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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
TopicIndia-Israel relations

Topic: India-Israel relations

India should be more explicit in support of Israel, take Tel Aviv’s side, says Israeli minister

Nir Barkat, Israeli minister of economy and industry, highlighted how start-ups in Israel could scale-up businesses in India & pointed towards an FTA to compliment the business ties.

‘Relocate’ – India issues advisory to its nationals in Israel after 1 killed in Hezbollah attack

MEA had said in December that around 18,000 to 20,000 Indians were in Israel after the conflict with Hamas began two months earlier.

India advises workers to leave Israeli border areas after attack

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's embassy in Israel on Tuesday advised its nationals working in Israeli border areas to move to safer parts of the country. The advisory comes a day after an anti-tank

Modi meets Israel President at COP28, ’emphasises’ India’s support for two-state solution

Statement from Ministry of External Affairs says that during his bilateral meeting with Israel President Isaac Herzog Friday, PM Narendra Modi also welcomed return of Israeli hostages.

India calls for unconditional release of remaining Israeli hostages by Hamas

Over 60 Israeli & foreign nationals have been released by Hamas, while Israel has freed about 150 Palestinian prisoners, as a part of a four-day truce deal, which was later extended to six.

Israel writes to Indian govt over Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut’s ‘Hitler’ post

Raut had re-shared a post on his X feed on the condition in a Gaza hospital, adding an ‘anti-Semitic’ comment to it.

Savarkar to Modi—why Hindutva embraces Israel in theory but BJP supports two-state solution

The closer a Hindutva offshoot is to party politics, the more they approach the Israel-Palestine issue as a policy question.

Israel-India spy diplomacy was almost derailed by ping-pong over table tennis contest visas in 1987

Israel was promised visas for team to attend table tennis tournament but MEA cancelled these — just as RAW chief was on his way to Tel Aviv to meet Mossad counterpart, it is learnt.

How India went from voting against Israel’s creation to being its brother in arms

In 1999, as Delhi faced Western sanctions in light of Pokhran, Israel came to India’s aid during the Kargil war. The relationship has seen new milestones under Modi govt. 

On Camera

Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.