The first official trip by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to Israel

PM Netanyahu meets Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong

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    ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו בטקס קבלת פנים לראש ממשלת סינגפור Lee Hsien Loong במשרד ראש הממשלה בירושלים צילום חיים צח / לע"מphoto by Haim Zach / GPO ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו בטקס קבלת פנים לראש ממשלת סינגפור Lee Hsien Loong במשרד ראש הממשלה בירושלים צילום חיים צח / לע"מphoto by Haim Zach / GPO Copyright: Government press office
    photo by Haim Zach / GPO Copyright: Government press office
     
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hosted Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who was in Israel on an official visit at the head of an approximately 60-person delegation. The meeting was held on 19th April 2016 in Jerusalem.

    PM Lee was accompanied by Foreign Minister Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan and Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli Bin Masagos Mohamad.
    After the welcoming ceremony, the two prime ministers met privately and then held an expanded meeting in which National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz and the ministers accompanying the Singapore Prime Minister also participated. The two leaders discussed increasing bilateral cooperation in cyber, security, economic matters and increasing trade.
    Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to make an official visit to Singapore.
    This was the first ever visit to Israel by a Prime Minister of Singapore since Singapore was founded 51 years ago and since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1969.