Mubarak had a rocky relationship with Israel, and held America’s closest Middle East ally at arm’s length throughout his presidency. For almost ten of his 30 years in office, Egypt had no ambassador in Tel Aviv. Mubarak never made an official state visit to Israel, and he frequently refused Israeli prime ministers’ requests to come to Cairo. When the US sought to extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1994, Mubarak mobilized the Arab world against the initiative, because Israel refused to sign the NPT.
Mubarak nunca realizó una visita de estado oficial a Israel, y con frecuencia rechazó peticiones de primeros ministros israelíes de visitar El Cairo. Cuando EE.UU. trató de ampliar el Tratado de No Proliferación Nuclear en 1994, Mubarak movilizó al mundo árabe en contra de la iniciativa porque Israel se negó a firmar el TNP.