117. Israel: India’s friend

117. Israel: India’s friend

About 75 years ago, India and Israel achieved independence in the years 1947 and 1948, respectively. However, informal relations between the countries are centuries-old. Some two thousand years back, the first batch of the Jews is believed to have arrived in India. Following them, over the next hundreds of years, many groups of the Jews […]

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116. Foreign relations of Israel

116. Foreign relations of Israel

Stretched over all of about 20-21 thousand square kilometers, Israel has achieved spectacular progress in several fields like science, technology, agriculture, water management, etc. However, these are not the only reasons for which Israel is known internationally. Today, a mighty superpower like the United States feels the need to maintain and honour its friendship with […]

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114. Israeli Intelligence Services: One of the best in the world

114. Israeli Intelligence Services: One of the best in the world

In 1978, Israel and Egypt signed the ‘Camp David Accords’. Taking a step further, in March 1979, both the countries signed the Peace Treaty. However, for Israel, conflicts did not end. They continued but had changed the form from a ‘full-fledged conventional war’ more as operations against open and guerilla activities of terrorists and anti-national […]

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113. Israel: A nation always faced with war – II

113. Israel: A nation always faced with war – II

After the end of the Suez Crisis of 1956, Israel’s weight and prominence at the international stage had considerably increased. However, attacks by armed Palestinian Arabs against Israel, rather than abating, were gradually on a rise. As a result, like the earlier decades, the Israeli Defense Forces had to continue with ‘Reprisal operations’ during the […]

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111. Economy of Israel

111. Economy of Israel

The articles in this series have thrown light on the spectacular progress achieved as a country by Israel over just the last seventy years, or so, that is from its birth till today. Today, Israel is a highly developed ‘Free market’ economy based on Information Technology and hi-tech research. Thanks to it, Israel has developed […]

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108. Startup Nation

108. Startup Nation

Considering the limited availability of resources, Israel is on a perpetual pursuit to search for new sources of earning and has succeeded in monetizing the field of research and development in science and technology. Faced with existential threat due to the paucity of resources and being surrounded on all sides by enemy nations, research and […]

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