TEL AVIV (Agencies): Israel on Wednesday began deploying a new surveillance system in the country’s north to detect incoming aerial threats, including from drones. The move came against the backdrop of a nationwide emergency drill simulating, among other scenarios, a host or airborne threats to Israeli communities in the country’s north. Following years of development and manufacturing, the Israel Missile D-efense Organization (IMD-O) in the Defense Minis-try’s Directorate of Defense R&D, the Israeli Air Force, and ELTA, an Israel Aer-ospace Industries subsi-diary and a prime contractor for the “Elevated Sen-sor” (ES) program, “began initial inflation operations” of the balloon on...