Arie was born in Israel and served in the Israeli Defense Forces. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a degree in political science and journalism. Later, he worked as a defense correspondent for Israel’s largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronot. He is the editor-in-chief of the Israeli homeland security website I-HLS.
Israel Aerospace Industries has backed off from a tender to supply UAVs to the Israel Defense Forces, claiming the program as structured would not leave it any profit.
The swarms of small satellites are intended to provide near-continuous coverage of areas, operating in parallel with Israel’s full-sized Offeq spy satellites.