JNS: For Israel, ties with Azerbaijan are of strategic importance

Published: 2025-07-03 10:04

"After decades of covert relations, Azerbaijan made history two years ago by becoming the first Shi’ite country to open an embassy in Israel. For Israel, ties with Azerbaijan—which shares a 428-mile border with Iran, a country that is home to tens of millions of Azerbaijanis—are of strategic importance, both as a conduit for reconnaissance and because Azerbaijan supplies nearly half of the Jewish state’s oil. At the same time, Azerbaijan is a leading purchaser of Israeli military hardware, which helped Baku in its 2020 war with archrival Armenia. The victory greatly strengthened Baku regionally in a time of geopolitical change," writes the American news agency Jewish News Syndicate (JNS).

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News