​During Prime Minister Stephen Harper's historic visit to Israel, Foreign Ministers John Baird and Avigdor Lieberman signed the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The Strategic Partnership reaffirms the close and special friendship that underpins the bilateral relationship, and lays out a strategic direction for stronger future relations between the two countries.

The agreement paves the way for even great collaboration in areas from defence to development, energy to innovation and R&D to education.