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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 13-hour voyage by cruise ship from Israel to Cyprus was conducted under the protection of the Israeli Navy.
The underwater electric cable project (The Great Sea Interconnector) will connect the local electricity grid to the European grid through Cyprus and Greece.
The submarine electric cable project (The Great Sea Interconnector) will connect Israel’s electricity grid to Cyprus and from there to Greece, and to the European electricity grid.
The announcement came during a trilateral summit held in Nicosia.
Israel is poised to finalize an energy deal with Greece and Cyprus which will include a mammoth electricity project connecting the power grids of the three countries, and a potential future regional natural gas pipeline between the eastern Mediterranean allies.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Netanyahu underwent a cardiac pacemaker implantation procedure at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan overnight Saturday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The special operation led to the thwarting of the plot to harm Israelis on the eastern Mediterranean island nation.
The EuroAsia Interconnector submarine power cable will link the countries' grids and provide Israel with a reliable way to export natural gas in the form of electric power.
By Ariel Kogan
Iran claims that Azerbaijan is Mossad’s beachhead for organizing mass protests in the country.
Bringing the baby to Israel was no simple matter because Israel and Syria have no diplomatic relations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Delek Group and its subsidiary, NewMed Energy, announce developing the disputed Aphrodite offshore gas field off the Cypriot coast.
By David Isaac
Prior to the war in Ukraine, energy issues were judged by a single yardstick: their environmental impact. What the West is coming to realize is that energy is also about national security and deterrence, said Aykan Erdemir, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lt. Gen. Demokritos Zervakis participated in a “strategic-operational” meeting focusing on “shared security challenges in the Middle East,” according to the Israeli military.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Called the Eurasia Interconnector, it could replace plans for a pipeline connecting the three countries to transfer gas.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Cyprus lies in a secondary earthquake-prone zone, but tremors of such magnitude are uncommon.
Massive fires are raging north of the cities of Limassol and Larnaca and have affected at least six communities in the foothills of the Troodos mountain range.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The diplomats discussed opportunities for promoting regional projects in the fields of energy, tourism, and the fight against the Coronavirus, as well as the possibility of opening “Green Corridors” for travel in COVID-19 times between the countries and managing emergencies.
By Steve
Israel sent a Saar 4.5 class frigate and a submarine to the international exercise.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
70% of Israelis over the age of 16 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
After the “Oruç Reis” survey vessel returned to the eastern Mediterranean, countries criticized the move.
Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin called the move “long overdue,” insisting that “Cyprus is a new hot spot. Cyprus is our ally. Those threatening Cyprus are not.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Greece, Israel, and Cyprus have established an alliance to counter Turkey. Greece and Cyprus are historic adversaries of Turkey.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The agreement, reached with Cyprus, Greece and Italy, reportedly will see the 1,200-mile pipeline built by 2025.
Over 4,000 Syrian refugees had been quietly brought to Israel to receive medical treatment.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Under the agreement, Israel and Cyprus will jointly export gas through Greece and Italy to the rest of Europe • Netanyahu: “We have established an alliance in the Middle East of tremendous importance.”
Local sources reported that the police is now considering charging the British woman with lodging false charges.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
These genetic results are a critical step toward understanding the long-disputed origins of the Philistines, the research underscored.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lebanon claims parts of Israel's gas fields are in Lebanon's exclusive economic zone.
By JNi.Media
These warships will be tasked with protecting Israel's Economic Exclusion Zone with Israel's offshore natural gas rigs.
By JNi.Media
A new joint study by the Geological Survey, the Hebrew University, and the University of Haifa completely changes the basic conceptions by which large energy companies are looking for gas and oil in the eastern Mediterranean basin.
The infant was taken to Sheba hospital.
"Cyprus, Greece and Israel defend in this volatile and fragile region not just common interests, but also the interests of Europe."
By JNi.Media
Israel, Cyprus and Greece are three democratic countries in a "challenging and complex region."
By JNi.Media
In July, when Turkish President Erdogan attacked Israel's security policy on the Temple Mount, Netanyahu issued a statement saying, "It would be interesting to see what Erdogan would say to ... the Kurds. Erdogan is the last one who can preach to Israel."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is calling on Muslims to visit the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in solidarity.
By JNi.Media
Never mind historical and theological inaccuracies, PM Netanyahu is all about the future, and business.
The drill will focus on scenarios for occupying and liberating villages and survival strategies in the mountainous range.
Netanyahu discussed the details of the agreement Israel signed with Turkey, and the benefits to Israel...
By JNi.Media
On Monday Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) told reporters: “I do not think it is right to lock up two million people without any connection to the world."
By JNi.Media
Only 22 countries around the globe have reached an average life expectancy greater than 80 years, so if one is planning to retire abroad, one should consider those countries most seriously.
By J. E. Dyer
Monday, November 11, Russia’s Slava-class missile cruiser Varyag pulled into Alexandria for the Russian navy’s first port visit in Egypt since 1992.
The valuable Cypriot gas fields are located halfway between the Cypriot and Israeli coast.
By J. E. Dyer
Now is a good time for the EU to take stock and recognize that the entire Cyprus problem, like the Greece problem, was created by the actions of government.
Israel must respond to its Western neighbor's recognition of Palestinian statehood.
The noose tightened on Hizbullah Wednesday after a Swedish-Lebanese citizen on trial in Cyprus admitted that the terrorist organization recruited him to stake out areas where Israelis gather. Hossam Taleb Yaacoub traveled to Cyprus on business and with no ulterior motives, according to his lawyer, before Hizbullah hooked him into cooperating with it. Cyprus police […]
Russia's strategic geopolitical interests provide an important incentive for Russia to gain a foothold in Cyprus.
By JTA
A Swedish citizen of Lebanese origin suspected of planning to attack Israeli targets in Cyprus was ordered held over by a court there. The Cypriot court on Monday ordered the man, 24, detained after noting the similarities between his actions and those of the Bulgarian suicide bomber who killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus […]
Cyprus is said to be so high on Russia's priority list that President Putin himself is currently dealing with the €4bn loan request from Nicosia. The financial risk for the Russians is limited. There is every chance that Cyprus will be able to repay their bilateral loans fairly soon. Nicosia hopes to start exploiting the huge gas reserves off the Cypriotic coast in the coming decade. With Russian help, it might even be able to exploit these gas fields within the next five years.
Russia undoubtedly has strategic interests when offering financial support to debt-ridden Europe. Many will lose through the eurocrisis, but Russia will not be among them. So far, Brussels has not turned to Moscow for help -- yet. But if the situation deteriorates, that soon might be the case.
Anatolia News Agency cited a Cypriot official as saying that Netanyahu offered to build a gas terminal for Cyprus on condition that all 10,000 construction workers be Israeli citizens and that 20,000 Israeli "commandos" be deployed to protect the workers and the terminal.
AFP reports that Israel and Cyprus have signed an accord Sunday to lay an underwater electricity cable between the two countries. It's the first stage in an effort to transfer power between mainland Europe and Israel. The cable, to be complete by 2016, will stretch 178 miles, at a depth of 6,550 feet. Israel Electric […]
Israel and Cyprus sign a 'search and rescue' agreement between the two countries, whereby Israeli aircraft will be authorized to enter Cyprus' airspace in the event of disaster, and vice versa.
Relations between Cyprus and Israel have been intensifying since Israel's fallout with its former regional ally and Cyprus' adversary, Turkey.
Netanyahu will discuss natural gas, security cooperation.
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