Jerusalem Post – Israel bolstered its defense ties with NATO on Monday after announcing that the navy would participate, for the first time, in a summertime exercise with the Western military alliance.
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Category Archives: IsraeliNavy
Israeli Navy – Israel Navy seizes load of high-grade explosives off Gaza
New York Times – The Israeli navy intercepted and seized more than half a ton of high-grade explosives that a Palestinian fishing boat was attempting to bring in to Gaza from nearby Egypt.
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Israeli Navy – Navy quits sending ships through Suez
Jerusalem Post – The Israel Navy has decided to cease sending its warships through the Suez Canal, out of concern they will be targeted by global jihad terrorists.
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Israeli Navy – Israel to participate in NATO submarine drill
Haaretz – Israel will take part for the first time in a naval NATO exercise, Sorbet Royal, due to begin on Friday in the Gulf of Taranto in Italy.
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Israeli Navy – UPI Intelligence Watch
UPI – The Israeli navy is exercising with NATO navies for the first time.
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Israeli Navy – Navy's plans to procure new vessels frozen
Jerusalem Post – Israel has frozen ambitious plans for the purchase of large vessels that would have turned the Israeli Navy from a coast guard into a strategic arm of the defense apparatus.
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Israeli Navy – Navy mulls new missile boats
Haaretz – The Israel Navy is examining two new missile boats, Saar 5+, and a new Barak 8 sea-to-sea missile system for defending ships over ranges of more than 100 kilometers, after incoming Admiral David Ben Besht decided to cancel a plan to acquire 10,000-ton warships.
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Israeli Navy – Navy steps up at-sea boardings to counter terror threat
Jerusalem Post – In a concerted effort to boost security against the threat of terrorism from the sea, the Israeli Navy has dramatically increased the number of surprise at-sea boardings on merchant ships heading to Israeli ports.
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Israeli Navy – Israel to buy 2 more German Dolphin subs
Jerusalem Post – OC Navy Adm. David Ben-Bashat has reportedly confirmed that Israel is to purchase two more Dolphin-class submarines from Germany and that the contract will be signed this coming spring.
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Israeli Navy – The navy is well prepared
Haaretz – The foreign submarine that secretly entered Israel’s territorial waters and quickly left upon being discovered by the Israel Navy was probably American or French, experts say. The possibility that it was Iranian, Egyptian or Syrian has been ruled out completely.
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Israeli Navy – Israel says submarine infiltrated its coastal waters
Associated Press – A foreign submarine slipped into Israeli waters last week, cruising the coastline near Lebanon before being detected and departing, Israeli authorities said Monday.
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Israeli Navy – Navy acquires three new fast-class ships
Jerusalem Post – The Israel Navy has commissioned three Israeli-made Super Dvora Mk-III fast patrol ships in a generational leap for its protection of the coast.
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Israeli Navy – New Navy Commander takes over
Jerusalem Post – Rear Admiral David Ben-Bashat took command of the Israeli navy last week.
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