India redefines "reciprocity"; Israeli professionals pay the price

After a few years of employment at the Indian School of Business (in 2010 as a visitor and later as a tenured SRITNE Chaired Professor of Data Analytics), the time has come for me to get a new Employment Visa. As an Israeli-American, I decided to apply for the visa using my Israeli passport. I was almost on my way to the Indian embassy when I discovered, to my horror, that the fee is over USD $1000 for a one-year visa on an Israeli passport. The more interesting part is that Israelis are charged the highest fee compared to any other passport holder. For all other countries except UK and UAE the fee is between $100-200.