Hundreds of millions of dollars a day. The costly war of Israel with Iran

The war against Iran costs Israel hundreds of millions of dollars a day – the American Wall Street Journal wrote on Thursday. The most expensive is the capture of Iranian missiles. In connection with high costs, Israel is under pressure to quickly end the war.

The most expensive are interception shells, needed to knock the rockets fired by Iran. Daily can cost from several dozen to even $ 200 million – experts estimate. Added to this is the costs of maintaining aviation in the air, fuel, ammunition, including bombs, renovations of destroyed buildings. According to some estimates, the reconstruction or renovation of previous damage would cost at least $ 400 million.

“In connection with the growing costs, Israel is under pressure to quickly end the war,” wrote “WSJ”.

Karnit Flug, a former president of the Israeli bank, currently representing Think Tank Israel Democracy Institute, emphasized that “the main factor that will actually determine the cost of war will be its length.” According to her, the Israeli economy will cope with the cost of a short campaign. “When it is a week, it is one. When it comes to two weeks or a month, this is a completely different story,” she added.

One -time activation of David Propy, an Israeli anti -cancer defense system, costs 700 thousand. dollars, assuming that there are two intercepting missiles in use, “said Yehoshua Kaliszy from the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. The cost of intercepting a ballistic missile by the Arrow 3 system is $ 4 million, and through the older version of Arrow 2 – 3 million USD.

“It is much more expensive in terms of day than war in the Gaza Strip or with Hezbollah. This is all because of the ammunition. This is a big expense,” said economist ZVI Eckstein, director of the Aaron Institute for Economic Policy at the Israeli University of Reichman, referring to offensive and defensive ammunition.

According to the Institute's estimates, the war with Iran will cost Israel around $ 12 billion for a month.

The Israeli authorities announced that the offensive could take two weeks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself gave no reason to think that he would end the attacks before achieving the set goals, i.e. before he eliminates the Iranian nuclear program and the production and arsenal of ballistic missiles.

From Washington Natalia Dziurdzińska (PAP)

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