JNS: Ties with Azerbaijan are of strategic importance for Israel

Published: 2025-11-24 12:39

"For Israel, ties with Azerbaijan—which shares a 428-mile border with Iran, a country that is home to tens of millions of ethnic Azeris—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 the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War with archrival Armenia in 2020. The victory greatly strengthened Baku regionally in a time of geopolitical change," writes the U.S.-based news agency Jewish News Syndicate (JNS).

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News