Georgian PM to meet Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel visit

Deepening and strengthening cooperation between law enforcement of Georgia and Israel was discussed between the Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri and Yaakov Shabtai, the Commissioner of the Israeli National Police, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Tuesday.

The Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III on Monday awarded the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili with the Order of the Knight of the Holy Sepulchre of Christ and the decorated True Cross of the Saviour.

As part of his visit to Israel, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem memorial.

Dynamics of the development of relations between Georgia and Israel and their cooperation in legislation and other fields were discussed on Monday in a meeting of Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Mickey Levy, the Speaker of the Israeli Knesset.

Lasha Zhvania, the Georgian Ambassador to Israel on Wednesday said Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili’s visit to the country would “give a new beginning to [discussing] many issues”, including economic relations between the two countries and the inflow of investments to Georgia.

”Main areas” of cooperation between Georgia and Israel, and prospects of further deepening the existing cooperation between the countries were discussed on Thursday in a meeting between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, on Thursday told his Georgian counterpart Irakli Garibashvili ties between their nations could be “raised to an even higher level”. 

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Thursday told his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu the two countries were connected with a “special bond and friendship”.