Modi-Netanyahu meet: Why there are limitations to India-Israel relations

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Modi-Netanyahu meet: Why there are limitations to India-Israel relations The Israeli prime minister may want closer ties with India as the situation in Palestine deteriorates, but that's not going to be easy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will commence his return visit to India on Sunday, January 14, within six months of Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel. Modi’s trip had been the first visit of an Indian prime minister to the Jewish state, nearly 70 years after the state came into being and 25 years after India established diplomatic ties with it.

The last quarter of a century has seen extraordinary progress in bilateral relations: Israel is now India’s major defence supplier, security partner and source of important technologies

in diverse areas including water, agriculture, energy, information technology and innovation. Both prime ministers share an interest in wordplay; hence, Netanyahu has


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