A major joint exercise between the IDF and US forces in Europe will begin Wednesday. The exercise, called Juniper Cobra 10, was "not being held in response to political events," an IDF statement said, but had been planned far in advance, and was the fifth in a series of ongoing exercises.
The exercise will entail troop movements on land, sea, and air, and Israelis were warned that they might see units of the US Army on patrol near civilian areas.