The people connection I sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accompanied on his visit to India by a large delegation drawn from the defense, cyb er, and agricultural sectors; he in tends to boost trade, investment, and tourism between the two na tions. This year, Israel’s Ministry of Tourism will spend $56 million in India in a bid to boost tourism to Israel. The goal is to have one lakh tourists visiting Israel in 2018. Once distant When I was growing up in Kolkata in the 1950s and ’60s, India had virtually no relations with Israel. I remember a singular exception: an Israeli school friend of my brother’s who was sent to study at La Martiniere. His father was post ed in Nepal on deputation to the Air Force. Yusef would tell us co lourful stories of life in...