The IDF said the terrorist commander had promoted and carried out many acts of terrorism, including firing anti-tank missiles at Israeli civilians and at IDF troops operating in southern Lebanon.
The agreement with Elbit Systems will expand the Mission Training Center at the Hatzor Air Force Base, which contains flight training simulators for F-15 and F-16 jets.
The IDF has said in recent weeks that the army was stepping up its preparations for an attack on Iran and will hold a major exercise in preparation for such a possibility.
Crews from the US, Germany, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom are in Israel to practice joint flights and operational missions alongside Israeli operators.
The Israeli Air Force launched a surprise exercise in northern Israel, another not-so-subtle message to Iran-backed terrorists on the other side of the border.
In a historic first, Israel and Germany honor the over 30,000 Jews murdered at Dachau in the Holocaust and the 11 Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists in the 1972 Munich Massacre. By JNS
This 89-year-old Holocaust survivor beat the Nazis as a child is now experiencing the joy of seeing her grandson take to the sky as an Israeli Air Force pilot.