[5][6][7] In 2000, during a State visit to Israel by Micronesian President Leo A. Falcam, the two countries signed a "Protocol on Cooperation" to "give expression to the warm relations between the two states, and Israel's appreciation of the unreserved support it receives from Micronesia in the UN".

He asked Israel for technical and economic assistance, as well as medical training programmes, which Peres promised to supply.

[9][10] Israel also supplies Micronesia with experts on citrus crops and irrigation techniques, medical technicians, and scholarships to Israeli colleges.

It became sovereign in 1986 through a Compact of Free Association, which establishes mutual economic and defence responsibilities between the two countries.

The Marshall Islands and Palau -the other two countries which consistently support Israel at the United Nations[12]- are also former U.S. territories bound by the Compact.