US approves over $500M arms sale to Israel ahead of Netanyahu visit

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced on Monday that it had notified Congress of plans to sell $510 million worth of Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kits for the Israeli Air Force’s air-to-ground bombs.

The State Department and the Pentagon signed off on the sale of more than 7,000 JDAM guidance kits designed to be affixed to the Israeli Air Force’s unguided BLU-109 2,000-pound bombs and Mk-82 500-pound bombs.

Why it matters: The planned sale comes as Prime Minister…