Thirteen countries, including the United States, China, Canada, Germany and Great Britain, participated in the event.Rivlin visited the fair as part of an eight-day trip with a business delegation to mark 25 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.Rivlin, who flies back to Israel Monday night, is only the second Israeli president to visit India after Ezer Weizman did so in 1997. The only prime minister to visit was Ariel Sharon in 2003.Rivlin was greeted at the Chandigarh airport on Sunday by dancers and musicians in colorful costumes as the Israeli flag waved, and signs welcoming him and India’s President Pranab Mukherjee dotted the road his motorcade traveled.“Building a nation means to produce food for all, now and for the next generations to come. Food security is not only about surviving, it’s about freedom,” said Rivlin.When it comes to food, Israel and India can make “magic” together, whether it is the development of a new kind of cherry tomato or the use of solar panels on trucks to keep food cold and fresh, he said.“Together, we can do more to make in India and to make with India. We can make a better future for the next generation,” he said. “Yes, [together] we can bring magic to the world. We are proud to be here and to be your partners.”Rivlin drew both laughter and applause from the audience when he said that, while in the country, he has learned a new word in Hindi, “jugaad,” which means a clever solution born out of trouble.To know Israel, he said, is to guess “how quickly I fell in love with this word.”“The State of Israel is jugaad. It’s the way we think. The way we invent and the way we work,” he said, explaining that he was the president of a small nation that had suffered for being different and had come together from around the globe to build a home for itself out of nothing.Dancing at the Chandigarh welcoming ceremony for Rivlin pic.twitter.com/QXVBVgORb5
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