A plan for a trilateral Morocco-Israel-US Investment Fund

The Abraham agreements, the historic agreement to establish official relations between Israel and a certain number of its Arab neighbors in 2020, opened a historic window for peace in the Middle East and North Africa. But the windows do not remain open forever. Although standardization between Morocco and Israel has progressed at diplomatic and commercial levels, it still does not have a long -term structural anchor. Without a clear mechanism to transform this momentum into measurable strategic results, the risk of losing ground is real, and the alliance could remain largely symbolic, without offering a concrete regional impact or hitting the ceiling of what is possible.

With increasing instability in North Africa and the Sahel, and intensified geopolitical competition in the Mediterranean, the United States, Morocco and Israel has the possibility of leading a joint investment fund and a prospective coordination forum which transmits tangible results.

Generately governed by Morocco, Israel and the United States, this fund would directly and jointly coordinate strategic financial projects in energy, digital infrastructure, advanced industrial and regional security. An instrument like this would be a perfect marriage between the power of American financial and political competition, the industrial platforms of Morocco and the innovation ecosystem of Israel to collectively improve competitiveness, create jobs and secure regional supply chains. For a Washington calling on partners to get up, the establishment of a fund would help allow the three countries to support long -term regional stability and collective prosperity which presents and deepens the advantages drawn from the Abraham agreements.

The problem and the solution for an alliance without a strategic lever effect

Since the signing of the Abraham agreements in 2020, the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel has opened a new era of cooperation. Politically and economically, signs of rapprochement are obvious: increase bilateral visits, sectoral agreements, commercial initiatives and emerging technological partnerships. However, this momentum remains fragile, fragmented and incomplete.

Without shared mechanism, cooperation between Morocco and Israel remains vulnerable to political fluctuations, lack of visibility for long -term investors and fails to reach the necessary scale to reshape the regional dynamics. Although there are isolated successes, such as joint innovation programs or sectoral agreements – they remain disconnected and difficult to reproduce. A structured platform would allow the three parts to consolidate trust, pool resources and define common priorities through security, energy, industry and technology. This is a major missed opportunity to go beyond ad hoc commitments at a time of rapid transformation through the geopolitical and geo-economic landscape,, While strategic challenges proliferate, in particular from instability in the Sahel, the increase in geopolitical competition in the Mediterranean and increasing migration pressure to Europe.

A concession forum and a trilateral investment fund, jointly governed by Morocco, Israel and the United States, would be an effective tool to give the strategic alliance a deeper geopolitical weight. This central body would be responsible for coordinating disparate efforts in the respective public and private sectors of each country and providing direct funding for high impact strategic projects in key divisions, Including energy, critical infrastructure, industrial transformation, security technologies, defense industry, maritime industry and logistics innovation.

The forum would be designed not as a development aid mechanism, but rather as a sovereign investment tool that could generate measurable yields. Its operational model would be based on a governance shared between the three states, in particular by having representatives of the private sector and communities of the diaspora, and a rigorous and transparent selection of projects based on economic viability, strategic relevance, as well as a clear investment return for the donors of the forum.

What the United States wins through a trilateral fund

While the global dynamic of power continues to move, the United States must go beyond support for traditional bilateral alliances and reinvent its most important growing strategic partnerships, as with Israel and Morocco. Regional platforms intentionally organized are capable of producing tangible and sustainable results which would also reliably make a real value of investments. Consequently, the forum proposed on trilateral investment would constitute an important innovation in regional Mediterranean policy for the United States and Offer important lessons for new mechanisms for American engagement that combine traditional diplomacy, economic strategy and direct mutual yields.

The model would ensure that the United States improves its long-term position through sustainable, coherent, transparent and Evolutionary architecture. This fund is particularly appropriate and relevant for three main reasons.

First, the fund would serve as counterweight for the growing influence of rival powers – namely,, China, Russia and Iran. The three players progress their programs through North Africa, the Sahel and the Mediterranean thanks to major investments in infrastructure, energy, ports and security. If designed with appropriate financial resources, this proposed trilateral forum would provide a credible alternative for funding and competitive projects that would promote American interests and support local innovation ecosystems.

Second, the fund would offer a value that would help publish the expected “standardization dividend” of the Abraham agreements. Five years after their signature, few concrete mechanisms appeared to convert diplomatic momentum into long -term economic prosperity, largely due to the absence of a standard operational vehicle to coordinate and set up projects. Since the agreements were signed, most of the commitments have remained bilateral and not structured, often motivated by individual ministries, private actors or external partners without vision or shared platform. In addition, in the absence of a dedicated fund or a permanent forum, many successful initiatives – in particular in business, innovation and security – remain under the radar and disconnected from the wider strategic messaging. A The trilateral forum could place a model that could support the global expansion of the Abraham agreements, demonstrating Washington’s ability to support strategic and sustainable projects with key regional partners, advancing regional security and prosperity.

And thirdly, the fund would give the United States a tool of influence focused on results and a mechanism to return the value to the American taxpayer. Unlike punctual aid programs or general diplomatic commitments, this fund could generate measurable advantages, in particular the creation of local jobs, the inclusion of American companies in regional initiatives thanks to the requirement of American food, the growth of trilateral trade and the security of the supply chain, while integrating the American partners into the overall ecosystem of the Abraham agreements.

Road road and success indicators

The implementation of the Trilateral Investment Fund should follow a three -component and progressive implementation strategy,, With the ultimate aim of reaching a well -structured governance architecture and a clear discount for the new organization:

1. The initial phase focused on political agreement and the design of the framework, including trilateral deliberations on the level of work between the three parties.
2. The secondary phase has focused on deployment Strong impact pilot projects in the priority sectors, potentially through the Development Financing Corporation or other appropriate financing mechanisms.
3. The final final structuring phase aimed at putting the mechanism on the scale and integrating it into a sustainable institutional architecture, such as a jointly Trilateral fund.

To guarantee credibility and efficiency, the fund must provide measurable results according to clear criteria, in particular an economic impact (mobilized investment, job creation, industrial upgrade), tangible strategic alignment (political commitment, intergovernmental coordination, diplomatic yields) and proven replicability (ability to adapt the model to other regional cooperation frameworks).

A new trilateral forum that is the promise of the Abraham agreements is a unique opportunity to support American engagement in a field of critical geopolitical importance. By aligning capital, innovation and market access, this forum would not only strengthen the foundations of the Abraham agreements, but would also project stabilizing influence through Afro-Mediterranean space at a time of intense competition and uncertainty. He would offer the United States a tool for modern, agile and measurable commitment which would competitively approach the sovereignty, security and economic concerns of its partners confront in the world of world.

Aïssa Christophe Agostini is a strategic and founder economic advisor of Prosper Atlas, a consulting company focused on trilateral partnerships between the United States, Israel and Morocco.

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Image: The secretary of the American State Department, Marco Rubio, meets the Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in Washington DC, United States, on April 8, 2025, in the Treaty / Back room. (Photo by Lenin Nolly / Nurphoto) No use of France