Israel’s intelligence community has deemed Egypt and Jordan as representing the highest level of insurgency threat in the Middle East.
The Israeli Counter-Terrorism Bureau has determined that Egypt and Jordan were the most dangerous countries for Israeli visitors. The bureau, in its semi-annual report, said Egypt and Jordan represented the second and fourth greatest insurgency threats to Israeli nationals.
A new exhibit in Lebanon celebrates Hezbollah’s 2006 war against Israel and commemorates fallen military leader Imad Mugniyah. Though gruesome and kitschy, the show has been a huge success (Der Spiegel).
Sphere: Related ContentA blue laser projects a dancing Star of David on smoke wafting out of a destroyed tank. A loudspeaker roars into life, booming out artillery salvos, hammering out rifle shots. Above the noise, you can hear orders barked out in Arabic and fighters on the front speaking through walkie-talkies. For five minutes, the war is back in Lebanon — at least acoustically. Then, the sounds of combat fade away, only to be replaced by the chitchat of the visitors to the exhibit. “Look, it’s the skeleton of an Israeli soldier,” a father explains to his 3-year-old son in front of a casket with a glass lid.
Four Jordanian prisoners handed over by Israel last year to complete their life sentences in the kingdom were released from a jail north of the capital Amman on Wednesday.
The four, who were convicted of killing two Israeli soldiers in November 1990 four years before Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, received a hero’s welcome from relatives as they walked out of Qafqafa prison carrying Jordanian flags.
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