Netanyahu says he’s ‘never been more moved’ than by ‘brother’ Modi’s visit

Nava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset plenum ahead of visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech, hailing the personal relationship between them.

“Narendra, my dear friend, I am deeply, deeply moved by your visit here today,” Netanyahu says. “Because I have to be diplomatic, I will not rank it. I’ll get into trouble. But I’ve never been more moved than by your visit here with us, a great friend of Israel, a great champion of the Indian-Israeli alliance, and a great leader on the world stage,” he says.

“I would almost venture to say [you are] more than a friend, a brother,” Netanyahu says, praising the technological cooperation between the countries in recent years.

“We’ve doubled our trade, tripled our cooperation, quadrupled our understandings in ways that I cannot begin to describe. In some ways, probably shouldn’t describe,” he says

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