"Israel to host naval exercise with US and Turkey
AFP: 1/2/2005
JERUSALEM, Jan 2 (AFP) - Israel is to host an annual joint search and rescue exercise with the Turkish and the United States navies off its Mediterranean coast in the middle of the month, officials said Sunday.
'The objective of this exercise is to practice coordinated emergency search and rescue procedures in order to save lives in times of distress at sea,' a spokesman for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) said in a statement. "
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