Tag: Israel

ISRAEL – Israel issues travel warning involving several Middle Eastern states (Al-Monitor)

 Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and the president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, attends the opening session...

EGYPT/ISIS/SINAI/ISRAEL – Islamic State Province in Sinai Changes its Strategy: Are Israel and the Suez Canal in the Crosshairs? (Tomer Naveh, Yoram Schweitzer, INSS)

In the past few months, Wilayat Sinai (the Sinai Province), which is the Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate in Egypt, carried out two unconventional attacks....

IRAN/ISRAEL/USA – Does the Cost of the Fakhrizadeh Assassination Outweigh the Benefits? (Shlomo Brom, Shimon Stein, INSS)

The prevailing assumption in the Israeli and international media, and among governments around the world, is that the assassination of the head of Iran’s...

IRAN/ISRAEL/USA – The Assassination of Fakhrizadeh: Considerations and Consequences (Amos Yadlin, Assaf Orion, INSS)

The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizada invites six questions: Who is responsible for the act? What was the objective? Why now? What are the consequences...

EUROPE/PALESTINE/ISRAEL – EU calls for probe into Palestinian teen’s killing by Israel (Al Jazeera)

The killing of a Palestinian teenager by the Israeli army in the illegally occupied West Bank has been termed a “war crime” and the...

BAHRAIN/ISRAEL – Bahrain says it will not allow imports from Israeli settlements (Al Jazeera)

Bahrain will not allow the import of Israeli goods produced in settlements in illegally occupied Palestinian territory, state news agency BNA reported on Saturday, disavowing...

ICC/ISRAEL/PALESTINE – The Palestinian case at the ICC is legal, not political (Raji Sourani, Al Jazeera)

It took International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda five years to conclude her preliminary examination of the situation in Palestine, which found “a...

IRAN/ISRAEL – Iranian hackers access unsecured HMI at Israeli Water Facility (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/111934/ics-scada/israeli-water-facility-breached.html

JORDAN/ISRAEL/PALESTINE – Jordan, Israel in rare meeting on Palestinian issue (Al Jazeera)

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has held a rare meeting with his Israeli counterpart to press for the restart of stalled negotiations between the...

IRAN/ISRAEL – Iran accuses West of backing Israel on scientist assassination (Barbara Bibbo, Al Jazeera)

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Israel of killing its top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh amid the silence and complicity of the...

BAHRAIN/ISRAEL/OCCUPIED WEST BANK – Bahrain open to imports from illegal Israeli settlements (Al Jazeera)

Bahrain’s imports from Israel will not be subject to distinctions between products made within Israel and those from illegal settlements in occupied territory, the...

PYRAMIDAL BUSINESS GROUPS – Using regulation to dismantle pyramidal business groups: Evidence from the US, Japan, Korea and Israel (Assaf Hamdani, Konstantin Kosenko, Yishay...

Large business entities are often perceived as valuable players in the economy and the product of bold entrepreneurship and disruptive innovation. Nevertheless, they are...

ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS – Israel releases over $1bn of withheld tax funds to Palestinians (Al Jazeera)

Israel has released more than $1bn in tax money withheld from the Palestinian Authority, a Palestinian minister said, weeks after coordination was renewed between...

ISRAEL – Israel’s Gantz to back bill to dissolve parliament, force vote (Al Jazeera)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief governing partner Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that his party will vote for an opposition bill to dissolve...

ISRAEL/IRAN – Past and present: Israel’s targeting of Iran nuclear aspirations (Thomas O Falk, Al Jazeera)

The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh sent shock waves across the Middle East. Tehran accuses Israel of being responsible for the brazen...

GREECE/ISRAEL – Greece Can Learn Valuable Lessons from Israel (George N. Tzogopoulos, BESA Center)

For years, Greek politicians approached Israel in the hope of receiving active support against Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean. While current Turkish actions in...