US provides $500m to Israel under national covid relief bill
US Congress in session [Lawrence Jackson/Wikipedia] December 22, 2020 at 1:45 pm
The United States has passed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill to support industries and workers affected by the ongoing pandemic, of which hundreds of millions of dollars have been granted to Israel and its defence.
In the bill passed by US Congress yesterday – part of an overall $2.3 trillion package – the act under the heading of Procurement, Defense-Wide detailed a total of $500 million for the Israeli Cooperative Programs .
Of that amount, $73,000,000 shall be for the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Government of Israel for the procurement of the Iron Dome defense system to counter short-range rocket threats.