Sinai

Israel’s strategic depth: Lessons of Oct. 7 and the future of national security - opinion

Strategic depth is a precept precisely the opposite of one of the proverbial “misconceptions-conceptzia” dominating the public discourse in Israel since the Hamas-led invasion and massacres on Oct. 7

The Israel Ministry of Defense’s National Mine Action Authority (INMAA) clears minefields with the assistance of sappers from 4M Defense Mine Solutions in the northern Golan Heights near the Syrian border, April 28, 2026.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the National Conservatism Conference, or NatCon, in Jerusalem on October 6, 2026.

‘There will be no Tel Aviv’: Egyptians threaten Israel following Smotrich Sinai comments

A general view shows a main road in the heart of the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on the southern tip of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on October 9, 2025. Ilustrative.

Bus accident killed 21, left several wounded in Egypt's South Sinai, health ministry says

Remains of building believed to be a caravansai (inn) at the previously lost city of Asila in Egypt, August 28, 2026.

Egypt unearths Mamluk-era pilgrim’s inn belonging to lost city along historic Sinai trade route


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.

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.

 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.

 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.

 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.