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Describing India arsenic a “gigantic power”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel is “tightening alliances” with its allies, arsenic helium mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sojourn to Jerusalem adjacent week.
Prime Minister Modi is expected to get successful Israel connected February 25 connected a two-day sojourn during which helium is apt to code the Knesset (Parliament) and conscionable Mr. Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog.
Mr. Netanyahu made the comments portion addressing the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Cadets' Graduation Ceremony successful Bahad 1 (IDF Officers School), astir 190 kms southbound of Jerusalem, connected Thursday (February 19, 2026).
After describing valiant efforts by the Israeli service implicit the years, Mr. Netanyahu said however the state goes retired and takes “pre-emptive measures” against the evil, and, therefore, volition enactment clip and again “to neutralise the risks successful the area, arsenic necessary.”
“We volition besides enactment to tighten alliances with our allies. Next week, the Prime Minister of India volition sojourn the state – a gigantic power," Mr. Netanyahu said.
“And of course, you cognize that a fewer days agone I returned from different diplomatic visit, the seventh successful fig since the predetermination of President [Donald] Trump to a 2nd term, wherever I met with the top person of the State of Israel – U.S. President Trump,” helium added.
“In the American information doctrine published recently, Israel is the lone state successful the satellite that the US defines arsenic ‘the exemplary ally’,” helium asserted.
On Sunday (February 15), Mr. Netanyahu broke the quality of Mr. Modi’s sojourn portion addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations.
“Parliament code connected the anvil. Who's coming present adjacent week? Narendra Modi,” Mr. Netanyahu told the gathering.
“Tremendous confederation betwixt Israel and India, and we are going to sermon each sorts of cooperation. Now, you know, India is not a tiny country. It has 1.4 cardinal people. India is enormously powerful, enormously popular,” helium said.
This would beryllium Mr. Modi’s 2nd sojourn to Israel, the archetypal being successful July 2017, which was besides the archetypal ever by an Indian Prime Minister to the Jewish state.
