“Israel will not cooperate with such moves aimed at harming it and its security,” an Israeli official told reporters.
"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."
In total, 86 Gazan patients accompanied by 124 family members were taken to the UAE. The rest were flown to Romania.
The purpose of the platform is to empower countries to predict threats, unite against cybercrimes and shape a future where security knows no borders.
The delegation was led by Wafiq Safa, who is regarded as Hezbollah’s chief negotiator on issues of prisoner exchanges and hostages, and also included a brother-in-law of Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
Use of the route has grown exponentially in the wake of the Houthi attacks on commercial vessels.
Thanks to the Houthis attacking ships, the land-route has become very popular.
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.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
COP28 later this year will be the Israeli prime minister's first official visit to the United Arab Emirates.
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.
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)
“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.
Israel will provide Jordan with desalinated water in exchange for solar electricity produced in Jordan in a plant built by the UAE.
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.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie describes “a neighborhood with a synagogue, private homes, condominiums, hotels, shopping centers.”
This is the first full free trade agreement with an Arab country and is taking place so shortly after the establishment of diplomatic relations.
This is the first full free trade agreement with an Arab country and is taking place so shortly after the establishment of diplomatic relations.
Tension between Saudi Arabia and the US have been rising under the Biden administration.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
After repeated delays, the service will launch on June 23.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Isaac Herzog: “Sons and daughters of Abraham can reside together in peaceful coexistence.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Delek Drilling holds 22% of the Tamar and Dalit holdings.
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.
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.
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.
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 David Isaac
An agreement penned a year ago has encountered growing opposition from environmentalist groups and Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Environmental Minister Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) opposes the oil deal.
Haik will replace diplomat Eitan Na’a, who has served as interim commissioner in Abu Dhabi for the past six months.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Lapid thanked former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who “was the architect of the Abraham Accords and who worked tirelessly to bring them about. This moment is his, no less than it is ours.”
“The Gulf of Eilat is in real danger because of the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline,” says Tamar Zandberg.
By TPS / WAM
The Abrahamic Family House, the project inspired by the Document on Human Fraternity and constructed on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi and will house a mosque, church, and synagogue, will open in 2020.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Called “AJC Abu Dhabi: The Sidney Lerner Center for Arab-Jewish Understanding,” it will be led by former ambassador Marc Sievers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Another issue to be discussed: the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates as part of a larger $23 billion arms deal.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
While working as a lawyer, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein was known as a tireless advocate for people with special needs, and much of his legal work has focused on protecting the rights of people with disabilities.
The two countries agreed to promote cooperation on health issues, including a common fight against global epidemics, cybersecurity and data protection, medical education, digital health, artificial intelligence, innovation, technology integration, and personalized medicine.
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.
The flights from Abu Dhabi to Tel Aviv will be available three times per week in April, moving to daily flights in May.
By Eliana Rudee
The cooperation seeks solutions that promote sustainability by mitigating the negative environmental impacts of development.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The agreement will promote the exchange of financial intelligence between the two countries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The platform would include jamming and cyber-takeover capabilities, as well as guns, missiles, electromagnetics and lasers able to destroy a drone.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Netanyahu will meet with UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan at the airport.
By Josh Hasten
Brian Finkel reached out to Dubai-based Al Barakah Dates Factory, and without knowing he lived in Israel, it became his largest supplier. As the relationship grew, the two companies ended up forming a strategic partnership that is becoming representative of the region.
By Israel Hayom
The Abu Dhabi Investment Office hails the opening of its Tel Aviv mission as “a significant milestone on a journey to advance collaboration between our two markets in pursuit of solutions that can benefit the wider region.”
Tehran has set its sights on the UAE due to its rapprochement with Israel and efforts to hinder Iran’s nuclear program, says The New York Times.
An online investment conference was driven by the objective of assisting the Gulf state in meeting one of its central challenges, which came to light even more so amid the coronavirus pandemic.
By Israel Hayom
“One covert attack in the middle of the night, and everything would be over the next morning,” says the deputy police chief of Dubai.
By Eliana Rudee
Yaakov Berg, who owns the Psagot Winery with his wife, expresses his hope that “peace with the Emirates will change our relationship with Palestinians.”
The Democrats were opposed to the deal from the beginning.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Eitan Na’eh, the Head of Mission to the UAE is Israel’s former envoy to Turkey.
By Israel Hayom
“This is a historic day for Samaria and the entire State of Israel,” says Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
One of the main purposes of the MOU is to examine opportunities for possible collaboration, including cross-listing of securities, mutual trading between members of the stock exchanges, investor access to both markets, the establishment of fintech and other market infrastructure technologies, and the sharing of data and other information for the development of new products.
By Israel Hayom
“Who would have believed that peace would come to our home in such a glorious way? It is a Hanukkah miracle,” says Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
The sheikh has committed to investing some NIS 300 million over the next 10 years in the team.
“A vision has been set by the leaders of these countries,” said United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the United States Yousef Al Otaiba.
The signers committed to teaching what unites Jews and Arabs and will become hubs of people-to-people cooperation and partnerships.
“This was really a priority of the Trump administration since the day it began,” said U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. “It was a shocking surprise that was four years in the making, and I think the momentum will continue.”
The partnership will target the agriculture sector, offices and apartment buildings, hotels, industry, and maritime.
The Counterterrorism Bureau put out on Monday a Basic concrete threat, the third most severe level.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nobel laureate Lord David Trimble calls for the two leaders to be granted the award for their “far-reaching achievements, courageous leadership and relentless pursuit of peace.”
Abu Dhabi plans to invest $122 billion dollars in oil and natural gas over the next five years to boost production.
By Israel Hayom
“Our common goal is solidifying the peace in the region,” says TRENDS Research and Advisory head Mohammed Abdullah al-Ali.
The Fresh Market in Dubai’s Ras Al Khor area made history on Sunday when it officially welcomed the first-ever Israeli produce display at the facility run by Dubai Municipality.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli delegation is being led by Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan • Abbas adviser Nabil Shaath says the visit is “painful to witness.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are here today to normalize the normalization in reality,” says Hussein Suleiman, the leader of a delegation of Arab businessmen aboard the flight.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move comes a week after the Trump administration reports that it intends to sell 50 F-35 fighter jets to the UAE.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
UAE and Israeli citizens can visit each other’s countries visa-free, owing to the recently signed Abraham Accords.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Negotiations are expected to be completed in the next few days • “This is the type of purchase that could be the start of something amazing,” said Koen Group owner Naum Koen.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I am glad that so many Senate Democrats have now echoed that sentiment,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The EAPC-MED-RED plan, which will include other countries as well, is to avoid crossing the Suez Canal and save time for Asia buyers.
The MSC Paris made history last week when it became the first ship from the UAE to dock at Haifa’s port.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Arab's leadership in Israel is opposed to real peace.