Saudi israeli relations

Could Iran's Khamenei feel threatened enough to strike Israel? - analysis

Between domestic dysfunction and Middle East geopolitics, could the Islamic Republic use Israel to rally the nation?

|ByALEX WINSTON
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears among his supporters for the first time since the Iran-Israel war, in Tehran, Iran. June 26, 2025.
A VOTER casts his ballot at a polling station in Kafr Manda, in the Knesset election in March 2021. The Saudis are interested in seeing a new government formed in Israel, even if it still includes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says the writer.

Israel’s road to peace with Saudi Arabia: A deal is imminent, but only after elections - opinion

The peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is more or less written, and the only remaining question is timing. 

|ByELAD ISRAELI
SAUDI FOREIGN Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud addresses the UN General Assembly in New York last month.

Trump 'understands very well' risks of West Bank annexation by Israel, Saudi says

Trump met leaders and officials from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan on Tuesday to discuss the nearly two-year-long war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

|ByREUTERS
The United States’ comments that an expansion of the Abraham Accords is near has led to whispers Saudi Arabia could be next to sign an agreement with Israel.

Could Saudi Arabia be next piece of Abraham Accords puzzle? - analysis

Trump’s senior adviser and Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, said: “Very soon, we expect to hear many announcements related to the expansion of the Abraham Accords.”

|ByALEX WINSTON

Past and present Israeli presidents eulogize Saudi King Abdullah

Eulogies for King Abdullah ibn Abdilazīz praise him for contributing to Middle East stability and the peace process.

JANUARY 23, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud speaks before a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry (not pictured) at his private residence in the Red Sea city of Jeddah

Saudi Arabia postpones public flogging of blogger

Raif Badawi was subjected to the first 50 lashes a week ago and was due to be flogged again after Friday prayers.

JANUARY 16, 2015ByREUTERS
A Saudi man explores the Web on his laptop, in Riyadh in February.

Saudi king needed help breathing due to lung infection, condition stable

Saudi Arabia's elderly monarch was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for medical tests, state media said.

JANUARY 2, 2015ByREUTERS
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud speaks before a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry (not pictured) at his private residence in the Red Sea city of Jeddah