By Akhilesh Pillalamarri
India’s Home Affairs Minister recently visited Israel to discuss military cooperation and technology exchange.
India’s Minister of Home Affairs Rajnath Singh recently visited Israel and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Thursday. The Ministry of Home Affairs in India is charged with maintaining internal security, peace, and harmony. Singh arrived in Israel after attending the 83rd General Assembly of Interpol in Monaco.
Singh’s trip to Israel is part of a strong Indian effort to improve ties with Israel on not just the rhetorical level, but on the level of tangible cooperation. While Singh was in Israel, former Israeli President Shimon Peres met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Reiterating the words exchanged between Israel and India when Modi met Netanyahu in New York in September, Modi told Peres his of strong desire to strengthen ties with Israel and learn from it in a variety of ways. In addition to weapons and security issues, Modi noted that Israeli agricultural technologies such as drip irrigation are extremely useful in an India that increasingly faces water shortages.
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