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Topic: Sinai

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April 4, 2013
5:23 pm

An Iranian cargo ship. (illustrative photo: CC BY-SA, sludgegulper, Flickr)

Egyptian forces capture arms ship off Sinai

Vessel reportedly Iranian, carrying arms to Sinai-based terrorist elements; Israeli vessel carrying weapons for an African security company also detained

March 27, 2013
9:14 pm

Amir Omar Hassan, who was kidnapped by Bedouins in the Sinai, recounts his story to Channel 2 News upon his return to Israel, Wednesday, March 27. (image capture: Channel 2)

Kidnapped Israeli: Sinai abductors threatened to kill me

Amir Omar Hassan tells Channel 2 he wasn’t warned that travel to the peninsula was dangerous

By Times of Israel staff

March 24, 2013
6:38 pm

A TV reporter holds up one of the yellow locusts that landed in southern Israel on Sunday (photo credit: image capture from Channel 2)

Fertile locusts swarm into Israel on Passover eve

Arriving with Biblically resonant timing, latest arrivals are ready to reproduce

By Aaron Kalman

March 22, 2013
11:58 pm

Amir Omar Hassan (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Egyptian official: Kidnapped Israeli will soon be released

Bedouin say they are holding Amir Omar Hassan hostage until the Egyptian government releases two men currently imprisoned in Cairo

By Times of Israel staff

March 22, 2013
1:18 pm

Israelis vacation at a Sinai beach resort in 2006 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israeli tourist kidnapped in Sinai contacts family

Arab Israeli says he was nabbed with two girlfriends by Bedouin in Sinai; Arab MK says attackers did not specifically target Israelis

By Times of Israel staff

March 13, 2013
9:12 am

Airplanes spray pesticides on the fields of Ramat Hanegev on Monday, March 11 (photo credit: Flash90)

New swarm of locusts plagues southern Israel

Agriculture Ministry takes preemptive action, fears warm weather may see millions more pests cross the border from Egypt

By Times of Israel staff

March 10, 2013
2:47 pm

Agriculture Ministry workers armed with pesticides have distributed both aerial and ground sprays in areas where millions of locusts descended upon southern Israel, beginning March 6 2013.

Morsi, let us spray

Negev Regional Council asks Egyptian president to let Israeli aircraft fly over Sinai to release locust pesticides

By Times of Israel staff

March 4, 2013
12:58 pm

Israeli soldiers unpack rockets seized by Israeli authorities on a ship near Cyprus, and presented in the port of the Israeli city of Ashdod, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

‘Hamas rejects rockets tagged with tracking devices’

Israel accessed and tagged the weapons somewhere between Libya and Gaza, Egyptian daily reports

By Elhanan Miller

February 27, 2013
4:57 pm

The Sinai Peninsula (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Gaza-bound Libyan missiles intercepted

Egyptian authorities confiscate two pickup trucks with some 60 pieces of antitank weaponry headed for Sinai

By AP and Times of Israel staff

February 27, 2013
10:22 am

A Gaza smuggling tunnel. (Illustrative photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Egyptian court orders Gaza tunnels destroyed

Porous border a threat to Egypt’s security and destabilizes the Sinai Peninsula, security official says

By Gabe Fisher

February 17, 2013
11:32 pm

A Palestinian works inside a smuggling tunnel connecting the Gaza Strip and Egypt, November 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Israeli officials visit Cairo as Egypt steps up anti-tunnel efforts

Egyptian army says it uncovered hundreds of smuggling tunnels between Sinai and Gaza

By Aaron Kalman

February 15, 2013
1:28 pm

An Egyptian security outpost in the northern Sinai Peninsula, near the Israeli border (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Egypt foils smuggling attempt of 2 tons of explosives, weapons

In separate incident, undercover Israeli border guards seize 250 kg of hashish heading from Sinai to Israel

By Michal Shmulovich

February 15, 2013
12:22 pm

Orel Ben Ari, left, the head of the Tel Aviv Refugee Clinic (the Public Clinic), pictured with a young Eritrean man who had fled to Israel after sustaining several physical and emotional traumas in Egypt, including the loss of his hand, before being granted asylum in Europe. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Volunteer medical clinic for migrants gets big boost from government

State funding expands an idealist’s healthcare project that is partly humanitarian, promises to stem overcrowding in hospitals, can help Israel’s image, and will probably save money

By Michal Shmulovich

February 7, 2013
6:54 pm

Egyptian soldiers ride an armored personnel carrier (APC) along the border with Israel. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Egypt ‘thwarts five attempts to smuggle weapons to Gaza’

Cairo security source claims authorities working hard to police Egypt-Gaza border

By Philip Podolsky

January 27, 2013
11:33 am

Andre Pshenichnikov (photo credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)

Israeli held in Egypt released, then rearrested

A day after a court decides to let Andre Pshenichnikov out of jail, local public prosecutor orders a retrial

By Stuart Winer

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Sinai

Egyptian forces capture arms ship off Sinai

Vessel reportedly Iranian, carrying arms to Sinai-based terrorist elements; Israeli vessel carrying weapons for an African security company also detained

Kidnapped Israeli: Sinai abductors threatened to kill me

Amir Omar Hassan tells Channel 2 he wasn’t warned that travel to the peninsula was dangerous

Fertile locusts swarm into Israel on Passover eve

Arriving with Biblically resonant timing, latest arrivals are ready to reproduce

Egyptian official: Kidnapped Israeli will soon be released

Bedouin say they are holding Amir Omar Hassan hostage until the Egyptian government releases two men currently imprisoned in Cairo

Israeli tourist kidnapped in Sinai contacts family

Arab Israeli says he was nabbed with two girlfriends by Bedouin in Sinai; Arab MK says attackers did not specifically target Israelis

New swarm of locusts plagues southern Israel

Agriculture Ministry takes preemptive action, fears warm weather may see millions more pests cross the border from Egypt

Morsi, let us spray

Negev Regional Council asks Egyptian president to let Israeli aircraft fly over Sinai to release locust pesticides

‘Hamas rejects rockets tagged with tracking devices’

Israel accessed and tagged the weapons somewhere between Libya and Gaza, Egyptian daily reports

Gaza-bound Libyan missiles intercepted

Egyptian authorities confiscate two pickup trucks with some 60 pieces of antitank weaponry headed for Sinai

Egyptian court orders Gaza tunnels destroyed

Porous border a threat to Egypt’s security and destabilizes the Sinai Peninsula, security official says

Israeli officials visit Cairo as Egypt steps up anti-tunnel efforts

Egyptian army says it uncovered hundreds of smuggling tunnels between Sinai and Gaza

Egypt foils smuggling attempt of 2 tons of explosives, weapons

In separate incident, undercover Israeli border guards seize 250 kg of hashish heading from Sinai to Israel

Volunteer medical clinic for migrants gets big boost from government

State funding expands an idealist’s healthcare project that is partly humanitarian, promises to stem overcrowding in hospitals, can help Israel’s image, and will probably save money

Egypt ‘thwarts five attempts to smuggle weapons to Gaza’

Cairo security source claims authorities working hard to police Egypt-Gaza border

Israeli held in Egypt released, then rearrested

A day after a court decides to let Andre Pshenichnikov out of jail, local public prosecutor orders a retrial

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