Germany rearms with Israeli weapons – As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spurs the German government to rebuild its military, Israel offers much of what it lacks. | Globes

Last month, Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a special address to the Bundestag and the German public, in which he declared a „turning point“ in the modern history of the country. The era of a shrinking German military is over, he said. The days in which only three German combat aircraft are operational, and no submarine can put to sea because of technical problems, are at an end. The time has come to invest in the Bundeswehr, which steadily withered after the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Cold War. There’s a new war in the neighborhood. Russia invaded Ukraine unprovoked, and the biggest battles on European soil since the Second World War are taking place just hundreds of kilometers east of the German capital. „Soon,“ Scholz promised, „Germany will have the largest conventional army in Europe within NATO.“