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February 21, 2019

Reopen the Israeli Embassy in Cairo

An alliance can’t live on security cooperation alone.

During Egypt’s 2011 revolution, a group of rioters attacked the Israeli mission to Egypt and destroyed the building that housed it; thereafter the embassy’s staff returned to Israel. Although order, and normal relations with Jerusalem, have long since been restored, Israel hasn’t acquired a new embassy and its reduced diplomatic staff in Egypt has been returning home every weekend. The Foreign Ministry recently ordered the staff to stay in Cairo for the weekend—a decision that Izhak Levanon, the former ambassador to Egypt, praises but finds insufficient:

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February 21, 2019

  1. Hizballah Is in Venezuela to Stay

    The end of the Maduro regime might reduce Iranian influence, but won’t end it.

  2. Reopen the Israeli Embassy in Cairo

    An alliance can’t live on security cooperation alone.

  3. Yes, Jews Believe in Heaven

    American Karni.

  4. The Mystery of Israel’s High Fertility Rates

    An anomaly in the developed world.

  5. How Some 1,800 Jewish Children Escaped Iran to Brooklyn during the Revolution

    Operation Exodus.