According to Jane’s Defense News, Egypt has rebuilt its old rocket lab in Jebel Hamzi, near Cairo. Egypt has deployed primitive North Korean Scud-C missiles, but is also working on ballistic missiles.
The key to understanding Egypt’s missile program is the date of its acceleration: 2007. At that time, aging Hosni Mubarak was mostly concerned with receiving American approval for a non-democratic handover of power to his son Gamal, and would not have risked an arms race with Israel. The Egyptian missile program is an answer to Iranian nuclear and missile development, which had accelerated shortly before then.
Egypt also runs a military nuclear program, which Israel has to tolerate because of the peace treaty with Egypt.
