Sinai

Egypt’s dangerous pressure game against Israel - opinion

Cairo’s live-fire drills near the Israeli border come as Egypt faces economic pressure, Red Sea instability, and growing questions over President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regional strategy.

|ByDR. EDY COHEN
Military personnel stand guard on the day of Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly's visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, October 31, 2023.
Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion

Newly published documents belonging to Israel's first prime minister reveal eerily relevant message

Ben-Gurion recognized early on what became a well-known reality in the following decades: front lines that reach population centers, and the home front becoming a critical component of the war.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
Aerial photo of the ancient temple discovered at Tell el-Farma in the northern Sinai, April 15, 2026.

An ancient Egyptian temple was just found in Sinai after six years of digging

Analysis of the site also shows that the structure had been continuously used from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, with only minor architectural modifications happening during that time.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
A GENERAL VIEW of the Nuweiba delta.

A journey to the biblical Red Sea crossing

Over the years, scholars have proposed possible sites for the crossing, with Dr. Yehoshua Meron concluding that it took place near the shoreline of Nuweiba on the eastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula.

|ByJACOB MAOR

Palestinian Islamic State leader in Sinai killed by Egyptian forces - report

Hamza Adel Muhammad Al-Zamili, better known by the Jihadi moniker Abu Kazem Al-Maqdisi, was killed in combat along with nine other ISIS fighters.

AUGUST 18, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014. The offshoot of al Qaeda which has captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria has declared itself an Islamic "Caliphate" and called on factions worldwide to pledge their allegiance, a st

Two Israelis arrested for providing sensitive information to foreign agent

Many of the details about the case are still under a gag order.

AUGUST 17, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Document with the words "Top Secret" on it. (Illustrative)

Bodies of two Israelis killed in car accident in Sinai arrive in Israel

Egyptian authorities refused to allow Israeli helicopters to land in Egypt to evacuate the injured.

JULY 28, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli soldiers and rescue forces waiting for the arrival of wounded Israeli tourists who were wounded at a car accident in Egypt, at the Taba Border crossing in Eilat, on July 28, 2022.

An Israeli's return to Egypt's Sinai

The Russian tourists are down to three flights a week from Moscow. Rumor is the hotels are complaining, and Israelis are full of nostalgia to get back.

MAY 29, 2022ByJANE MEDVED
WADI AL-KHOROM (Echo Valley), southern Sinai.

This Passover, the Jewish people vacationed together - editorial

More people left the country last week than throughout the pandemic, many went to Sinai and a huge bulk vacationed around Israel.

APRIL 20, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 22, 2021.

Israelis recall life in Sinai 40 years on

Farmers flock to Nitzana region on Egyptian border in hopes of making desert bloom.

APRIL 19, 2022ByMAYA MARGIT/THE MEDIA LINE
Nira and Alon Zadok today.

Post six-day war footage of Egyptian Monastery made public by Israel's national library

The collection includes texts from as early as the 1100s, written in Arabic, Syriac, Greek, Armenian and Georgian and relating to early Christian religion and Church Fathers.

DECEMBER 23, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Greek Psalms and Cantica, ca 1504.

Egyptian military consolidates grip on northern Sinai

Egypt's military has secured large areas of the strategic stretch of land bordering Palestinian-run Gaza and Israel on one side and the Suez Canal on the other.

OCTOBER 20, 2021ByREUTERS
EGYPTIAN MILITARY forces look on in the northern Sinai.

Is the surrender of a senior ISIS Sinai official a game changer?

After ISIS lost most of its “caliphate” territory in Iraq and Syria, the group has managed to spawn a variety of new chapters and has morphed into new forms in weak and unstable states.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
An Egyptian army soldier looks on from his postion at a checkpoint in Al Arish city, the troubled northern part of the Sinai peninsula

Israel's Taba Crossing to Egypt reopened by Merav Michaeli

The reopening of the Taba Crossing was announced as demand for entry permits to the Sinai Peninsula skyrocketed.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A WIDE-ANGLE view across the border looking at the wastes of Sinai.