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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Israel-Abu Dhabi relations

FILE - People wait in line at a COVID-19 testing site near the New York University campus, Dec. 16, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
July 10, 2024, 4:51 pm
Report: UAE deported student who shouted ‘Free Palestine’ at NYU Abu Dhabi graduation
Students, activists pan university for allowing censorship; Arab monarchy does not permit protests, has clamped down on speech about Gaza war
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
January 23, 2023, 8:24 pm
Dermer makes secret trip to UAE to nail down Netanyahu visit
Strategic affairs minister reportedly tries to allay concerns over far-right’s role in new government, particularly after diplomatic storm sparked by Ben Gvir’s Temple Mount visit
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Abu Dhabi International Airport in 2022. (CC BY-SA Moleoz/Wikipedia)
December 22, 2022, 7:26 pm
Israeli arrested in Abu Dhabi for unruly behavior given large fine and expelled
Nachman Gabai, who suffers from PTSD, required to pay $16,000 fine after clash with police outside city’s international airport
By Ash Obel
A view of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
June 8, 2021, 12:53 pm
American Jewish Committee opens UAE office, its first in an Arab nation
Foreign minister says Abu Dhabi is ‘thrilled to have you,’ urging ‘trying to look forward rather than looking backward’; vows to fight extremism and incitement
By Amy Spiro
Screen shot from a video call between Mohamed Khalifa Al-Mubarak, chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi, and Israel's Foreign Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz, September 17, 2020. (Screen capture)
September 17, 2020, 11:27 pm
Top Israeli, UAE officials say new ties will make countries ‘close family’
Israelis should ‘feel at home, feel accepted’ in Abu Dhabi, says head of emirate’s Department of Culture and Tourism in video call with Israeli FM chief Alon Ushpiz
By ToI Staff
Kosher food, prepared by Baker and Spice, that was served to a delegation of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations visiting Abu Dhabi in February 2018. It was certified as kosher by the South African UOS (courtesy)
September 9, 2020, 2:48 pm
Gefilte in the Gulf? Abu Dhabi tells all its hotels to offer kosher food
Anticipating influx of Jewish tourists, city instructs its many hotels to offer kosher items on all menus and bars, ‘designate an area in all kitchens for Kosher food preparation’
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli reporters at the historic watchtower in Abu Dhabi, September 1, 2020 (Matty Stern/US Embassy)
September 1, 2020, 8:26 pm
The (surreal) new normal: Israeli journalists go sightseeing in Abu Dhabi
While the officials discussed the formalizing of ties, we toured the capital and then flew home over Saudi Arabia — routine occurrences that just never happened to Israelis before
By Raphael Ahren
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
Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, head of the military council, waves to his supporters upon arriving to attend a military-backed rally, in Omdurman district, west of Khartoum, Sudan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
August 18, 2020, 7:26 pm
Sudan and Israel say talks underway for deal to normalize ties
‘No reason for enmity to continue,’ says Khartoum official, predicting pact could be clinched by end of year; Netanyahu says Israel will do everything to make agreement happen
By Aaron Boxerman and Marissa Newman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, walks through the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on April 8, 2019, a day ahead of Israel's parliamentary elections. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
August 14, 2020, 9:18 am
Could the UAE deal save Netanyahu from a disillusioned Israeli right?
If it polls well, normalization agreement may push polarizing prime minister onto a new political trajectory: pivoting to the center to make up for lost votes from his base
By Haviv Rettig Gur
UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, center, with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh after the opening session of the Arab Summit in Riyadh, March 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Awad Awad, Pool)
May 10, 2020, 6:16 pm
Emirati foreign minister condemns Israel’s annexation plans
Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan joins chorus of states warning Israel against applying sovereignty over large parts of West Bank, dismisses claims Gulf states would accept the move
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: A Moroccan Jewish man looks out his window at the street below from his house in the 'Mellah' Jewish quarter of the Medina in Marrakesh, on October 13, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA)
April 16, 2020, 1:02 pm
Report: Morocco blocks joint UAE-Israel effort to repatriate stranded citizens
In a peculiar diplomatic tussle, Rabat and Abu Dhabi said to argue over flight to bring home Israeli and and Emirati tourists stuck in Casablanca and Marrakesh
By Raphael Ahren
Israel's national anthem is played after 17-year-old Alon Leviev took gold in the junior category at the Ju-jitsu World Championship in Abu Dhabi (Screen grab)
November 17, 2019, 11:08 am
‘Hatikvah’ played in Abu Dhabi as Israeli takes gold in ju-jitsu tournament
Alon Leviev takes top spot on the podium and receives medal at UAE competition underneath Israeli flag; Arab nation reversed its ban on Israeli symbols last year
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Israel Katz at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, during a UN climate conference in the city, in late June, 2019. (Courtesy Katz's office)
July 1, 2019, 7:45 pm
Foreign minister visits Abu Dhabi, discusses Iran with UAE official
Visitng Gulf state for UN environmental confab, Israel Katz urges closer economic ties between Israel and UAE, discusses regional security
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman on October 26, 2018 (Courtesy)
April 19, 2019, 12:37 pm
Netanyahu in Passover message: Israel now admired by ‘the Arab and Muslim world’
In video marking festival of freedom, prime minister says he’s ‘persistently and systematically turning Israel into a rising global power’
By ToI Staff
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