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Major Customer And Geographic Information (Schedule Of Revenues By Areas Of Operations) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2013		Dec. 31, 2012		Dec. 31, 2011
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenue	$ 2,925,151		$ 2,888,607		$ 2,817,465
Airborne Systems
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenue	1,133,101		1,054,468		969,446
Land Vehicles Systems
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenue	309,287		374,487		405,294
C4 ISR Systems
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenue	1,071,370		1,017,638		996,382
Electro-Optic Systems
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenue	313,904		324,135		300,158
Others
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenue	$ 97,489	[1]	$ 117,879	[1]	$ 146,185	[1]
[1] Mainly non-defense engineering and production services.

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Amount of revenue from external customers for the business line. Such disclosure is presented if the amount is: (a) included in the measure of business line profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of business line profit or loss.

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