Israel Beefs Up Egypt Border Defenses

An Iron Dome air-defence system has been installed two days after rockets were fired at an Israeli border town.

The Israeli army has deployed an Iron Dome air-defence system, designed to intercept and destroy rockets, just days after two rockets were fired at the town of Eilat near the border with Egypt, according to a military spokeswoman.

The Iron Dome is a mobile, all-weather air-defence system for countering short-range rockets fired from distances of 4-70km away whose trajectory would take them to a populated area.

"An Iron Dome battery has been deployed in the town of Eilat as part of tests, momentarily modifying the sites where these systems are deployed," the spokeswoman said on Monday but did not give further details.

The system was created as a defensive countermeasure to the rocket threat against Israel's civilian population on its northern and southern borders.