Israel-UAE relations

From left to right: Michal Seror, Director of Community Development at Start-Up Nation Central, Salmaan Jaffery, DIFC Chief Business Development Officer, Eliran Elimelech VP Strategic Partnerships at Start-Up Nation Central, Mohammad Alblooshi, DIFC Sector Head – FinTech and Innovation. (Courtesy/ Start-Up Nation Central)

New Israel-UAE agreement to promote innovation-based business ties

Nonprofit Start-Up Nation Central and Dubai International Financial Centre ink deal to advance tech relationships, primarily in fintech, digital security

Head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate Yigal Unna at the Cybertech 2020 conference in Tel Aviv; Jan. 29; (Cybertech)

UAE cyber officials to join Israeli counterparts at major NYC conference

By Lazar Berman

From left: SpaceIL chairman Morris Kahn, Sarah bint Yousef Al Amiri, Emirati Minister of State for Advanced Technology and Chairwoman of the UAE Space Agency, and SpaceIL CEO Shimon Sarid. (Courtesy)

Israel, UAE to launch joint space projects, including Beresheet 2 Moon mission

By Ricky Ben-David

Israelis at a Red Sea beach close to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil terminal in Eilat, southern Israel, February 10, 2021. (Menaham Kahana/AFP)

October 22, 2021, 12:33 pm

UAE says nixing pipeline agreement won’t damage ties with Israel

Contradicting company’s claim, senior official says deal to ship Gulf crude to Europe overland via Israel — opposed by environmentalists — has nothing to do with Emirati government

By Sue Surkes

Police officers raid a Yeshiva that is open in violation of the COVID-19 emergency regulations, in the Sanhedria Neighborhood of Jerusalem on January 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

October 21, 2021, 2:12 pm

Daily Briefing Oct. 21 – COVID studies offer telling results

Startup Israel editor Ricky Ben-David and science and health correspondent Nathan Jeffay discuss coronavirus research, Israel-UAE collaboration on Beresheet 2, and foldable cars

By TOI staff

October 20, 2021, 5:57 pm

Israel, UAE to launch joint space projects, including Beresheet 2 Moon mission

Countries’ respective space agencies ink deals to cooperate on scientific research, space exploration, and knowledge transfer

By Ricky Ben-David

October 20, 2021, 6:43 am

UAE cyber officials to join Israeli counterparts at major NYC conference

Israel-founded Cybertech NYC will feature past Mossad and CIA chiefs, Emirati security chiefs, as Jewish state continues to play a major role in field

By Lazar Berman

The last shot Beresheet sent of landing before crashing onto the moon's surface, April 11, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

October 20, 2021, 5:25 am

Israel and UAE flags on Moon? Nations said poised to pen space cooperation deal

Report says allies will cooperate on Israel’s Beresheet 2 mission, with students from two nations to build satellite that will also determine precise time of new moon for calendar

By TOI staff

October 19, 2021, 5:49 pm

New Israel-UAE agreement to promote innovation-based business ties

Nonprofit Start-Up Nation Central and Dubai International Financial Centre ink deal to advance tech relationships, primarily in fintech, digital security

By Ricky Ben-David

UAE Ambassador to Israel Muhammad Al Khajah with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, October 19, 2021 (Haim Tzah/GPO)

October 19, 2021, 5:47 pm

Bennett meets UAE, Bahrain envoys, is invited to Abu Dhabi for state visit

PM discusses expansion of Abraham Accords with ambassadors, says ‘the stronger the bonds of our countries become, the stronger regional security and stability will become’

By Lazar Berman

United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan speaks during a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at the State Department in Washington, on October 13, 2021. (AP photo: Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP)

October 14, 2021, 11:59 am

UAE foreign minister says he plans to visit Israel soon

Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan says he is ‘excited’ by news of recent meetings between Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials

By Amy Spiro and Lazar Berman

Screen capture from video of a suspect arrested during a drugs bust in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, October 2021. (Twitter)

October 10, 2021, 10:14 pm

Israeli nabbed in Dubai drug bust was allegedly smuggling half a ton of cocaine

Halil Dasuki, who has a criminal past in Israel, was reportedly caught with haul worth $135 million hidden in shipping container; Israeli police said to have tipped off local cops

By TOI staff and AFP

Jewish and Arab attendees celebrate the opening of the Israeli pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday, October 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

October 7, 2021, 10:55 pm

Israel opens its pavilion with big bash at Dubai’s Expo 2020

Flasy videos promote Israeli tech and sights, as Hebrew music plays and balloons fly — amid high security

By Isabel Debre

Environment Minister Tamar Zandberg meets with Dr. Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri, secretary general of the Abu Dhabi Environment Agency, in Dubai on October 4, 2021. (Israeli Consulate in Dubai)

October 5, 2021, 10:30 am

Israeli ministers meet UAE counterparts on sidelines of Dubai Expo

Interior Minister Shaked and Environment Minister Zandberg discuss visa-free travel and climate change with Emirati officials

By Amy Spiro

Women walk through Syria's pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 2, 2021. (Jon Gambrell/AP)

October 4, 2021, 12:33 pm

At Dubai Expo, infomercial-like pavilions can’t quite gloss over world problems

Over 190 countries are participating in multi-billion dollar extravaganza where war, famine, and political and economic turmoil are kept out of sight

By Isabel Debre

Emirati men line up to welcome visitors the opening ceremony of the Dubai Expo 2020, on September 30, 2021. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

September 30, 2021, 11:08 pm

Dubai opens $7B Expo, including Israeli pavilion, with extravagant show of glitz

Lavish ceremony kicks off a six-month world fair attended by more than 190 countries; Israel’s pavilion of ‘sand dunes’ marks a year since UAE normalization deal

By Talek HARRIS

People walk past the official Expo 2020 sign at the Dubai Expo in the United Arab Emirates, January 16, 2021. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP)

September 30, 2021, 2:24 pm

With Israeli pavilion, Dubai set to open Expo, world’s biggest event since COVID

Organizers of Middle East’s first world fair hope for 25 million visitors over the next 6 months; Israel’s pavilion of ‘sand dunes’ marks a year since UAE normalization deal

By AFP

People take pictures in the Israel pavilion during a media tour ahead of the opening of the Dubai Expo 2020 in the Gulf Emirate on September 27, 2021 (AFP)

September 28, 2021, 8:31 am

‘Very happy to be here’: Israel readies its pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai fair

Israeli zone features ‘sand dunes’ made of concrete ‘that show how similar we are,’ says organizer; 1st time Israel publicly joining such a largescale event in Arab country

By AFP