Netanyahu personally received Modi at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport, an honour previously accorded only to the Pope and the US President. Describing Modi as a “great world leader”, Netanyahu said Israel had waited for the past 70 years for a visit by an Indian premier. When I and Prime Minister Modi met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September 2014, we decided to break down the final walls that separate us. In his welcome speech, Modi said the people of Israel had built a nation on democratic principles and marched forward despite adversarial conditions. “Yad Vashem is a reminder of the unspeakable evil inflicted generations ago,” he said in a press statement along with his Israeli counterpart Netanyahu.

Source: Hindustan Times July 04, 2017 18:29 UTC