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Government / History / Sinai

Ancient Christian Manuscripts from Mount Sinai Monastery Go Online via Israel's National Library

By Jewish Press News Desk

The new, free collection includes images of 1,600 manuscripts, dozens of rare photos, and color footage taken after the Six-Day War.

History / Bedouin / Social Media / Sinai

Clinton Bailey's Archive of Ancient Bedouin Culture Now Available for Free Online

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hundredsof hours of singular audio recordings, photos and slides from fifty years of research.

Featured / Gaza / Sinai

Report: Egypt Readied Rafah Border Crossing for Permanent Operation

By JNi.Media

Surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the crossing terminal.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Islamists / Sinai / ISIS

Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Rocket Attack on Southern Israel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Around the same time as the rocket attack on Israel, ISIS killed six Egyptian soldiers were killed and wounded dozens more in northern Sinai.

Terrorism / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / ISIS

Gaza Man Dies Fighting for ISIS-Sinai

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hamas and ISIS-Sinai have a ongoing cooperative relationship.

Headline / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Government / Sinai / ISIS

Israel Preparing for Passover ISIS Attack in Sinai

By JNi.Media

Some Israelis were trying to find alternative routs to reach the Sinai beaches, possibly via Jordan.

Terrorism / Gaza / Hamas / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt / Religion / ISIS

Egypt Demands Hamas Hand Over Terror Suspects

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Cairo has accused Hamas of aiding Islamic State terrorists against Egyptian police in Sinai, and wants Hamas to turn them in.

Israel / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Egypt / ISIS

Egypt Destroyed 7 Gaza Smuggling Tunnels

By Jewish Press News Desk

Two Gazan bodies were recovered today, after Egypt flooded the tunnels.

Terrorism / Travel / News Briefs / Turkey / Holidays & Observances / Islamists / Religious & Secular in Israel

Israelis Ignore Warnings, Flock to Turkey for High Holiday Vacation

By JNi.Media

"Israeli tourists by now have figured that every place is dangerous, which is why economic considerations overcome security concerns."

News Briefs / Egypt

Bomb May Have Blown Up Russian Airbus Flight over Sinai

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Russian statements that the plane disintegrated after taking off, a rare occurrence, prompts suspicions that terrorists planted a bomb on board.

Israel / Global / News Briefs / Health and Medicine / Egypt

Israeli Dentist Mends Peacekeeping Canine

By Jewish Press Staff

"Dano" was wounded in action. The Multinational Force turned to a Hebrew University veterinarian.

Terrorism / Analysis / Israel / Global / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt / ISIS

Analysis: ISIS Will Go Down to Defeat in Egypt

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israel, like the non-radical Islamic world. will be happy see the ISIS beheaded for once.

Israel / News Briefs / Egypt / ISIS

Egypt vs. ISIS: Victory or Death

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

IDF okays Egypt's heavy arms in Sinai. Al-Sisi claims it is in total control over the Sinai.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Egypt

ISIS Launched Rocket in Sinai

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Sinai ISIS chapter launched rockets at an airport used by MFO peacekeepers in the Sinai.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Egypt

Two Egyptian Judges Murdered in Sinai

By Jewish Press News Desk

Gunmen killed 4 and wounded 1, hours after the Morsi verdict.

Israel / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Egypt / ISIS

ISIS Terror Cells Threaten Gaza, Sinai and Saudi Arabia

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

If the ISIS can gain a foothold in the Sinai, it will be on the doorstep of both Israel and Egypt.

News Briefs / Egypt / ISIS

ISIS Likely behind Deaths of 7 Egyptian Soldiers in Sinai Attack

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Egypt's supposed iron-fist strategy to control the Sinai is full of bullet holes.

Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / US / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Islamists / Jerusalem / Religion / Africa / NATO

Cheat Sheet on Who's Doing What to Whom in the Middle East

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.

Terrorism / US / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Government / Iran / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / Judea & Samaria / United Nations (UN) / ISIS

Obama Aides Lay Groundwork to Betray Israel at UN Security Council

By Rachel Levy

Aides to President Barack Obama told media Friday the U.S. will “reassess” its relationship with Israel after Netanyahu's re-election.

