Breaking News: Pavan Kapoor appointed as India’s ambassador to Israel

Senior representative Pavan Kapoor has been delegated India’s ambassador to strategically critical Israel, where he will succeed Jaideep Sarkar.

Kapoor, a 1990 cadre Indian Foreign Service Officer, is right now India’s High Commissioner in Mozambique capital Maputo.

“He is expected to take up his assignment shortly,” the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement.

The appointment assumes centrality as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is liable to visit India this year. PM Narendra Modi might likewise pay an arrival visit to Tel Aviv.

India’s relations with Israel is on a rise. President Pranab Mukherjee had gone to Tel Aviv in October a year ago, turning into the first Indian Head of State to visit the Jewish country.

India is Israel’s biggest purchaser of military equipment. Israel has supplied different weapons system, rockets and unmanned ethereal vehicles in the course of the most recent couple of years however the exchanges have to a great extent stayed behind the curtains.

Kapoor, a MBA from IIM(A), additionally a has a Master’s degree in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics.

Courtesy: belvoireagle