Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau’s office announced the prime minister will travel to Albania and Bulgaria to meet Balkan leaders early next month.
Netanyahu will take part in an unspecified regional summit in Albania on November 1, his office says.
He will spend the next two days in Bulgaria, where he will meet with the leaders of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia.
The visit to Albania, a majority Muslim country with historically friendly ties with Israel, will seemingly be the highest-level trip by an Israeli to the country. In 1994, then-foreign minister Shimon Peres visited Tirana, and last year the city memorialized the trip with a plaque to the former statesman.
Netanyahu visited Bulgaria as prime minister in July 2011, about a year before a terrorist blew up a tourist bus full of Israelis there, killing five Israeli nationals and a local driver.
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