יום חמישי, ט״ז אב תשפ״וThursday, July 30, 2026
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By David Isaac
Off-and-on negotiations have continued for months with the United States, Egypt and Qatar acting as mediators.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The current building dates to the late 19th century, though the synagogue’s origins trace all the way back to Maimonides and the Middle Ages.
Hamas’s arrival in Cairo occurred as an Israeli delegation arrived in the Egyptian capital, for the second time in a week.
Cairo is concerned that a Biden administration will be hostile, and will conclude a new nuclear deal with Iran that would undermine regional stability, say Egyptian officials.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Countries will all come together to focus on Middle East stability and peace and freedom and security ... in this region, and that includes an important element of making sure that Iran is not a destabilizing influence,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Haniyeh returned to Gaza, Hamas gave an order ... and miraculously, this spontaneous protest by a public that could not handle the situation any more dissipated.”
EgyptAir owns an unmarked commercial airline called Air Sinai, which flies to Israel, under the radar.
By JNi.Media
Sooner or later, this shiny package of a reconciliation is bound to fall apart, since it makes no sense.
By JNi.Media
Both the Hamas in Gaza and the PLO in Judea and Samaria have not held parliamentary elections in more than a decade, and it remains to be seen who would win such an election – should the PA government call one.
“There is no such thing as a moderate Hamas," he said. "They are not abandoning the notion of violence against Israel."
Egyptian activist Hassan El-Shamy: "Only fifteen percent of the Egyptian Parliament consists of women. The percentage should be fifty plus one!"
The move culminates several months of negotiations between Egyptian and Israeli security officials about securing the staff.
By JNi.Media
Apparently, the folks in Gaza can go without their refrigerators, as long as somebody does something about those pesky settlements.
"Sometimes you have to hit a wall, feel the rift, in order to build a new bridge."
By JNi.Media
According to the president, the new measures would 'keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America.' He added: 'We don’t want them here.'
Cairo has accused Hamas of aiding Islamic State terrorists against Egyptian police in Sinai, and wants Hamas to turn them in.
By JNi.Media
Interestingly, several Muslim and European countries have enacted laws compelling their mosques to "muffle" their loudspeakers, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
By JNi.Media
According to Human Rights Watch, the Egyptian authorities demolished at least 3,255 residential, commercial, administrative, and community buildings along the border, forcibly evicting thousands of people.
By JNi.Media
"Israeli tourists by now have figured that every place is dangerous, which is why economic considerations overcome security concerns."
By JNi.Media
The same official also told Israel Radio that the PA does not demand that Israel freeze settlement construction as a prerequisite to the Paris conference, but rather the freeze should coincide with the start of negotiations.
By JNi.Media
There was absolutely no new policy idea in the Trump speech Monday night, but there was an implied promise to encourage all levels of law enforcement to be less restrained in pursuing their targets.
By JNi.Media
Kaine would be a bonanza to leftwing Israeli Jews, very much like the folks who are currently in the White House.
Egypt built pipelines in September to destroy the underground network used by Hamas to transfer terror and collect heavy taxes on smuggled merchandise.
The man whose blinders have contributed to the current violence now says he will return "soon" to "try to work to re-engage."
By JNi.Media
Koren's residence will be used as the headquarters of the Israeli Embassy until a new building is constructed to host the mission.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a massive car bomb that injured 29 and ripped apart a building in Cairo early Thursday.
The Secretary is visiting Egypt, but stopping off in Israel would only give ammunition to Congressmen opposing the nuclear deal with Iran.
Egyptian soldiers prevented another deadly Islamic State (ISIS) suicide attack on Wednesday, according to military sources. A suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives towards a military post between Cairo and Suez when the vehicle was destroyed. Egypt did not explain if its soldier actually foiled the attack or if a malfunction in the […]
Israel, like the non-radical Islamic world. will be happy see the ISIS beheaded for once.
Egypt attacks jihadists with F-16 warplanes. Israel closes borders to Gaza and Egypt.
No damage was reported. The quake occurred on the East African rift.
The Foreign Ministry succeeded in rolling back a boycott of Israeli products sold by a large supermarket chain.
By Shalom Bear
What better way to rebuild burned bridges than to capitalize on Egyptian anti-Semitism.
Hamas finally has found an enemy it fears.
An Arab language website sent a reporter, dressed as a Jew, to the streets of Cairo.
He escaped the death penalty but still faces sentencing for more criminal charges.
The Egyptian army has destroyed 185 smuggling and terror tunnels under the border between Egypt and Gaza since February, according to the country's military spokesman. Sixty-nine of them were destroyed in the past three weeks. One of them was more than a mile long and 10 feet deep and was used for smuggling weapons and […]
By Rachel Levy
While Pres. Obama nurses a grudge and looks for new ways to pick a fight with Israel, a cataclysm is building in the Middle East.
As usual, there is a big gap between what Arab countries promise and what they deliver.
As they say in Egyptian, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Cairo police sent in a robot to defuse what appears to be a bomb outside the shul.
At least eight navy soldiers dead. Air Force Stops Islamic State Infiltration. Bombs explode in metro system.
