Israel and NATO are reevaluating their relations these days, redefining common goals and objectives. A recent Al-Monitor article described how Israel now aspires to become a security provider for NATO, rather than a security consumer. The Mediterranean Dialogue with NATO has become secondary for Jerusalem as a forum deepening its ties with the alliance. Instead, it focuses on showcasing Israel’s technological abilities, its expertise in civil resilience, how it copes with climate change and its expertise in gathering intelligence. These are all domains relevant to the currently evolving NATO, in its adaptation to global new threats and challenges.
Advancing this process of redefining relations, 22 members of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, who also serve as members of parliament in 12 different NATO member countries — including Turkey, Britain, Spain, the Czech Republic and Italy — traveled to Israel recently. The parliamentarians were all members of the assembly’s subcommittee on technology.
