Overview
- The signed terms set an agenda covering market access for goods by tackling tariff and non-tariff barriers, liberalizing services, facilitating investment, simplifying customs, and expanding innovation and technology cooperation.
- Both governments said agreed sensitive areas will be excluded from the negotiations.
- Piyush Goyal led an Indian business delegation of about 60 companies and joined a CEOs forum in Tel Aviv to drive private-sector engagement.
- Officials spotlighted startup collaboration in cybersecurity, medical devices, mobility and low‑carbon steel, with Goyal proposing a possible India–Israel startup bridge.
- Bilateral trade peaked at roughly $10.77 billion in 2022–23 and has since fallen, a backdrop to the push to broaden and stabilize economic ties.