CAIRO: New Israeli ambassador to Egypt Yaakov Amitai will arrive in Cairo next week to assume the post vacated by former ambassador Yitzhak Levanon, who left Cairo after demonstrators stormed the Israeli embassy in Giza on September 9, reported Kol (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel is looking for new allies and friends to confront the growing Islamic trend in Egypt and the Middle East. The Arab regimes which were overthrown had good ties with Israel, according to senior official in the Israeli (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli Army Chief of Staff Benny Jants ordered to increase the Israeli spy planes to fly over the Egyptian border. The planes also include unmanned aircraft, according to Yediot Aharanot newspaper.
The Israeli army leadership near the (...)
CAIRO: Cairo is coordinating the release of Israeli Bedouin Ouda Tarabin, who has been imprisoned in Egypt for 11 years, with the Israeli government, said Israel's KOL.
The newspaper also said the second part of the Palestinian-Israeli prisoner (...)
CAIRO: Egypt plays an important role in preventing an Israeli war on the Gaza Strip if jihadist missiles continue to strike Israeli towns, said Israel Amos Gilad, the director of policy and political-military affairs at the Israeli Ministry of (...)
JERUSALEM: The execution of the swap arrangement between Egypt and Israel wherein alleged spy Ilan Grapel will be exchanged for 25 Egyptian prisoners will take place Thursday at dawn near the Taba crossing in Sinai, Kol Israel reported.
The swap (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's state TV broadcaster Shahira Amin defended state TV interview with Israeli soldiers Gilad Shalit after his release in swap with 1,000 Palestinian prisoners through Egyptian mediation.
Amin said the interview desired by Shalit after (...)
CAIRO: An Israeli extremist religious movement staged a protest outside the Egyptian consulate in Eilat, near the Egypt-Israeli border. The protesters called to bring down the Egyptian flag in response to the incidents at the Israeli Embassy in (...)