The maiden visit of Bennett to India who became prime minister in June last year was also aimed at expanding the cooperation between the two countries in the areas of innovation and technology.
India and Israel elevated their bilateral relationship to a strategic partnership during the historic visit of Prime Minister Modi to Israel in July 2017
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will be visiting India in the first week of April to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and India.
Former Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu visited India in Jan 2018 and he shared great chemistry with PM Modi. India considers Israel an important partner as it is hugely dependent on the latter for high technology and defence equipment.
Bennett arrived at the White House aiming to dissuade Biden from returning to the Iran nuclear deal that was brokered during the Obama administration and later scrapped by President Donald Trump.
Biden and Bennett were scheduled to meet late Thursday morning for their first face-to-face conversation since Bennett became Israel’s prime minister in June.
The long-expected visit with Israel’s new PM will take place on Aug 26 amid tensions with the Islamic Republic and Israel’s fragile truce with militant Hamas rulers in Gaza following an 11-day war in May.
Israel's newly elected Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that he was looking forward to working with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s record 12-year run as Israel’s prime minister ended on Sunday with parliament approving a new “government of change” led by nationalist Naftali Bennett.
U.S. President Joe Biden has congratulated Israel's incoming Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated new Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, saying he looks forward to meet him.
Naftali Bennett is a religious Jew who made millions in the mostly secular hi-tech sector; a champion of the settlement movement who lives in a Tel Aviv suburb
The vote, capping a stormy parliamentary session, ended a two-year cycle of political paralysis in which the country held four deadlocked elections. Those votes focused largely on Netanyahu’s divisive rule and his fitness to remain in office while on trial for corruption charges.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been the most dominant player in Israeli politics over the past three decades — serving as Prime Minister since 2009 in addition to an earlier term in the late 1990s.
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