Security, Stability & Counter-Terror Cooperation

India and Israel established full diplomatic relations in January 1992. The defence and security relationship has expanded substantially in the period since, particularly from the late 1990s and again after 2014. It now spans defence procurement, intelligence sharing, joint research and development, training, counter-terror cooperation, maritime security from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, cybersecurity, and a wider set of strategic conversations between the two governments and their militaries.

The cooperation rests on a convergence of threat assessment and capability. Both states confront sustained political violence directed against civilian populations. Both have built substantial expertise in counter-terrorism that the other has found useful. The relationship is not symmetrical, given that Israel's compact-state defence and India's continental and maritime defence operate at different scales, but the practical record is substantial.