On International Day on Sunday, Israel greeted India in a unique manner. Israel Embassy in India tweeted
Along with the tweet, the Israel embassy attached a video clip that shows several photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands and greeting each other. The background song in the video is the ‘Yeh dosti hum nahi todenge’ song from the Bollywood flick Sholay.
Happy #FriendshipDay2019 India!
May our ever strengthening friendship & #growingpartnership touch greater heights.
🔊🎧🎶 ये दोस्ती हम नहीं तोड़ेंगे….. 🇮🇱❤🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/BQDv8QnFVj— Israel in India (@IsraelinIndia) August 4, 2019
PM Modi gave a sweet response to the tweet and wrote “Thank you and wishing a Happy Friendship Day to Israel’s wonderful citizens and my good friend Benjamin Netanyahu. India and Israel are time tested friends.” in Hebrew.
תודה לך
מאחל יום חברות שמח לאזרחי ישראל הנהדרים ולידידי הטוב @netanyahuהודו וישראל הוכיחו את ידידותם לאורך הזמן. הקשר שלנו הוא חזק ונצחי. מאחל שהידידות בין המדינות שלנו תצמח ותפרח אף יותר בעתיד https://t.co/PsZTgMoXMU
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 4, 2019
“Our bond is strong and eternal! May the friendship between our nations grow and prosper even more in times to come! Our nations grow and prosper even more in times to come!”, he added.
India and Israel share an extensive economic, military and strategic relationship that has strengthened in recent years.
Recently, an election advertisement banner, featuring the image of Modi standing with Netanyahu, was spotted in Israel.
Netanyahu was the first world leader to congratulate Modi for scripting an “impressive victory” in the 2019 General Elections and had vowed to strengthen their “great friendship” as well as bilateral ties with India.
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Modi also congratulated his “dear friend” Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu as unofficial results projected a clear win for the right-wing leader in Israel’s April 9 elections for the 21st Knesset.
This will be Netanyahu’s record fifth term as the Prime Minister of Israel, once the official results are announced.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the longest-serving Israeli prime minister, is due to visit India in September.
(With ANI inputs)