Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will tomorrow, 30.11.09, leave for a one-day visit to Germany, at the head of a ministerial delegation.
 
Prime Minister Netanyahu and the accompanying ministers will attend an inter-governmental meeting.  Each minister will also hold a working meeting with his German counterpart.
 
The list of participants is as follows:

ISRAEL	GERMANY
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Chancellor Angela Merkel
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman	Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle
Defense Minister Ehud Barak	Defense Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg
Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer & National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau	Economics and Technology Minister Rainer Bruderle
Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan	Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Minister Norbert Rottgen
Science and Technology Minister Daniel Hershkowitz	Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon	Economic Cooperation and Development Minister Dirk Niebel

The Israel-Germany inter-governmental meetings were decided upon in March 2008, at the initiative of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who proposed that the two governments meet biennially in this format.  Last year's visit was held in Jerusalem to mark the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence; the current visit is in Berlin.

The main issues on the agenda are:

1. The diplomatic-security issue, especially advancing peace and strengthening Israel's security;

2. Alternative energy and finding alternatives for petroleum in transportation, and environmental protection issues;

3. Strengthening ties in science, technology and infrastructures.