US to Fund Sale of F-35 Jets to Israel

Israel has signed a contract to 'purchase' 20 US-built and -funded F-35 stealth fighter jets, a deal the Tel Aviv regime boasts as "an event of great strategic and historic significance.”

Tel Aviv's Defense Ministry Director General Udi Shani signed the agreement, worth nearly $3 billion, during a ceremony in New York on Thursday, Israeli daily Haaretz reports, noting that "the entire deal will be funded by the American military."

According to the deal, Israel will receive the attack aircrafts between 2015 and 2017, at a price of $96 million per plane, together with simulators and spare parts, with a total price tag of $2.75 billion. The deal also grants the Israeli regime the option of ordering 75 more jets.'

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