In a brazen act of aggression, Iran unleashed a salvo of ballistic missiles upon Israel on Friday night, with unconfirmed reports suggesting impact within the Tel Aviv conurbation; while the Israel Defense Forces claim a largely successful interception rate, some projectiles circumvented these defenses, inflicting structural damage and resulting in fifteen civilian casualties requiring hospitalisation, thereby presenting a formidable, albeit not insurmountable, challenge to Israel's multi-tiered air-defense architecture, which, since the conflict's inception on October 7, 2023, has been engaged in continuous counter-projectile operations emanating from disparate regional actors, buttressed by intermittent US force projection utilising ground-based interceptor systems, even as Israel maintains autonomous operational command over its layered defense network, comprising the Arrow system for exoatmospheric interception of long-range ballistic threats, David's Sling for medium-range engagements, and the Iron Dome for close-in neutralization of short-range rockets, with the nascent Iron Beam laser-based defense system poised to augment these capabilities in the near future.