JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — Increasingly concerned by Moscow’s ever-closer military, economic and political ties with Tehran, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spent Friday in the Russian city of Sochi, holding his first face-to-face meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The ties between Russia and Israel are a significant element in the foreign policy of the State of Israel due to both the special status of Russia in the region and its international role, and to the million Russian-speakers in Israel, who constitute a bridge between the two countries,” Bennett told reporters before departing.
