Middle East
It remains unclear as to what caused the change; the president was planning to visit after stops in Germany and Spain later this month.
Riyadh is reportedly in serious talks with Jerusalem about establishing business ties and bolstering security coordination.
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It contains the graves of thousands of Jews, including the shrine of a scholar and rabbi from the late 1700s, Hacham Raphael Berdugo, also known as Hamalach (“the Angel”).
The deal is the first of its kind between the Jewish state and an Arab country • “We have written a new chapter in the history of the Middle East,” says UAE minister for foreign trade.
In response to the outcry over a “Nakba Day” rally, professor Daniel Chamovitz tells Knesset committee that if they want to ban the flags, they should pass a law.
“Ultimately, without the application of sovereignty, at least in portions of Judea and Samaria, they’ll never be a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he told JNS.
“Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is saying, ‘If you push me too hard, you will get Netanyahu.’ Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is saying, ‘If you push me too hard, you will get Hamas.’ It is full of contradictions,” said Professor Eytan Gilboa, an expert on U.S.-Israel relations.
Battles with high-profile Pakistani politicians aside, for most of the group, in Israel for the first time, the visit was an eye-opening experience.
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 73, was credited with helping lead Mideast cooperation in science, business, technology, academia and tourism, as well as working with the Jewish community that resides in the United Arab Emirates.
The organization also arranged air transport for nearly 3,000 Ukrainian refugees to Israel.
The National SCOPUS Award honors those who “demonstrate humanitarian concerns throughout their lifetime” and are distinguished by “their civic engagement, their concern to achieve peaceful coexistence among people and nations, and their work on behalf of important causes locally, nationally and internationally.”
