"Our visit to the United Arab Emirates is a powerful symbol of the changing dynamics in the Middle East," said Yesha Council head Yisrael Ganz.
UAE Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef al-Otaiba said Abu Dhabi was "going to try" to find common ground with Trump but called the plan "difficult."
By Max Gelber
The three terrorists who abducted and murdered the rabbi, Uzbek citizens, were extradited from Turkey to the UAE, where they face the death penalty.
By Max Gelber
The three could face execution.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel approved the internet satellite service for the Rafah facility in February.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Iran must cease its escalations with regard to its nuclear program as well as its other destabilizing actions,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The list includes the “Council of the United Arab Emirates,” and the members of the Gulf States Council, also known as the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) which brings together the following six countries in the Gulf: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Why would the UAE give assistance to the Palestinian Authority without real reforms?" asked Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Arab states were initially hesitant to share the information, fearing Iranian reprisal, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“Everywhere around Israel, there is one actor that continues to pull the strings, though its proxies, and this is Iran,” says Albania’s envoy.
Use of the route has grown exponentially in the wake of the Houthi attacks on commercial vessels.
Bahrain is the only Arab country to publicly sign on to the initiative.
Thanks to the Houthis attacking ships, the land-route has become very popular.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa also condemned Israel's operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Trump administration reportedly assured the UAE that the U.S. would not recognize Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria until 2024 at the earliest.
Cohen was welcomed in Manama on Sunday night by his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Eli Cohen will inaugurate the permanent home of the Israeli embassy in Manama.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The "Land Connectivity by Trucks" proposal hopes to kick off even before Jerusalem-Riyadh normalization.
A fiber-optic cable is to connect Asia to the West via the Jewish state.
The “Tracks for Regional Peace” plan and a newer U.S.-backed proposal to connect Gulf and Arab countries with India come as talks intensify between Israel and Saudi Arabia to reach a normalization agreement by the end of the year.
DMCC registered its most successful year yet in 2022 and now includes more than 23,000 companies from around the world.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
COP28 later this year will be the Israeli prime minister's first official visit to the United Arab Emirates.
By Israel Hayom
The confab will strengthen academic partnerships with the UAE and promote dialogue between Jews and Muslims.
The two leaders agreed to continue the dialogue between them in a personal meeting in the near future.
NewMed holds a 45 percent stake in Israel’s Leviathan offshore gas field, the second largest gas field in the entire Mediterranean Sea.
UAE authorities found a half-kilo of cocaine in Fida Kiwan's apartment.
Oman’s announcement did not indicate any reason for its timing.
Jordan: A set of tefillin were desecrated at Amman's International Airport for "security concerns."
In September, Israel and the Emirates agreed on their first known arms sale, a SPYDER air defense system produced by the Haifa-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. State Department describes UAE-backed resolution as ‘unhelpful’ ahead of crucial Ukraine vote.
The sheikh’s stay may lead to more Emiratis getting medical treatment in Israel.
By TPS / WAM
“This is the definition of disruptive technology. It is changing the way we live, the way we work.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Relations with Bahrain are at the center of Israeli consensus,” Regional Cooperation Minister Issawi Frej said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The unique Jewish supermarket, spanning over 130 square meters in the center of Dubai, offers quality kosher produce imported especially from Israel, Europe and the U.S.,” says UAE-based Rabbi Levi Duchman
The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) treaty is expected to increase bilateral trade to over $10 billion within five years.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This is what true peace looks like,” tweets the Religious Zionist Party head.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
The Abraham Accords are “a warm peace between our people, a true peace of goodwill, mutual respect, friendship, moderation and tolerance,” said Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu.
The IPO will perform Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 (in A major).
The two teams discussed trade in goods, regulation and standardization, customs, trade in services, government procurement, e-commerce and the protection of intellectual property rights.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Opening Oman's skies to Israeli flights would let airlines take full advantage of Riyadh's opening of its own airspace to Israeli flights.
Israel will provide Jordan with desalinated water in exchange for solar electricity produced in Jordan in a plant built by the UAE.
This marks yet another step forward in Israel’s warming relationship with the Arab world since the signing of the Abraham Accords in 2020.
Guests included Emirati royals, prominent rabbis, dignitaries and much of the country’s burgeoning Jewish community.
“After hard work we are proud, happy and excited,” Israeli Ambassador to the UAE Amir Hayek said Tuesday.
Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov: "We thought that the President of the United States Joe Biden would be the millionth tourist but once again we have beaten the forecast."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This was their third meeting. They met previously in Abu Dhabi in December 2021 and in Egypt in March.
He served as president of the UAE for 17 years, and the emir of Dubai.
This is the first full free trade agreement with an Arab country and is taking place so shortly after the establishment of diplomatic relations.
The new forum is a direct outcome of the historic Abraham Accords and was announced last October at the first trilateral meeting of the Foreign Ministers of all three countries.
At least three of the participants in the hastily-organized Negev Summit share trepidations about the 900-pound mullah in the room.
Tension between Saudi Arabia and the US have been rising under the Biden administration.
On the occasion of International Forestry Day, the Jewish National Fund revealed these rare historic images.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
After repeated delays, the service will launch on June 23.
