Just hours before President Joe Biden was expected to land in Israel on his first presidential visit to the Jewish state, the two countries announced a new partnership to enhance technology cooperation.
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"Today, the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the State of Israel reaffirm their commitment to elevating the strategic partnership between the countries to new heights by launching the new Strategic High-Level Dialogue on Technology, tasked with establishing a U.S.-Israel technological partnership on critical and emerging technologies and solutions to global challenges: pandemic preparedness, climate change, implementation of artificial intelligence, and trusted technology ecosystems. The dialogue will also reinforce existing collaboration mechanisms," the joint statement read. "The United States-Israel relationship reflects our shared values and interests and the true friendship between our peoples. We pledge to boost our mutual innovation ecosystems, to deepen bilateral engagements, advance and protect critical and emerging technologies in accordance with our national interests, democratic principles, and human rights, and to address geostrategic challenges."
Israel, which is often called Start-Up Nation, is a key ally on technological matters and the two countries have been engaged for years in development of sophisticated anti-missile systems and other forms of scientific research.
The statement said that the two countries have been collaborating on "pandemic preparedness" by "exploring cooperative tech R&D ventures, including technology for disease surveillance and early warning and for rapid medical countermeasure responses" as well as on "trustworthy artificial intelligence" and "technology for addressing climate change."
The two sides will convene annually in both countries on a rotating basis to make this partnership grow further as early as the fall of 2022.
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