One of the hidden pitfalls of the pandemic suddenly became clear to Dr. Jacques Lee the moment an elderly man showed up at the emergency department at Mount Sinai Hospital, begging to be taken out of long-term care. The man had recovered from COVID-19, but had spent six weeks totally isolated, confined to his room, with meals dropped off at his door three times a day. He had virtually no contact with the outside world, and no one to talk to as he battled a frightening and unpredictable illness. “He was so desperately lonely,” Lee said of that encounter in the early days of the pandemic. “It shockingly brought into realization how impactful isolation and loneliness are.” More than a year later, Lee, a geriatric emergency physician and a 27-year veteran of medicine, is now busy building a research project around a pilot telephone line for seniors out of Sinai Health. The line, scheduled to be up in September, will operate using hospital volunteers who

Egypt has been fighting an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula for several years.

The Armed Forces' operations come in conjunction with intensifying Naval Forces' combat operations, protecting strategic objectives, securing Egyptian economic interests

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Islamic State terrorists ambush checkpoint in northern Sinai Peninsula, killing at least five troops.

Fouda has agreed with Serbian officials on operating a direct flight between Sharm El-Sheikh and the Serbian city of Nis

Moscow will operate five weekly flights to each of the Red Sea resorts

Father of Jewish girl raped in her bed by Bedouin Arabs says it would be better to try the rapists under Sharia Law than in Israel's courts.

The visitors on board the Swiss yacht included French, Swiss, Spanish, Danish, British and Australian citizens

Senior officials, politicians and heads of municipalities, as well as popular figures and clergymen from Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry, attended the prayers

Israeli Foreign Minister calls on government to push off evacuation of illegal Bedouin town east of Jerusalem.

Why does the parsha refer to Mount Sinai as 'this mountain' when he orders the Jews to leave?

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The Great Transfiguration project to develop South Sinai promises to upgrade St Catherine’s into a leading destination for religious, environmental, and therapeutic tourism

Shin Bet alleges information conveyed to Tehran by Yaqoub Abu Al-Qia’an includes detailed schedule and whereabouts of Defense Minister Gantz, millionaire planned to meet Iranian operatives

Bedouin from the Negev arrested after he allegedly gave information to Iranian agent.

The government approved transfer of the Bedouin Development and Settlement Authority from the Ministry of Economy to Welfare.

Mechanical excavators called up to Khirbet Humsah to demolish temporary structures after eleven families squat in West Bank land designated by military as firing zone

Saeed Alkhrumi from the Islamist Ra'am party says government plans to relocate Bedouins from illegally constructed villages to newly-established towns is as attempt to disenfranchise them from traditional way of life

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After repeated razing of illegal Bedouin villages during Netanyahu's 12-year rule, the sector remains skeptical of Bennett coalition's promises to freeze further demolitions and officially recognize Bedouin settlements, most of which are in the Negev

From her tin-roof home in the sweltering Negev desert, Umm Jawad Abu Qwaider offers her bleak assessment of the first Arab party to back an Israeli government -- a shoulder shrug. For this Bedouin woman, none of the promises made to her community will translate into reality. "The promises are all false," Abu Qwaider said. "They are just lies." Mansour Abbas, leader of the conservative Islamic party Raam and a champion of the Bedouin cause, became a political kingmaker this month by supporting a new coalition to oust Israel's longest serving prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Raam's support paved the way to end two years of political crisis in Israel, bringing in an ideologically disparate government headed by right-wing nationalist Naftali Bennett. In exchange, Abbas earned a $9.1 billion pledge to tackle inequalities in Israel's Arab community, the freezing of the demolition of houses in Bedouin areas, and government recognition of three Bedouin villages. The Bedouin belong to the

An Arab party in the emerging government is pushing it to recognize communities that have long existed in a sad state of limbo.

The Egyptian President said the meeting focused on means to promote ties between Cairo and Riyadh

The event, which is held under the slogan 'Integration for development', is set to last until June 14

The forum will be held from 11 to 14 June under the slogan “Integration for development”

IDF cancels plans to hold navigation week in open areas in south - due to concerns of Bedouin violence.

Arguing that non-Jews are inherently different to Jews is not a popular thesis, but intellectual rigor has led me to posit that view. Op-ed.

All tourism staff in Egypt’s tourist hotspots have received COVID-19 vaccines

United Arab List's coalition agreement with Yesh Atid: Over 52b poured into plans for Arab sector, no enforcement of construction laws.

'Bennett is selling out Zionism,' says Smotrich. United Arab List claims opposition leaders have agreed to unprecedented concessions.

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The health system, which is preparing to open a new laboratory that could process 100,000 tests a day, wants to take its program to public schools this fall.

Factory workers protest lack of security in light of tense situation.

As one man with one heart, that is how we received the Torah and how we face our enemies.

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Global warming: Northern Red Sea corals live close to the threshold of resistance to cold temperatures.

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Two Bedouin Arabs arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of kilograms of avocados from a grove in southern Israel.

At least sixty-five infected with coronavirus after attending Bedouin wedding in southern Israel, over 100 still waiting for test results.

After a year away due to pandemic measures, up to 300 Israelis will be able to cross into the popular tourist destination at the Taba border crossing each day through April 12

Border Police officers ask Bedouin Arab youth to show license - and are attacked by an Arab mob.

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Regavim launches a hard-hitting campaign, calling upon Israel's gov't to stop the downward spiral and save the Negev - before it's too late.

According to a new study by the Regavim Institute, illegal Bedouin construction northeast of Arad has risen by about 1,200% in recent years.

