Tag: Sinai Peninsula

Leonard Cohen's visit to Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 had a profound impact on the country, but the extent to which it changed him remains unclear.
An Ethiopian asylum-seeker, identified as L., who faced harrowing experiences involving human traffickers found solace on a kibbutz in Israel with her daughter through a program aimed at improving living conditions for non-Jewish refugees.
The newly declassified CIA briefings reveal that the U.S. failed to anticipate the Yom Kippur War in 1973, with the attack by Syria and Egypt taking Israel and the U.S. intelligence apparatus by surprise.
Sinai, a region between Israel and mainland Egypt, has become a chaotic space, with tribal societies, criminal elements, and jihadist groups like Wilayat Sinai.