J.E. Dyer

Obama Let 40-Year-Old Oil Supply Guarantee to Israel Expire in November 2014

By J. E. Dyer

Israel has never invoked the agreement, but Israel sources say that its importance lies in its very existence.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Egypt

IDF Preparing for Possible Jihadist Attacks along Egyptian Border

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Rest assured that if there are more attacks, there will be another cease-fire.

Syria / News Briefs / Egypt / Iraq / ISIS

Beheaded Body Found with Note in Sinai

By Jewish Press News Desk

A beheaded body was found Wednesday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, bearing a note signed by the Islamic State-linked Ansar al-Maqdis terror group.

News Briefs / Egypt / ISIS

4 Beheaded Victims Found in Sinai

By Jewish Press Staff

Signs that Islamic State (ISIS - Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) terrorists have arrived in Egypt have appeared in the Sinai Peninsula.

Terrorism / US / News Briefs / Egypt

U.S. Frees Military Aid to Egypt

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

Terrorism / Hamas / News Briefs / Egypt

El-Sisi Becomes President of Egypt

By Jewish Press News Desk

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi swept the polls to become Egypt's new president Wednesday. Can he fix a broken nation?

News Briefs / Egypt

Egyptians Choose a President (Again)

By Jewish Press News Desk

Egyptians are headed to the polls today and tomorrow to choose a president for the second time since 2011.

Terrorism / Politics / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt / Religion

51 Dead in as Egyptians Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Yom Kippur War

By Jewish Press Staff

The sound of heavy gunfire was reported, as well as army jets and F-16 fighters hovering in formations over several cities.

Terrorism / Hamas / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Islamists

Gaza Jihadist: Israel Killed Arafat for not Signing Agreement

By Jewish Press News Desk

Here is the latest jihadist history lesson: Israel killed Yasser Arafat because he refused to sign an agreement at Camp David in 2000. Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed al-Hindi, speaking during a rally in Gaza City, claimed that Arafat was put under siege after returning from the summit, before being poisoned for his unyielding position, the […]

Op-Eds

As Egypt Nears Civil War, Israel on High Alert

By Yaakov Lappin

Near the Sinai peninsula, the Israeli Defense Forces continue on high alert, watching every suspicious movement in the sands near the Egyptian border for signs of the next attack.

News Briefs

Armed Terrorists Kill 24 Egyptian Police in Sinai

By Jewish Press News Desk

A terrorists' ambush in the northern Sinai killed 24 Egyptian police who drove by in two vehicles, Kol Israel reported. The attack took place in a village near Rafah. 3 police were injured.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The Curse of Sinai

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Post-Mursi Egypt accuses Hamas of responsibility for the terrorist chaos in Sinai, and not without good cause.

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs

Iron Dome Intercepted Rocket Fired at Eilat

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Iron Dome system last night intercepted a rocket that was shot from the Sinai at the city of Eilat.

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs / Islamists

IDF Re-Opens Eilat Airport Departures after Scare Warning

By Jewish Press News Desk

The IDF allowed departing flights to take off from Eilat's international airport Thursday night after ordering it closed for two hours, without any explanation other than to note “an evaluation of the situation.” The temporary closure probably was connected to terrorist activity in the neighboring Sinai Peninsula, where Egyptian forces have arrested approximately 100 terrorists […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Islamists / Jordan / Saudi Arabia / Egypt

Navy Arrested Major Weapons Smuggling Operation on High Seas

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

If there is any question why Israel has enforced a maritime cargo on the Gaza Coast, it was removed with the release of a gag order that the Navy stopped a weapons smuggling ship in the Red Sea.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt / Israeli Arabs

Report: Terrorists Targeting Arab-Israelis in Sinai

By JTA

The London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awasat newspaper reported Tuesday that armed terror cells affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Hamas and al-Qaeda, are poised to attack Israeli-Arabs as part of a plan to damage Sinai’s tourism industry. The report quotes an unnamed “Israeli defense source,” according to Ynet. “The attacks will target Israeli citizens in […]

