Power to the table
David Suissa
October 20, 2014
While we were having our meals in the sukkah this year, I kept thinking about another holiday.
Category
sinai
Palestinians, Egyptians deny reports of Sinai offer for state
Jewish Journal
September 8, 2014
Palestinian and Egyptian officials both denied reports that Egypt offered to the Palestinian Authority part of the Sinai Peninsula for annexation by Gaza to form a Palestinian state.
U.S. designates Sinai group that attacked Israel as terrorist
Jewish Journal
April 18, 2014
The Obama administration designated a Sinai-based group as terrorist in part because of its attacks on Israel.
New Israeli detention center falls flat
Jewish Journal
December 17, 2013
After three days of walking in the cold and snow, many of them on hunger strike, 150 African asylum seekers were forced onto buses and taken back to the new detention center in the Negev desert.
Yom Kippur War: 40 years later
Uri Dromi
September 11, 2013
A week before Yom Kippur 1973, I moved from Hazerim air force base to Jerusalem to study history at Hebrew University. Yet it was life, not university, which actually taught me a history lesson.
Amid violent clashes, Egypt closes border with Gaza
Jewish Journal
August 15, 2013
Egypt closed the border between Sinai and the Gaza Strip as clashes between its government security forces and protesters backing deposed President Mohamed Morsi continued for a second day.
Israel, Egypt cooperate
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2013
Did an Israeli drone cross into Egyptian airspace over the weekend and fire a rocket at gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula who were about to launch a strike on Israel? Probably. Will any Israeli or Egyptian official admit it, even off the record? Probably not.
Israel shuts airport at Egypt border, citing security
Jewish Journal
August 8, 2013
Israel took the rare step of shutting its southernmost Eilat airport near Egypt\’s Sinai peninsula for two hours on Thursday citing security concerns, military officials said.
Two soldiers killed by gunmen in North Sinai, security and medical sources say
Jewish Journal
July 25, 2013
Two Egyptian soldiers were killed and four were injured on Thursday when gunmen opened fire on a military checkpoint near the North Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid, security and medical sources told Reuters.
Israel boosts rocket defenses on Egypt border
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2013
Israel has boosted its rocket defenses near its southern border with Egypt to counter possible attacks from Islamist militants fighting security forces in Egypt\’s Sinai peninsula, Israeli officials said on Tuesday.
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