Narendra Modi will be first Indian PM to visit Israel and Palestine - The Times of India: "Modi's visit to Israel is almost a foregone conclusion. There aren't many world leaders he refers to as "my friend", which is a regular prefix he uses for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu was also the only bilateral meeting he had on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last year.
India recognized Israel in 1950 but soon after voted against it in the UN. Diplomatic ties were established by Narasimha Rao's government in 1991, though there had been some unofficial contacts earlier, as in the famous visits by Moshe Dayan.
Jyoti Basu, the communist chief minister of West Bengal, broke ground when he visited Israel. During the Vajpayee years, Jaswant Singh and L K Advani had both visited Israel, but Vajpayee couldn't.
Ariel Sharon was the first Israeli PM to visit India in 2003, but there have been no high-level visits from India since. "
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