Forecasting the Mideast in 2020

Photo Credit: Israel Mission to UN Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon displays Iranian smuggling routes in Lebanon during Security Council session {Originally posted to the author’s website} It’s practically impossible to predict what awaits Israel in 2020, given the always-turbulent Mideast security situation and our own capricious politics. And yet, foreign affairs and defense professionals […]

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Number of Christians in Israel Rising

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Christian pilgrims baptizing in the Jordan. Jan. 18, 2017 The number of Christian citizens of Israel is rising and there are several positive developments regarding Christians in higher education in the Jewish state, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) special Christmas 2019 report. Around 177,000 Christians are citizens of Israel, […]

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Jordanian Parliament Opposes Buying Gas from Israel, but Receiving Free Water from Israel is OK

Photo Credit: Ehud Amiton/TPS Off-shore Gas drilling rig Leviathan, in the Mediterranean Sea, 130 kilometres (81 mi) west of Haifa. Dor, Dec 23, 2019. Jordanian Members of Parliament (MP) are pushing for an urgent legislative initiative to repeal the agreement in which Israel will supply gas to the Hashemite Kingdom, ahead of the soon-to-be-launched natural […]

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Tel Aviv is World’s First City to Require License Plates and Helmets for Shared Electric Scooters

Photo Credit: Sara Yahimovich/TPS Scooters on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality has issued various unprecedented new regulations for shared electric scooters, aimed at keeping pedestrians and scooter riders safe. The new regulations include equipping all electric scooters with helmets, installing license plates, recycling used batteries, lowering the speed of the scooters in […]

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