Next year’s world fair in the United Arab Emirates offers the country a unique opportunity to present a fresh face to the Arab world. "There is curiosity, mixed with concern, about this thing called Israel and we want to alleviate that concern," says Expo 2020 commissioner Elazar Cohen.
The anti-government demonstrations that prompted Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to resign could usher in a new leadership “more willing to relax its iron grip ... on social and human rights issues," says the head of Lebanon's most prominent LGBT+ rights organization.
The Israel Defense Forces has come to use increasingly powerful simulations as a key tool for military planning, factoring in field data about combat arenas on land, at sea and in the air.
State Department says EU ruling encourages the BDS movement and that the US “unequivocally opposes” any efforts to “economically pressure, isolate, or otherwise delegitimize Israel.” EU says it opposes the BDS movement while adding that settlement goods cannot say “Made in Israel.”
Officials from the Palestinian terrorist group and Egyptian mediators says the ceasefire went into effect at 5:30 a.m., but sirens continue to be heard in southern Israel. PIJ leader Ziad al-Nakhalah said his group was ready for a ceasefire if Israel halts targeted killings of terrorist leaders, ceases use of lethal force at Gaza border protests, and eases blockade on the coastal enclave.
