AMN /
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Monday said India attaches the highest importance to its ties with Israel as she called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the entire spectrum of the relationship.
Mrs. Swaraj, who is on her first visit to West Asia as the External Affairs Minister, said the two countries are intensifying their contacts and cooperation in fields such as science and technology, cyber, defence and agriculture.
The External Affairs Minister will also meet President Reuven Rivlin, Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon and other senior leaders. Mrs. Swaraj will be also meeting the Indian community in Israel.
There are four groups of Indian Jewish communities in Israel with a strength of approximately 80,000.
Swaraj’s visit comes barely three months after the historic visit of President Pranab Mukherjee, the first by an Indian Head of State to Israel, and aims at encasing on the goodwill generated by that visit.