Berlin to provide Israel with 6th submarine

01.12.2011                      05.Kislev. 5772

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Berlin to provide Israel with 6th submarine

Germany to build and pay one-third of cost of Dolphin-type submarine, Israel's sixth in its fleet.

Germany will build and pay up to one-third of the cost of a sixth Dolphinclass submarine to be delivered to the navy, a German government official said on Wednesday.
The agreement in principle to provide the submarine, which foreign reports say enhances Israel’s second strike capability since it can carry nuclear warheads, comes a month after reports that Germany was reconsidering the deal because of anger at the announcement of plans to build some 1,100 housing units in the capital’s Gilo neighborhood, over the Green Line….