India-Israel Business Ties Strengthen with New Opportunities

• India and Israel strengthen ties across key sectors, boosting investment and jobs
• Indian food, cybersecurity, and water-tech companies are expanding in Israel and India
• New R&D centers and innovation projects, including IDE Technologies’ Mumbai Centre of Excellence, are planned

The economic partnership between India and Israel is beginning to accelerate again, as leaders across a number of sectors including manufacturing, food, water technology, and cyber security all stated that there is a very good atmosphere between the countries and that new investments, business and collaborations are being created.

India Israel business ties continue to strengthen, boosting bilateral trade, investment, industry cooperation, and creating new economic opportunities.

Avi Balashnikov, Chairman of the Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute, said high-level visits in the past month are an explicit sign of increasing confidence. “This is actually, we just came back from India... and the impression is very, very big,” he said, adding that “friendship, pure friendship... give the right formula for good businesses,” which leads to jobs and economic opportunities for both countries.

Ron Tomer, President of the Manufacturers Association of Israel, also echoed that a good political and business atmosphere is critical to growth. “If there is a good atmosphere, it's good for business,” he said. There is a lot of opportunity with cooperation in different industries.

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In the food sector, Ms. Inderjeet Kaur from LT Foods noted the astounding growth of India in the high-end rice market in Israel, with the company’s Daawat brand now accounting for about 40% of the market share and over 15 years presence in Israel, and looking to expand further.

The CEO Nadav Zafrir noted the impetus of India for strategic reasons mentioning the company protects critical infrastructure and the location of its largest R&D team outside of Israel is in Bengaluru; and intends to increase talent recruitment efforts in the areas of deep tech and network engineering.

Another water-tech company, IDE Technologies, reiterated its 25-year relationship with India. CEO Alon Tavor noted the great leadership of India, and their plans to establish a new Centre of Excellence (COE) in Mumbai in 2026 focused on desalination, industrial water solutions and municipal water reuse and tackling one of India's most important problems.

These events reflect a robust and growing Indo-Israeli economic collaboration across a number of strategic sectors.