TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ PM Narendra Modi’s historic three-day visit to Israel will focus on a series of military deals worth billions of dollars as well as strategic partnerships in areas, including water, agriculture and space technology.
PM Modi will land in Israel at 6:30 pm IST on Tuesday and from the airport, he will make his way to Moshav Mishmar HaShiv’a, where he will visit the Dan Farm, one of the leading flower farms in Israel. At the farm, Modi will watch an Agriculture Ministry demonstration of some of Israel’s latest agricultural technologies, including a state-of-the-art irrigation multicopter drone and a thermal camera.
Later, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will accompany Modi on a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, where the Indian premier will lay a wreath, visit the Children’s Memorial, and sign the guest book.
On Tuesday evening, Modi will have dinner at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem. At the same time, the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s director general and the acting national security advisor will host a dinner at the King David Hotel attended by their Indian counterparts along with other members of the Indian delegation.
On Wednesday, Modi will meet with President Reuven Rivlin. The Prime Minister will also meet with Israeli opposition leader, Isaac Herzog, and later visit the exhibit on Indian Jewry and the Cochin Jews synagogue at the Israel Museum.
