JERUSALEM: The investment committee of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism allocated5.6 million EGP (U.S. $936,232) to establish 43 projects in the Negev Desert, Mount Carmel, Haifa, and Jerusalem aiming to increase tourism.
The project aims to (...)
JERUSALEM: The Israeli government is warning its citizens of approaching the Egyptian—Israeli border in the Israeli Red Sea town of Eilat, reported Yedioth Aharanot.
The Israeli Ministry of Education canceled all school trips to Eilat after the (...)
JERUSALEM: The Israeli government is worried over Islamist trends winning in the first phase of the parliamentary elections in Egypt.
The situations in Egypt and the Arab Region is a real threat against Israeli security, especially after the (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli Knesset member for Kadima Party and former Deputy Director of Shin Bet, Yisrael Hasson, visited Egypt last week to meet with Egyptian officials on the case of releasing Israeli Bedouin Ouda Tarabin, who is accused of spying on (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli ambassador to Egypt Yitzhak Levanon expects Cairo to cut diplomatic ties with Israel in light of the Muslim Brotherhood's sweeping mandate from the recent elections, reported Israeli newspaper Maariv.
“Israel has good ties with (...)
JERUSALEM: The Israeli defense budget should not be cut because Israel will enter a war with Egypt in the future if the Muslim Brotherhood gains control of Egypt, according to former Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer.
He said war between (...)
CAIRO: An Israeli official slammed Egyptian presidential candidate and former Secretary-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed el-Baradei, describing him as Iranian agent during his time at the agency, the Israeli daily (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel is politically and militarily preparing to wage a war on Iran to paralyze Iranian nuclear factors as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Minister of Defense Ehud Barak seek to get approval from the majority of the (...)
JERUSALEM: Egypt and Israel are planning another prisoner swap. Israeli spy Ouda Tarabin, who was detained 11 years ago for spying for Israel in Egypt, will be released in exchange for 60 Egyptian prisoners, according to Tarabin's lawyer, Yitzhak (...)
CAIRO: Israeli sources of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office claimed Cairo and Tel-Aviv are consulting to release Israeli Spy Ouda Trabin for number of Egyptian prisoners in Israel. After the success of the swap deal of releasing the (...)
In exchange for Israeli-American Ilan Grapel, Egypt asked for F16 fighter jets from the United States in addition to the release of Egyptian prisoners in Israel, according to Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
The United States rejected such (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli newspaper Maariv today revealed the details of the arrest of an Israeli army major for smuggling drugs to Israel across Egyptian borders.
The police also arrested another Israeli border officer.
The major leads a gang of (...)
JERUSALEM: The Israeli government agreed of the Egyptian Authority's request to deploy additional military squads along the Egyptian-Israeli border, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronot.
The Egyptian request aims to stop and prevent (...)
CAIRO: Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's ruling military council, is incapable of ruling, according to an Israeli website.
The website, "Walla," published a report today covering the 10-month-old revolution that toppled Egyptian (...)
CAIRO: Israel will release 25 Egyptian prisoners in exchange of one Israeli spy, Illan Grabil. The U.S. will release a number of Egyptian prisoners in exchange of releasing the Israeli spy after four months of being imprisoned over spying for (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli Electricity Company will sue Egypt for ceasing natural gas exports to Tel Aviv for more than 200 days in 2011, reported the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The company will sue the East Mediterranean Gas Company 's (EMG) asking for (...)
CAIRO: The Israeli Army is on high alert after intelligence bodies suggested that militants from Hamas and other factions in the Gaza Strip might attempt to launch attacks on southern Israeli towns from the Sinai Peninsula, reported Israeli (...)