Meet the man who invented the Iron Dome
Two Nice Jewish Boys is a weekly Israeli podcast in English. Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein offer you a glimpse of Israel and some of the interesting people here. Since February 2017 Two Nice Jewish Boys is featured on the website of the Jewish Journal, America’s top Jewish news outlet. Naor Meninger is an independent filmmaker. He’s obsessed with Italy and runs the Israeli parmesan black-market. Eytan Weinstein is an interactive scriptwriter. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and pronounces the word “drawer” funny.
In 2019 Israel spent about 20 billion dollars on defence. That’s around 11 percent of its annual budget and puts Israel amongst some of the highest spenders on defence. All in all, makes sense.
What doesn’t make sense is that starting in the early 2000s, Israel was seeing a barrage of constant rocket fire from Gaza injuring hundreds, killing dozens and terrorising entire communities.
Sometimes all the money in the world won’t solve a problem. For that you need bright minds all set to a singular goal. And of course, someone to manage them.
Chanoch Levin was that man. Chanoch was the project manager for Iron Dome, the anti missile defence system developed by Israel and the US to counter the constant rocket fire from the Gaza strip. Against all odds Chanoch and his team at Rafael were able to achieve the unimaginable.
The story of Iron Dome is being told through a new documentary series featuring Chanoch Levin and other top Israeli brass responsible for making this miraculous missile defence system come to life. The new 3-part documentary series is now available to stream, worldwide outside of Israel, exclusively on IZZY.
Today, we’re extremely honoured to be joined by Chanoch Levin to talk about the Iron Dome defence system.
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