# The United States and Israel sign a ten-year military-aid memorandum

Date: 2016

## The fact

On 14 September 2016 the United States and Israel signed a memorandum of understanding on about $38 billion in military financing over ten years, with [Netanyahu](/people/benjamin-netanyahu) as prime minister.

## Context

The Obama administration signed. Neighbouring Iron Dome is a child system this money later supported. He did not write a US appropriations act.

Iron Dome 2011 is a neighbouring defensive system. Abraham 2020 is a different diplomatic file.

The Prime Minister of Israel chairs the cabinet, is the political principal of the IDF, and can table Knesset bills. He does not write a Hamas military order, an ICC judgment, a US presidential proclamation, or a UN Security Council resolution.

## Evidence and sources

U.S. Department of State carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is energy-adjacent security industrial capacity: a completed ten-year financing instrument is a dated alliance-and-defence-industrial text.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 14 September 2016 US–Israel military-aid MOU, independently reported.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Obama administration signed. Congress still had to appropriate.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The United States and Israel sign a ten-year military-aid memorandum, not a later speech about The United States and Israel sign a ten-year military-aid memorandum.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The United States and Israel sign a ten-year military-aid memorandum on 2016-09-14 is not a licence to treat every later U.S. Department of State communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The United States and Israel sign a ten-year military-aid memorandum into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed the Israeli side. The Obama administration signed. Congress still had to appropriate. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Benjamin Netanyahu: https://factrail.ai/people/benjamin-netanyahu

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-statement-idUSKCN11K2CJ
- https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2016/09/261830.htm

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/il-us-mou-2016