New Delhi, Jan. 2 -- Conventionally, India and Israel are viewed as strategic partners, a relationship built on traditional pillars of defence cooperation, technology transfer, and agricultural innovation. But there is another very important, yet little visible dimension that transcends the traditional framework and covers the demographics and security uncertainties that reshape state priorities in both the countries: care economy. Because of the broader demographic realities of Israel, the care economy has emerged as a quiet but strategically consequential dimension in the evolving India-Israel relations.

As ageing accelerates nationally, recent empirical studies emphasise on the growing structural importance of the care economy. The st...