{"id":541358,"date":"2026-07-14T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/541358\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:55:09","slug":"saar-czech-fm-discuss-sale-of-israeli-air-defense-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/541358\/","title":{"rendered":"Sa&#8217;ar, Czech FM discuss sale of Israeli air defense systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Czech Republic is in talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-901739\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli firms<\/a> to buy a number of air defense systems, Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference with Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-901640\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gideon Sa&#8217;ar<\/a>, Macinka said the Czechs were looking at the Spyder, Arrow, and other defense systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Regarding the Spyder, yes, we are discussing we&#8217;re discussing air defense systems with Israel because these systems are technologically on top,&#8221; Macinka said when asked about buying Israeli defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that he wants to make his country&#8217;s stance on Israel clear, vowing that the Czech Republic would continue strengthening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-897553\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">political and economic cooperation<\/a> between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>During the conference, Sa&#8217;ar expressed his gratitude for the Czech Republic&#8217;s friendship and allyship, thanked them for \u201cnot allowing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-896860\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European Union<\/a> to be turned into a tool for promoting anti-Israeli policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He emphasized Israel\u2019s importance as an ally for Europe, highlighting Israeli innovation in the fields of defense and security in the face of growing anti-Israel sentiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cIsrael is becoming an increasingly significant country in the defense of Europe itself, and Europe benefits from its activities in the field of security,\u201d Sa\u2019ar asserted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Czech Republic is in talks with Israeli firms to buy a number of air defense systems, Czech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57910,65,85,46,20493,43],"class_list":["post-541358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-czech-republic","tag-gideon-saar","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israeli-air-defence-system","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}