Israel-Egypt relations

Muslim worshippers pray near the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, during the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan on May 18, 2018 (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

May 18, 2018, 5:53 pm

Tens of thousands from West Bank attend Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem

1,500 police deployed in capital, but no limits on access to Temple Mount; officials brace for protests in West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as Gaza

By TOI staff

Muslims pray at the Temple Mount on July 27, 2017.(AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

May 18, 2018, 9:32 am

Israel girds for first Friday of Ramadan amid heightened tensions

1,500 police deployed in capital, but no limits on access to Temple Mount, as officials worry protests may move from Gaza border to West Bank and East Jerusalem

By TOI staff

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks during a news conference in Cairo, Egypt, on December 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

May 17, 2018, 2:26 pm

Egypt’s Sissi exhorts both sides to avoid further deaths in Gaza

Leader says Cairo in touch with both 'our Palestinian brothers' and Israelis 'so that this bloodshed would stop'

By AFP and TOI staff

David Govrin, Israel's ambassador in Egypt, speaking at a celebration marking the 70th anniversary of Israel at Nile Ritz Carlton hotel in Cairo, May 8, 2018. (Foreign Ministry)

May 9, 2018, 11:01 am

Israel celebrates its Independence Day in Cairo for first time since Arab Spring

Embassy party at Cairo hotel draws ire of local media; Ambassador David Govrin hails improving ties with Arab world

By AP and TOI staff

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, on April 12, 2018. (Flash90)

April 24, 2018, 2:19 pm

Liberman heads to US for talks on ‘Iran’s expansion throughout Mideast’

Defense minister to meet US counterpart Mattis, newly installed National Security Adviser Bolton and Senate's Armed Services Committee

By TOI staff

The Israeli side of the Taba border crossing with Egypt (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

March 24, 2018, 11:50 pm

Israeli detained in Egypt after crossing border with bullets

Israeli diplomats in Cairo help secure release of tourist found with weapons magazine in his car as he crossed into Sinai

By TOI staff

Illustrative. Smoke rises after a house was blown up in a military operation in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on November 20, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90/File)

March 7, 2018, 2:14 pm

Israel hints that Sinai fighting caused cellphone disruption

Communications minister says defense officials met with counterparts 'over the border' to restore service

By AP

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, attends the inauguration of the East Suez Canal Counter-Terrorism command, in Sinai, Egypt on February 25, 2018. (MENA via AP)

March 1, 2018, 1:38 am

Egyptian army in Sinai Peninsula doubles in a year, with Israel’s blessing

Eighty-eight Egyptian battalions with 42,000 soldiers fighting Islamic State, up from 41 battalions and 25,000 men a year ago

By TOI staff

Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin (R) and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat share a laugh at the King David Hotel on November 19, 1977. (Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO archive)

February 25, 2018, 5:55 pm

War or peace? IDF brass debated the meaning of Sadat’s 1977 visit to Israel

Newly released transcripts from meeting after Egyptian leader's historic speech in the Knesset show generals were split on its significance

By Judah Ari Gross

February 21, 2018, 4:20 pm

Egypt’s president says country ‘scored a goal’ with Israel gas deal

Sissi says $15b purchase of 64 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Tamar and Leviathan offshore fields in coming decade 'has a lot of advantages'

By AP and TOI staff

Egyptian MP Nawshi al-Dabi appears on Egyptian TV on January 3, 2018. (Screen capture: MEMRI)

February 5, 2018, 4:50 pm

Egyptian MP calls for scrapping ‘shameful’ peace deal with Israel

Nashwa Al-Dib accuses Israelis of 'sucking the blood of the children,' says kids must learn 'our number one enemy is the Zionist entity'

By TOI staff

Illustrative: Egyptian security forces in the Sinai, July 2013. (Mohamed El-Sherbeny /AFP)

February 4, 2018, 9:57 pm

Egypt army denies Israel carrying out secret airstrike campaign in Sinai

Military says only Cairo authorized to operate in peninsula, rejecting New York Times report on covert Israeli support

By TOI staff

A picture taken from the Rafah border of the southern Gaza Strip with Egypt shows smoke billowing in Egypt's North Sinai on July 8, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)

February 3, 2018, 4:54 pm

Israel carrying out secret airstrike campaign in Sinai to help Egypt — report

Unmarked IAF drones, fighter jets, and gunships are conducting attacks against Islamic State-linked jihadist insurgents at behest of Sissi, New York Times reports

By TOI staff

Dozens of Egyptian Bedouin drug-runners on ladders throw bundles of marijuana over the border into Israel, in a massive smuggling attempt that turned into a gun battle on January 21, 2018. (Israel Police)

January 22, 2018, 12:09 pm

Large gun battle breaks out as Israeli forces bust Sinai drug smugglers

Dozens of Egyptians on ladders toss bundles of marijuana over the border in smuggling attempt that ends in 'massive' shootout; one Israeli smuggler apparently killed in clash

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli Ambassador to Egypt David Govrin at his home in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, on June 5, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

January 11, 2018, 11:05 pm

Israel said to complain to Egypt over exclusion from diplomatic briefings

Ambassador reportedly voices objection over having never been invited to official events, despite security cooperation between nations

By TOI staff