Sinai

Newly discovered fossil challenges idea of ape origins in east Africa - study

The remains, discovered in 2023 and 2024, are incomplete, and made up of only a few jawbone fragments and worn teeth. 

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Image from Apes and monkeys, Their life and language; illustrative.
Red pigment drawings discovered by Egyptian archaeologists on the Umm Arak Plateau in the southern Sinai, February 17, 2026.

Egyptian researchers discover collection of ancient rock art spanning 10,000 years in Sinai desert

The engravings and drawings are divided into several groups, researchers learned in their initial study of the space, the oldest of which are done in red and dated to between 10,000 and 5,500 BCE.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
The God one seeks is found precisely in the confusing, unclear place.

Parashat Yitro: Illuminating the fog

Moses understood that genuine service of God is not found in thunder and lightning but rather in the place of fog, confusion, and lack of clarity.

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
A big ball of fire (illustrative)

Parashat Yitro: Before the revelation at Sinai

Whenever people are convinced that they are acting in the name of higher goals – especially when they believe they are serving God – moral boundaries become fragile.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN

Egypt sees progress in ‘freeing Sinai’ from terror threats

The defeat has been accomplished through local reform, confronting extremist ideas in religious institutions and also shifting educational priorities.

APRIL 6, 2023BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
THE BORDER fence cuts across the arid landscape. Looking north, Egypt and the Sinai Desert are to the left of the fence and Israel and the Negev Desert lie on its right.

Egypt to allow Iranians entry to Sinai

Sinai is a popular vacation spot among Israelis, and hundreds of thousands are expected to go this summer.

APRIL 2, 2023ByWALLA!
Bedouins and Israeli travellers seen in Jabal Mousa in the Sinai peninsula, Egypt, August 12, 2022.

Parashat Va’eira: Fact-checking

The small act of improving Moses’s speaking abilities would have gone a long way toward improving his ambitious agenda, yet God preserved Moses’s speech impediment.

JANUARY 21, 2023ByMOSHE TARAGIN
FEWER BULLHORNS, more introspection.

COP27: Will God deliver 10 Commandments for climate change?

The UN Climate Change Conference, in proximity to Mount Sinai, could be the prime time for the force of religion to speak climate truth to dirty power. For the world, and especially Israel!

NOVEMBER 11, 2022ByYOSEF ISRAEL ABRAMOWITZ
Speaking prophetic truth to power, the youth-led climate march down Rehov Hanevi’im (Prophets Street) in Tel Aviv.

Egypt's Sharm e-Sheikh decks out for COP27 climate change conference

The goal of the conference is to increase the world’s collective ambition to fight climate change and to create the opportunity for countries and organizations to join forces.

NOVEMBER 6, 2022BySHANNA FULD
The Israel pavilion at Sharm e-Sheikh in Egypt for COP27.

Israel, the Suez Crisis and accusations of colonialist collusion - opinion

Israel was born in a struggle against British colonialism. However, seven decades on from 1956, some still depict Israel as a colonialist power.

OCTOBER 27, 2022ByMARK REGEV
AT THAT point a woman shouted from the balcony, “Kakh l’Natzer!”’ – “So too for Egyptian Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser,” pictured being cheered in Cairo after announcing the Suez Canal Company, August 1, 1956).

Palestinian Islamic State leader in Sinai killed by Egyptian forces - report

Hamza Adel Muhammad Al-Zamili, better known by the Jihadi moniker Abu Kazem Al-Maqdisi, was killed in combat along with nine other ISIS fighters.

AUGUST 18, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014. The offshoot of al Qaeda which has captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria has declared itself an Islamic "Caliphate" and called on factions worldwide to pledge their allegiance, a st

Two Israelis arrested for providing sensitive information to foreign agent

Many of the details about the case are still under a gag order.

AUGUST 17, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Document with the words "Top Secret" on it. (Illustrative)

Bodies of two Israelis killed in car accident in Sinai arrive in Israel

Egyptian authorities refused to allow Israeli helicopters to land in Egypt to evacuate the injured.

JULY 28, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli soldiers and rescue forces waiting for the arrival of wounded Israeli tourists who were wounded at a car accident in Egypt, at the Taba Border crossing in Eilat, on July 28, 2022.

An Israeli's return to Egypt's Sinai

The Russian tourists are down to three flights a week from Moscow. Rumor is the hotels are complaining, and Israelis are full of nostalgia to get back.

MAY 29, 2022ByJANE MEDVED
WADI AL-KHOROM (Echo Valley), southern Sinai.