By Khaled Abu Toameh, JPost— Israel and Hamas are headed toward another round of fighting, as international mediators appear to have failed to achieve a breakthrough on bringing Qatari aid money to the Gaza Strip and on the easing of Israeli restrictions, Palestinians warned on Sunday. Israel’s failure to ease restrictions and facilitate the reconstruction…
By Lisa Barrington, Reuters— Israel and the United Arab Emirates, which normalised relations a year ago, are looking to Dubai’s Expo world fair in October to boost bilateral trade, which now stands at around $712 million. While the figure, contained in Israeli data, is tiny compared to UAE exports of $24 billion in 2019 to…
By Caroline Glick— The likelihood that Hezbollah will start a major war against Israel increased significantly in the wake of its missile attack last week. Hezbollah attacked Israel with twenty missiles because the outcome of Hamas’s offensive against the Jewish state in May convinced Iran’s foreign legion in Lebanon that it would only gain from…
By Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, Emet— As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the United States prepares to leave a torn Afghanistan and a fragile Iraq. If George W. Bush was the president who tried to accomplish an impossible mission, Joe Biden is the president trying to abort it. The unexpected twists and turns in the…
By Rossella Tercatin, Jerualem Post— Some 2,800 years ago, a powerful earthquake hit the Land of Israel. Now, for the first time, archaeologists found evidence of the event in Jerusalem, in the City of David National Park, the Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Wednesday. “The words of Amos, a sheep breeder from Tekoa, who prophesied concerning…
By Ilan Berman, Al-Hurra Digital— A year ago this week, Israel and the United Arab Emirates made history when they agreed to formally normalize their diplomatic relations. That breakthrough was followed by others, as Bahrain and Morocco, as well as Sudan, signed on to what has collectively come to be known as the “Abraham Accords.”…
By Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom— Behind closed doors in the Prime Minister’s Office, the Foreign Ministry, and the US State Department, high-ranking officials are trying to make Jews agree to divide their capital city without the people being divided noticing. No, no one involved is saying it. Some on the Israeli side are also trying…
By Maytal Yasur Beit-Or , Assaf Golan and Mati Tuchfeld, Israel Hayom— Some 5,755 new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in Israel over the past day, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Israel has recorded 914,403 coronavirus cases, including 6,580 deaths, since the onset of the global pandemic in March 2020. According to…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel— Decades before the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, prompting the widespread use of face masks, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas had twisted together his own version of a mask—one that hid his lifelong motives and remade him into a credible world leader. Abbas controls the PA’s Fatah…
By Aaron Boxerman, Times of Israel— Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem told reporters on Friday that although Hezbollah did not believe it was heading towards an escalation with Israel, they were “prepared to respond” should Israel strike Lebanese territory again. “Israel must understand that it must stay deterred. Otherwise, we are prepared to respond,” said…