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Netanyahu sends a message to Putin: "I will be back soon"
The Russian president sent a personal farewell letter to the former prime minister but moved on to work with the new government.
Bennett, who will arrive in Sochi on Friday, wants to confirm the understandings on Syria and discuss the Iranian nuclear issue, but is mainly interested in showing that he, too, can speak Putin at eye level.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 5:25 p.m.
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Five days before the election: Netanyahu meets with Russian President Putin during a diplomatic visit (Photo credit: Reuters)
A few days after he left his post as prime minister in June, Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov.
The Russian ambassador was sent by none other than President Vladimir Putin to deliver a personal letter to Netanyahu.
Putin wrote personal farewell words to Netanyahu against the background of their joint work for more than a decade.
An Israeli official and a European diplomat involved in the details of the meeting said that Netanyahu read the letter and asked the Russian ambassador to send a message back to the Kremlin: "Tell President Putin that I will return to the Prime Minister's Office very soon."
Netanyahu and Putin have had close relations and they have become even closer since the Russians brought their army into Syria in 2015. Netanyahu soon realized that the strategic situation in the region had changed and that Russia was now on Israel's northern border.
His conclusion was that relations with Putin were more important than ever.
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Putin and Netanyahu meet in Kremlin, 2020 (Photo: Reuters)
Relations with Putin also served Netanyahu politically.
The Likud pasted huge posters of Netanyahu and Putin on billboards across the country under the headline "Another League," and before any election campaign in the past three years, Netanyahu came to the Kremlin for a photo opportunity with Putin hoping to wink at voters from Russia and other former Soviet Union countries.
Putin, for his part, was not ashamed to help Netanyahu politically - especially when it also served him well.
Such as the invitation to the military parade on the day of the victory over Nazi Germany in the Kremlin, which was confiscated by many leaders from around the world.
Both Putin and Netanyahu have benefited politically from this opportunity to photograph.
Before the first elections in 2019, Netanyahu arrived in Moscow to take the belongings of IDF cavalry Zechariah Baumel, whose body was found in a joint Israeli-Russian intelligence operation in Damascus. In exchange for Israeli gestures,
despite close ties with Netanyahu, Putin was quick to congratulate Naftali Bennett and move on. In Jerusalem.
important meeting.
Bennett (Photo: TPS, Shalom Shalom)
"We are trying not to make comparisons between Netanyahu and the current prime minister," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with I24NEWS last week. "Putin and Netanyahu have worked together for many, many years and it takes time to build a relationship."
Precisely for this reason, the meeting between Putin and Bennett in Sochi on Friday is so important for the prime minister. The impression that Bennett will leave on Putin is important not only for Israeli-Russian relations, but also for his internal political status. After the warm welcome at the White House and the good visit to Egypt, Bennett wants to show that he can talk at eye level with the President of Russia as well.
Bennett's trip to Russia comes after quite a few contacts between the countries after the formation of the new government.
Bennett's chief of staff, Il Hulta, visited Moscow and met with his Russian counterpart. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and so did Tourism Minister Yoel Rezbozov. Bennett wants to start with Putin on the right foot and is looking for gestures he can give him. The Russian "Sputnik" for the entry of Russian tourists into Israel is one example of this.
The main issue on which Bennett now needs Putin is Iran. But an equally urgent issue is the Iranian nuclear program.In Israel, it is believed that only Russian pressure on the Iranians can bring about a change in the current trend that is leading Iran to the status of a nuclear threshold state.
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