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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 537

Israel-Arab ties

Inset from 'Chaim Weizmann: A Biography,' published in May 2024. (courtesy)
November 27, 2024, 8:10 am
Israel’s 1st president disdained European Jews, ‘but he was ready to die for them’
Two historians co-author intimate portrait of fallible leader, born exactly 150 years ago, with new details on Chaim Weizmann’s struggles after losing his RAF pilot son in WWII
By Matt Lebovic
Author Michael Horowitz's new book is 'Hope and Despair.' (Courtesy)
October 11, 2024, 4:43 pm
A Middle East expert envisioned two paths for Israel. Then October 7 happened
French-Israeli geopolitical scholar Michael Horowitz had nearly finished his book, ‘Hope and Despair,’ when Hamas massacred 1,200 people in Israel. He’s still cautiously optimistic
By Rich Tenorio
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (center) meets with IAF head Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar (left) and IAF chief of staff Brig. Gen. Omer Tischler (right) at the IAF's underground command room in Tel Aviv, August 5, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)
August 5, 2024, 7:44 pm
At command center, Gallant says IAF preparing for ‘quick transition to offense’
IDF Northern Command chief assures mayors and local council heads plans for offensive ready, ahead of anticipated reprisal by Iran and Hezbollah for assassinations
By Emanuel Fabian, Gianluca Pacchiani, ToI Staff and Agencies
This picture taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip shows destroyed buildings in the enclave on May 15, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
May 16, 2024, 2:36 am
Egypt, UAE, Morocco said weighing US plan to create post-war Gaza peacekeeping force
But report says the 3 countries first want US to recognize a Palestinian state; other Arab nations have rejected proposal, amid lack of clarity over ‘what day after will be like’
By ToI Staff
The Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in 2018. (US Air Force/Alexander W. Riedel)
April 16, 2024, 6:32 pm
With attack, Iran breathes life into nascent US-led alliance from Qatar to Israel
Israeli official calls joint air defense operation run out of war room near Doha a real breakthrough, marking first time coalition has actively banded together against Tehran
By Amir Bar Shalom
File: Yemeni Jewish Rabbi Yahia Yussef Mussa (C), sporting a chequered Keffiya, poses for a picture with unidentified young relatives outside his apartment in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on January 18, 2010. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)
March 8, 2024, 9:54 am
How an Arab country helped Israel rescue Yemen’s last Jews, and settle them in Cairo
In 2021, nearly 100 Yemenite Jews were evacuated from a secure compound in Sana’a amid civil war. But one of them, Salem Levi Marhabi, was forced to stay; he is still held in a Houthi prison
By Shalom Yerushalmi
File: Israeli soldiers seen at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, November 30, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 2, 2023, 7:23 pm
Israel said to tell neighbors and US of plans to create Gaza buffer zone after war
Idea said aimed at preventing future terror attacks after October 7 onslaught; Washington has insisted Gaza territory cannot be reduced
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
From left to right: Syria's President Bashar Assad, Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as they follow Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Front R) and Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi (Back R) during an emergency summit of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Riyadh, November 11, 2023. (Handout / Iranian Presidency / AFP)
November 11, 2023, 6:04 pm
Muslim leaders blast Israeli ‘crimes’; Iran: Solution is Palestine from river to sea
But outcome of summit also highlights regional divisions over response to war, with some nations vetoing a far harsher stance including a call to sever all Israel ties
By ToI Staff and AFP
Palestinians holds posters asking for the boycotting of Israeli products during a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron on October 28, 2023. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
November 6, 2023, 2:54 pm
‘Did you kill a Palestinian?’: War sparks anti-West boycott across Arab world
People angered by support for Israel’s offensive against Hamas shun McDonald’s, KFC, Coca-Cola and more; apps identify banned products, billboards promote boycott
By AFP and ToI Staff
Seen on a large screen, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is greeted by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) prior to the start of the International 'Summit for Peace,' in the New Administrative Capital (NAC), east of Cairo, on October 21, 2023. (Khaled DESOUKI/ AFP)
October 22, 2023, 11:49 pm
‘Dialogue of the deaf’: Failed Cairo summit exposes deep rift between Arabs and West
Saturday’s meeting on ongoing Israel-Hamas war ended without a final statement, with Western states refusing to slam Israel and Arab states unwilling to blame Hamas for violence
By AFP and ToI Staff
Smoke billows from an Israeli helicopter strike during an army raid in Jenin in the West Bank on June 19, 2023. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
June 21, 2023, 11:10 am
‘Everyone will pay the price’: Arab nations, EU and UN pan deadly Jenin raid
Israel’s neighbors, international bodies blast Israel over operation, urge cessation of incursions into West Bank cities after 7 Palestinians killed, 8 soldiers wounded in clashes
By Michael Horovitz
The Atlantic Council's N7 Initiative senior director Will Wechsler addresses a gathering of the program in Abu Dhabi on March 14, 2023. (Courtesy)
March 21, 2023, 8:44 pm
As Israel-Arab ties chill, one regional cooperation confab avoids chopping block
Experts, private sector executives from Israel, West Bank and nearly a dozen Muslim countries meet in Abu Dhabi to discuss joint ventures in field of food and water security
By Jacob Magid
President Isaac Herzog addresses the assembly during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, on May 25, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
May 25, 2022, 8:16 pm
At Davos, Herzog issues sweeping call for ‘renewable Middle East’
President outlines plan for Middle East to become a ‘global hub of sustainable solutions in food, water and health,’ paving the way for Israel to broker ties with more Arab nations
By Amy Spiro
Sahrawi children from Western Sahara sit in their classroom in the Smara refugee camp near Tindouf, south-western Algeria, March 4, 2016. (AP/ Toukik Doudou).
December 16, 2020, 10:47 pm
In struggles for West Sahara and West Bank, thorny parallels may loom for Israel
Both places are claimed by one people and occupied by another. Could new US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over one of the territories have impact on the status of the second?
By Raphael Ahren
The Foreign Ministry honors Israeli diplomats who secretly served in Arab Gulf states, December 2020 (courtesy MFA)
December 15, 2020, 6:41 am
After years undercover, diplomats who built Gulf ties inch out of the shadows
Serving under false identities in Arab states to promote bilateral relations, envoys given go-ahead to reveal some of their stories, not names, as relations come into the open
By Raphael Ahren
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