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Illustrative: A cargo ship is seen at northern Israel's Haifa port, November 14, 2011. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
March 3, 2026, 6:27 pm
Israel using cargo ships to bring back doctors stranded abroad by war, official says
40 essential medical staff returned in two Zim journeys from Cyprus to Haifa so far, according to cargo firm; authorities say they’ll bus Israelis into country from Egyptian border
By Reuters and Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: People cross the border from Israel into Egypt via the Taba Land Port, June 19, 2025. (AP)
March 3, 2026, 4:11 pm
Huckabee advises US citizens in Israel to evacuate via Egypt, noting ‘limited options’
After Washington tells citizens across the Middle East to ‘DEPART NOW,’ US ambassador suggests Taba as a departure point for citizens in Israel and recommends against Amman
By Nava Freiberg
Screen capture from video of a brawl between Arab Israeli tourists and hotel workers in the Egyptian resort town of Taba, August 30, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 3, 2024, 1:01 pm
Two Israelis indicted in Egypt over hotel brawl that injured six
Suspects remanded for four days, face charges of assault and destroying property during violent clash in Red Sea resort town of Taba
By ToI Staff and Agencies
The Taba Hilton on April 4, 2021. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
August 30, 2024, 10:34 pm
Egyptian hotel worker said killed, Israeli tourists wounded in Sinai brawl
Fight reportedly erupts after tourists refused to pay for services at Taba hotel; employee dies en route to hospital
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An Egyptian soldier stands guard at the Taba crossing between Egypt and Israel on October 26, 2011 (Mahmud Khaled/ AFP)
October 27, 2023, 11:59 am
IAF fighter jet intercepts ‘aerial threat’ over Red Sea, hours after Egypt strike
IDF says drone attack on Taba wounding 6 launched from ‘Red Sea area’; incident comes week after Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen tried to fire missiles at Israel from Red Sea
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
The Hilton Taba, rebuilt after the 2004 bombings (NYC2TLV / Wikipedia)
August 12, 2016, 6:55 pm
Terrorists who killed 34 in Taba in 2004 may have used Nazi-era landmines
12 Israelis died in Sinai hotel attacks; IS now also said to be extricating landmines in area, using the explosives to build IEDs
By ToI Staff
An Egyptian policeman inspects a damaged bus after a deadly explosion Sunday near the Egyptian border crossing with Israel in Taba, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Nameer Galal)
February 18, 2014, 9:19 am
Jihadist group claims Taba bombing as part of ‘economic war’
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis says ‘hero’ hit bus heading for Zionist entity in deadly attack; reportedly threatens to continue campaign against tourists
By AFP, AP and ToI Staff
The wreckage of the bus blown up near the Taba crossing on the Egypt-Israel border, February 16, 2014 (photo credit: AFP)
February 17, 2014, 4:06 pm
Egypt says suicide bomber caused deadly bus blast
Terrorist boarded bus full of South Korean tourists and detonated, killing four, officials say; group of survivors crosses into Israel
By AFP, AP and Mitch Ginsburg
The wreckage of the bus blown up near the Taba crossing on the Egypt-Israel border, February 16, 2014 (photo credit: AFP)
February 17, 2014, 3:04 pm
Bombs away
A bus blows up near the border, a top cop’s career blasts to smithereens, and police prepare to divert resources from drugs to car bombs
By Joshua Davidovich
Members from Jincheon Jungang Presbyterian Church attend a service at their church in Jincheon, South Korea, Monday, February 17, 2014, the day after a Sinai terror group targeted a bus filled with Korean members of the church at Taba, Egypt. (photo credit: AP/Yonhap, Kim Hyung-woo)
February 17, 2014, 11:56 am
South Korean church mourns after Egypt bombing
Parishioners targeted in Sinai blast had saved for years to join trip to Biblical locations in Egypt, Israel, Turkey
By AP and ToI Staff
The wreckage of the bus blown up near the Taba crossing on the Egypt-Israel border, February 16, 2014 (photo credit: AFP)
February 17, 2014, 9:41 am
Muslim Brotherhood says Taba victims were ‘Zionists’
In tweet, outlawed Egyptian Islamist party ignores fact that the three tourists killed in the blast were South Korean
By Ilan Ben Zion
An image made from a video provided by the Israeli Airports Authority shows smoke from the bombing of the bus carrying South Korean sightseers near the tip of the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba Sunday Feb. 16, 2014.(photo credit: AP Photo/Israeli Airports Authority)
February 17, 2014, 5:26 am
Al-Qaeda-linked group claims Sunday’s Taba bombing
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis says that it will continue to attack Egypt after killing 4 on tourist bus
By Lazar Berman and AFP
An image made from a video provided by the Israeli Airports Authority shows smoke from the bombing of the bus carrying South Korean sightseers near the tip of the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba Sunday Feb. 16, 2014.(photo credit: AP Photo/Israeli Airports Authority)
February 17, 2014, 3:14 am
South Korea ‘shocked and outraged’ at Taba attack
Seoul condemns bombing of Christian tourist bus that killed 3 and wounded at least 13 of its citizens
By AFP
An image made from a video provided by the Israeli Airports Authority shows smoke, white area at upper right,. from the bombing of the bus carrying South Korean sightseers near the tip of the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba Sunday Feb. 16, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Israeli Airports Authority)
February 17, 2014, 12:56 am
Egyptian presidential office condemns Taba attack
Officials and political figures, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, call bombing a cowardly act
By ToI Staff and AP
The wreckage of the bus blown up near the Taba crossing on the Egypt-Israel border, February 16, 2014 (photo credit: AFP)
February 16, 2014, 8:46 pm
Egypt refused Israeli medical help for Taba bus blast
Israeli ambulances were at the border minutes after bombing killed 4 and injured 12, but Egyptian authorities spurned offers of aid
By ToI Staff
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