Modi meeting Indian students in Israel

TEL AVIV:Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met a group of Indian students pursuing higher studies in Israel.

"It was great to meet Indian students," Modi tweeted.

In recent years, an increasing number of students from India have been going to Israel for PG studies.

On this meeting, Modi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended an India-Israel CEO's Round Table.

The day started by paying homage at the Haifa Indian Cemetery that has the graves of 44 Indian soldiers who died during World War I.

Modi and Netanyahu viewed a demonstration of a mobile sea water desalination plant at a beach, on their way to Tel Aviv.

Modi arrived here on Tuesday in the first visit to Israel by an Indian Prime Minister.