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A Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-467F at Narita International Airport, July 2010. Credit: Kentaro Lemoto via Wikimedia Commons.

Commercial flight to Israel crosses Saudi airspace for first time since Riyadh opened skies...

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A Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Tel Aviv on Thursday became the first commercial plane to traverse Saudi airspace en route to Israel since the kingdom fully opened its skies to airlines...
The Kaaba in Mecca surrounded by worshippers at the center of Islam's most important mosque, the Great Mosque of Mecca. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Person accused of helping Jewish journalist enter Mecca arrested and charged

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The Saudi man accused of helping a Jewish journalist with Israel’s Channel 13 sneak into the holy Muslim city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Monday was arrested and charged by Saudi Authorities on Friday. The man,...
The hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Credit: Pixabay.

Judaism deserves as much respect as Islam

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It turns out that there are some stunts in the era of clickbait journalism that really do go too far. When news reporter Gil Tamari of Israeli TV Channel 13 snuck into the city of Mecca earlier...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas heads for a meeting of the P.A. leadership in Ramallah. May 7, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

PA chief Abbas thanks Saudi Arabia for ‘steadfast’ support

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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas sent a letter to Saudi Arabia’s king and crown prince to express appreciation for what he described as Riyadh’s “steadfast stance” in support of the Palestinian people, the official...
U.S. President Joe Biden boards Air Force One for Saudi Arabia after a farewell ceremony in his honor at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 15, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Biden’s trip produced mixed bag of results for Israel, say experts

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U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the Middle East accomplished most of the administration’s goals, but from Israel’s point of view the results were a mixed bag, experts told JNS. While Biden did...
U.S. President Joe Biden boards Air Force One for Saudi Arabia after a farewell ceremony in his honor at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 15, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Biden highlights steps towards normalization between Israel, Saudi Arabia

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After an eventful day where he flew for the first time directly from Israel to Saudi Arabia on his first visit to the Middle East as U.S. president, Joe Biden touted the major announcements...
U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid review some of Israel's air-defense systems after Biden's arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport, on July 13, 2022. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

How Biden ensured his trip to the Middle East would fail

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Ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, the president published an op-ed in The Washington Post, in which he placed his trip in the context of his overall Middle East...
Palestinian Authority security forces guard outside the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem on July 14, 2022, before the visit of U.S. President Joe Biden on July 15, 2022. Photo by Flash90.

Biden meets with Palestinian Authority head Abbas in Bethlehem

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U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Bethlehem on Friday morning for a meeting with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas. It followed Biden’s visit earlier in the day to the Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount...
Aerial view of the New King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 2020. Credit: Skytrax via Wikimedia Commons.

Saudi Arabia opens airspace to Israeli commercial planes, ‘all carriers’

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Saudi Arabia announced on Friday the opening of its airspace to “all carriers,” paving the way for Israeli commercial airlines to overfly the kingdom and thereby drastically reduce flight times from the Jewish State...
U.S. President Joe Biden. Credit: POTUS/Twitter.

The many messages of Biden’s Mideast trip

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U.S. President Joe Biden is set to arrive in Israel on Wednesday for his first visit to the Jewish state as president, and there are a number of factors at play, experts told JNS. Israeli...