In exchange for upgrading the cooperation with the US: Israel will discuss increasing the supervision of the leakage of technological knowledge to China
Washington and Jerusalem will open a strategic dialogue on the technological issue, against the background of the Biden administration's concern about Chinese intrusion into the Israeli economy.
"If we want to expand technological cooperation, we must develop security mechanisms that protect these technologies," said National Security Adviser Hulta
Barak Ravid
09/28/2022
Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 6:41 p.m. Updated: 6:55 p.m.
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In Israel, China began to treat a security issue.
Prime Minister Lapid and President China Shay (Photo: Photo Processing, Reuters, Mark Israel Salm)
The United States and Israel will launch the strategic dialogue on Washington on Washington on Wednesday.
The conversations will be held on the basis of the concern of the Biden administration from Chinese penetration to the Israeli economy and especially the high-tech field and research and development at Israeli universities.
why is it important
The strategic dialogue on technology is the result of President Biden in Israel in July and he was part of the Jerusalem Declaration signed by the US President and Prime Minister Lapid.
The calls today are the first time the new forum is gathering.
Israel will be the fourth country after India, Japan and South Korea with which the United States maintains a technological dialogue.
The purpose of the new forum is to upgrade the civil technological cooperation between Israel and the United States after several years in which it was on the decline.
The big picture
The United States has been very concerned in recent years about Chinese involvement in the Israeli economy, especially in the high-tech sector.
American concerns are due to both security and economic reasons.
The Trump administration began to pressure Israel on this issue, but former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "messed up" the American requests and avoided taking significant steps.
The Biden administration increased the pressure on Israel on the Chinese issue, which led the new government to start looking at relations with China as a matter of national security and not just as an economic issue.
In the news center
Today's technological dialogue meeting will be chaired by National Security Adviser Eyal Hulta and his White House counterpart Jake Sullivan.
Minister of Science and Innovation Orit Parkash-HaCohen and the director general of the ministry and representatives of several other government ministries will also participate in the talks.
The strategic dialogue on technology will focus on several issues - technology that helps to prepare for epidemics, artificial intelligence, technology that helps to deal with the climate crisis and cooperation in the field of "quantum" computers - powerful supercomputers located in the United States and to which Israel will have access.
As part of the agreement to hold the strategic dialogue on technology, Israel agreed to open talks with the United States on building a technology protection mechanism - a code name for protecting sensitive technologies from leaking to China.
According to the agreement, Israel and the United States will increase coordination on research protection, foreign investment screening, export control and protection of critical and developing technologies.
what are they saying
National Security Adviser Eyal Hulta said in a press briefing that Israel shares the American concern about protecting technologies from spilling over to countries but also from the misuse of technologies by malicious parties.
Holita, which has been unloaded from any use of the word China, said American concerns about technology protection are an opportunity for Israel to increase cooperation with the United States.
"You need a common language with the Americans.
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