UK bars Israeli gov’t officials from DSEI defense exhibition

The British authorities has determined to limit the official participation of Israeli authorities and army representatives on the DSEI UK 2025 protection business exhibition in London from September 9-12, in protest at Israel’s growth of the combating in Gaza. In response Israel’s Ministry of Protection determined to cancel plans to arrange a nationwide pavilion on the exhibition however has stated that corporations that select to attend will obtain the total assist required.

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Israel’s Ministry of Protection stated, “It is a dangerous and disgraceful measure intentionally taken in opposition to Israeli officers. This choice is being made at a time when the State of Israel is at conflict on a number of fronts concurrently in opposition to extremist Islamic parts that additionally threaten Western nations and worldwide delivery lanes. In doing so, Britain is selecting a transfer that serves the extremists, legitimizes terrorism, and is made for political issues that transcend the skilled and accepted framework of protection exhibitions around the globe.”

As “Globes” reported final week, the organizers of the most important Dutch protection exhibition NEDS won’t enable Israeli protection corporations to take part on this 12 months’s occasion due to the conflict in Gaza. That is an annual occasion during which Israel’s largest protection corporations like Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Elbit Techniques and Rafael Superior Protection Techniques have participated in for years.

Beforehand, France has tried to limit the participation of Israeli protection corporations in three main exhibitions – Eurosatory, Euronaval and the Paris Air Present in June, the place the French organizers constructed a wall across the pavilions of Israeli corporations.

Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on August 28, 2025.

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