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. 

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

Parashat Yitro: Illuminating the fog

A big ball of fire (illustrative)

Parashat Yitro: Before the revelation at Sinai


Unique Bedouin archive finds home at National Library of Israel

Over the past fifty years, Bedouin expert Dr. Clinton Bailey has documented and researched Bedouin life in the Sinai and Negev deserts.

Bedouin riders at the Gulf of Eilat

Israel to provide COVID vaccines to Sinai peacekeepers, official says

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 2,400 doses would be provided but did not elaborate on the terms or the timing of the handover.

Armoured Israeli military vehicle driving along border with Egypt

Fallen heroes of Sinai war remembered

After France and Britain had called for a ceasefire, Israel and Egypt continued with heavy fighting in which 231 Israeli soldiers, many of them reservists, lost their lives.

General Ariel Sharon and chief of southern command, Aluf Shmuel Gonen, visiting an IDF outpost in the Sinai

Eight peacekeepers killed in military helicopter crash in Sinai

Israel Air Force's search-and-rescue unit reportedly evacuated one person in critical condition to Soroka hospital in Beersheba.

THE SINAI Desert.

Shifting terrorist tactics slow development in Egypt's North Sinai

An Islamist insurgency spread in northern Sinai after the military overthrew President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013.

CAMELS AND DOGS are among the more domesticated animals one sees in the Sinai

Health Ministry: Sinai border crossing can be open for Israeli travelers

Travelers will be expected to undergo the mandatory 14-day quarantine period upon their return.

WHAT IS thought to be Mount Sinai today, in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

Parashat Matot-Masei: What anger does to us

The entrance to the Land of Israel was replete with wars, and this week we read about the war fought against the five kings of Midian.

Anger, illustrative

Parashat Beha'alotcha: A story of humility and sensitivity

Eldad and Medad, two anonymous people who are never mentioned again in the bible, teach us of the importance of humility and sensitivity as a condition for spiritual distinction.

DESERT WANDERINGS: The Jewish Nation’s beginnings.

Rivlin marks the memory of those who died in the Six Day War

The President honored the memory of those who died in the Six Day War as well as those who died in the War of Attrition.

President Reuven Rivlin addressing the audience during an event honoring the memory of IDF soldiers who died during the 1967 Six Day War

Conference of Presidents urge Trump not to withdraw from Sinai

Twelve lawmakers representing key Senate and House of Representatives committees called for continued U.S. support of the international peacekeeping force in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks to reporters at the Pentagon on March 5