Overview

• Bezalel Smotrich met Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel in Gandhinagar during his three-day visit to India.
• He toured GIFT City and held detailed talks with IFSCA chair K. Rajaraman and GIFT City MD and group CEO Sanjay Kaul.
• A Gujarat statement quoted him as seeking to foster business-to-business ties and to explore Israeli institutions’ participation in managing international financial centres such as GIFT City.
• Patel proposed creating a Gujarat–Israel team to advance opportunities spanning banking, insurance, capital markets, fintech and asset management.
• Officials described the conversations as exploratory with no agreements or investment commitments, and Patel conveyed condolences over recent deaths in Israel.