Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signed a landmark Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) in New Delhi on Monday, marking a significant step in promoting investments between India and Israel. According to the finance ministry, this agreement makes Israel the first OECD member to adopt India’s new investment treaty model. The...
Tel Aviv: Israel should take a cue from India on treating “national honour” as a strategic asset, according to Israeli defence policy expert Zaki Shalom. In an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post, Shalom, senior fellow at the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s firm stance against the United...
Israeli airstrikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday killed at least 15 people, including four journalists, Palestinian health officials reported. Among the deceased was Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, who died in the first strike. Photographer Hatem Khaled, also a Reuters contractor, was wounded in a second strike on the hospital. Witnesses said the...
Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, killing at least two people and injuring 35 others, according to Houthi-controlled health authorities. The attacks targeted multiple sites across the city, including the Oil Company Station operated by the Houthi-controlled Yemeni Petroleum Company. Emergency crews warned that the death toll could rise as...
Israel’s Security Cabinet has sanctioned a strategy to seize Gaza City, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. This decision, made early Friday, signifies another intensification of Israel’s 22-month campaign initiated in response to Hamas’ attack on October 7. The conflict has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians, devastated much of...
In his first public appearance since June 19, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed on Thursday, June 26, that Iran emerged victorious in the recent conflict with Israel. Speaking through a video broadcast on Iranian state television, Khamenei stated that the United States intervened in the war solely out of fear that the “Zionist...