Video: Israel's test of Arrow 2 anti-missile system successful

From News from Jerusalem: 

Israel’s Arrow 2 ballistic missile defense system successfully completed a test at San Nicolas Island, California that was designed to represent an attack towards Israel.

A target missile launched from a ship at sea was intercepted and destroyed by the Arrow system.

The system’s ‘Test was significant landmark' said Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak adding "The citizens of the State of Israel can be proud of the fact that Israel is the leading nation in the world in the field of multilayered missile defense."

The exercise was a collaborative effort of the Israel Missile Defense Organization and its U.S. counterpart under the Arrow System Improvement Program.

The system detected the threat with the Oren Yarok ("Green Pine") radar and transferred the threat data to the fire management center, which computed a defensive plan against it. The defensive plan was sent to the launcher, which fired the test interceptor missile. The missile successfully carried out all of the flight stages, acquired the target and destroyed it at the desired spot.

The experiment was anticipatory of a "significant future threat in the Middle East, which might be directed at Israel" said ynetnews.com quoting a defense establishment source.