TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department for Homeland Security and Israel's Public Security Ministry are Wednesday scheduled to sign a memorandum covering their cooperation.
U.S. and Israeli officials have drafted such a memorandum of understanding that the Israeli Cabinet approved Sunday.
Avi Dichter, the former head of the Shabak security service, who is now public security minister and is currently in the United States, is expected to sign it with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
An Israel official said the memorandum would provide for exchanges of information, joint research and ways of coping with conventional and non-conventional terror.
Israeli intelligence has for years been cooperating with friendly services abroad in combating terror. A Cabinet statement described the new document as a framework for regulating cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security.
