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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Yitzhak Levanon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 27, 2018. (Avi Ohayon / PMO)
June 29, 2020, 9:43 pm
Why Egypt is staying quiet on Israel’s West Bank annexation plan
Facing numerous crises at home and abroad, Cairo cannot afford to alienate Israel and the United States
By Aaron Boxerman
In this March 13, 1996 file photo, Russian President Boris Yeltsin waves as he and (from left to right) Jordan's King Hussein, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, US President Bill Clinton, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and, far right, PLO Leader Yasser Arafat make their way up to pose for the group photo at the end of their one-day Summit for Peacemakers in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
February 25, 2020, 9:27 pm
Mubarak kept peace treaty but shunned deeper ties with Israel
Israeli ex-envoy says Egyptian leader didn’t make major efforts to advance agricultural, cultural cooperation; expert says he was keen on advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace
By Adam Rasgon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with former communications minister Ayoub Kara at a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 12, 2019, 4:32 pm
Former ambassadors to Egypt urge PM not to tap Likud minister as envoy
In 3rd public appeal to government in a week, ex-envoys say Ayoub Kara should not be given sensitive post over professional diplomat Amira Oron
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Khaled Azmi, the new Egyptian ambassador to Israel, being interviewed in January 2017. (Screenshot: Youtube)
November 4, 2018, 2:02 pm
New Egyptian ambassador arrives in Israel
Khaled Azmi slated to present his credentials to President Rivlin on Thursday, along with the new Jordanian envoy
By Adam Rasgon
An Egyptian boat traversing the Strait of Tiran in 2011. (CC BY Don Toofee, Flickr)
April 19, 2016, 11:29 pm
No written Saudi assurance over Tiran islands, Israeli official hints
Contradicting defense minister, senior official says such claims are ‘imprecise,’ yet stresses Israel did not object to the transaction
By Raphael Ahren
The Red Sea islands of Tiran, in the foreground, and Sanafir, in the background, sit at the the Strait of Tiran between Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)
April 14, 2016, 9:08 am
With island deal, Saudis signal they’re warming up to Israel
In the most tangible sign yet of a detente with Riyadh, Jerusalem shows it is untroubled by prospect of strategically crucial Tiran and Sanafir changing hands
By Raphael Ahren
Egyptian army soldiers take their positions on top and next to their armored vehicles while guarding an entrance to Tahrir square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)
August 19, 2013, 10:34 am
‘Israel intensifying bid to rally support for Egypt military rule’
It’s ‘army or anarchy,’ Israeli official tells NY Times, rebuffing claims that Jerusalem is ‘undercutting’ Western efforts
By Asher Zeiger
An Egyptian protester flashes V signs for a military aircraft forming a heart-shaped trail in the sky over Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 5. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)
July 12, 2013, 9:17 am
After Morsi: Opportunity, and the risk of flare-up in Gaza
Israeli officials may be impressed with the coup, but if Cairo’s interim government continues to hammer Hamas, the south could actually suffer
By Avi Issacharoff
Yitzhak Levanon at an ambassadors' meeting in Jerusalem, December 2010 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
September 14, 2012, 6:22 am
Peace deal with Egypt is empty, says ambassador who fled Cairo after mob attack
Yitzhak Levanon, evacuated with all his staff following the assault on the Israeli Embassy a year ago, says Israel must now insist on reopening it
By Elhanan Miller
Egyptian border guards patrol near the border with Israel in Rafah, Egypt, earlier this month (photo credit: Ahmed Gomaa/AP)
August 14, 2012, 6:18 pm
Will Egypt cancel peace treaty with Israel? A former envoy thinks it might, but most experts disagree
Muslim Brotherhood leaders are skilled at realpolitik, says one academic. ‘They have their Islamist ideology, but they also have a ladder to come down from when reality intervenes’
By Raphael Ahren
Mohammed Morsi (photo credit: Amr Nabil/AP)
August 1, 2012, 10:27 pm
Return to sender
Oh, Morsi! The dismal saga of the letter Egypt’s president swears he never sent, and certainly wishes he hadn’t
By Raphael Ahren
Smoke rises following an Israeli Air Force airstrike in the Gaza Strip in June (Photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/ Flash 90)
June 28, 2012, 6:38 am
How Hamas, not Israel, shapes the contours of conflict across the Gaza border
It’s the Islamists who determine the timing and scale of violence, and the rise of the Brotherhood in Egypt can only further complicate matters for Israel
By Mitch Ginsburg
Mohammed Morsi (photo credit: Egypt State TV/AP)
June 25, 2012, 4:25 pm
With Egyptian ties already so cold, many Israelis believe they won’t get much worse under Morsi
While the far right argues that only conquering the Sinai will rescue Israel from Islamist aggression, most analysts say Cairo has more pressing worries than Israel
By Raphael Ahren
An Egyptian protester flashes the victory sign as he celebrates the victory of Mohammed Morsi of the presidential election in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, June 24, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Abu Zaid)
June 25, 2012, 1:21 pm
City of Brotherhood love
Israel watches cautiously as Cairo erupts over Egyptian election results, and Etgar Keret condemns Tel Aviv violence, kind of
By Joshua Davidovich
A farm building in southern Israel which was hit directly by a rocket. (photo credit: IDF Spokesman's Office)
March 11, 2012, 9:11 pm
Egypt without Mubarak may have trouble brokering ceasefire
‘Egypt cannot continue to play the good and the bad guy whenever it’s convenient,’ says one former IDF division head
By Raphael Ahren
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