In 1995, I traveled to Bangalore to recruit young Indian engineers for my growing Oracle consulting practice. At the time, India’s technological rise was not yet widely recognized. Bangalore was not the global brand it would later become. But it was already clear that India’s greatest asset was not infrastructure or capital—it was human capital.

The engineers I met were disciplined, deeply educated, ambitious, and intensely family-oriented. The scale of latent capacity was striking. Years later, when I returned to Bangalore and Hyderabad on behalf of Deloitte Consulting, that early promise had matured into institutional strength. What once felt like potential had become infrastructure: gleaming towers housing thousands of professionals powering a global firm.

The first visit revealed possibility. The second revealed compounding.

That distinction is helpful in understanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s return visit to Israel this week.

Modi’s first visit in 2017 was historic—the first by a sitting Indian prime minister. It marked a decisive........

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