Prime Minister Narendra Modi last night gifted two sets of relics from Kerala, including sets of copper plates and a scroll, to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu. <br/><br/>In a tweeter message, PMO said, the first set of copper plates is a cherished relic for the Cochini Jews in India. It said another set of copper plates is believed to be the earliest documentation of the history of Jewish trade with India.<br/><br/>It is regarded as a charter describing the grant of hereditary royal privileges and prerogatives by the Hindu King, Cheraman Perumal also identified as Bhaskara Ravi Varma to the Jewish leader Joseph Rabban.<br/><br/>According to traditional Jewish accounts, Joseph Rabban was later crowned as the Prince of Shingli, a place in or equated with Cranganore. <br/><br/>In Cranganore, is where Jews enjoyed religious and cultural autonomy for centuries, before they moved to Cochin and other places in Malabar, PMO said. Local Jews once placed in each coffin a handful of earth from Shingli or Cranganore that was remembered as a holy place and a second Jerusalem. The replica of these plates was made possible with the cooperation of the Paradesi Synagogue in Mattancherry, Kochi.