Israel buying German corvettes

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Israel is acquiring four advanced Sa'ar-class corvettes from Germany over the next five years under a $480 million deal signed on Monday.

The deal was signed in Israel by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and visiting German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen.

The ships will be used as part of a program to protect Israel's expanded Economic Exclusion Zone in the Eastern Mediterranean, where recent explorations discovered major oil and gas resources, Defense Update and The Times of Israel reported.

As part of the arrangement, Germany is financing one-third of the cost for the corvettes. ThyssenKrupp will also purchase Israeli-made goods, invest in research and development and look into investing as much as $180 million in Israeli companies, Israeli officials were quoted as saying.

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2015/05/11/Israel-buying-German-corvettes/4911431374716/

BDS keeps rolling along.

[King_David]

1. Yea but I'm sure a whole bunch of people will not buy Israeli Matzah

from their local supermarket- that kind of BDS .

[geek tragedy]

2. Did Bibi convince Merkel to torpedo the Iran talks?

He failed with Obama, maybe Germany will do Israel a solid.

Or maybe not.