Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov and 12 ministers are leaving for Israel Monday for the second joint sitting of the two countries' cabinets on September 11 in Israel.

In addition to Borisov, the delegation includes Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev, Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov, Defense Minister Anyu Angelov, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov, Education Minister Sergey Ignatov, Health Minister Desislava Atanasova, Culture Minister Vezhdi Rashidov, Environment Minister Nona Karadzhova, Social Policy Minister Totyu Mladenov, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski and Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.

The agenda includes the signing of bilateral agreements in the IT, healthcare, culture and education sectors.

The joint sitting in Jerusalem will be a display of the excellent ties between the two countries despite the July 18 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas.

Borisov and Defense Minister, Anuy Angelov, will hold a personal meeting with Israeli PM, Benyamin Netanyahu. The other ministers will have talks with their counterparts.

The Bulgarian delegation will enjoy Monday evening a concert and a cocktail party at the Habima theater. Along with the joint sitting, the ministers will visit Tuesday the holocaust memorial in Jerusalem where they will lay flowers.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is also expected to arrive on an official visit to Israel at the end of October.

In July 2011, Bulgaria and Israel held the first ever joint sitting of their Cabinets in Bulgaria's capital Sofia.

For Bulgaria, this was the second time ever of holding a joint Cabinet sitting with another country after a 2010 sitting with the then Greek Cabinet; a sitting with the Romanian Cabinet followed in the fall of 2011 and a sitting with Turkey's Cabinet took place in March 2012.

For Israel, the 2011 Bulgarian-Israel Cabinet sessions was the third with a foreign country – after earlier joint sittings with the governments of Germany and Italy.

In 2013, Bulgaria and Israel will jointly commemorate the 70th anniversary since the Balkan country's historic rescue of 50 000 Jews from Nazi concentration camp.

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