[Jerusalem Post] Dan Izenberg and Ehud Zion Waldoks - Israel will have a shield that will protect it from "about 90% of Shihab to Kassam rocket attacks within a few years," Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset State Control Committee on Tuesday. However, none of the systems will be able to stop mortar shells as they are too small and their flight time too short to be intercepted. Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi told the committee that if a new threat should arise of the scale of the 2006 war, the government should declare an emergency situation (which it did not do in 2006) and mobilize all the home front forces. Ashkenazi also said that the missile threat to the home front was not going to disappear anytime soon.
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