Business

DIFC and Start-Up Nation Central to Promote Innovation-Based Business Ties Between the UAE and Israel

Editorial Bureau October 21, 2021

DUBAI, UAE – Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading global financial centre in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region and Tel Aviv-based not-for-profit organization Start-Up Nation Central announced today the signing of an agreement aimed at establishing new

Middle East

Start-Up Nation Central Executives Brief World Bank President on Israeli Digital Health Solutions

Editorial Bureau October 7, 2021

JERUSALEM – The President of the World Bank, David Malpass, met with Start-Up Nation CentralCEO Avi Hasson in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Oct. 6. Malpass is in Israel as a guest of the ministries of Finance and Health. His meeting on Wednesday was meant to enhance his acquaintance with the Israeli health system’s capabilities, with the […]

Middle East

Iraq rejects calls for normalising ties with Israel

Editorial Bureau September 26, 2021

Baghdad – The Iraqi government has declared its rejection of local calls for normalisation of relations with Israel as such a move is “prohibited by the Iraqi laws”. A statement by the media office of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi confirmed that “the concept of normalisation is constitutionally, legally, and politically rejected in the Iraqi

Middle East

Israel nominates first ambassador to Bahrain

Editorial Bureau September 2, 2021

DUBAI (UAE) – Israel has nominated its first ambassador to Bahrain, after normalising relations with the Gulf Arab state a year ago, an Israeli government Arabic-language Twitter account said on Thursday. Ambassador Eitan Na’eh had for eight months served as temporary head of mission at the Israeli embassy in the United Arab Emirates, the first […]

Middle East

Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine boosters indicates signs of taming Delta

Editorial Bureau August 24, 2021

JERUSALEM (ISRAEL) -Less than a month into a COVID-19 vaccine booster drive, Israel is seeing signs of an impact on its high infection and severe illness rates fuelled by the fast-spreading Delta variant, officials and scientists say. Delta hit Israel in June, just as the country began to reap the benefits of one of the […]

Middle East

PM says, Israel able to ‘act alone’ against Iran after ship attack

Editorial Bureau August 3, 2021

JERUSALEM (ISRAEL) – Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Israel was well-equipped for acting alone against Iran, after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken predicted a “collective” response to an attack last week on an Israeli-managed tanker off the coast of Oman. “We are working to rally the world, but at the same time we […]

Middle East

Israel’s 2021/22 budget aimed for parliament battle after approval from cabinet

Editorial Bureau August 2, 2021

JERUSALEM (ISRAEL) -Israel’s cabinet unanimously approval for a state budget for 2021-2022 on Monday. This has come more than three years after the government last gave formal consent to a fiscal spending package, but it faces a tough battle in a fractured parliament. Lawmakers are expected to take an initial vote in early September, with […]

Middle East

Israel to give Pfizer booster jab to the over 60s – reports

Editorial Bureau July 29, 2021

JERUSALEM (ISRAEL) – Israel will set out on offering a third shot of the Pfizer/Biotech COVID-19 vaccine to people aged over 60, a world first in efforts to slow the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, Israeli TV and radio said on Thursday. Those eligible will be able to get the booster shot as […]

Middle East

Direct flights to Morocco from Israel, efforts to build diplomatic relations

Editorial Bureau July 25, 2021

JERUSALEM (ISRAEL) – Following the upgrading of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel, two Israeli carriers on Sunday launched nonstop commercial flights to Marrakesh from Tel Aviv. Israel and Morocco agreed last December to upgrade diplomatic ties and relaunch direct flights – part of a deal brokered by the United States that also included

Middle East

Israel’s National Security Council probing NSO spyware allegations -source

Editorial Bureau July 21, 2021

JERUSALEM (ISRAEL) -Israel has established a senior inter-ministerial team to probe growing allegations that spyware sold by an Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global scale, according to an Israeli source on Wednesday, while adding that an export review was unlikely. The team is headed by Israel’s National Security Council, which answers to […]