Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett delays India trip after Covid infection
Naftali Bennett
IsraeliPrime Minister Naftali Bennett has put off atripplanned for later this week toIndia, his office said on Tuesday,afterhe tested positive forCovid.
"Prime Minister Naftali Bennett'striptoIndiahas been postponed and will be rescheduled," the office said in a statement.
The three-daytrip, organisedafteran invitation fromIndia's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had been scheduled to start on Sunday.
It had been set to mark 30 years since the two nations established diplomatic ties, Bennett's office said.
On Monday, the prime minister's office said Bennett had tested positive forCovid-19 but was "feeling well and will continue his schedule as planned from his home".
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It was to have been Bennett's first officialtriptoIndia.
Modi visited Israel in 2017 and formerIsraeliprime minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a reciprocal visit a year later.
IsraeliDefence Minister Benny Gantz, who had been scheduled to fly toIndiato meet his counterpart in a separate visit this week, also delayed histrip.
Indiahas historically been a vocal supporter of the Palestinians, but it has drawn closer to Israel in recent years, in part via buying military hardware from Israel.
On Monday top diplomats from Israel, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Egypt and the United States met at a landmark summit in southern Israel.
Palestinians say Arab states are betraying their cause by abandoning a decades-long policy of boycotting Israel until theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved.
Watch |Israeli PM Naftali Bennett tests Covid-19 positive ahead of India trip