Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed President Nicos Anastasiades of Cyprus to Jerusalem, Sunday evening. In remarks before their meeting, Netanyahu said Israel and its Mediterranean neighbor "share common challenges, and also common opportunities:in security cooperation, in gas, in emergency cooperation, commerce, tourism, many, many fields."
Recalling the two countries' reciprocity in fighting wildfires, he said, "that's exactly the kind of thing that friends do. They come to each other's help in times of need, but also cooperate in good times or cooperate to make times better. And that's why I'm particularly proud to have this opportunity to continue the dialogue we began on a tripartite basis [with Greece] in the Nicosia summit. We're continuing those discussions, both bilaterally but also multilaterally, and we continue to send our people. But of course we know, as leaders, that there's no substitute for the meeting of the people at the top...."