Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first broke news of Mr. Modi's visit while addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations in Jerusalem on Sunday (February 15).
“Parliament address on the anvil. Who's coming here next week? Narendra Modi,” Mr. Netanyahu told the gathering.
“Tremendous alliance between Israel and India, and we are going to discuss all sorts of cooperation. Now, you know, India is not a small country. It has 1.4 billion people. India is enormously powerful, enormously popular,” he stressed.
A source in Jerusalem told PTI that 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, Mr. Modi is expected to address the Israeli Knesset (parliament).