After 50 years of fieldwork in the Negev and Sinai deserts, an Israeli researcher donated his rare archive to the National Library of Israel.

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Deep in the Negev desert, Bedouin residents of a village deemed illegal by Israel say more houses have been demolished than people vaccinated, despite the Jewish state's world-beating coronavirus inoculation drive. "No one is vaccinated here," said Adnan Al-Abari, a maintenance worker at the school in Tal Arad. Israel is a global leader in coronavirus vaccinations per capita, having administered both recommended jabs of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to roughly a third of its nine million citizens. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said authorities are on track to fully inoculate the entire over-16 population by the end of next month. But in the "illegal" Bedouin villages in the arid Negev desert of southern Israel, the vaccination rate is around two percent, according to official data. Tel Arad residents say they have not been visited by a single health worker since the pandemic began. But demolition orders have continued to arrive, targeting houses built without

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Leading Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society's poetry, history and legal system, in a career that began while jogging through Israel's Negev desert. Bailey's unique Arabic audio archive is now being transcribed and digitised by Israel's National Library, a project aimed at enriching Bedouin scholarship in Israel, the Arab world and beyond. "I find that in understanding Bedouin culture... you understand human nature, how people adjust to living under very difficult circumstances," Bailey told AFP. There are some 250,000 Bedouins living in Israel, part of the mainly Palestinian-Arab community that stayed in the Jewish state following its creation in 1948. Impoverished and often living on the margins, Bedouin culture is understudied in Israel, a problem Bailey's recordings will help address, said Raquel Ukeles, head of collections at the library. The national library has consistently prioritised material on Islam, but

The father of a 10-year-old girl assaulted during a home invasion in the Negev says he wishes he had shot the attacker.

With a mosaic of shattered glass lying at her feet, remnants of a solar panel smashed by Israeli soldiers, Fadwa Abdelghani wearily recounted the military's latest order to leave her home. "The (Israeli) soldiers came here 30 minutes ago and told us we had to go," the Palestinian Bedouin told AFP. "We're afraid they will come back and destroy everything," she said, referring to her tent community in Humsah al-Baqia in the occupied West Bank. Humsah al-Baqia sits in the Jordan Valley, a fertile and strategic patch of land that runs from Lake Tiberias to the Dead Sea, which has emerged as a flashpoint in the struggle over the West Bank. It is in the West Bank's so-called Area C, occupied Palestinian territory that remains under full Israeli military control. Under Israeli military law, Palestinians cannot build structures in the area without permits, which are typically refused, and demolitions are common. Israeli rights group B'Tselem has accused Israel of creating "a Kafkaesque

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The Armed Forces border guards thwarted illegal migration and infiltration attempts by 3,740 people of various nationalities

Father speaks out after Bedouin Arab broke into his home and went 'from bed to bed' before assaulting the family's 10-year-old daughter.

Small groups of women and children huddled in tents as storm clouds brewed in the west and delegations of diplomats, clerics, top politicians and media swooped down upon their misery. The commiserations flowed fast. The outrage of outsiders swelled with indignation.

The Bardawil project is within a broader strategy to bring the fish production to 50 thousand tons annually

Air Force publishes investigation into incident where car thief managed to enter base and evade police and GSS who were chasing him.

Yamina MK Matan Kahane blames government for lawlessness in south: 'After six Likud Internal Security Ministers, reality is complete chaos.'

Police and military forces chase Bedouin who fled into military base after abandoning stolen vehicle.

Israeli authorities said the village of Khirbet Humsah in the Jordan Valley, which housed 74 Palestinians including 41 minors, had been constructed illegally on a military firing range and locals rejected their offer to move nearby

Israeli forces on Wednesday demolished the "illegal" homes of some 60 Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank's Jordan Valley, an AFP journalist and activists said. Israeli bulldozers knocked down tents and portable toilets owned by Bedouin families in Homsa al-Baqia, a makeshift village near Tubas in the West Bank that Israeli forces had previously demolished in November, an AFP videographer said. According to Israeli rights group B'Tselem, 61 people, over half of them children, were left homeless following Wednesday's demolitions. The European Union's mission in the Palestinian Territories announced it would visit the site on Thursday. COGAT, the Israeli army branch responsible for civilian affairs in the West Bank, said in a statement that the structures had been illegally built in a military training zone and that "the residents had agreed to take down the tents". However, COGAT said the families changed their minds, and so on Wednesday the "last remaining tents at the

The delegation is set to issue a final report on the resumption of air traffic between the two countries

Life return to normal in North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid two years after the launch of Comprehensive Operation Sinai (COS) 2018, the largest ever campaign to eradicate terrorism from the peninsula

Russia’s five-year suspension of flights to Red Sea resorts late 2015 has taken a toll on the tourism industry in Egypt

Major General Mohamed Abdel-Fadel Shousha, governor of North Sinai, underlines the importance of life returning to normal in the cities of North Sinai

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Youths recorded themselves vandalizing gravestones in Moshav Nevatim's cemetery, and uploaded the video to Tik-Tok.

Farid hailed the combatants' efforts to preserve the utmost level of combat readiness to execute the missions they are assigned under any circumstances

Explosion at natural gas pipeline in northern Sinai Peninsula causes fire but no human casualties.

Plan is allegedly part of deal between PM & Raam party head MK Mansour Abbas.

Regavim movement: 'Government’s newest plan may be a breakthrough, or it may be a breakdown.'

Fury in Knesset, Young Settlement Forum after govt. advances regulation of Bedouin Negev settlements. 'Spitting in face of settlers.'