The US informed the Prime Minister's Office of a planned sale of $25 billion in F-35s to Saudi Arabia, an Israeli source confirmed to Walla.

The US informed the Prime Minister's Office of a planned sale of $25 billion in F-35s to Saudi Arabia, an Israeli source confirmed to Walla.

Israel will now push for compensation: systems Washington has so far refused to sell, participation in classified weapons programs, space-based weapons and joint development of Arrow 4 and Arrow 5 interceptors.

A source said that the IDF would prefer that no other country in the region receives the stealth fighter. Even if they are signed soon, Riyadh's first planes will not arrive until five years from now.