PM Modi to visit Israel

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Israel on a two-day visit from February 25 to 26, sources said on Monday.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first broke news of Modi’s visit while addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations on Sunday.

“Parliament address on the anvil. Who’s coming here next week? Narendra Modi,” Netanyahu told the gathering. According to sources, PM Modi’s visit is ‘likely to be short from February 25 to 26”, but “its impact is deep given the popularity Modi enjoys not only in Israel but around the world”. While the programme around the visit is being worked out, PM Modi is expected to address the Israeli parliament.This would be his second visit to Israel, the first being in July 2017, which was also the first ever by an Indian Prime Minister to the Jewish state.