Head of State: Israel Would be Interested in Investing in High Technology

''Israel as a leading state in hi-tech would have an interest in investing in Bulgaria's potential in these areas'', President Rumen Radev said today at a meeting with his Israeli counterpart, Reuven Rivlin, at Jerusalem's Presidential Palace.

Radev added that our country is becoming more and more a center for information and communication technologies, research in Southeastern Europe.

''The friendship between our peoples has been proved most definitively in the difficult years of the Second World War'', the Bulgarian President said.

He pointed out that he is proud that the Bulgarians had done the unprecedented act of saving their Jews and had not allowed any of them to go to the death camps. ''In this way we recorded one of the brightest pages not only in ours, but also in European history'', Rumen Radev noted.

The Head of State also added that thanks to the consistent efforts of several generations today, the State of Israel has effective institutions, democracy and developed civil society.

In his words, the State of Israel today is a progressive model for social development whose success lies in the public's commitment to citizens, the quality of education, decent pay, investments in the economy and sectors where science is a guarantor of high added value. That is why Bulgaria is open to continue our cooperation, investment exchange, scientific, economic, trade exchange, the Bulgarian president noted.

President Rumen Radev is  on an official visit to the State of Israel at the invitation of President Reuven Rivlin. The visit of the Bulgarian head of state is in the context of the 75th anniversary of the salvation of Bulgarian Jews and the 70th anniversary of the creation of the State of...