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Bahraini Minister of Industry and Commerce Zayed Alzayani visits a leading Israeli venture capital firm.
The video shows an attack drone hangar and concludes with the caption: “It is only our will that keeps us from firing.”
Long oppressed by Persian-dominated governments in Tehran, the Kurds—often seen as Israel’s best friends—have led the revolution against the Islamic Republic.
A source in Sanandaj told Reuters that riot police were searching residences and arresting dozens of young people. The scene was extremely tense, with hundreds of police officers on the city’s streets.
Increased fines and other punitive measures imposed on companies complying with decades-old blackballing of Israel.
“This year we witnessed the largest such gathering in the history of the UAE,” Rabbi Levi Duchman, the first rabbi to serve in the country, told JNS. He added, “In our prayers, we kept in mind the ongoing peace and prosperity of the UAE.”
As the first rabbi to serve in the UAE, Rabbi Levi Duchman has spent eight years, with the eager cooperation of the government, helping to build the infrastructure so that Jews in the Gulf nation can live a “Jewish life.”
Sunni Arab states are hedging their bets as the U.S. tries to satisfy Iran, experts tell JNS.
The UAV bombing operation killed nine and wounded 32 at an Iranian-Kurdish resistance group base in northern Iraq.
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is committed to “reconciliation” with Israel.
Two years after Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed the Abraham Accords on the White House lawn, a delegation of young leaders from the countries seek to create paths of cooperation.
Additional emergency medical personnel will be arriving from Israel and the United States to help with medical calls during Rosh Hashanah.