Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz has thrown a spoke in the wheel of Israel’s planned purchase of 20 American F-35 Stealth aircraft at a cost of $2.7 billion: At Sunday’s cabinet meeting, he got Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to promise that acquisition of the planes, which are designed to greatly reduce the chance of being spotted by radar or other detection systems, will be considered by a …

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Finance minister contests purchase of F-35 stealth jets