In Tel Aviv, Israel and Greece have formalized a $3.6 billion agreement — the largest defense deal Israel has ever concluded with a European nation — binding their security fates together across three sophisticated air defense systems. The pact emerges not from strategic leisure but from the mounting pressure of Turkish military assertiveness in the Eastern Mediterranean, where two American allies have found common cause in mutual vulnerability. Beyond the hardware, the agreement weaves Greek industry into Israeli production, suggesting that what is being built is not merely a shield, but a re