Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday received Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu in Ahmedabad.
The two leaders will hold a roadshow, which will begin from the city airport and end at the Sabarmati Ashram, a journey of eight kilometers.
They will visit the Sabarmati Ashram, where Mahatma stayed for a long time. The two leaders would also visit two centres of excellence and inaugurate another such facility.
The Israeli prime minister will also present Modi a special gift — the Gal-Mobile water desalinisation and purification jeep the two leaders rode at Israel’s Olga beach last year.
There will be a live demonstration of desalination of sea water that the two prime ministers will witness through video conferencing from the iCreate centre on Janaury 17.
Later in the day, Prime Minister Modi and Netanyahu will inaugurate the iCreate Center at Deo Dholera Village in Ahmedabad, following which they will visit a startup exhibition and interact with innovators and CEOs.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe had also held a joint roadshow during the latter’s visit here in last September. The Indian premier had shown Abe and his wife around at the Sabarmati Ashram. However, the monuments across the city have not been illuminated this time as the guests will not stay overnight.
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PM Modi and Israel PM Netanyahu on their way to Sabarmati Ashram
11:17 AM
PM Netanyahu will experience Gujarat’s remarkable hospitality during our visit to the state today. We will attend various programmes and interact with a wide range of people, ranging from innovators, entrepreneurs and farmers, tweets PM Modi.
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The two leaders will inaugurate the iCreate Center at Deo Dholera Village in Ahmedabad.
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PM Modi and Israeli PM will visit the Centre of Excellence for Vegetables at Vadrad in Sabarkantha district.