Despite, that the United States provides Ukraine with the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system, Israel does not intend to transfer anti-missile system to Kyiv “Iron dome”. Tel Aviv has several reasons for this., writes Brigadier General Jacob Nagel in an article for the American edition of The National Interest.
United States donates Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine, as if showing other countries, that the supply of advanced anti-aircraft systems to Kyiv is welcomed by Washington. However, Israel is unlikely to supply Zelensky with an air defense system. “Iron dome”, and there are several reasons for this..
Kyiv for quite a long time persistently sought from Tel Aviv the supply of Israeli military advanced systems, but always got rejected, although Israel provides other assistance to Kyiv. Despite repeated requests from Ukraine, The Ministry of Defense of the country refused to supply air defense systems “Iron dome”. According to General, Tel Aviv had four reasons for this.
At first, Israel fears, that in the case of delivery of this system to Ukraine, it will fall into the hands of Russian troops. It wouldn't be so scary, if Russia did not have Iran among its allies. Complex, with a high probability, will be handed over to Tehran with all the ensuing consequences.
Secondly, the Israeli army itself does not have enough anti-missile systems and giving them to another country in such a situation would be a crime. Thirdly, the complex is quite complex and the training of the Ukrainian military will take a long time. As Nagel stated, in the short term, air defense systems will not help Kyiv.
AND, fourthly, Israel does not want to spoil relations with Russia by supplying weapons to Ukraine. This reason, most likely, It is the main. In this way, Kyiv will not receive Israeli air defense systems, General sums up.
