Barbara Opall-Rome

Opall-Rome is Israel bureau chief for Defense News. She has been covering U.S.-Israel strategic cooperation, Mideast security and missile defense since May 1988. She lives north of Tel Aviv. Visit her website at www.opall-rome.com.


  • Israel Declares Successful Stunner Intercept Tests
    Israel Declares Successful Stunner Intercept Tests

    Israel’s Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) on Wednesday declared its successful completion of a third series of intercept tests for the Stunner missile.

  • McConnell Warns of Bad Deal With Iran
    McConnell Warns of Bad Deal With Iran

    With the deadline on an interim nuclear agreement with Iran less than 48 hours away, a senate delegation led by Majority Leader Mitch McDonnell (R-KY) visiting here Sunday joined Israeli officials to sound the alarm about an imminent “bad deal.”

  • Israeli Holidays Bring New Warnings, Threats
    Israeli Holidays Bring New Warnings, Threats

    With an aggrieved minority at home, restless millions under occupation just minutes from home and radicalism roiling the region, Israeli security officials are girding for a spectrum of threats in the run-up to spring holidays here.

  • Obama-Netanyahu Rift Threatens US-Israel Bond
    Obama-Netanyahu Rift Threatens US-Israel Bond

    With relations between US and Israeli leaders plunging to an all-time low, US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appear to be employing a divide-and-conquer strategy to promote divergent agendas

  • Israel, US To Integrate Cyber Test Beds
    Israel, US To Integrate Cyber Test Beds

    The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Security Division aims to expand collaboration with the Israel National Cyber Bureau, Israeli cyber companies and local start-up firms.

  • Israel Institutes Sweeping Travel Warning
    Israel Institutes Sweeping Travel Warning

    The Counter-Terrorism Bureau (CTB) of the Israeli National Security Council published its semi-annual travel advisory Monday urging citizens to stay away from 41 countries, nearly a quarter of UN member states.

  • From IAI to the Knesset
    From IAI to the Knesset

    Another Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) figure will be sworn into Israel’s 20th Knesset come the end of the month, but this one plans to resign from the company before then.

  • IAI Labor Chief Helped Propel Netanyahu’s Win
    IAI Labor Chief Helped Propel Netanyahu’s Win

    Among those who helped propel Benjamin Netanyahu into his fourth term as Israeli prime minister last week is a dual-hatted Likud lawmaker and longtime labor union boss from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).

  • ‘No Turning Back’ for IMI Sale
    ‘No Turning Back’ for IMI Sale

    Israel has passed the point of no return in its plans to sell Israel Military Industries (IMI) to the highest qualified bidder by the end of this year, according to the man charged with overseeing privatization of the nation’s oldest defense firm.

  • Netanyahu’s Win Imperils Two-State Peace
    Netanyahu’s Win Imperils Two-State Peace

    Wednesday’s shocking upset victory of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his rival, Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog, has cast doubt over the viability of the future of a Palestinian State.

  • Israel Declares Successful Stunner Intercept Tests
    Israel Declares Successful Stunner Intercept Tests

    Israel’s Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) on Wednesday declared its successful completion of a third series of intercept tests for the Stunner missile.

  • McConnell Warns of Bad Deal With Iran
    McConnell Warns of Bad Deal With Iran

    With the deadline on an interim nuclear agreement with Iran less than 48 hours away, a senate delegation led by Majority Leader Mitch McDonnell (R-KY) visiting here Sunday joined Israeli officials to sound the alarm about an imminent “bad deal.”

  • Israeli Holidays Bring New Warnings, Threats
    Israeli Holidays Bring New Warnings, Threats

    With an aggrieved minority at home, restless millions under occupation just minutes from home and radicalism roiling the region, Israeli security officials are girding for a spectrum of threats in the run-up to spring holidays here.

  • Obama-Netanyahu Rift Threatens US-Israel Bond
    Obama-Netanyahu Rift Threatens US-Israel Bond

    With relations between US and Israeli leaders plunging to an all-time low, US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appear to be employing a divide-and-conquer strategy to promote divergent agendas

  • Israel, US To Integrate Cyber Test Beds
    Israel, US To Integrate Cyber Test Beds

    The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Security Division aims to expand collaboration with the Israel National Cyber Bureau, Israeli cyber companies and local start-up firms.

