Defense Minister Israel Katz said space capabilities would provide the IDF with an advantage in future conflicts as Israel seeks to become a leading space power.
Elon Musk will probably gift them rockets. Given that his decision to cut USAid has already killed thousands of children, he certainly doesn’t seem to mind dead kids.
America will do it for them. Israel doesnt have much of a space program that can even come remotely close developing any of these goals on its own, they use a deep partnership with NASA …aka they are gifted data and designs by bribed US politicians… or they flat out steal it, like they did with all of their nuclear material stolen from the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair
they also dont have an economy large enough to fund researching any of this out or doing it. Israels entire GDP (PPP based) is only 600 billion. The tiny state of Massachusetts alone has a GDP of 780 billion… about 25% larger than Israels… just Massaschusetts. The city of Boston has a GDP of 610 million. And the whole US gdp is ~50 times what Israels is.
So… How are they going to launch them?
Reads a bit like the obsession a certain dictator had with wunderwaffe.
Elon Musk will probably gift them rockets. Given that his decision to cut USAid has already killed thousands of children, he certainly doesn’t seem to mind dead kids.
I know they are banking on that, but strategically it’s not the soundest investment.
America will do it for them. Israel doesnt have much of a space program that can even come remotely close developing any of these goals on its own, they use a deep partnership with NASA …aka they are gifted data and designs by bribed US politicians… or they flat out steal it, like they did with all of their nuclear material stolen from the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair
they also dont have an economy large enough to fund researching any of this out or doing it. Israels entire GDP (PPP based) is only 600 billion. The tiny state of Massachusetts alone has a GDP of 780 billion… about 25% larger than Israels… just Massaschusetts. The city of Boston has a GDP of 610 million. And the whole US gdp is ~50 times what Israels is.
Israel is reading out a list of what they will order Americans to provide for them for free so they can pretend they developed it themselves. Same as with the Israeli F-35 program and their naval tech. See how they pretend they have extended the F-35 with native tech to make it vastly superior to the US f-35: https://defense.info/air-power-dynamics/2025/06/israels-f-35i-adir-a-strategic-game-changer-in-middle-east-air-power/
They are bullshitters, pedophiles, criminals, and welfare queens.
Israel has some launch capability, though they have to launch retrograde and don’t have that much payload capacity to LEO because of it.
Thats interesting didn’t know that