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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Hazem Khairat

Ghassan Majali, Jordan's newly appointed ambassador to Israel. (Screen capture/YouTube)
August 22, 2018, 8:30 pm
Jordan submits candidate for next ambassador to Israel to fill vacant post
Amman waiting for Jerusalem’s approval to appoint diplomat Ghassan Majali to serve as next envoy, has yet to receive a response, source says
By Adam Rasgon
Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat speaking at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 22, 2017 (Mark Neiman)
November 22, 2017, 2:57 pm
Egyptian envoy: Peace with Israel only ‘partial’ without Palestinian state
At President’s Residence, Hazem Khairat calls on Jerusalem to support Hamas-Fatah reconciliation, accept Arab Peace Initiative
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a Knesset plenary session marking 40 years since the visit of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to Israel's parliament. November 21, 2017 (Yitzhak Harari/Knesset spokesperson's office)
November 21, 2017, 6:18 pm
40 years after historic visit, PM says he’s yet to meet ‘the Palestinian Sadat’
Hitting back, opposition leader Isaac Herzog says country lacks ‘the Israeli Begin’ who could bring home a peace deal
By Marissa Newman
Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat (L) meets with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein in the Knesset on November 21, 2017 (Knesset spokesperson's office)
November 21, 2017, 1:26 pm
In Knesset, Egypt’s envoy urges Israel to seize ‘real opportunity’ for peace
Marking 40 years since Anwar Sadat’s historic visit to parliament, Hazen Khairat says Jerusalem could ‘open a new page with its Arab neighbors’
By Marissa Newman and Dov Lieber
Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat addressing the Herzliya Conference, June 17, 2016 (screen shot)
November 9, 2017, 3:48 pm
Egyptian envoy hails peace with Israel as top officials snub memorial invite
Ambassador Hazem Khairat declares 1979 accord should serve as blueprint for wider Israeli-Arab peace, says ‘genuine and lasting’ peace still needed
By Tamar Pileggi
An Egyptian security control tower near the Egypt-Gaza border at Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 13, 2014. (Photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
October 1, 2017, 5:44 pm
As Palestinian Authority moves into Gaza, Egypt intel generals visit enclave
Cairo spymaster Khaled Fawzi also reportedly to join trip timed to coincide with Monday’s arrival of PA prime minister in Strip
By Dov Lieber
Minister of Education Naftali Bennett speaks at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference, held at Waldorf Astoria hotel in Jerusalem. November 23, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 23, 2016, 6:49 pm
After meeting Trump team, Bennett sees opportunity to change two-state paradigm
At Jerusalem Post conference, cabinet ministers spar over how to approach incoming White House; US envoy speaks of urgency to ‘arrest the slide toward a binational reality’
By Raphael Ahren
Israel's ambassador to Egypt, Haim Koren, presents his credentials to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Ssisi in Cairo, September 14, 2014 (photo credit: courtesy)
July 5, 2016, 2:10 am
Odd couple Israel and Egypt enjoying ‘best times ever’
Though the Jewish state remains deeply unpopular on Arab street, Israeli envoy says Cairo, Jerusalem see ‘eye-to-eye’ on region
By Brian Rohan
This undated photo released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry shows a part of sarcophagus cover in Israel. Israel's Antiquities Authority says the colorful sarcophagus covers date back as early as the 16th and 10th centuries BCE. (Israeli Foreign Ministry via AP)
June 22, 2016, 2:36 am
Plundered sarcophagi arrive in Egypt via Israel
Stolen covers smuggled into Israel set to go on display at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum
By Ilan Ben Zion and AP
France's Middle East envoy Pierre Vimont meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on March 15, 2016, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
June 16, 2016, 6:29 pm
French envoy in Egypt to push Paris peace initiative
Pierre Vimont, FM Sameh Shoukry discuss international parley aimed at reviving Palestinian-Israeli talks
By AFP and Raphael Ahren
Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat addressing the Herzliya Conference, June 17, 2016 (screen shot)
June 16, 2016, 2:50 pm
Egypt ready to pressure Palestinians on peace process, envoy says
In first public remarks, Ambassador Hazem Khairat also warns ‘continuation of occupation’ causes terror; calls for closing Israel’s nuclear facilities
By Raphael Ahren
This undated photo released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry shows a part of sarcophagus cover in Israel. Israel's Antiquities Authority says the colorful sarcophagus covers date back as early as the 16th and 10th centuries BCE. (Israeli Foreign Ministry via AP)
May 22, 2016, 11:23 pm
Israel returns looted ancient relics to Egypt
In mark of warming ties, Foreign Ministry gives back two rare sarcophagus lids, plundered after 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ revolution
By Ilan Ben Zion and Elie Leshem
A wooden Egyptian sarcophagus, confiscated by the Israel Antiquities Authority in 2012, that was set to be returned to Egypt on May 22, 2016 (Courtesy: Israel Antiquities Authority)
May 18, 2016, 10:25 pm
After 4 years, rare sarcophagi smuggled into Israel to be returned to Egypt
Antiquities Authority held stolen artifacts during deep freeze in bilateral ties, plans handover now new ambassador instated in Tel Aviv
By Ilan Ben Zion
Egyptian television host and parliament member Tawfiq Okasha (YouTube screen capture)
March 8, 2016, 10:32 pm
Egyptian MP suspended for hurling shoe at colleague who met Israel envoy
Move comes after lawmaker Tawfik Okasha was permanently banned for inviting ambassador Haim Koren to his home for dinner
By Raoul Wootliff
Egypt's ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, February 29, 2016. (Prime Ministers Office)
February 29, 2016, 6:01 pm
Netanyahu hosts new Egypt envoy: ‘Welcome to Israel, Mr. Ambassador!’
Meeting with Hazem Khairat, Cairo’s first emissary since 2012, comes day after Egyptian MP is lambasted for contact with Israeli diplomat
By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren
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