Photo Credit: Ministry of Defense/FLASH90

Israel TV Channel 2 News reported that as of Saturday night a fifth battery of Iron Dome rocket intercetion system will be positioned at the border with the Gaza Strip.

According to the IDF, the Iron Dome systems have hit 80 rockets since the Gaza mission began. This is an incredible rate of close to 30% of all the rockets fired from Gaza.

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Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.