Anti-Semitism, Iran & Prophecy: Your End Times Questions Answered: [About 1 hour, starts after the 3-minute mark.] I recently returned home to Israel after a trip through Texas, Tennessee and Ohio. As I waited to deplane from my American Airlines flight in Newark, there was that usual crush of humanity—people standing up, wanting to leave, waiting in line for everybody to get their luggage. But then it happened. A middle-aged and unhappy looking guy next to me began muttering nasty antisemitic comments about me. “Pushy Jew. Always pushy, always trying to get ahead. The Jew can’t wait his turn. No patience, no manners.” Everybody was stuck. Everybody was standing there in the same situation, but he was, of course, singling me out because I was wearing my kippah, openly identifiable as a Jew. I resisted the urge to engage and kept telling myself “Elie, don’t make a scene. Don’t get arrested. You need to get home to Israel!” Standing there in that aisle, I realized that I had been on edge for the entire trip. Walking through airports, sitting in restaurants, checking into hotels—always aware of my kippah, always scanning faces, always wondering what people were thinking. Would someone say something? Would there be a look, a comment, worse? Every identifiable Jew outside of Israel lives with this constant awareness. Then I stepped onto my El Al flight home from Newark to Tel Aviv. The chaos hit me immediately—children crying, people praying in the aisles—all the usual craziness of an El Al flight. Yet I felt overwhelmed with relief. Not because I was physically safer, but because I was done calculating, scanning faces and measuring reactions. Here I was, surrounded by my people, no longer wondering who despised me or what they were thinking. A Jew can downplay his Jewishness—hide it, speak another language, change his name, his clothing, his customs—and live a quiet, peaceful life in most cities around the world. Those who argue for this are technically right. If personal comfort is the highest value, there are easier paths to it than living in Israel. There is no other country on earth—and it’s doubtful there ever was—where you can live openly as a Jew and be proud of it the way you can in Israel. When Jews in Sydney gathered to light the Chanukah menorah, they were making a statement: we will not hide. We will celebrate publicly. We are here. And they paid for that pride with their blood. The attack lasted ten long minutes—minutes in which people were hunted and fled for their lives, until finally a righteous non-Jew tackled one of the terrorists. In Israel, very few attacks in city centers last more than a minute. In most cases, the terrorist is neutralized almost immediately—sometimes with bare hands, sometimes with sticks and stones. ... Israel is the only place in the world where a Jew can live openly and proudly as a Jew, knowing that if danger comes, other Jews will respond—immediately, forcefully, without hesitation. That readiness to fight for one another exists nowhere else on earth. https://israel365news.com/414892/yes-america-is-safer-for-jews-who-hide/ The Israel Air Force (IAF) on Thursday unveiled its relatively new unit for preventing October 7-style ground invasions of Israel, following the country’s complete unpreparedness for that role in 2023. Conceptually, the idea is that helicopters should be deployable, some within several minutes and some within an hour, to mow down and bomb invaders, such that the ground border defenses are not left alone. This shift also involves increasing the volume of helicopters, drones, and fighter jets, which are constantly ready for border defense and are more broadly assigned to border defense efforts. In addition, the number of air force platforms that can act within several minutes, and the volume of bombs that the IAF can drop within an hour, is much higher than before. Moreover, the rules of engagement for helicopters now give much more discretion to open fire based on each individual pilot’s assessment of the threat on the ground than was the case prior to October 7. Finally, if there are communications problems between land and air force units, there are now five alternate channels for those units to communicate in the event of a crisis, so that they will not be cut off from each other as occurred on October 7. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-881382 Israel has begun using its new Iron Beam air-defense system, which will be able to shoot down drones and missiles with lasers, the Defense Ministry told Israeli media. Since the summer, Israel has used the lighter, laser-based air-defense system Lite Beam against drones. Unlike Lite Beam, Iron Beam will also be able to shoot down robots, rockets and grenades, the newspaper writes. The Ministry of Defense and the military expect that Iron Beam will lead to significantly lower costs than Israel's current air-defense system, which can cost the equivalent of several million kronor per fired air-defense missile. https://swedenherald.com/article/israels-new-air-defense-laser-enters-service 
Yes, America is safer—for Jews who hide:
Israeli Air Force unveils new rapid-response unit to stop October 7-style ground invasions:
Israel's new air defense laser enters service: