
Congress sent the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014 to the president’s desk last week, after the House passed a Senate bill that would allow the Defense Department to transfer surplus items to Israel and increase cooperative research programs between the two countries. The bill, which the House passed Dec. 3 after Senate passage on Sept. 18, notes that “the people and Governments of the United States and of Israel are facing a dynamic and rapidly changing security environment…