Early this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a mock wartime meeting of his security Cabinet in a bunker. Communities in northern Israel are preparing shelters for a long-term conflict. The military is working overtime on a new laser system to intercept rockets.
Their focus is Iran and its nuclear ambitions.
For years, Israel has considered a nuclear-armed Iran to be an existential threat, and has directed its energies to confronting it and its regional proxies in Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian areas.