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AVAILABLE-FOR-SALE - MARKETABLE SECURITIES (Tables) (TAT Technologies Ltd [Member]) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
TAT Technologies Ltd [Member] |
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items] |
Schedule of Available-For-Sale Securities |
|  | December 31, 2012 |
|  | Amortized Cost |  |  | Gross Unrealized Gains |  |  | Fair Value |
Available-for-sale: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Money Market |  | $ | 3,341 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 3,341 |
|  | December 31, 2011 |
|  | Amortized Cost |  |  | Gross Unrealized Gains |  |  | Fair Value |
Available-for-sale: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Money Market |  | $ | 1,025 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 1,025 |
Auction Rate Securities (1) |  |  | 1,900 |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | 1,900 |
|  | $ | 2,925 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 2,925 |
| (1) | Auction Rate Securities ("ARS") are a type of long-term bonds (usually issued for a period longer than ten years) issued by corporates, local authorities, institutions of higher education and others for securitization of assets. The ARS bear a variable interest rate, re-determined by an auction held every short period. The ARS interest held by the Company was re-determined every 7, 28 or 35 days and will mature on 2019. The ARS held by the Group were issued by SSM Health Care of Oklahoma City, Illinois and Wisconsin municipalities.

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