Israel denies the presence of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems S-300 in Syria. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon told a meeting of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs and the defense committee that the defense ministry is worried about "the possibility that Russia will export to Syria its S-300s. According to the latest information, currently this is not the case, and if the delivery takes place, it will only happen in 2014," Israeli media report.
The Israeli authorities recommend that Russia does not make a deal with Syria, and claim that the S-300 is one of the most advanced air defense systems in the world, and it will allow the Syrians to monitor and, if necessary, to "close" almost the entire Israeli airspace, and the civil war in the neighboring country makes it possible that weapons will end up in the hands of the radicals.
Last week, Ya'alon publicly stated that Israel "will know how to act," when the S-300s are in Syria. At the same time, the local press quoted the head of the National Security Council, Yaakov Amidror, who did not rule out the use of force to prevent the assembly of anti-missile systems.
