External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj concluded a two-day visit to Israel, three months after President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to Jerusalem. During her visit, Swaraj met with top Israeli leadership and discussed various fields of cooperation between both the nations.
In her meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, both leaders discussed bilateral cooperation on a broad range of issues like security and cyber, science and technology, research and innovation, education, agriculture and water.
They also discussed the intention to increase cooperation via the business sector in both countries, and not only by means of the two governments. PM Netanyahu said,”Israel wanted maximum cooperation with India, in all areas.” Prime Minister Netanyahu said: “Madam Foreign Minister, it’s a pleasure to welcome you here in Jerusalem. The Middle East’s only democracy welcomes the Foreign Minister of the world’s greatest democracy. There’s been a great flowering of relationship and friendship between our two countries in recent years, and I take special pleasure in welcoming you here and also sending regards to my good friend and colleague, Prime Minister Modi. The expression of this growing relationship has been in the visit of the Indian president here, the first ever of an Indian head of state.”
