Minakshi Sardar is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for West Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and focuses on the Process of Normalization of Israel-Vatican Relations, 1948-1993. She obtained her M Phil for her dissertation on Israel’s Responses to Hostage Taking. Her area of interest includes Middle East politics, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Christian communities-denominations, Christian theology, security issues and conflict resolutions. She attended several conferences and seminars on the region. She has been preparing China Watch (since August 2015), Election Watch (since July 2017) for MEI. She is an Editorial Assistant of the Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies since 2020. She can be reached at mini.8star@gmail.com