Benjamin Netanyahu to present a special gift to Narendra Modi

NEW DELHI: Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to present a special gift — the Gal-Mobile water desalination and purification jeep —to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi during his visit to India beginning January 14.

During Modi's visit to Israel in July, he and Netanyahu rode the jeep on the Mediterranean coast. Netanyahu is likely to gift the same jeep — worth $ 111,000 — to Modi, according to persons familiar with the development. The vehicle has been dispatched for India and would be arriving on time to be presented to Modi.

Modi and Netanyahu had witnessed the demonstration of sea water purification technology at a water desalination unit on the Olga beach during the PM's visit to Israel. The two leaders later drove together in the mobile water desalination unit and sipped desalinated water from wine glasses, raising a toast.
"There's nothing like going to the beach with friends!" the Israeli PM had later tweeted. "I am thankful to Bibi (Netanyahu) because the vehicle which I saw today, particularly during a natural calamity when people are suffering (shortage of) drinking water...Can provide drinking water," Modi had said after the demonstration.