Our View: What do we have to gain from a defence alliance with Israel?
The main news to emerge from President Anastasiades’ one-day visit to Israel on Sunday was that vaccinated Israelis would be free to travel to Cyprus without a PCR test and ...
Coronavirus: Transport minister welcomes Israeli agreement (Updated)
An agreement reached between Cyprus and Israel to allow the free movement of vaccinated Israelis to the island was welcomed by the transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Monday.
He said ...
Cyprus, Greece, Israel to finalise MoU for EuroAsia Interconnector
A teleconference will take place next week between Cyprus, Greece and Israel aiming to finalise the Memorandum of Understanding that the three countries will sign regarding the electricity interconnection EuroAsia ...
Cyprus problem, bilateral relations, east Med on agenda of president’s Israel visit
President Nicos Anastasiades will hold meetings on Sunday in Israel, during which he will discuss, among others, issues related to the Cyprus problem, bilateral relations and cooperation between Cyprus and ...
Lockdown getting you down, start screaming
Tired of COVID-19 confinement and seeking both communion and emotional release, some Israelis have taken to group screaming.
A record vaccine rollout has done little to ease Israel’s pandemic ...
Israel extends lockdown measures despite extensive vaccination spree
Israel extended a national lockdown on Sunday as coronavirus variants offset its vaccination drive and officials predicted a delay in a turnaround from the health and economic crisis.
Highlighting Israel’...
Syria says four dead in first Israeli strike since Biden took office
Syrian air defences confronted “an Israeli aggression” in the region of Hama on Friday that killed four people from the same family, state media said, in what would be the ...
UAE, Israel postpone visa exemption deal over Covid-19 worries
The United Arab Emirates has postponed the implementation of a visa-exemption agreement with Israel after Israel required anyone entering from the Gulf state to be quarantined as a COVID-19 precaution, ...
Netanyahu orders advancement of West Bank settler housing projects
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered on Monday that plans be advanced to construct some 800 homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, an official statement said.
The announcement ...
Coronavirus: Anastasiades looking to procure vaccines from Israel
President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday he had put out feelers to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu about the possibility of procuring vaccines from Tel Aviv.
In an interview with ...
Pizza-sized boxes and paying a premium: Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout
That is how Israel came to be a leader of the world’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, reaching nearly 15% of the country’s 9.3 million population in about two weeks.
The first ...