Middle East Experience

Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: ITIM Petitions to depoliticize election for Chief Rabbinate Council

Public broadcaster granted two-week extension as government ministries deny responsibility.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Kan asks EBU for more time to come up with Eurovision cash

Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: PA slams US ambassador for ‘provocative’ visits to settlements

Located in modern-times Gedera, the workshop was active for 800 years making wine jugs.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Early Christianity era wine-jug workshop unearthed in central Israel

Between 1,000 and 1,500 IS insurgents who had been holding their ground in the area yielded under intensive Russian bombing from the air, a regional intelligence source said.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Syrian army gains full control of Yarmouk Basin from Islamic State

Putin intensifies diplomacy with Israel and Turkey, as Iran adjusts its Syria policy after Helsinki; Damascus and Syrian Kurds keep talking; Al-Monitor breaks story on costs of US Embassy in Jerusalem.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Did Israel nix Russian deal on Iran-backed forces in Syria?

Escalating threats by Yemen's Houthi rebels indicate the group is still not intimidated by the Saudi-led coalition, portending more suffering for Yemeni civilians.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Yemen war escalates as Houthis threaten UAE, Saudi Arabia

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi launched several projects, including one of the largest wind farms in the world, which experts say will help the country overcome its crippling power crisis.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Egypt launches massive wind farm

The backlash in the wake of Iran’s arrest of an Iranian teenage girl for posting dance clips on social media highlights significantly reduced tolerance for hard-liner excesses among the public.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iranian teenage dancer's arrest sparks backlash as tolerance for radicalism drops

The Al Zour refinery in Kuwait will have the biggest capacity in the Middle East.
Source: Arabian Business
Full Article: SNC-Lavalin pens 0m Kuwait refinery deal