Why did Israeli PM Ben Netanyahu said in his welcome address to PM Modi that "we have been waiting for you for 70 years?" And why did NaMo agree that he was 70 years late? The answer lies in the pages of history. It was 70 years ago that no less a person than Albert Einstein, at the behest of a newly-born Jewish state, wrote a personal letter to Indian PM J L Nehru, requesting him to establish a full-fledged diplomatic relationship with Tel Aviv. Einstein's endeavor had the full support of American Jewish-Hindu scientist and father of atomic bomb J Robert Oppenheimer along with others. Not unexpectedly, Nehru spurned the request to please his Muslim and Arab constituencies. However, he was not deterred in the winter of 1962 to beg for Israeli military assistance against the Chinese communists who were determined to teach him a lesson. His daughter, Indira Gandhi, who was a bit tough, also did not have the gumption or common sense to establish a full-fledged diplomatic relationship with Isreal. But this did not deter her, like her father, to seek Israel's military and diplomatic assistance in the 14-day 1971 war that changed the geography of the Indian subcontinent. The attitude of Nehru and his daughter show how the dynasty came to subvert the national interest for the sake of advancing personal political interests. However, the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s started impacting the mindset of Indian politicians. Israel made an effort again to establish a full relationship with India. In November 1991, at the request of Dr. Moshe Yegar of Israeli Foreign Ministry, an international Jewish activist, I S I Liebler,  sought a meeting with the newly elected Indian prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao. Yegar had met him in July 1991 following the kidnapping of Israeli tourists in Kashmir but the meeting deteriorated into a diatribe against Israel on Palestinian rights. The timing for Liebler's meeting was 'problematic' as Rao had only been elected a few months earlier, in June 1991. However, thanks to the combined intervention of Congressman Stephen Solarz, then head of the House Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, and then-Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans, Liebler's request for an audience was 'reluctantly' granted. This meeting was the first in many years between an Indian prime minister and a global Jewish representative. It became clear very quickly to Liebler that Rao was far more receptive than his predecessors. At the time, Liebler reported - on behalf of the World Jewish Congress - that the situation in India was "much more