Savdas Mulyasiya (53), who had followed his brother Jivabhai to Tel Aviv in the 1990s, had just returned from Canada when on October 7, his daughter – who has done a two-year conscription in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) – informed him of the attack by the Hamas on Israel. What Savdas witnessed later is what he describes as “violence of the scale he has never seen before” as a citizen of Israel for 27 years. At Petah Tikva city on Friday – when the first batch of 212 Indians evacuated from Israel landed in Delhi, as the conflict continued...