 Kilmer was part of a 37-member congressional delegation that visited Israel.The trip was sponsored by the lobby group, American Israel Education Foundation, with the stated goal of working to strengthen strategic economic and military cooperation between Israel and the United States.Through his co-sponsorship of the United States–Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2013, Rep. Kilmer supports spending U.S. tax revenue to fund Israel's military, and to provide assistance for collaboration in the fields of energy, water, homeland security, agriculture, and alternative fuel technologies.