“The ancient capital city of the Azerbaijanis is not Baku, it is Tabriz, which is occupied by Iran."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Protesters accused the country of “normalization” with Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
ThetaRay uses artificial intelligence to identify cyber financial threats such as fraud and money-laundering.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This is the first time that members of the UAE parliament visited the Knesset.
Gantz stressed the value of Israel’s recent repositioning to United States Central Command.
The aircraft carrying the delegation is the first IAF plane to land in Bahrain.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Isaac Herzog: “Sons and daughters of Abraham can reside together in peaceful coexistence.”
“I am bringing with me a blessing of peace and a message of peace to the entire region, to the people of the region."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Debris fell in several locations in Abu Dhabi, causing no casualties, after UAE air defense systems downed two ballistic missiles, according to the United Arab Emirates Defense Ministry.
For now, the UAE continues to support social enterprises in Gaza -- but this could change.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
IMPACT-se discovered that peacemaking was “by far” the top priority discussed in the textbooks that were analyzed.
The council held its regular meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, drawing almost no top diplomats as planned, as the United States and the United Arab Emirates redirected the focus to other pressing concerns in the Middle East and around the world.
Representatives of KKL-JNF planted a tree in the educational campus, with the campus children and their parents.
The Emiratis join Albania, Brazil, Gabon and Ghana in installing their countries’ flags outside the council chamber, replacing Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam.
The Houthi information minister claimed that the UAE has been pursuing a new strategy against the Yemeni people ever since Israel's prime minister visited there.
Elbit Systems Emirates will deliver a multi-turret configuration of the J-MUSIC Self-Protection System together with Elbit’s Infra-Red-based Passive Airborne Warning System, providing high levels of protection and redundancy.
Three Chabad Chassidim, Avigdor Factor, Yossi Lipsh, and Moshe Raichman from Ramat Bet Shemesh traveled to Manama, Bahrain to print the Tanya on the Yahrtzeit of the Alter Rebbe's passing, the 24th in the month of Tevet.
By David Isaac
Hailed as the first major partnership to come out of the Abraham Accords, the deal has come under fire from environmental groups for allegedly posing a risk to the Gulf of Eilat’s coral reefs.
If the youth are indeed our future, then for climate change, they are a necessity.
The point of the exercise was to exchange organizational knowledge on how to deal with emergency situations.
This is the first official visit by an Israeli prime minister to the UAE.
Bennett: There's no better time to spread the message of Israel to the world and this mission is an example of proactively spreading that light.
Delek Drilling holds 22% of the Tamar and Dalit holdings.
Chabad Rabbi Levi Druchman lights the first candle of the menorah at EXPO 2020, in a ceremony attended by local leaders, businesspeople, Jewish residents of the UAE and tourists from around the world.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The exhibition, titled “Maktoub,” which means both “written” and “destined” in Arabic, features works from 10 calligraphy artists (half from Israel and half from the UAE).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Bilateral trade reached roughly $610 million between January and July 2021, while imports from the UAE to Israel totaled $400 million.
The two will jointly design a first-in-class series of 170 modular-unmanned surface vessels (m-USV) for a range of military and commercial applications.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The plan sees the solar farm entering operation by 2026 and producing 2 percent of Israel’s energy by 2030.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We continue consulting with Emirati officials to ensure unmistakable understanding with respect to obligations before, during and after delivery,” said Mira Resnick, a deputy U.S. assistant secretary of state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The aircraft will be converted at a new site established at the Etihad Engineering’s Maintenance, Repair and Operations center in Abu Dhabi.
United Arab Emirates Minister of Education Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi delivered his remarks as part of a senior delegation visiting University of Haifa.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz hails Israel’s participation in the event as a sign of deepening relations between the two countries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Emirates SkyCargo is also offering 20 tons of capacity each way as trade picks up between the two countries.
By David Isaac
The main argument against the deal is that it would lead to a sharp rise in the number of oil tankers visiting the Gulf of Eilat, creating a threat to Israel’s coral reefs in the event of a spill.
AlAnoud Al Hashmi, founder and CEO of the Emirati Futurist Company, congratulated the JNF representatives.
By David Isaac
“The Gulf is a trade hub for a lot of European and Asian companies,” said Dan Catarivas, director general of foreign trade and international relations at the Manufacturing Association of Israel.
By TPS / WAM
The UAE will exchange research, and develop scientific instruments for Israel’s Beresheet-2 mission to land a spacecraft on the Moon by 2024 as part of the landmark agreement.
The Prime Minister and the Ambassadors discussed expanding ties between their countries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We do believe in economic peace to improve Palestinian lives and to do mutual industrial zones,” said Israel’s interior minister. “But not a state with an army, definitely.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ordered that the phones of his ex-wife Princess Haya bint Hussein and those around her be hacked, according to an English court ruling.
Expo 2020 will open next week in Dubai with the State of Israel participating for the first time.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and his Bahraini counterpart, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, are slated to inaugurate the Israeli embassy in Manama and sign a number of bilateral agreements.
By David Isaac
An agreement penned a year ago has encountered growing opposition from environmentalist groups and Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I am honored to announce that I will be arriving in Tel Aviv today to
The uniqueness of Israeli skimmers is that they operate around the clock, including in extreme heat conditions, and regularly scan large areas without the need for human intervention.
Environmental Minister Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) opposes the oil deal.
This is Ahmed Al Khlifa's second visit to Israel.