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Israel and Azerbaijan Sign New Deal on AI
Israel and Azerbaijan signed an AI Memorandum of Understanding in Jerusalem on Feb 3, 2026, bolstering their alliance with focus on supercomputing.
Jerusalem, 3 February, 2026 (TPS-IL) — Israel and Azerbaijan signed today (3 February 2026), at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
“The MOU signed today is the next step in advancing the State of Israel toward global leadership in the field of AI, as part of the flagship goals of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” said the Prime Minister’s Office.
Israel and Azerbaijan intend to bolster their ongoing alliance through AI. The partnership will address infrastructure for supercomputing, implementation of AI in critical civilian sectors, human capital, and joint research.
This follows the signing of a joint declaration in this field with the US last month.
The declaration was signed by the Head of Israel’s National Artificial Intelligence Directorate, Brig. Gen. (Res.) Erez Askal, and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Digital Development and Transport, Rashad Nabiyev.
“The future is already here,” said Netanyahu at the signing ceremony. “AI is not the instrument of the future; it’s the instrument of the present that is rushing towards tomorrow. We have to make sure that we are among the leading nations in this field. And I think that we can do a lot more and a lot better together.”
