Gov’t warns Israelis not to vacation in Sinai

The Counterterrorism Bureau in the Prime Minister’s Office publishes its latest terror threat map for Israeli travelers ahead of the holiday season that begins next month with the new Jewish calendar year.

The report is mostly unchanged from previous years, with warnings of various severity for 41 countries.

The bureau has a special warning against Israelis visiting resorts frequented by them in the past in the Sinai Peninsula, citing rising violence between the Egyptian military and an Islamic State-affiliated jihadist group with close ties to Hamas.

The nuclear deal with Iran has not lowered the motivation of Iranian forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah to carry out terror attacks against Jews and Israelis around the world, the report says. It also warns Israelis not to venture to Islamist terror-struck areas in Kenya and eastern Africa, Thailand and elsewhere.