NPR's John Nielsen reports that the United States and Israel have agreed to install a new set of anti-missile defenses in Israel, as part of an effort to keep enemy rockets from ever hitting Israeli soil. Recent attempts to bomb the hiding places of Hezbollah guerillas firing rockets at Israel have had one disastrous side effect--heavy civilian casualties. That seems to be one of the reasons why Israel and the United States will rush to finish testing and installing an anti-missile system whose key components exist only as prototypes.

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