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Coming home: Traveling from Maine to Israel during the Iran war

A modern exodus unfolds as a rabbi navigates flights, borders, and devotion to reach Israel.

Akiva Herzfeld crosses over from taba into Israel.
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Iran’s strikes expose failure of the Gulf states, tests regional stability - opinion

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi gives a televised statement on the attack in North Sinai, in Cairo, Egypt November 24, 2017

Egyptian President Sisi to visit Washington for Trump meeting, may meet with Netanyahu - report

QATAR’S EMIR Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani meets with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Doha in April. Egypt, along with Qatar and the US, has been central to recent efforts on reaching a ceasefire and hostage release, says the writer.

Egypt activates 24/7 operations room ahead of Sharm el-Sheikh Gaza summit


Egypt's Sisi discusses nuclear plant, grains trade with Russian officials

Construction by Russia's state-owned energy corporation Rosatom of Egypt's first nuclear plant at El Dabaa is expected to take until at least 2030.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Blinken reaffirms two-state solution ahead of Israeli-Palestinian visit

Blinken heads later on Monday to Jerusalem, where he will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at Al-Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt January 30, 2023.

Egypt's Sisi congratulates Netanyahu as he pushes for Israeli-Palestinian talks

Egyptian presidency stated that Sisi "stressed the importance of achieving just and comprehensive peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Egyptian President al-Sisi in New York.

Israel to check reports of Egyptian soldiers mass grave at Sisi's request

Newspapers Yedioth Ahronoth and Haaretz published archival material and interviews with residents recounting how dozens of Egyptian soldiers killed in the Six-Day War may be buried in a mass grave.

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Egypt’s Sisi calls for national dialogue - analysis

The move is meant to embrace the many factions of thinkers, unions, intellectuals and political groups in Egypt, with the exception of the Muslim Brotherhood.

 Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi gives a statement on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination, during a European Union - African Union summit, in Brussels, Belgium February 18, 2022.

Egypt lifts state of emergency after four years

Except for relatively brief periods before the assassination of President Sadat in 1981 and following the 2011 revolution, states of emergency have been in place since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

 An Egyptian man looks on by an Egyptian military outpost at the Israel-Egypt border as seen from southern Israel September 27, 2021.

Behind the recent Egyptian-Israeli rapprochement - analysis

Egyptian President el-Sisi: "The current reality confirms President Sadat’s vision."

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on September 13, 2021.

Sullivan stresses Biden's support for two-state solution in Sisi meeting

Biden has persistently spoken of the importance of two states but has not put forward any peace process to achieve that outcome.

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR Jake Sullivan. The limited support from the current administration in Washington is a boon for the Iranian proxies in the Gaza Strip.

Voices from the Arab press: The Rome Summit and the future of Syria

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

PROTESTING THE closure of Bab al-Hawa crossing in opposition-held Idlib, Syria, June 7.

Egypt’s Sisi opens naval base near border with Libya

Naval forces performed exercises that included the firing of rockets, parachute jumps and an amphibious landing as Sisi and his guests looked on from the bridge of one of the Mistrals.

EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends a ceremony in Ismailia, Egypt, in 2019