by Hezbollah in Lebanon during last summer’s war and from those that terrorists in the Gaza Strip continue to use.