{"id":45088,"date":"2018-01-17T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=45088"},"modified":"2018-01-17T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:11:04","slug":"scrapped-500-million-israeli-missile-deal-with-india-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=45088","title":{"rendered":"Scrapped $500 million Israeli missile deal with India back on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Jan. 17 (TNS):<\/strong> India will buy Israel&#8217;s Spike anti-tank guided missiles, Israeli media on Wednesday quoted Benjamin\u00a0Netanyahu\u00a0as saying, weeks after New Delhi\u00a0scrapped the $500 million lucrative defence deal.<br \/>\nThe deal was cancelled a few weeks ahead of Netanyahu&#8217;s visit to India and its renewal is considered to be a &#8220;major strategic achievement&#8221;, the Jerusalem Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India will buy\u00a0Israel&#8217;s anti-tank spike missiles,&#8221; the paper quoted Prime Minister Netanyahu as saying after spending the day with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu, who is on a six-day visit to India, said the final details and scope of the deal are still in the process of being worked out, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>Another leading Israeli daily &#8216;Haaretz&#8217; reported that the deal is &#8220;back on the table&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting Israel&#8217;s National Security Adviser\u00a0Meir Ben- Shabbat, the paper said that current talks are trending in a positive direction, and more details will be disclosed later.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli arms firm, Rafael Advance Defence Systems Ltd, had earlier this month confirmed that India cancelled the deal and expressed &#8220;regret&#8221; over the decision.<br \/>\nAs per the original proposal, India had planned to acquire the ATGMs for the Army at a cost of $500 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan. 17 (TNS): India will buy Israel&#8217;s Spike anti-tank guided missiles, Israeli media on Wednesday quoted Benjamin\u00a0Netanyahu\u00a0as saying, weeks after New Delhi\u00a0scrapped the $500 million lucrative defence deal. The deal was cancelled a few weeks ahead of Netanyahu&#8217;s visit to India and its renewal is considered to be a &#8220;major strategic achievement&#8221;, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,736],"tags":[932,737],"class_list":["post-45088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-delhi","tag-international","tag-new-delhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45090,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45088\/revisions\/45090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}