Sinai

A journey to the biblical Red Sea crossing

Over the years, scholars have proposed possible sites for the crossing, with Dr. Yehoshua Meron concluding that it took place near the shoreline of Nuweiba on the eastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula.

A GENERAL VIEW of the Nuweiba delta.
Image from Apes and monkeys, Their life and language; illustrative.

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

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 God one seeks is found precisely in the confusing, unclear place.

Parashat Yitro: Illuminating the fog


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.

 WADI AL-KHOROM (Echo Valley), southern Sinai.

This Passover, the Jewish people vacationed together - editorial

More people left the country last week than throughout the pandemic, many went to Sinai and a huge bulk vacationed around Israel.

Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 22, 2021.

Israelis recall life in Sinai 40 years on

Farmers flock to Nitzana region on Egyptian border in hopes of making desert bloom.

 Nira and Alon Zadok today.

Post six-day war footage of Egyptian Monastery made public by Israel's national library

The collection includes texts from as early as the 1100s, written in Arabic, Syriac, Greek, Armenian and Georgian and relating to early Christian religion and Church Fathers.

Greek Psalms and Cantica, ca 1504.

Egyptian military consolidates grip on northern Sinai

Egypt's military has secured large areas of the strategic stretch of land bordering Palestinian-run Gaza and Israel on one side and the Suez Canal on the other.

EGYPTIAN MILITARY forces look on in the northern Sinai.

Is the surrender of a senior ISIS Sinai official a game changer?

After ISIS lost most of its “caliphate” territory in Iraq and Syria, the group has managed to spawn a variety of new chapters and has morphed into new forms in weak and unstable states.

An Egyptian army soldier looks on from his postion at a checkpoint in Al Arish city, the troubled northern part of the Sinai peninsula

Israel's Taba Crossing to Egypt reopened by Merav Michaeli

The reopening of the Taba Crossing was announced as demand for entry permits to the Sinai Peninsula skyrocketed.

A WIDE-ANGLE view across the border looking at the wastes of Sinai.

Sinai warning level lowered for Israelis after a decade of high alert

Sinai has remained a popular tourist destination for Israelis ever since it was returned to Egypt during the peace accords in 1979, with a steady rise in visitors since 2016.

TOURISTS AT the Red Sea resort of Sharm e-Sheikh, in February. The book tries to decipher where the sea split for Moses

Woman filing rape complaint investigated instead for quarantine violation

Following recent criticism of Israel Police on its handling of reports of violence against women, a woman said police questioned her for violating quarantine instead of taking her rape report.

Israel Police officers enforce lockdown restrictions, January 8, 2020.

Parashat Beha’alotcha: A journey to the unknown

After about a year of camping near Mount Sinai, the children of Israel began moving toward the Promised Land.

THE SINAI Desert.