 "Netanyahu postpones India visit over security concerns after Delhi blast: Israeli media")
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed his visit to India over security concerns after the Delhi blast, according to Israel’s i24 News.
Netanyahu was supposed to visit India next month. A visit of the Prime Minister of Israel has been pending for over six years.
Diplomatic sources have confirmed to the outlet that Netanyahu’s visit was postponed after the suicide bombing near Red Fort in Delhi.
Netanyahu is now expected to visit India at a later day next year pending security assessments, according to the report.
🔴PM Netanyahu’s planned December visit to India postponed due to security concerns following deadly Delhi attack https://t.co/14dhxpJFJc
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) November 24, 2025
Netanyahu first visited India in 2018 and was to make another visit the next year. But the visit was postponed twice that year as Israel held repeat parliamentary elections. The next year, the Covid-19 pandemic and put up a stop for all in-person diplomacy.
In 2022, then-PM Naftali Bennet’s visit to India was announced but he tested positive for Covid-19 just weeks ahead of the visit. By the time he recovered, Israel was in the grips of a political crisis again —like in 2019— that did not allow him to make the visit. The next year, even though Netanyahu returned to power, the Hamas-led attack of October 7 ruled out any visit for the duration of the war.
But there has been a flurry of visits lately between the two sides.
Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s visited India. The visit came around two months after Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s visit to India. During that visit, India and Israel signed the India-Israel Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA) — precursor to the broader trade deal.
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