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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

Bahrain conference

The traveling Israeli and US press is shown around the Louvre Abu Dhabi, August 31, 2020 (Courtesy Louvre Abu Dhabi)
September 1, 2020, 12:46 am
A kosher banquet and a paradigm change: UAE signals this will be a warm peace
Following our historic nonstop flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, the Emirati authorities are going out of their way to make their Israeli guests feel wanted
By Raphael Ahren
Dana Benvenisti-Gabay, center, sits across delegates from Liberia and Kuwait at an anti-terrorism conference in Morocco, March 2020. (MFA)
March 10, 2020, 6:39 am
Israel uses anti-terror conference in Morocco to rally world against Iran
While Marrakesh summit focused on al-Qaeda, Jerusalem and Gulf states made ‘joint effort’ to stress threats emanating from Hezbollah, Foreign Ministry’s Dana Benvenisti-Gabay says
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative - Moroccan police stand guard in Jemaa el-Fnaa, the central market plaza in Marrakech, Morocco, November 10, 2016. (Getty Images)
March 6, 2020, 11:32 am
In further sign of detente, Israel attends anti-terrorism conference in Morocco
Summit in Marrakech focuses on global efforts to fight al-Qaeda; follows other Warsaw Process working groups where Israeli and Arab officials joined discussions on security issues
By Raphael Ahren
Dana Benvenisti-Gabay, then-director for regional security and counter-terrorism at the Foreign Ministry, attends the opening session of the two-day Warsaw Ministerial Maritime and Aviation Security Working Group meeting in the Bahraini capital Manama, on October 21, 2019. (STR/AFP)
October 21, 2019, 4:45 pm
In rare formal visit, Israeli official attends anti-Iran conference in Bahrain
Presence of Foreign Ministry official at meeting in Manama on maritime, civil aviation security marks latest sign of warming ties between Israel and some Arab states
By ToI Staff
Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa arrives at the 'Peace to Prosperity' workshop in Manama, Bahrain, June 25, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
October 20, 2019, 12:28 am
In latest sign of thaw, Israel sending official to anti-Iran summit in Bahrain
Senior Foreign Ministry official working on regional security and counter-terrorism to make rare formal trip to Arab state for Monday meet on maritime and civil aviation security
By Raphael Ahren
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with a group of clerics, in Tehran, Iran, July 16, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
August 10, 2019, 5:33 pm
Iran leader urges Muslims to block Trump’s ‘doomed’ peace plan
Ali Khamenei says Palestine ‘one of most important issues of Muslim world,’ asserts US proposal a ‘crime against human society’
By AP and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, during the former's surprise visit to Amman on January 16, 2014. (AP/Yousef Allan/Jordanian Royal Palace/File)
August 3, 2019, 12:23 pm
Netanyahu reportedly requests meeting with Jordan’s Abdullah, is rejected
Amman said to even refuse phone call between leaders ‘in light of difficult relations’; Jordan won’t attend reported Camp David meet if it’s ‘just a photo op,’ says Arabic paper
By ToI Staff
Jordan's King Abdullah II, right, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi listen to their national anthems during a welcome ceremony for the latter at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, on March 28, 2017, ahead of talks on the eve of the Arab League summit. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
July 29, 2019, 8:10 pm
Egypt, Jordan leaders hold talks over Israeli-Palestinian peace
Meeting comes ahead of Jared Kushner’s visit to region to advance Trump’s plan, after last month’s Bahrain workshop
By AFP
Jordanian protesters wave the national and Palestinian flags during a demonstration near the Israeli Embassy in the capital Amman in solidarity with the Palestinians on October 16, 2015. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
July 28, 2019, 8:45 am
Trump’s peace plan rings alarm bells in Jordan
Analysts in Israel’s Palestinian-majority neighbor warn failure to create independent state in West Bank could ‘wipe out’ Jordanian identity
By Mussa Hattar
Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, right, gestures as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaves at the Al-Qudaibiya Palace in Manama, January 11, 2019. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool/ AP)
July 26, 2019, 9:45 am
Bahrain seeks to rebrand after long years under fire
By hosting Palestinian economy workshop and announcing security conference, analysts say Gulf kingdom trying to ‘enhance its security by making itself indispensable’
By AFP
In this June 25, 2019, photo released by Bahrain News Agency, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner talks to the audience during the opening session of the 'Peace to Prosperity' workshop in Manama, Bahrain. (Bahrain News Agency via AP)
July 5, 2019, 6:29 am
As Bahrain showed, even Trump’s Arab allies see two-state solution as essential
They didn’t heed PA’s call to boycott Kushner’s Manama economic workshop, but Mideast participants made plain the US political vision must enable some kind of Palestinian statehood
By Raphael Ahren
US President Donald Trump, left, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas shake hands during a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
July 3, 2019, 6:49 pm
Kushner hints Palestinian refugees won’t return, says Trump ‘very fond’ of Abbas
Promising a ‘pragmatic’ solution, president’s son-in-law says Jewish refugees from 1948 were looked after, but Arab states have ‘not absorbed a lot’ of Palestinian refugees
By Raphael Ahren and Agencies
US President Donald Trump (R) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
July 1, 2019, 2:57 pm
Erdogan says ‘out of question’ to support US Palestinian plan
After Trump insists Palestinians want to negotiate despite boycotting White House, Turkish leader says no way to ‘approach this issue positively’
By ToI Staff and AFP
A fire caused by an incendiary device from the Gaza Strip rages in an agricultural field in the Sha'ar Hanegev region of southern Israel on June 27, 2019. (Sha'ar Hanegev regional council)
July 1, 2019, 7:57 am
Knesset to hold recess session on funding for towns hit by ongoing Gaza violence
Opposition party Blue and White organizes debate, to discuss government’s ‘disregard for and lack of attention toward’ Israeli border community residents
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, June 30, 2019. (Oded Balilty/AP)
June 30, 2019, 3:50 pm
Netanyahu brushes off criticism of his response to Gaza violence
PM says large-scale military campaign may be necessary; Ya’alon accuses him of ‘paying protection money’ to Hamas; Liberman says cabinet members are ‘fools’
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
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