{"id":177388,"date":"2026-06-25T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/177388\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:51:08","slug":"german-warship-visits-haifa-for-joint-drills-with-israel-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/177388\/","title":{"rendered":"German warship visits Haifa for joint drills with Israel Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Israel Navy<\/a> hosted a German Navy delegation, including a vessel conducting a port visit at the Port of Haifa, the military confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n

During the visit, the visiting German vessel conducted a joint Passing Exercise (known as a PASSEX) as part of the “efforts to enhance operational cooperation, exchange knowledge, and deepen the professional relationship between the two navies,” the military said.<\/p>\n

Other joint activities also occurred during the visit.<\/p>\n

These included meetings between the senior officers involved, namely Haifa Naval Base Chief R.-Adm. Erez Ben Zion, and Germany’s 4th Frigate Squadron Chief, Naval Captain Volker K\u00fcbsch, and the visiting vessel’s Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Rico Geisler.<\/p>\n

During the meetings, Ben Zion, K\u00fcbsch, and Geisler discussed the continued cooperation between the two navies and ways to further strengthen ties.<\/p>\n

Israel has close ties with Germany’s naval manufacturing industry, having purchased corvettes and several submarines from the European country over the past years.<\/p>\n

TKMS had already established ties with the Israeli Navy, selling four new submarines worth billions of shekels, as well as Israel Aerospace Industries, with which it worked on a deal to supply the German Navy with unmanned submarine vehicles.<\/p>\n

Defense & Tech by The Jerusalem Post reported in February that the submarines delivered by IAI to TKMS were the autonomous BlueWhale mini-submarines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In February, during the build-up to Israel and US airstrikes on Iran as part of operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford,<\/a> was sent to dock in Israel. It eventually docked at Haifa Naval Base.<\/p>\n

Yonah Jeremy Bob, Shir Perets, and Udi Etzion contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israel Navy hosted a German Navy delegation, including a vessel conducting a port visit at the Port…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[537,14200,37,6075,12481,1488,2040,3069],"class_list":["post-177388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-germany","tag-haifa","tag-israel","tag-israel-navy","tag-naval-base","tag-navy","tag-ports","tag-submarine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116812020622846898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}