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01/30/2021
A Moroccan delegation is expected to visit Israel by the end of February, and an Israeli one to visit the North-African kingdom – as long as COVID-19 infections rates in Israel do not rise.
The decision was reached during a Friday conversation between National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser…
01/29/2021
‘Recognition by Israel is one of the greatest achievements for Kosovo,’ FM Haradinaj-Stublla says
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla announced Friday an official ceremony to cement the country’s diplomatic relations with Israelwill be held on February 1, news agency Associated Press (AP) reported.
The ceremony…
01/29/2021
An explosion occurred near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India, Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday.
“Initial impressions suggest a mischievous attempt to create a sensation,” the statement said.
There were no casualties and no damage was caused to the embassy building, the ministry said. The explosion damaged the…
01/28/2021
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of an Islamist convicted of beheading US journalist Daniel Pearl, a decision that has left his family in “complete shock,” lawyers said.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was the main suspect in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl, was released by…
01/27/2021
Israel and Sudan will finalize a diplomatic deal to normalize relations at a signing ceremony in Washington in the next three months, Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said on Wednesday.
There was no immediate comment from Sudanese officials or from the US embassy in Israel.
Sudan’s civilian government has said the deal…
01/28/2021
Commander of CENTCOM, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, was scheduled to arrive in Israel on Thursday for talks with IDF top brass about Iran and other regional challenges.
McKenzie’s arrival – he is scheduled to spend one day in Israel – is the first high-level visit by a top American official since Joe Biden was sworn in as president last…
01/27/2021
Israel’s mission is to ensure the Jewish people will never be defenseless against those who seek to destroy it, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“We remember this darkest chapter in human history, when a European country decided to adopt a policy and a program to…
01/24/2021
Israeli and United Arab Emirates (UAE) ministers agreed Sunday to initiate a student exchange program, according to a press release from Israel’s Education Ministry.
The student exchange program comes following a normalization agreement between the two countries, leading to cooperation in a wide variety of areas of mutual…
01/26/2021
The Israeli Liaison Office in Morocco reopened on Tuesday when former ambassador to Egypt David Govrin arrived in Rabat. It had been closed for 20 years.
The Israeli Consulate in Dubai also opened, two days after the Israeli Embassy in the United Arab Emirates opened in Abu Dhabi, the capital.
“The arrival of the heads of…
01/26/2021
Chiune Sugihara, known affectionately as the “Japanese Schindler,” was honored at a digital ceremony on Monday ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The reception, sponsored by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) and B’nai B’rith International, focused on the efforts of Sugihara, who defied his own government’s…
01/26/2021
A lone IDF soldier from London thwarted a stabbing attack against soldiers guarding the Gitit Avishar junction near the West Bank settlement of Ariel on Tuesday, killing the Palestinian perpetrator.
Private Lian Harush from the Home Front Command’s Search and Rescue Unit currently on routine security activity in the West Bank,…
01/26/2021
Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen was the first Israeli minister to ever visit Sudan, which he did on Monday.
Cohen and Sudanese Defense Minister Yassin Ibrahim Yassin signed a memorandum of understanding on “diplomatic, security and economic matters,” Cohen’s spokesman said. The Israeli minister also met with Sudanese transitional…
01/24/2021
Israel officially opened its embassy to the United Arab Emirates in the United Arab Emirates Sunday, as Ambassador Eitan Na’eh arrived in Abu Dhabi.
The development came on the same day that the UAE approved the opening of its embassy in Tel Aviv.
“The embassy will work to advance Israel’s interests and will be at the disposal…
01/24/2021
The cabinet approved Israel’s normalization agreement with Morocco in a unanimous vote on Sunday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the agreement “a historic moment after four peace agreements with four Muslim and Arab states in four months” and praised King Mohammed VI.
Netanyahu also congratulated US President Joe…
01/24/2021
Move follows Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi’s historic normalization deal signed on September 15 last year
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) ratified Sunday the establishment of an embassy in Tel Aviv, the government announced on its Twitter account.
“The Council of Ministers approves the restructuring of the Board of Directors of the…
01/23/2021
Sudan is expected to discuss cancelling the law that forbids establishing relations with Israel, according to a claim made on Saturday by a source in the country’s Justice Ministry. The report was first published by “Makan” Kan News’ Arabic news source.
The boycott law in Sudan has been in effect since 1958, and outlaws business…
01/21/2021
Reversing plans to build one central museum at the site of the Holocaust’s largest open-air massacre, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC) announced plans on January 21 to construct 12 buildings across 370-acres of the filled-in Kyiv ravine where over 100,000 people were slaughtered during World War II.
On September 29…
01/22/2021
UAV was monitored throughout entire incident, army says
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) downed a drone crossing into the Israeli airspace from Lebanon, the army said on Friday.
The unmanned aerial vehicle had been monitored throughout the entire incident.
“The IDF will continue to operate in order to prevent any attempt to…