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| October 25, 2014
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India prefers Israel’s anti-tank missile over the U.S. made Javelin

New Delhi has committed to purchase at least 8,000 of Israel’s Spike missiles along with more than 300 launchers in a deal with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems worth $525 million.

By Reuters

 

 

NEW DELHI – India has opted to buy Israel’s Spike anti-tank guided missile, a defense ministry source said on Saturday, rejecting a rival US offer of Javelin missiles that Washington had lobbied hard to win.

Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with new Indian premier Modi (Photo: GPO)

Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with new Indian premier Modi – Photo Courtesy: GPO

India will buy at least 8,000 Spike missiles and more than 300 launchers in a deal worth 32 billion rupees ($525 million), the source said after a meeting of India’s Defense Acquisition Council. Continue Reading »

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| October 1, 2014
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India’s Ministry of Defense to acquire Israel produced anti-missile defense system

The Indian Navy is replenishing its inventory by purchasing an additional 260 Barak-1 missiles for from the Israeli firm, Rafael, for  $143 million.

By Globes

 

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. will provide the Indian Navy with hundreds of Barak-1 missiles over the next 18 months in a deal worth $143 million. India’s Ministry of Defense approved the procurement in recent days in part because naval commanders have warned of a grave shortage of such missiles in the Indian Navy’s inventory. The Barak-1 is an anti-missile defense system, and the Indian Navy is reportedly down to its last 150 such missiles. Continue Reading »

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| September 29, 2014
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Israel’s Prime Minister: ‘Sky’s the limit’ for India & Israel

In the first meeting between the Indian PM & Israeli PM in 11 years, the 2 leaders discussed IS, Iran, & trade ties.

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Sunday evening with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York. It was the first meeting between an Israeli and Indian prime minister since late Israeli PM Ariel Sharon visited New Delhi in 2003.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Nevandra Modi ( Prime Minister's Office )

Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi – Photo: Prime Minister’s Office

At the beginning of the meeting Netanyahu said to Modi the “sky is the limit” in Israeli-Indian ties.

“I’m delighted to meet you Mr. Prime Minister. Continue Reading »

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| September 28, 2014
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Israel’s PM & India’s PM meet cementing ‘expanded cooperation’ before Netanyahu’s UN speech

 

Israel’s Prime Minister promises: At the UNGA, I will tell the truth about the IDF, ‘the most moral army in the world.’

By HERB KEINON

 

Before boarding a plane to New York where he will address the UN General Assembly on Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that, in his speech to the forum, he “will deflect all the lies about us, and tell the truth about the heroic soldiers of the IDF, the most moral army in the world.”

Binyamin and Sara Netanyahu

Binyamin and Sara Netanyahu leave for the US. – Photo: AVI OHAYON/GPO

Netanyahu’s parting comments follow Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas’s speech at the UN on Friday, in which he accused Israel of “committing genocide in Gaza” and “missing no opportunity to undermine the chance for peace,” while “seeking the continuation and entrenchment of the occupation.” Continue Reading »

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| May 19, 2014
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India’s New PM Seen as ‘Israel’s Best Friend’ in Southern Asia

India’s Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi has expressed his desire to ‘deepen & develop’ ties with Israel and his record proves he’s serious.

By Gil Ronen

 

India’s Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi has expressed his desire to “deepen and develop” ties with Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday, and it appears that Netanyahu’s words do not constitute diplomatic flourish but, if anything, understatements.

Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi – Reuters

“On Friday, I spoke with the Prime Minister-elect of India. There, too, there is a clear expression of the desire to deepen and develop economic ties with the State of Israel,” Netanyahu told his cabinet. Continue Reading »

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| May 4, 2014
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Pakistani intelligence agency planned attacks on US & Israel consulates in India

 

Indian intelligence interrogated a detained Sri Lankan national who admits providing terror surveillance to his handler, a Pakistani ISI official.

By Ynetnews

 

The Pakistani intelligence agency known as ISI planned terror attacks on US and Israeli consulates in India reported the Press Trust of India on Sunday.

Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan - Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Indian official sources said that proof of the planned attacks was given during the interrogation of Sakir Hussain, a Sri Lankan national who was arrested on April 29 in Southeast Asia when investigators informed an Indian security agency of his possible connection to planned attacks in India. Continue Reading »

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| March 20, 2014
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New Delhi police detain suspicious man eying Israeli embassy

 

According to Indian news service, the suspicious man tried running away when  approached by Israel’s embassy security personnel.

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New Delhi police detained a 45-year-old man after “he failed to give a proper reason for loitering around the Israel embassy in the national capital’s high security area” on Wednesday, the Indo Asian News Service reported.

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Indian forensics experts investigate after a blast tore through a car belonging to the Israel Embassy, in New Delhi, India, Feb. 13, 2012. – Photo: AP

The man, who was spotted outside the embassy around noon, started running after security personnel asked him what he was doing, according to the news service.

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| February 24, 2014
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Envoy: Israel Invites India to Explore Natural-gas & Sign Trade Pact

Israeli envoy, “Any Indian company is free to participate, private or government-run.” But, Israeli Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz clarified, Jerusalem bars any company that has dealings with Iran.

By Uttar Pradesh, IANS

 

Noida, Feb 24 (IANS) Israel has invited Indian companies to take part in extracting natural gas from its newly-found reserves, with 40 percent of the produced hydrocarbon reserved for exports, even as it wants talks on a free trade pact to fructify soon.

Israeli Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz and Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath at the inauguration of the Israel consulate in Bangalore May 21, 2013 - Photo: Bhagya Prakash K.

