Netanyahu toured the Taj Mahal on Tuesday and will also visit Modi’s home state of Gujarat and India’s financial capital Mumbai.
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Prime Minister Modi visited Israel past year, which was also the first visit by an Indian prime minister.
The two global leaders dedicated iCreate to the nation. Mogherini and the EU Foreign Ministers are to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and discuss the Middle East Process next Monday in Brussels.
During Netanyahu’s visit, the two have signed a series of agreements on oil, gas, renewable energy, and cybersecurity as well as pledging to boost bilateral trade and investment.
In an analysis originally posted in the Wall Street Journal, former US UN Ambassador John Bolton, a long-standing opponent of the Obama administration-led deal, says, in essence, it should be trashed.
“I am delighted to be here. He is catapulting it into the future, and as one of the world’s great power”, Netanyahu said. Dubbed as the International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology (iCreate), the institution aims to identify, nurture and mentors aspiring entrepreneurs. Also, an exhibition of the start-up was attended by the three in the late evening.
Set up under the Indo-Israel Agriculture Work Plan for exchange of advanced farming technology, the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Protected Cultivation and Precision Farming on Vegetables at Vadrad village near Prantij in Sabarkantha district provides training and guidance in controlled farming techniques.
“Israel has proved to the world that commitment of the people, not size of the nation takes the country forward”.
“We have to bring the talents of Indians and Israelis together”, Netanyahu said, referring to efforts on getting a direct flight link between India and Israel as an effort in this direction. India and Israel formalized relations 25 years ago, but ties between the countries were lukewarm and defense, intelligence, and commercial cooperation remained largely out of the public’s eye until recently.
Netanyahu, who is on a six-day visit to India, is being accompanied by the largest business delegation that has travelled with an Israeli Premier on an overseas tour.
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Netanyahu made this known to Israeli reporters on a flight from Dehli to Gujarat during a state visit to India, the Times of Israel reported.
