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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to visit India in December. However, due to some reason this journey has been postponed for the time being. Israeli PM Office informed that talks are going on on new dates for Netanyahu’s visit to India.
PM Netanyahu’s visit has been postponed for the third time this year. Meanwhile, Israeli media and others claimed that this decision was taken due to security reasons. However, Israeli officials put an end to all these speculations. On behalf of the officials, it has been said that the Israeli Prime Minister has full confidence in the security of India under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi. His team is already discussing a new date for the India tour.
Netanyahu visited India in 2018
Let us tell you that before this the Israeli PM had visited India in 2018. However, relations between India and Israel have not always been as close as they were under the leadership of the Modi government. It is not that there was no partnership between the two countries. Partnership between the two countries in the defense sector has been going on for a long time.
How old are the relations between the two countries?
On May 14, 1948, a proposal was made in the United Nations to make Israel an independent country. Initially, the then Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru was not in favor of it, but within two years in 1950, he recognized Israel as an independent nation. Nevertheless, diplomatic relations were established between the two countries in 1992.
India supported Palestine. This is why it took so long to recognize Israel. However, the friendship between India and Israel in the field of defense is very old. Israel not only provided mortars and anti-mortar devices in the India-China war of 1962, but also provided military help to India in the Kargil war.
Morarji Desai government played an important role
Still, there was a deep gap between the two countries, to fill which Morarji Desai’s government took steps in 1977. The result was that the then Defense Minister of Israel secretly visited India. After this, in 1985, the then PM Rajiv Gandhi and Simon Peres met at UNGA.
In 1992, political relations were again established between the two countries under the leadership of the then PM Narasimha Rao. In 2000, the then Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani made the first high-level official visit to Israel from India. After this, for the first time in 2003, the then Foreign Minister of India Jaswant Singh reached Israel. In 2003 itself, the then Israeli PM Ariel Sharon visited India.
Narendra Modi went to Israel for the first time as PM, relations strengthened
Former President of India Pranab Mukherjee visited Israel in 2015. Till this time no Prime Minister of India had visited Israel. For the first time, Narendra Modi visited Israel as the Prime Minister of India. In 2017, the Prime Minister of India visited Israel for the first time after recognizing it as an independent country in 1950. Under the leadership of PM Modi, relations between the two countries have strengthened significantly.
Israel is India’s important partner in these areas
India and Israel are important partners in the fields of defence, agriculture, technology and energy. From 2020 to 2024, there have been many major partnerships in the defense sector between the two countries. Both the countries are also connected culturally. This is because Jews arrived in India about two thousand years ago. In the present times, trust between India and Israel has deepened further. India still supports Palestine, but on the other hand, stands firmly in Israel’s fight against terrorism. Israel has also been supporting India against terrorism.