this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program as israel celebrates 75 years since its founding i talk to its longest-serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu. with the resurgence in israeli-palestinian violence, can israel continue to make peace with arab states? how will it handle an iran that could reportedly make enough missile material for a nuclear bomb in just two weeks? and the court crisis. how to heal the country s divisions? israel s greatest existential threat according to its president? also washington has declared that america s covid national emergency will end in a matter of days. so what lessons have we learned from a pandemic that took more than a million lives in the united states alone? i ll talk to philip zelico whose covid crisis just released its report. but first, here s my take, visiting india this week i was
23%. of the g-20 countries not only saudi arabia s is lower. bloomberg economics estimates that closing the gap between women s and men s participation would increase india s gdp more than 30% over the next three decades. a focus on inclusivity would also transform india s religious tensions, bridging into the fold india s muslims and roughly 200 million people and a seventh of the country who face persistent persecution. it would also be in character for a country that is open, pluralistic and a democracy where the majority of the population are hindus, a religion almost defined by its pluralism and tolerance. india has the potential to be admired not just because of the quantity of its growth, but also the quality of its values and that would truly be an incredible india.