{"id":435430,"date":"2026-05-10T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/435430\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:48:11","slug":"past-top-israeli-us-officials-reveal-new-vision-for-ties-rooted-in-tech-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/435430\/","title":{"rendered":"Past top Israeli, US officials reveal new vision for ties rooted in tech partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid cratering support for Israel in the United States, a former senior US official and a former senior Israeli official are offering a new vision for the bilateral relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to establish the relationship anew,\u201d former IDF Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin told The Times of Israel on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe model in which Israel is assisted by the United States and receives aid has a very small chance of continuing under any future administration,\u201d he continued, \u201cand perhaps even under the Trump administration, so we need to find a new basis for the relationship that is a transition from aid to partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Six in 10 Americans say they have a very or somewhat unfavorable view of Israel, up 20 percentage points since 2022, according to a new Pew Research Center survey<\/a> released last month.<\/p>\n

About half of them say they have a \u201cvery unfavorable\u201d view of Israel, a proportion that has tripled in the last four years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have work to do,\u201d emphasized former US ambassador to Israel Tom Nides. \u201cWe have to tell the story of Israel. We have to tell the story about the innovation. We got to tell the story about Israel being a melting pot. Israel is a country of seven-plus million Jews and two million Arabs. We got to talk about what\u2019s been great about the State of Israel and what they have done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tFormer head of IDF Military Intelligence Amos Yadlin speaks in Tel Aviv on December 3, 2024. (Miriam Alster\/Flash90)<\/p>\n

In order to recast ties in a way that is more relevant for the coming years and addresses some of the political concerns about the relationship, Yadlin and Nides are advancing the US-Israel Technology Alliance \u2014 Strategic Technology Compact.<\/p>\n

The initiative, rolled out at the AI+ Expo over the weekend in Washington DC, looks to build \u201cthe Special Relationship 2.0\u201d by combining American capital, industrial might, and world-class laboratories with Israel\u2019s speed, experience and engineering ingenuity, according to the organizers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States has lots of technology,\u201d said Nides. \u201cWe\u2019re leading in technology and AI and innovation. It\u2019s not lost on anyone that Israel is the startup nation. These two countries have been working together to create technology innovations and breakthroughs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tPeople march while taking part in a protest against the US-Israeli war with Iran, and against conflict in Lebanon, April 8, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Ryan Murphy)<\/p>\n

\u201cThese two nations working collectively together is both good for Americans, the average American, and good for the average Israeli,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd quite frankly, it\u2019s good for the region and for the world as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a draft proposal of the initiative \u2014 created by the US think tank Special Competitive Studies Project and the Israeli consultancy MIND Israel \u2014 the US-Israel relationship has rested on defense cooperation, security assistance, shared geopolitical interests and cooperation between businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat foundation remains essential,\u201d write the organizers. \u201cBut it is no longer sufficient for a century that will be defined by leadership in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, advanced energy, cyber, quantum, bioconvergence, and strategic manufacturing: both military and civilian.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tFounder and CEO of US artificial intelligence company OpenAI Sam Altman speaks at the Tel Aviv University in the eponymous Israeli city, on June 5, 2023. (Jack Guez\/AFP)<\/p>\n

The US-Israel Tech Alliance looks to move beyond the security foundation for the relationship by creating \u201ca more modern, more reciprocal, and more productive basis for long-term strategic partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

The organizers call for both governments to sign a memorandum of understanding that would see Jerusalem and Washington commit to at least $1 billion per year of public funding of joint projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States gains a trusted, battle-tested technology ally that strengthens American leadership in AI, cyber, energy, quantum, and industrial resilience,\u201d according to the draft proposal. \u201cIsrael gains durable access to the world\u2019s most important technology ecosystem \u2014 including federal programs, laboratories, capital pathways, procurement channels, and scale-up opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tBrig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Karadi, director general of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INDC) speaks at the 2026 Cybertech conferece in Tel Aviv, January 27, 2026. (Courtesy of Gilad Kavalerchik)<\/p>\n

The partnership could also give the US an edge in its competition with China.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is working to establish its technical governance frameworks and infrastructure standards as global defaults \u2014 including across the Middle East, where both the United States and Israel have significant and overlapping strategic interests,\u201d say the organizers.<\/p>\n

\u201cA US\u2013Israel partnership, structured correctly, provides a credible, operationally validated alternative. It can also strengthen and expand the multilateral agreements \u2014 including the Abraham Accords \u2014 which underpin regional collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n

No regime change<\/p>\n

Nides, a lifelong Democrat who served in the Barack Obama and Joe Biden administrations, had rare praise for US President Donald Trump on his approach toward Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran has been a cancer in the region,\u201d said Nides. \u201cI certainly applaud President Trump for some of the actions he has taken to diminish the ballistic missiles and obliterate, I guess for the second time, the nuclear materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tUS President Donald Trump speaks about the conflict in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

Trump ordered US bombers to join Israel\u2019s Operation Rising Lion in June 2025, and, in February, embarked on a joint operation against Tehran alongside Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat said,\u201d continued Nides, \u201cwe need to have a pathway to end this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are not going to have regime change in Iran at this point,\u201d said Nides. \u201cBut we can and have done a pretty good job of diminishing much of their military apparatus.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tUS President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State John Kerry, meets with veterans and Gold Star Mothers to discuss the Iran Nuclear deal, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/p>\n

Nides predicted that the final agreement will look very similar to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was scrapped by Trump in 2018 during his first term.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt won\u2019t be called that,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I have a feeling, when I hold my breath and I shut my eyes really tight, it\u2019s going to have a lot of elements that we had in 2015, which many of us spent a lot of time working on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tMotorbikes drive past a billboard with a graphic showing the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in downtown Tehran, Iran, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi)<\/p>\n

Yadlin argued that the Iran war, though it didn\u2019t lead to the immediate fall of the Islamic Republic, was successful in countering the Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile threat.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need to stand here with a stopwatch. It won\u2019t happen in a week or a month, but it could definitely happen in a year or two.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have significantly set back these programs, and I think that this is where the results of the campaign were achieved,\u201d said Yadlin. \u201cNow we need to see whether the severe economic damage to Iran will also create the conditions for regime change. We don\u2019t need to stand here with a stopwatch. It won\u2019t happen in a week or a month, but it could definitely happen in a year or two.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Yadlin said that it is in Israel\u2019s interest for the US and Iran not to reach an agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation of neither agreement nor war is a better situation than an agreement that saves the regime,\u201d he said, \u201cand to a certain extent also betrays all the brave Iranians who took to the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid cratering support for Israel in the United States, a former senior US official and a former senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[150588,85,46,53,43,204297],"class_list":["post-435430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-amos-yadlin","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-us-relations","tag-news","tag-tom-nides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}