Bengaluru: Marking 25 years of diplomatic relations between India and Israel, a new Israel Centre was launched at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) on Sunday.
Inaugurating the Centre, Israeli Ambassador to India Daniel Carmon said that it would lead to the upgrading of academic collaboration between the nations to make the countries and economies stronger and better.
“One must find academic partners who are like-minded in the pursuit of knowledge, but on the other hand, with a different worldview to contribute to fruitful academic dialogue,” he said drawing references to the Israel Centre at IIMB.
Elaborating specifically on the industrial environment of Bengaluru and comparing it to that of Israel, he added that the new Centre would implicate a “merger of the ecosystems” even at the international level. Urging more academic collaboration between institutes of the two nations, the Ambassador said, “We need to continue to encourage more student exchanges between India and Israel which will lead to us witnessing the fruits of labour in the years to come,” he added.