By Rachel Levy
Columnist quotes Obama aide insulting Netanyahu, citing "crisis" in US-Israel relations.
He removed any doubts that the United Nations is a front for the United Anti-Israel Nations.
“This meeting is more symbolic than anything else.” – Palestinian Authority foreign minister.
By Rachel Levy
US Secy of State John Kerry is set to return to the Middle East on Oct 12 to attend a conference in Cairo on the issue of "rebuilding Gaza."
Hamas says the death of the killers of three Israeli teens
High-ranking members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been asked to leave Qatar and set up a new headquarters elsewhere.
No one wants to be rejected.
Signs that Islamic State (ISIS - Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) terrorists have arrived in Egypt have appeared in the Sinai Peninsula.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 24 hour extension of the ceasefire.
Israel Channel 2 reports the cease-fire with Gaza has been extended although no one knows for how long.
IDF Southern Command believes that the rockets and mortars will begin again tonight, hours before the ceasefire is set to end.
By Rachel Levy
A cease-fire deal may be worked out. Hamas reps are in Qatar. Israel says it must keep Israelis secure.
By Shalom Bear
Gazans are beginning to comprehend the damage Hamas rained down on them, as there are talks of PA forces to be deployed in Gaza.
Israel ceased and Hamas fired. Reservists called up. IDF has not retaliated – yet..
Hamas claims that even providing information about the bodies of the dead IDF soldier they are holding hostage is too much to give.
Money can’t buy love from Hamas. It can by a short cease-fire. It can buy war. It can’t buy peace.
By Shalom Bear
The Israeli cabinet meeting has been cancelled today as apparently the ministers are demanding updates and answers regarding the negotiations with Hamas.
11:48pm Be'er Sheva 11:45 Rocket Alert Ashdod.. Ashkelon...Shafir... Kiryat..Malachi 11:44pm Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ashkelon 11:26pm Eshkol x2 10:55pm Eshkol 9:59pm Ashdod 8:12pm Sdot Negev, Shaar Negev 7:55pm Ashkelon Coast 7:47pm Rocket Alert Sha'ar HaNegev 7:11pm Ashkelon Coast 7:05pm Multiple Rocket Alerts Sdot Negev...Netivot 7:05pm Ashkelon, Kfar Maimon, Gaza border communities - all Multiples. 6:43pm Ashkelon […]
By Shalom Bear
This one to begin at midnight, preceded by the expected rocket barrage.
As Hamas rains down rockets on Israel, they added they will continue to negotiate.
By Rachel Levy
With cease fire talks barely in place, the Israel Electric Company already began repairing the power grid for Gaza residents.
IDF soldiers fired in the air Wednesday to foil an infiltration of unidentified Arabs from northern Gaza.
Hamas says could consider extending current ceasefire to longer-term truce, but says no chance terror group will disarm
By Rachel Levy
Palestinian Arab factions have been streaming to Cairo to form a cease fire proposal over Gaza for Israel but the deal is not realistic.
Police clash with anti-Israel demonstrators in Cairo, Turkey, London. Protests expected to spread.
The U.S. releases military aid to Egypt after a year-long freeze; Sec'y John Kerry promises 10 Apache helicopters to fight terror in Sinai.
Four masked Muslim Brotherhood gunmen killed one soldier and wounded three others on Thursday and fled on two motorcycles, Egyptian officials and eyewitness said. The rare attack on an army bus in the capital came eight months after Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi was ousted in a military coup. Previous attacks in Cairo have targeted […]
Has the United States done anything right in the Middle East in the last few decades?
The Israeli foreign ministry has named Middle East specialist Chaim Koren as the next ambassador to Egypt after several months of being without an envoy. The government did not state when Koren will take up his new post. He has been serving as non-resident ambassador to South Sudan. Koren speaks Arabic and previously has served […]
By Shalom Bear
Russia is filling in the vacuum in Egpyt that the U.S. is leaving behind.
Egypt may be in big trouble with the US, which already has suspended some military aid.Cairo held an American citizen in jail for six weeks without formal charges. Now he has committed suicide.
Strike one: Obama turns his back on Mubarak in favor of radical Muslims. Strike two: He turns his back on them and backing another non-democratic regime. Now he tries for strike three by cutting military aid.
The sound of heavy gunfire was reported, as well as army jets and F-16 fighters hovering in formations over several cities.
Egyptian military forces killed at least 28 supporters of Mohammed Morsi Sunday and would dozens of others after they crowded the streets of Cairo to “celebrate” the English anniversary of the Egyptian invasion of Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War 40 years ago. Egyptians celebrated the anniversary, a national holiday, every year, […]
Muslim Brotherhood members given life sentences by Egyptian court. In Egypt, a life sentence carries a maximum of 25 years imprisonment.
