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High temperatures and humidity in the region’s air are ideal conditions for Watergen, which can produce 5,000 liters of clean water per day.
The incoming White House is inheriting a region that has undergone vast changes over the past four years.
Following the targeted killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in an operation widely attributed to Israel, Amman and Abu Dhabi, which have peace treaties with Jerusalem, call for “restraint” to avoid an “escalation of tensions.”
To be the first Israeli humanitarian group to sign such an agreement is “a great privilege,” says ZAKA chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav.
The first-of-its-kind school is opening in four locations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai for businesspeople interested in Israeli conversation, culture and cuisine.
Amid Israel’s historic normalization process with Arab countries, more and more voices are challenging the identification of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem as the Koranic Al-Aqsa, arguing that it is actually located in Saudi Arabia.
“There is a great opening here for trade, the economy and tourism that makes for a truly new and different Middle East,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Nobel laureate Lord David Trimble calls for the two leaders to be granted the award for their “far-reaching achievements, courageous leadership and relentless pursuit of peace.”
The Israeli premier and Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa hold their second-ever talks, focused on strengthening bilateral relations.
The meeting between the Israeli prime minister and the Saudi crown prince is “an insult to the nation and an invitation to attack Palestinian rights,” according to senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was also present at the meeting in Neom, Saudi Arabia, which was reportedly arranged by U.S. Special Representative for Iran Elliott Abrams.
“You can see nations coming to understand that the Palestinians have rejected reasonable offers to negotiate time and time again. The leadership has simply failed its own people,” says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.