Israel has no written constitution to mention India on its first page - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
March 11, 2021
A post is being shared on social media claiming that Jewish majority Israel had described India with words of praise on the first page of its constitution. This post claims that Israel’s constitution mentioned India as the only country that stood beside them during tough times. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Israel described India with words of praise on the first page of its constitution.
Fact: Israel has no written constitution. Since 1948, Israel made various attempts to draft the formal document but they were not successful.  Israel has evolved as a system of basic laws and rights, which enjoy semi-constitutional status. In May 2003, the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee of the Israel Parliament (Knesset), initiated the Constitution by Broad Consensus Project which aims to write a constitution for the State of Israel. This committee was chaired by the Member of Knesset, Michael Eitan. This committee has been meeting every week since then. Israel has no written constitution to date to write words of praise about India. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
According to the information provided on the Israel Government website,   Israel has no written constitution. Since 1948, Israel made various attempts to draft the formal document for its constitution but was not successful. Through the years, Israel evolved as a system of basic laws and rights, which enjoy semi-constitutional status.
In May 2003, the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee of the Israel Parliament (Knesset) initiated the ‘Constitution by Broad Consensus’ Project, which aims to write a constitution for the State of Israel. This committee was chaired by the Member of Knesset, Michael Eitan. This committee has been meeting every week since then. From this information, it can be concluded that Israel has no written constitution. So, there is no chance of writing words of praise about India in a non-existent constitution.
In 2018, ‘India Today published an article reporting that Jews have been living in India without any discrimination or incidents of anti-Semitism for over 2000 years. This article reported that in 1948, around 70,000 Jews migrated to Israel after it was established as a modern state. According to the 2001 Census, the population of Jews in India was 4,650.
The Israel Embassy in Delhi published a statement made by the Israel Ambassador, Daniel Carmon on Jews living in India. In his statement, Daniel Carmon said that Jews have been living peacefully in India for over 2000 years without any discrimination or incidents of anti-Semitism
To sum it up, Israel has no written constitution to write words of praise about India on its first page.