The rockets were designed to enable interception of ballistic missiles beyond the earth’s atmosphere, both to provide a solution to missiles carrying nuclear warheads and to increase the odds of intercepting enemy missiles.
Israel’s Supreme Court last week ruled in favor of women being allowed to read from the Torah in the women’s section at the Western Wall and barred them from being searched.
The president at his final news conference reiterated that the U.S. abstention on a U.N. anti-settlements resolution was a bid to preserve the two-state solution.