?Globes? reports a "Defense News" story that according to Director-General Gen. (Ret.) Yosi Ben-Hanan of SIBAT, the Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Department of the Israel Ministry of Defense, Israeli defense industries have signed new contracts for the sale of arms and other systems worth $2.6 billion this year, notwithstanding calls in Europe for an arms embargo against Israel.



?Defense News? quotes Israeli defense sources as saying armies are interested in purchasing equipment tested under fire in the IDF's operations in the Judea, Samaria and Gaza.