TEL AVIVA, July 23. /TASS/. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who met with visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday called the existing ties between the two countries extremely important.

"Relations between us [Israel and Russia TASS] are extremely importance and we implement them through direct meetings between President [Vladimir Putin] and myself, as well as between our teams," the Prime Minister's Office quoted him in a press release.