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A drone was launched toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea, Israel, on Saturday, according to his office. The prime minister and his wife were not at home at the time.
Two other drones were downed by Israeli air defenses on Saturday. The two drones triggered air defense sirens in Tel Aviv but for some reason, no sirens went off in the coastal enclave of Caesarea a short distance away. The IDF says the incident is under review.
As Ukraine discovered early in its war with Russia, drones present a particularly difficult challenge even for modern air defenses.
New York Times:
But drones — which are cheaper for its adversaries to acquire and operate — have occasionally evaded Israel’s air defenses. Experts say they pose a particular challenge for Israel because they emit less heat, often contain less metal and fly at lower altitudes and slower speeds than the rockets and missiles its air defenses are primarily designed to thwart.
On Saturday, as the Israeli military tried to determine how one drone had evaded the system in Caesarea, it said that dozens of other “projectiles” had entered Israel from Lebanon.
