Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris next week in Paris, the Elysee presidential palace announced. It will be the first working meeting between the two leaders since Macron took power in France last May.

Netanyahu briefly met Macron in Strasbourg last month when he took part in a ceremony for former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.

The Israeli premier will be in the French capital to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the roundup of 13,000 French Jews at the Vel d'Hiv by the Nazis in 1942.

The Elysee said: "The Elysee confirms the arrival of Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, on Sunday, July 16, for the commemoration of the Vel d'Hiv roundup.’’

"On this occasion, a working meeting will take place between the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and the Israeli Prime Minister,’’ the statement added.

On July 16 and 17, 1942, 13,152 Jewish men, women and children were arrested at the request of the Nazis and on the orders of the French authorities during the occupation. Detained in inhuman conditions for four days, 1129 men, 2916 women and 4115 children were piled on the bleachers of the winter Velodrome (demolished in 1959), devoted to cycling races, before being taken to the concentration camps of Beaune- The Rolande and Pithiviers (Loiret).

There, some 3,000 young children were brutally separated from their parents, deported first to Auschwitz via Drancy. This round-up alone accounts for more than a quarter of the 42,000 Jews sent from France to Auschwitz in 1942, of whom only 811 will return after the end of the war.

From Paris, Netanyahu is scheduled to travel to Budapest, Hungary, for a meeting with the heads of the Visegrad group made up of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

It will be the first visit to Hungary by an Israeli Prime Minister since the country emerged from Communist rule in 1989. He is expected to hold both bilateral talks with the leaders of each of the four countries, as well as a joint meeting as well.