Middle East
“I believe that Iran will have concluded the Biden team is not first-rate and wants to avoid confrontations, so Iran is more likely to test them now than it was six months ago,” said Elliott Abrams, who served as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela during the Donald Trump administration.
The collapse of the Afghan military could serve as further motivation for Iran to target U.S.-allied Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as countries like Jordan.
Trade between Israel and the United Arab Emirates alone has reached nearly $600 million; it’s expected to reach $1 billion by the end of the year.
The organization has loaned more than 200 children’s car seats to Arab and Bedouin Israeli citizens.
Dr. Ali Al Nuaimi, chairman of Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee at the UAE Federal National Council, in a special interview marking the one-year anniversary of the Abraham Accords.
Business, governmental and academic ties are blossoming between Israel and the UAE a year after normalization began.
Sheikh Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, who is on an official state visit, met with the head of the IDF’s Strategic Planning and Cooperation Directorate (J5), Maj. Gen. Tal Kelman.
Rabbi Nachman’s gravesite was similarly vandalized in 2016 with a pig’s head and splatters of blood.
Ukraine’s deputy health minister says a special directive allowing religious pilgrims to enter the country has been approved, subject to pandemic-related restrictions.
“When you look at the crises in the Middle East, you can see Iran’s fingerprints everywhere,” says Bahrain’s undersecretary for international relations during his visit to Jerusalem.
The crew of the “Asphalt Princess” disabled the engines after the ship was boarded by Iranian gunmen, preventing it from being diverted to the Islamic Republic.
An electrical engineer and computer analyst, she survived the “Farhud” pogrom in Iraq as a child.
