“The president of Russia is supposed to visit Palestine early next year. I hope that this visit will be for the benefit of our peoples, ”the TASS diplomat quotes.

Earlier it became known that Putin would come to Israel in January 2020 on Holocaust Remembrance Day and take part in the opening of a monument dedicated to the victims of World War II and the siege of Leningrad.

In an interview with RT Arabic, Sky News Arabia and Al Arabiya, Putin noted that about one and a half million immigrants from the former Soviet Union live in Israel, which makes Israel an almost Russian-speaking state.