Tag: Egypt
IDF’s mixed-gender battalion prepares for multiple threats
In recent days, an ISIS spokesman released a new audio message, which included a call for jihadist factions in the Sinai Peninsula and in Syria to step up attacks against Israel. ISIS also claimed...
Restoring synagogues means never having to say you’re sorry
To much fanfare last week, the largest synagogue in the Middle East was reopened in Alexandria, Egypt. Some 300 guests, including Egyptian Antiquities and Tourism Minister Khaled al-Anany, were on hand for the festive occasion.
The event...
Israel to export natural gas to Egypt starting in January
Israel’s National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources Minister Yuval Steinitz has signed the paperwork for Israel to begin exporting natural gas to Egypt from its Tamar and Leviathan fields in January, Israel business daily Globes reported...
Muslim Brotherhood founder was a Jew, says retired Egyptian general
Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna was secretly a Jew, retired Egyptian General Fouad Fayoud said last month on Egyptian television.
Speaking on Egypt’s Channel 1 on Oct. 27, Fayoud said al-Banna had lived in a...
US threatens Egypt with sanctions over possible Russian arms deal
The United States has threatened Egypt with sanctions were the latter to acquire Russian warplanes.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told Egyptian Defense Minister Mohamed Zaki in...
Israel seeks to prevent further escalation on second day of conflict with Islamic Jihad
Israel carefully managed its second day of conflict with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Wednesday, keeping airstrikes focused on the suppression of Gazan rocket-launch squads, as Hamas, despite declarations, continued to sit on the...
Meeting with Rouhani at UN unlikely, says Trump
As U.S. President Donald Trump left the White House on Sunday for the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday, he expressed doubt that a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani would...
Egyptian, Jordanian leaders meet ahead of Kushner’s arrival in the region
Jordan’s King Abdullah and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met in Cairo just days before the arrival of an U.S. team in the region to discuss the Trump administration’s proposed Mideast peace plan.
According to...
In humiliating blow, Egypt prevents Hamas leader from leaving Gaza Strip
Egypt is preventing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh from setting out on a fundraising trip to several countries, chief among them Iran, Gaza media reported on Tuesday.
Hamas’s official mouthpiece in the Gaza Strip, Al-Risala, claimed that...
Mohamed Morsi and the dangerous lessons of the Arab Spring
His death, like much of his life, was in service to the Islamist cause he championed. By dropping dead in a courtroom where he was caged and silenced, Mohammed Morsi served to bring attention...