Israel Centre
Dedicated to West Asian security architecture, bilateral ties, and technology diplomacy, at a moment of rapid realignment across the Middle East and the broader region.
Research Focus
The Israel Centre studies the strategic shifts reshaping West Asia and the evolving texture of Israel's bilateral relationships, with a dedicated focus on the India–Israel partnership.
Defence and security: joint development programmes, defence-industrial cooperation, counter-terrorism, and the lessons of recent regional conflicts for doctrinal innovation.
Innovation ecosystems: Israel's technology economy, venture capital networks, and the policy frameworks that have sustained its outsized share of global R&D.
Agricultural and water diplomacy: drip irrigation, arid-land farming, and the technology transfer pipelines that underwrite India–Israel cooperation in agriculture.
Regional realignments: the Abraham Accords and beyond, the evolving Saudi–Israeli equation, the Iran question, and the political economy of regional connectivity (IMEC, I2U2).
Diaspora and society: the Indian-Jewish heritage, contemporary cultural exchanges, and the soft-power infrastructure of a young bilateral relationship.