NZ, Israeli business relations seen as sailing through sour diplomatic affairs

NZ, Israeli business relations seen as sailing through sour diplomatic affairs
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Jan. 17 (BusinessDesk) - Soured diplomatic relations between New Zealand and Israel aren't expected to derail increasingly cosy business dealings between firms in the two nations.  Contact between the nations' official emissaries was put on ice when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled ambassador Itzhak Gerberg in December and blocked New Zealand's envoy from travelling to the Middle East nation after the Christmas Eve vote on the UN Security Council resolution that Israeli settlements violated international l...