Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Israel next week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, calling the trip a signal of the “tremendous alliance” between the two countries.

Addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Monday night, Netanyahu said the leaders would discuss a broad range of cooperation, reflecting Israel’s growing diplomatic and technological influence worldwide.

“India is not a small country. It has 1.5 billion people. “In India, Israel is enormously popular,” he said. “We are going to discuss all sorts of cooperation.”