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To mark three decades of diplomatic relations between India and Israel the Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will visit India in April.
The visit is also aimed to take forward the strategic alliance between the two countries. India had recognised Israel in 1950 but full-fledged diplomatic relations were established only in 1992.
The two sides elevated their relations to a strategic partnership in 2017, when Indian PM Narendra Modi made the first visit by any Indian prime minister to Israel.
This will be Bennett’s first official visit to India since he became the prime minister in mid-2021, though he and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi met on the margins of the UN climate change conference or COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021.
Naftali is visiting India at the invitation of Prime Minister Modi during their meeting at the COP26 summit in Glasgow last year. According to reports, Naftali will be on a 4-day visit from April 2 to 5.
Israel is a leading supplier of advanced military hardware to India and strategic ties between the two sides have now expanded to trilateral cooperation with West Asian states, such as the United Arab Emirates, which signed the Abraham Accords.
The purpose of Bennett’s visit is to strengthen the bilateral strategic alliance and to expand the relationship. The two leaders will discuss ways to strengthen cooperation in areas such as innovation, economy, research and development, and agriculture.
Besides Modi, Bennett will meet other senior government officials and visit the Jewish community in India.
