(Reuters) Ari Rabinovitch - Israel's new offshore gas platforms offer its enemies an obvious target. Israel Navy Captain Ilan Lavi, head of the navy's planning department, said, "The gas fields are a strategic asset and Israel will defend them." "We have to build an entire new defensive envelope," he said, citing possible threats such as boat bombs, drones, submarine vessels, rockets and missiles.
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