Netanyahu confirms Australian visit

AUSTRALIA’S Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she is “very pleased” that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted her invitation to visit Australia in the next three months.

Netanyahu announced his trip Down Under at the start of this week’s cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.

“In the next three months, I will leave for Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Singapore and Australia,” he said.

“For three of these, if I am not mistaken, it will be the first visit by an Israeli Prime Minister.”

 While precise details have not yet been confirmed, Bishop told The AJN this week, “Should the visit proceed, it will be the first ever to Australia by a sitting Israeli Prime Minister.

Read the report in the Australian Jewish News.