  • Israel Institutes Sweeping Travel Warning
    Israel Institutes Sweeping Travel Warning

    The Counter-Terrorism Bureau (CTB) of the Israeli National Security Council published its semi-annual travel advisory Monday urging citizens to stay away from 41 countries, nearly a quarter of UN member states.

  • From IAI to the Knesset
    From IAI to the Knesset

    Another Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) figure will be sworn into Israel’s 20th Knesset come the end of the month, but this one plans to resign from the company before then.

  • IAI Labor Chief Helped Propel Netanyahu’s Win
    IAI Labor Chief Helped Propel Netanyahu’s Win

    Among those who helped propel Benjamin Netanyahu into his fourth term as Israeli prime minister last week is a dual-hatted Likud lawmaker and longtime labor union boss from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).

  • ‘No Turning Back’ for IMI Sale
    ‘No Turning Back’ for IMI Sale

    Israel has passed the point of no return in its plans to sell Israel Military Industries (IMI) to the highest qualified bidder by the end of this year, according to the man charged with overseeing privatization of the nation’s oldest defense firm.

  • Netanyahu’s Win Imperils Two-State Peace
    Netanyahu’s Win Imperils Two-State Peace

    Wednesday’s shocking upset victory of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his rival, Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog, has cast doubt over the viability of the future of a Palestinian State.

  • Israel Declares Successful Stunner Intercept Tests
    Israel Declares Successful Stunner Intercept Tests

    Israel’s Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) on Wednesday declared its successful completion of a third series of intercept tests for the Stunner missile.

  • McConnell Warns of Bad Deal With Iran
    McConnell Warns of Bad Deal With Iran

    With the deadline on an interim nuclear agreement with Iran less than 48 hours away, a senate delegation led by Majority Leader Mitch McDonnell (R-KY) visiting here Sunday joined Israeli officials to sound the alarm about an imminent “bad deal.”

  • Israeli Holidays Bring New Warnings, Threats
    Israeli Holidays Bring New Warnings, Threats

    With an aggrieved minority at home, restless millions under occupation just minutes from home and radicalism roiling the region, Israeli security officials are girding for a spectrum of threats in the run-up to spring holidays here.

  • Obama-Netanyahu Rift Threatens US-Israel Bond
    Obama-Netanyahu Rift Threatens US-Israel Bond

    With relations between US and Israeli leaders plunging to an all-time low, US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appear to be employing a divide-and-conquer strategy to promote divergent agendas

  • Israel, US To Integrate Cyber Test Beds
    Israel, US To Integrate Cyber Test Beds

    The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Security Division aims to expand collaboration with the Israel National Cyber Bureau, Israeli cyber companies and local start-up firms.

  • Israel Institutes Sweeping Travel Warning
    Israel Institutes Sweeping Travel Warning

    The Counter-Terrorism Bureau (CTB) of the Israeli National Security Council published its semi-annual travel advisory Monday urging citizens to stay away from 41 countries, nearly a quarter of UN member states.

  • From IAI to the Knesset
    From IAI to the Knesset

    Another Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) figure will be sworn into Israel’s 20th Knesset come the end of the month, but this one plans to resign from the company before then.

  • IAI Labor Chief Helped Propel Netanyahu’s Win
    IAI Labor Chief Helped Propel Netanyahu’s Win

    Among those who helped propel Benjamin Netanyahu into his fourth term as Israeli prime minister last week is a dual-hatted Likud lawmaker and longtime labor union boss from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).

  • ‘No Turning Back’ for IMI Sale
    ‘No Turning Back’ for IMI Sale

    Israel has passed the point of no return in its plans to sell Israel Military Industries (IMI) to the highest qualified bidder by the end of this year, according to the man charged with overseeing privatization of the nation’s oldest defense firm.

  • Netanyahu’s Win Imperils Two-State Peace
    Netanyahu’s Win Imperils Two-State Peace

    Wednesday’s shocking upset victory of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his rival, Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog, has cast doubt over the viability of the future of a Palestinian State.