Israeli Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz and Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath at the inauguration of the Israel consulate in Bangalore May 21, 2013 – Photo: Bhagya Prakash K

Israeli Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz said his country will soon emerge as one of the biggest producers of natural gas and is willing to export it to India, which imports around 80 percent of its oil needs mostly from the Persian Gulf countries. Continue Reading »

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| December 30, 2013
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India to Buy 15 Israeli Drones

The Indian gov’t approved a purchase Monday to acquire Israeli manufactured UAVs with the goal of boosting India’s surveillance capabilities.

By Tova Dvorin

 

India will purchase 15 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Israel, news outlets reported Monday.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the purchase at a Cabinet meeting, according to Defense Update. The goal: to boost India’s line of surveillance against northern border countries and regional rivals Pakistan and China.

Heron UAV – IAF photo

The purchase will cost about 1,200 crores / 120 million rupees, or just under 2 million dollars. 

News Pakistan reports that while India has already invested in IAF technology, the upgrade will give the Indian government long-range control over survey and reconnaissance missions via satellite. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2013
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India & Israel’s ties grow strong as nations do business

 

Conference brings together academics, business people & politicians from both countries to talk agriculture to technology for increased cooperation.

‘The economic potential between India & Israel, specifically within high tech sector, is huge,’ Israeli attendee reports.

By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line

 

The ties between Israel and India are growing stronger each year. India is buying Israeli companies and establishing more joint ventures between the nations.

Flags“We work with small and marginal farmers and we have a lot of problems in terms of water and productivity,” Dr. Suchita Bhandari, the business head of Bold Tree Tech Ltd.

“We find Israel has managed these things very well so we are looking to have the transfer of technology from Israel to India.” Continue Reading »

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| August 21, 2013
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Israel & India: 2 Great Democracies that Should Widen their Strategic Ties

India-Israel ties have been deepening for many years now, but there are still many more  common endeavors the 2 countries could be working on together.

By Noah Beck

 

At first glance, Hindu-majority India, with approximately 1.2 billion people and an entire subcontinent, would seem to have little in common with Jewish-majority Israel, which has only about eight million people living on territory that’s just roughly 15 times the size of India’s capital city. While full diplomatic relations were established between Jerusalem and New Delhi only in 1992, the two countries actually have much in common.

Both countries are homelands for ancient peoples who gained their indepndence from the British in the 1940s. Continue Reading »

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| August 21, 2013
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Punjab dairy farmers learn Israeli farming techniques

 

Punjabi dairy farmers delegation visit moshavim & kibbutzim across the country to learn Israel’s newest techniques.

Since local weather conditions are similar to Israel’s, we’re learning ‘special arrangements to control heat stress’ says delegation member.

Anav Silverman, Tazpit

A 10-member delegation of dairy farmers from the Punjab region of India recently visited Israel to participate in a training program about modern dairy farming techniques.

The delegation – Photo: Mashav

The unique program was especially designed for the group by the Center for International Agricultural Development Cooperation (CINDACO) of Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Times of India reported that in late July, the Punjab farmers visited modern dairy farms located on kibbutzim and moshavim across Israel and learned the latest dairy farming techniques from Israeli farmers. Continue Reading »

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| July 3, 2013
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Indian student builds innovative orphanage applying Israeli agricultural techniques

 

Indian Student comes to Israel studies farming methods used in Kibbutzim, to improve Indian orphanage that tends to impoverish children.

By SHARON UDASIN
 

 

For 33-year-old Joshua Godfrey, studying the farming models of Israel’s kibbutzim firsthand has provided the framework he needs to open a permaculture orphanage back home – on the outskirts of Chennai, southeastern India.
JOSHUA GODFREY

JOSHUA GODFREY – Photo: Courtesy

“I am developing a project where I could demonstrate that permanent agriculture could support orphan female children and elderly women,” Godfrey told The Jerusalem Post during a recent interview in Tel Aviv. “The concept is to bring the two communities together to tailor them as a single-parent family.”

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| May 17, 2013
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Israel looking to open flights to Goa

India’s Tourism Minister will visit Jerusalem next month to discuss Israel’s interest in opening new tourist routes.

TNN 


PANAJI: Tourism department is upbeat about the interest shown by the Israeli government to start scheduled and charter flights to Goa.
Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar along with deputy chief minister Francis D’Souza is scheduled to visit Israel in June.

El Al , Israel’s National Airline – Photo: Siwan Farj

Parulekar told TOI that the government has received an invitation from the Israeli government for the visit. “Israeli government is keen to start scheduled as well as charter flights to Goa,” said Parulekar.

He added that his department is also keen to start Australia-Singapore-Goa flights to tap tourist potential of Southeast Asia.

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| October 25, 2012
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A Jew’s Trek from India to the Golani Brigade

At 24 yrs-old, Ronen Birvdaker decided to immigrate to Israel from India, recently completed his training to became a Golani Brigade infantry soldier.

Birvdaker: “I am 100% Israeli.”

By Nitzi Yakov

 

Ronen Birvdaker, a Jewish Indian from Mumbai, was so moved by the 2008 terrorist attack in his home city that he decided to immigrate to Israel last year. On Wednesday, he completed his training to become a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces’ Golani Brigade.

Brivdaker in the IDF – Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Birvdaker, 25, said that after the November 2008 attack — which killed 166 people, including a Chabad emissary and his wife — he felt that as a Jew there was no place for him to live other than in Israel.

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