Achieving a remodeled status quo would require on the part of the Palestinian, Jordanian, and Israeli parties, support from the respective religious leaderships, and active, ongoing public encouragement through the media in order to counteract those elements that would inevitably seek to obstruct such a project.
The move to tighten Shabbat regulations is being spearheaded by El Al’s new owner, Haredi businessman Kenny Rozenberg, according to Channel 12 News.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency said the meeting between Jake Sullivan and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took place in Jeddah, the Red Sea port city now at the heart of seaborne evacuations from the fighting in Sudan.
The two men executed, Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare, died at Arak Prison in central Iran. They had been arrested in May 2020, accused of being involved in a channel on the Telegram message app called “Critique of Superstition and Religion,” according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. Both men faced months of solitary confinement and could not contact their families, the commission said.
EXCLUSIVE: The conventional wisdom among policy makers is that the thaw in relations is only in its initial state and that a full-fledged agreement on normalization will take at least several months and perhaps even a year, if it culminates in a successful outcome.
