Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Israel on a two-day visit from February 25 to 26. He made the announcement while addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations. “Parliament address on the anvil. Who’s coming here next week? Narendra Modi,” Netanyahu told the gathering.
Hereโs what Netanyahu said on India
“Tremendous alliance between Israel and India, and we are going to discuss all sorts of cooperation. Now, you know, India is not a small country. It has 1.4 billion people. India is enormously powerful, enormously popular,” he stressed.
PM Modiโs to visit Israel: Check some of the key details
- PM Modiโs visit to Israel is expected to give fresh momentum to strategic, defense, and technological ties between the two countries.
- Notably, this would be PM Modiโs first visit to Israel during his third term in office.
- PM Modi had last visited Israel in 2017, nine years ago, marking 25 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations.
- During hsi last visit, PM Modi and Netanyahu had held talks on defense, cybersecurity, agriculture, and cooperation against terrorism.
- This time, both the leaders are expected to discuss security situation in West Asia, along with regional and global developments.