(NDTV - India) Nidhi Razdan - Prime Minister Narendra Modi will next month become the first Indian premier to visit Israel - news agency Press Trust of India reported that his three-day visit will begin on July 4 and he will meet his counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, the same evening. India is now the largest buyer of Israeli military equipment, while Israel is India's largest customer after Russia. PM Modi's approach to Israel has been described as a marked change in foreign policy. His government has shed his predecessors' reservations on talking about India's ties with Israel. The roots of PM Modi's Israel relationship go back to 2006, when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat and visited the region to explore new ideas in irrigation, an area of Israeli expertise.
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