Egyptian authorities released former president Hosni Mubarak from prison late Thursday afternoon but faces house arrest due to pending charges of corruption and involvement in the murders of hundreds of people whose protests helped oust him from office two years. An Egyptian court freed him because he has been in jail for the maximum amount […]
An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the release of Hosni Mubarak, imprisoned for several months while awaiting trial on a charge of corruption. The former dictator has been in jail the maximum amount of time allowed, it said, but his release could be delayed at least until Thursday if the prosecution appeals. Mubarak has been […]
Egyptians officials have admitted that 278 people, including 43 policemen, were killed in Wednesday’s violence, while the Muslim Brotherhood movement claims that more than 2,000 were killed. The true numbers are likely somewhere between the two. The death toll was the highest since the uprising in 2011 against Hosni Mubarak. Thousands were wounded on Wednesday, […]
Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour declared a month-long state of emergency Wednesday, putting the stamp on what the Obama administration has refused to call a military coup. Mansour “has tasked the armed forces, in cooperation with the police, to take all necessary measures to maintain security and order and to protect public and private property […]
The United States closed its consular services at its embassy in Cairo at 1 p.m. Wednesday as violence escalated across the country. At least two journalists, a cameraman for Sky News and a journalist from the United Arab Emirates, were gunned down. In understated language, the U.S. Embassy stated, “As a matter of general practice, […]
Egyptian authorities have again canceled plans to disperse huge crowds of supporters for deposed president Mohammed Morsi, who have vowed to die rather than end their sit-in demonstration in Nasr city district of the capital and Nahda Square. Morsi continues to be detained at an undisclosed location, and his detention has been extended by another […]
Egyptian presidential media adviser Ahmed El-Muslimany has denied a report by Reuters that the government offered the Muslim Brotherhood ministerial posts, to release several of its jailed members and to unfreeze the group's assets as part of a deal to end the political crisis, Egyptian state news agency MENA reported. Reuters reported earlier, citing a […]
One policeman was killed and at least 29 others were wounded Wednesday when an unknown attacker hurled a high-powered bomb, or possibly rocket-propelled grenades, at a police station north of Cairo and near El Arish. Shortly before, the Egyptian military called on people to rally on Friday against violence, in effect a call for a […]
Hundreds of thousands of supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi took to the streets Sunday as Egyptian Air Force planes flew overhead, underscoring the military’s overbearing presence since placing Morsi under virtual house arrest last week. Adding to the uncertainty in the air was Sunday’s resignation of Justice Minister Ahmed Suleiman, who […]
Mobs protesting the rule of Mohammed Morsi have sexually assaulted nearly 100 women and raped at least 91 in the last four days of protests, Human Rights Watch reported. Forty-six attacks took place on Sunday, 17 on Monday and 43 on Tuesday, according to figures attributed to the Egyptian Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, which operates a […]
Egypt may be on the brink of another temporary military regime or civil war. The army told Morsi to make peace with the opposition within 48 hours or face a military “roadmap.”
Egyptian’s Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi announced Saturday he will cut diplomatic ties with the regime of Bashar Assad and close Cairo’s embassy in Damascus. He also demanded that Hezbollah leave Syria adding, “There is no business or place for Hezbollah in Syria.” Morsi spoke at a rally organized by hardline Islamists, whose clerics told […]
An Israeli Bedouin serving a life prison sentence in Egypt on charges of being a spy has begun a hunger strike to draw attention to his plight, the Egyptian Ahram website reported. Ouda Trabin was sentenced in 2000 on charges of espionage. Voice of Israel public radio aired on Wednesday a letter he sent to […]
Protesters' anger was focused on Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdulla.
President Obama, perhaps inadvertently, made the case for U.S.-Israel relations grounded in the most fundamental shared values.
The Muslim Brotherhood regime is ignoring the “systematic” destruction of Antonopoulos, one of Egypt’s biggest archaeological sites, the Egypt Independent reported Monday. Monica Hanna, a researcher with the University of Humboldt in Berlin, told the newspaper that information she received from archaeologists working at the site, also known as Sheikh Abada, revealed that bulldozers have […]
A swarm of several thousands locusts that descended on Egypt began to cross into southern Israel Monday night, but agricultural officials said that pesticides will limit the damage. A small swarm of the destructive cousin to the grasshopper was discovered on the Israeli side of the border with Egypt for the first time in eight […]
Israel's Agriculture Ministry set up an emergency hotline Monday and has asked citizens to immediately report any sightings of locusts in order to prevent an outbreak of the destructive insects that have invaded Egypt. Swarms of locusts have landed on crops in Egypt, causing widespread devastation, but the government claims it has eradicated 95 percent […]
The Muslim Brotherhood has won its reward for driving the Egyptian into the ground - $190 million in immediate aide from the US n return for promises of reforms it promised t carry out a year ago.
An Egyptian court Tuesday threw out a lawsuit to cancel the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, but the ruling left an opening for breaking the pact. It ruled that the court simply has no jurisdiction over the issue, which it said involves state sovereignty. The suit claimed that Israel is violating the treaty and UN […]
Today, it is clearer than ever that neither Hamas nor Fatah is interested in achieving unity -- each for its own reasons.
Hamas is getting it from all sides, even as, or perhaps because, they are reportedly secretly negotiating with Israel on the current cease-fire.
Egypt is flooding Gaza smuggling tunnels, choking off one of Hamas’ biggest sources for money and placing a virtual siege far more severe than Israel ever created.
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