Tag: Cyprus
Nasrallah threatens Cyprus for the first time
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened an invasion of Israel’s Galilee region and an attack on Cyprus during a televised address on Wednesday concerning the terror group’s war against the Jewish state.
It marked the first...
Supernova survivors, parents of slain soldiers heal at Secret Forest in Cyprus
A30-minute drive through the stunning mountain scenery from Paphos to Miliou, one of Cyprus’s smallest villages, leads to Secret Forest, a temple of wellness, alongside currents of healing sulfur water flowing from thermal mineral...
Palestinians fly to Cyprus via Eilat as part of pilot program
Several dozen Palestinians traveled to Cyprus from a southern Israeli airport on Monday as part of a pilot program allowing Palestinians from Judea and Samaria to fly abroad.
According to Amir Assi, a strategic consultant...
Head of Cypriot military makes first visit to Israel
The head of Cyprus’s military touched down in Israel on Monday, kicking off his first official visit to the country, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday.
Lt. Gen. Demokritos Zervakis was received by an...
IDF commander participates in trilateral meeting with Greece and Cyprus
A senior Israel Defense Forces commander met with counterparts from Greece and Cyprus in an important trilateral meeting, the IDF announced on Wednesday.
Maj. Gen. Tal Kelman, head of the Strategic Planning and Cooperation Directorate,...
Bennett calls Cyprus plot ‘Iranian act of terror,’ rules out Israeli tycoon as sole...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that a recently foiled plot in Cyprus reportedly targeting Israeli tycoon Teddy Sagi was in fact a much wider Iranian attempt to kill Israelis residing in...
Israel expresses solidarity with Cyprus amid Turkey’s ‘provocative’ moves
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides in Jerusalem on Tuesday following the leader’s meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday.
Lapid expressed concern for “unilateral Turkish actions...
Turkey protests Israel, Greece and Cyprus for undersea cable plans
Turkey formally protested an agreement reached by Israel, Greece and Cyprus to build an undersea electricity cable connecting their power grids, reported Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency on Monday.
Ankara sent a diplomatic note to the Greek and...
Israel, Cyprus, Greece to link power grids via undersea cable
Israel, Cyprus and Greece signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday regarding a project to link their power grids via the construction of the world’s longest and deepest undersea power cable.
The project, called...
Israel, Cyprus announce ‘green passport’ travel agreement
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades announced at a joint press conference in Jerusalem on Sunday that the two countries had reached a “green passport” tourism agreement.
Under the agreement, which...