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Israeli ambassador Daniel Carmon inaugurates Israel Centre at IIM-Bangalore
Ambassador of Israel to India Daniel Carmon says PM Benjamin Netanyahu will visit India soon to reciprocate PM Modi’s highly successful visit to Israel in July
Ambassador of Israel to India Daniel Carmon, who inaugurated the Israel Centre at IIM-B, says that he is in Karnataka to extend and expand various on-going activities as part of a wonderful growing partnership between India and Israel.
“We are building 3 centers of excellence some of which are already working and fully operational,” he says and explains that these are places for training and for demonstration in areas such as agriculture.
He insists that it is not only about talking, but also where Israeli experts come and do the actual ground work adding, “It is a partnership in which each side brings its own contribution and this is a genuine, real partnership.”
With Bengaluru being the capital of innovation and Israel the startup nation, Ambassador Carmon believes both the nations have their own ecosystems and have built an interesting way to deal with the new world. Keeping this in mind, the focused activities of the Israel Centre at IIM-B will be aimed at stimulating, strengthening and sustaining Indo-Israeli academic-business interactions.
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“The visit was an immense success, we have all seen it and I was there. I can tell you such visits do not happen every day,” Ambassador Carmon tells India Today. He stresses the visit concentrated on a few pillars and the pillars are the reflection of the fabric of the relations between India and Israel. He adds that, “We have a very unique relationship that is based on a lot of confidence and trust and much potential regardless of many differences.”
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Ambassador Carmon is very optimistic about the potential that still needs to be utilized between both the nations. He believes there is today an interest and eagerness to do business and cites the example of a large number of people travelling back and forth with many of them being businessmen. The objective is to reach a trade target of US $ 20 billion and he adds, “We can say, we are in the right direction.”
Prof. G Raghuram, Director, IIM-B is confident the Israel Centre @ IIM-B will forge academic relationships between IIM-B and institutions in Israel, so that there is mutual learning for impact on Indo-Israeli business relationships in the domains of innovation, technology, startups and scaling up of organizations.
“There has been growing work at IIMB focused on Israel with students going to Israel to study their Startups and provide information on how India can be a market opportunity for them,” he says.
IIM-B is looking at this centre as an academic collaboration that will bring managerial talent and businesses from both India and Israel together and also serve as a great learning opportunity as well.
Source: India Today