Terrorism / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt

Terrorists Fire Missile in Sinai in Warm-Up for June 30 Protests

By Jewish Press News Desk

Jihadist terrorists fired a Grad missile in the Sinai Tuesday, causing no injuries or damage. Egyptian sources said that attack was a warm-up for Sunday when widespread violence is expected in massive demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood  government of Mohammed Morsi. His defense minister warned that the army will intervene is the protests turn violent on […]

Terrorism / News Briefs / Egypt

Egypt Fears Gaza Terrorists Planning Anti-Government Protests

By Jewish Press News Desk

Egypt has deployed helicopters to patrol the Sinai Peninsula and has declared a state of alert in the area after radical Islamic terrorists from Gaza set up a base in the central Sinai. Curfews were clamped on Sinai cities, including the Egyptian side of Rafiah and el-Arish, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency. Approximately […]

Terrorism / Israel / Syria / Hamas / Iran / News Briefs / Turkey / Palestinian Authority / Islamists / Hezbollah / Egypt

Hamas Surprised: Iran Supports a ‘Dictator Like Assad’ ?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

You find the rats when the ship sinks. The Iranian dictatorship used to love the Hamas dictatorship until Hamas opposed the Assad dictatorship. Hamas asks, “How could Ahmadinejad support a dictator?”

Terrorism / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt

Egypt Prepares for Battle in Sinai to Free Soldiers

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Muslim Brotherhood government of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is moving tanks and heavy arms towards the northern Sinai towards possible all-out battle with a gang that   kidnapped seven Egyptian security personnel four days ago. Morsi has ruled out negotiating, saying there was "no room for dialogue with the criminals.” and that his government would […]

Israel / News Briefs / Egypt

Egypt Says It Busted Israeli Spy Ring

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Egyptian authorities have smashed a suspected Israeli spy ring consisting of Egyptian and Palestinian Authority Arabs operating in the Sinai Peninsula, official state media reported Sunday. The only alleged spy who has been arrested is an Egyptian national who is said to have been the ringleader and who confessed that he handed over secret military […]

This Ongoing War

Israeli Children Returned to School, Hence the Rockets

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

The IDF's assessment, hardly surprising and certainly not for the first time, is that the attack on Eilat was made from the nearby Sinai Peninsula.

Terrorism / Israel / Middle East / Levant / Jewish / Global / Travel / News Briefs / Islamists / Religion

Israelis Warned ‘Don’t Go Back to Egypt for Passover’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Every year, a few thousand Israelis think there is nothing better to do on Passover but to celebrate the Exodus from Egypt by going back there, apparently thinking that terror is better then slavery.

This Ongoing War

Sinai Spinning out of Cairo's Grip, Creating Major Headaches for Israel

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Recently, we wrote here about the great landmass on Israel's southwestern border that "given its physical proximity to Israel, Sinai is not only an Egyptian challenge. That it gets such a small degree of media attention is a puzzle." Since then, there has been a new set of Sinai developments to absorb

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Dr. Tawfik Hamid on the Situation in Egypt

By Moshe Herman

Yishai is joined by Dr. Tawfik Hamid, an Egyptian alternative thinker to talk about the situation in Egypt and in the Sinai.

Israel / Global

IDF Intelligence Chief: 10+ Terror Attacks Blocked; Assad's Days Numbered

By Solomon Burke

In a briefing before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi said that the election of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi as President of Egypt has brought political Islam to the forefront of politics in the Arab world, but predicted that the Egyptian military would continue to serve as a strong restraint. As a result, he doubted that Egypt would be allowed to drift into Iran's orbit.

InDepth / The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Jewish Press Radio with Yishai Fleisher: Situation in Sinai

By Moshe Herman

Yishai is joined by Yaakov Katz, military correspondent for the Jerusalem Post. Together, they talk about the current situation in the Sinai and potential and creative solutions in order to bring peace and stability back to the area.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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