ESA’s Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain signed the agreement in Tel Aviv with the Director General of the Israel Space Agency (ISA), Dr Zvi Kaplan (right), on 30 January 2011. Back row from right, Mr Ben Israel, Chairman of the Israeli Space Committee, Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, the Israeli Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Menachem Greenblum, Director General of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and ESA's Karl Berquist.