Tel Aviv (Israel), March 21 -- : Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington next week on an invitation extended by President Donald Trump, CNN quoted White House press secretary Sarah Sanders as saying on Wednesday (local time).

Netanyahu's visit comes just two weeks before the upcoming Parliamentary elections in Israel, scheduled to take place on April 9. The visit has been further scheduled when the Israeli Prime Minister is facing corruption charges in his country.

The Prime Minister, however, last year had clearly stated that he would not resign even if he is indicted by the attorney general under one or any of the corruption charges against him. Denying the three corruption charges against him, Netanyahu cited leg...