Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin is to visit Ireland today at the invitation of his Irish counterpart.
Mr Rivlin will be meeting senior Irish politicians including President Michael D Higgins, who took office late last year, as well as members of the Ireland-Israel Friendship League.
He is being accompanied on the trip by Labour politician Yitzhak Herzog, whose father, President Chaim Herzog, was born in Belfast and whose grandfather was the chief rabbi in Ireland.
The visit follows that of the Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil, Sean Barrett, who was in Israel in July.
