DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Communications Minister Ayoub Kara called for “peace and security” on Tuesday during a visit to the United Arab Emirates, as Israel launches an unprecedented diplomatic push into Gulf states.
Tel Aviv-based international television network i24 News said it started transmitting inside Israel itself on Wednesday after finally winning a local broadcast licence, five years after its launch.
TEL AVIV – Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest dispelled rumors that next year’s competition would not take place in Israel as “speculation only,” JTA reported.
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TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday praised Communications Minister Ayoub Kara for taking concrete steps to “stop incitement” with a decision to permanently shutter Qatari-based news channel Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau.
TEL AVIV – Israel is working to persuade Saudi Arabia to allow direct flights from Tel Aviv to Mecca for Israeli Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage, building on the same flight route taken by President Donald Trump on his trip to the region in May.
TEL AVIV – In an unprecedented move, an Israeli Knesset minister met in public with officials from Gulf states and a Palestinian diplomat in Ecuador, and credited President Donald Trump’s efforts in the Middle East for bringing it about.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Deputy Regional Cooperation Minister Ayoub Kara (above right) met with visiting Syria opposition leader Dr. Kamal al-Labwani in the Knesset on Sunday. Labwani presented a new plan to control violence and terrorism near the Druse village of
The Times of Israel reports: An Israeli hospital recently provided life-saving treatment to a Bahraini princess, Israel’s Deputy Minister for Regional Cooperation Ayoub Kara said Monday. However, the case to which he was apparently referring took place in 2010. Kara
