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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 569

Shatha YAISH

Muslim men perform Friday noon prayers close to their workplace on the first working Friday in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, on January 7, 2022. (Karim Sahib/AFP)
January 8, 2022, 2:37 am
UAE works on Friday for 1st time in switch to Western-style weekend
Gulf state workers juggle Friday prayers with jobs as country formally switches to a Saturday-Sunday break to keep up with international business competition
By Shatha YAISH
Illustrative; Rabbi Yaakov Eisenstein (R) supervises the preparation of food Elli's Kosher Kitchen, in Dubai, on October 5, 2020 (GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)
October 17, 2020, 1:06 pm
‘The main challenge is obtaining ingredients’: UAE gets ready to go kosher
Dubai restaurants embrace technology to allow supervision — stoves can be turned on by a rabbi remotely using a mobile application and the cooking monitored by cameras
By Shatha YAISH
This picture taken on September 27, 2019 shows the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero as it leaves Bandar Abbas port in southern Iran (Mehdi DEHDAR / Fars news / AFP)
September 28, 2019, 9:46 am
British-flagged tanker reaches Dubai coast after Iran release
Company CEO calls ship’s return ‘a relief,’ says crew is safe and will be given recovery period with families
By Shatha YAISH
Bodies covered in plastic lie on the ground amid the rubble of a Houthi detention center destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes, that killed at least 60 people and wounded several dozen according to officials and the rebels' health ministry, in Dhamar province, southwestern Yemen, Sept. 1, 2019 (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
September 2, 2019, 2:41 pm
Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen rebel-run prison kill over 100
Coalition claims building housed drones and missiles, but Houthi rebels say it was a detention facility
By Jamil Nasser and Shatha YAISH
Security guards wait at the entrance to the Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, Bahrain on June 25, 2019. (Shaun TANDON / AFP)
June 29, 2019, 6:17 am
Gulf states, Israel are closer after Bahrain meet, but full ties still unlikely
Despite progress at Manama conference, analysts say normalized relations improbable without political solution to conflict with Palestinians
By Shatha YAISH
A view of the Manama skyline, Bahrain. (CC-BY Jayson De Leon/Wikimedia Commons)
June 24, 2019, 8:04 am
The Bahrain meeting: A chance for Israel-Gulf rapprochement?
Analysts say improved ties between Israel and Arab countries cannot take place in the absence of tangible progress to defuse the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict
By Shatha YAISH
Screen capture of Al Mayadeen News report, May 14, 2019 showing location of drone attack on Saudi oil facility. (YouTube)
May 15, 2019, 1:57 pm
Saudi Arabia says attacks target world oil supplies
Middle East’s biggest petroleum exporter says blasts near oil tankers, pipeline aimed at global economy
By Rania Sanjar and Shatha YAISH
Jaber al-Lamki, Executive Director for Media and Strategic Communications at the United Arab Emirates' National Media Council, speaks during a press conference in Abu Dhabi on November 26, 2018, announcing a pardon for Briton Matthew Hedges who was sentenced a week before to life in prison for spying. KARIM SAHIB / AFP)
November 26, 2018, 12:54 pm
UAE pardons British academic sentenced to life for spying
Despite claiming to have ‘irrefutable’ evidence of espionage, Emirati president orders release of PhD researcher Matthew Hedges, ending diplomatic headache between allies
By Shatha YAISH
Mansour al-Amer, head of Saudi charity the Haji and Mutamer Gift Charitable Association, stands next to sleep pods in Mecca on August 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
August 18, 2018, 6:51 am
Saudi Arabia tests Japan-inspired ‘nap pods’ for hajj
Free sleep capsules, smartphone apps are among new technologies the kingdom has rolled out for this year’s ‘smart’ pilgrimage to Mecca
By Shatha YAISH
Muslim worshipers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on August 16, 2018, prior to the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage in the holy city. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
August 17, 2018, 4:18 pm
2 million Muslims expected in Mecca this week for increasingly hi-tech hajj
Saudi authorities use technology and apps to overcome logistical challenges, helping pilgrims with everything from travel plans to medical care
By Shatha YAISH
In this file photo taken on April 22, 2007 Israeli Arab then-Knesset member Azmi Bishara talks on his mobile phone in front of the Arab league headquarters after a meeting with the Secretary General Amr Mussa in Cairo. (AFP PHOTO/Khaled DESOUKI)
June 5, 2018, 7:51 am
Azmi Bishara, from Knesset black sheep to Qatar insider
Runaway MK, who fled Israel amid claims he spied for Hezbollah, slammed on media outlets close to Saudi Arabia as ‘Doha’s Rasputin,’ a Mossad agent and the ‘godfather of terrorism’
By Shatha YAISH
Christian worshipers pray near the 14-pointed silver star at the Grotto, believed to be the exact spot where Jesus Christ was born, in the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on December 21, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
December 22, 2017, 11:06 am
For many Palestinian Christians, Trump is a Christmas killjoy
Despite overall increase in religious tourism to Israel and West Bank, dozens of groups cancel after US president’s Jerusalem recognition
By Shatha YAISH
Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya is seen in the Egyptian capital Cairo on November 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)
November 23, 2017, 5:39 pm
Palestinian factions leave Cairo with little reconciliation progress
Many unresolved issues remain in Gaza ahead of scheduled December 1 handover, including Hamas weapons and Fatah’s punitive measures
By Mai Yaghi and Shatha YAISH
Illustrative: A masked youth cadet from the armed wing of the Hamas terror group carries the movement's flag at a march in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis on September 15, 2017.(AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
October 1, 2017, 6:22 am
Palestinian unity visit to Gaza: Rebirth or another false dawn?
Although PA’s PM Hamdallah is heading to the Strip for reconciliation talks, its Hamas terrorist rulers are refusing to give up their arms
By Shatha YAISH
Palestinians queue in front of the Interior Ministry branch in East Jerusalem, July 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
June 2, 2017, 2:35 am
Reality drags more East Jerusalem Arabs toward quiet Israeli citizenship
Stigmatized by Palestinians as capitulation to Israeli rule, an Israeli passport eases travel, work and assures residence in capital
By Shatha YAISH
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