Anna Ahronheim

Anna Ahronheim is the editor for Defense & Tech by The Jerusalem Post . With a keen interest in the Middle East, terrorism, and terrorist groups, she moved from Canada to Israel and received her MA in Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security at the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzilya, Israel. She started her career at i24News before moving to The Jerusalem Post where she was the military reporter.

 A smartphone with the PayPal logo is placed on a laptop in this illustration taken on July 14, 2021.

PayPal layoffs hit Israel as payment giant restructures global operations

(illustrative) A submarine firing a missile.

From Dolphin to Dakar: 'Dragon' submarine reveals Israel’s changing undersea posture - analysis

A command center where Xtend drones can be operated from a distance with minimal human intervention, in an undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on January 29, 2025.

Israeli drone company XTEND to begin trading on the NYSE


Estonia eyes Israel's David Sling for missile defense against Russia

Tallinn is also looking at the American Patriot and the Franco-Italian SAMP/T to protect strategic sites

A David's Sling interceptor launching during the Israel-Hamas war; illustrative.

Achilles Shield: Israel, Greece sign over NIS 10b. air defense deal against Turkey

The agreement, negotiated over three years, will become the largest defense export deal in Israel’s history.

Representatives from Israel and Greece sign a defense deal with over NIS 10 billion, August 31, 2026.

Finland, Israel quietly extend defense agreement for 10 years

The agreement was signed in 2024, during the height of the war in Gaza, and despite strong criticism from Finnish opposition

Finland's flag

Castelion raises $1 billion to accelerate US hypersonic weapons production

The raise demonstrates that Washington is accelerating investment in industrial capacity for high‑speed precision weapons amid intensifying global tensions.

Castelion's Blackbeard hypersonic missile

Cellebrite launches tactical digital forensics kit for military units

Cellebrite's Tactical Extraction Kit (C-TEK) is a ruggedized, all-in-one mobile forensics field kit that fits into in a standard-size backpack

Cellebrite's Tactical Extraction Kit (C-TEK), a ruggedized, all-in- one mobile forensics field kit fits in a standard-size backpack

Jeen Defense wins 14.9m NIS defense AI contract

Jeen Technologies' subsidiary secures its largest Defense Ministry order, accelerating deployment of its sovereign AI platform designed to support intelligence, operations, and decision-making

Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv

ParaZero wins first US government order for DefendAir counter-drone system

ParaZero says it has seen growing interest in DefendAir from defense forces, government organizations, security agencies, and defense companies across several international markets

ParaZero's DefendAir neutralizes hostile drones by intercepting them with nets

US Navy reveals ultra-long-range air-to-air AIM-424 Malice missile with over 460 km. range

The Navy states its range is “in excess of 250 nautical miles,” placing it well beyond conventional beyond‑visual‑range weapons such as the AIM‑120 AMRAAM.

An AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile (LRAAM) is mounted in the internal weapons bay of an F-35C.

CENTCOM establishes multinational drone task force

Falcon Strike aims to integrated unmanned systems not only in the air but also on and below the sea.

LUCAS drone (illustrative).

UVision wins US Army follow-on suicide drone order

This is a follow-up deal to a huge, multi-year contract that was signed in October 2025, for the supply of suicide drones for $982 million

HERO 120 LMS autonomous multi-launch loitering munition system