Established diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Israel in May / May 1948, it should be noted that the Soviet Union voted in the fall of 1947 to the decision to partition Palestine into two states. The severed ties between Moscow and Tel Aviv in 1953 and again in 1956, and cut off relations in June 1967 because of the refusal of Israel to cease fire in the Six-Day War with the Arabs. And resumed contacts at the consular level in 1987. As witnessed in 1991 restored diplomatic relations between Israel and the Soviet Union.
Israel and living more than one million who are descended from the Soviet Union, which is an important factor in bilateral relations. Came the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Israel in April / April 2005 an important step in promoting Israeli-Russian relations .. It was Ehud Olmert to visit Russia twice in 2007 in the working visit.
In 2-3 Ioaao / July visited Moscow Tzipi Livni, Israeli Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister. And visited the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Israel in October / October 2005 and September / September 2006 and June 2007. During his visit to Israel in March / March 2008 treaty was signed the abolition of visas between Russia and Israel, which helped a lot in increasing the number of Russian tourists visiting Israel. He visited Israel in 2007 about 200 thousand tourists. But in 2008 the number rose to nearly 380 thousand tourists. Despite the entry into force of the treaty but did not appear in the September / September only.
Cooperation in the field of trade and economic
Governing the Israeli-Russian relations in the field of trade and economic agreement signed between the Russian and Israeli governments on April 27 / April 1994. Under this agreement granting each of the two Russian and Israeli system the maximum advantage in trade and the formation of joint Russian-Israeli trade and economic cooperation. And has signed cooperation agreements between the governments of scientific and technical cooperation in the agricultural sector, health, medicine and the abolition of double taxation and cooperation in the field of maritime transport.
The Committee considered the joint Russian-Israeli cooperation on trade and economic in its sixth meeting held in November 2006 in the state and prospects of bilateral relations in various fields.
And shows the annual growth of commodity exchange between the two sides to increase the size of the Israeli-Russian relations in the field of trade and economy. The volume of commodity exchange has not increased in 1991 for $ 12 million. As he arrived in 2006 to $ 1.9 billion.
Among the main trends of Russian-Israeli cooperation can be said of research space, transportation, information technologies and communication technologies, agriculture, industry and private business sector in diamonds and diamond treatment on metals and implicitly. It is worth mentioning that the percentage of 45-55% of the total Israeli export back to the untreated diamonds. And operates oil and its derivatives have an important place in the field of energy cooperation (the proportion of 30-40% of the total Russian exports to Israel). One of the most futuristic projects may be a project of supplying Russian natural gas to Israel. And is in talks on this matter between the company "Gazprom", Russian and Israeli side.
And show the Israeli side to attract attention to the Russian capital to carry out the projects in the field of Israeli infrastructure, transport and construction.
And includes goods imported from Israel in total, machinery, equipment and communication equipment and telephone and wireless telegraphy implicitly and medical devices (the proportion of 45-60% of the total import Israeli) and products of chemical industry, food and pharmaceuticals.
Joint ventures in space, transportation and communication
Signed between the two space agencies, Russian and Israeli on August 31 / August 1994, a memorandum of understanding that would regulate cooperation in space between the two sides. The Russian space rocket "Resurs -01" in the June 1998 release of the Israeli small satellite
"Tejsat -2". Either in the month of December 2000 stood Russian rocket launch Israeli satellite "Aarhus - A 1." In 2003 and 2006 was the launch of satellites Alsnaaan Alasaraúalan others, "Amos 2" and "Aarhus - P-1" by Russian rockets.
Also develop cooperation between Russian and Israeli companies in the field of transportation and communication, including the expansion of production thanks to modern communication services in Russia and the modernization of traditional communication Russian and Israeli Altknoloajabiat application's communication by satellite in Russia. Has been reached a tentative agreement on the organization of cooperation between the two sides in the field making techniques and systems that provide medical services from a distance.
Scientific cooperation
Work is under way to set up mechanisms for financing and the completion of joint projects in the field of scientific research and design.
Has been established with the Russian government Akadah innovations in late 2005, the center of cooperation between Russia and Israel in the field of innovations.
It was in June 2006 signed a memorandum of cooperation in science and technology industrial innovations between the Federal Agency for science and innovation and the Russian Scientific Research Center of Israel.
Cooperation in the field of manufacture and processing of agricultural materials
Have been accomplished a number of projects in the agricultural sector, including the updating of complex greenhouses and the expansion of factory poultry and organizing the production of cheese in the compound of dairy and meat boycott of Moscow. Either in the city of Nizhny Novgorod Russian are there is an update lab mini private Bantg food, juice and food intensive. And established the provinces of Moscow, Leningrad and Samara, Russian mini-labs for the treatment of chicken meat and Indian parents.
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