Overview
- The joint declaration was signed in Jerusalem on Jan. 11 by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.
- The framework formalizes collaboration across cybersecurity, advanced technologies, policing, counterterrorism, and civil defense.
- Netanyahu emphasized cybersecurity as a priority and described Germany as a natural partner.
- Foreign Minister Gideon Saar pressed the European Union to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization during talks with Dobrindt.
- The accord builds on expanding defense-industry ties, including Germany’s December 2025 Arrow 3 contract increase to about US$6.5 billion, while public implementation specifics for the new cooperation remain undisclosed.