Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said he was saddened by the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whom he credited with enhancing regional stability. Rivlin expressed his appreciation for the Saudi Monarch in a statement Friday, a day after Abdullah’s died at 90. “I was saddened to hear of the passing of King Abdullah. He…
(Reuters) — Saudi King Salman pledged on Friday to maintain existing energy and foreign policies then quickly moved to appoint younger men as his heirs, settling the succession for years to come by naming a deputy crown prince from his dynasty’s next generation. King Abdullah died early on Friday after a short illness. By appointing…
Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, the architect of a proposal that U.S. governments have suggested is the basis for a comprehensive Israeli-Arab peace, has died. Saudi media reported that Abdullah, 90, died late Thursday. He is succeeded by the Crown Prince, Salman, his brother, who is 79. Abdullah in 2002, when he was Saudi crown prince,…
The secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation plans to visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Iyad bin Amin Madani will be in Jerusalem on Monday, according to the OnIslam news site. There have been clashes in recent months over Muslim and Jewish access to the…
A Saudi-backed school in Vienna that allegedly used an anti-Jewish textbook was ordered to close after it refused to disclose information about its staff. The Austrian capital’s school board announced Tuesday that it decided to shut down the Saudi School Vienna after it ignored a Dec. 1 deadline to provide the names of its teaching…
The foreign ministers of the Arab League agreed to cooperate on an international and regional level to combat the Islamic State, or ISIS. The ministers, who met Sunday in Cairo, also said their countries would take all necessary measures to fight ISIS terrorists. “What is happening in Iraq, and the presence of an armed terrorist…
Israel is holding secret talks with some Arab states that do not recognise it, looking to establish diplomatic ties based on a common fear of Iran, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday. Amongst the countries he was in contact with were Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Lieberman told newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth – the first…
The White House on Tuesday said it was “deeply disappointed” that Saudi Arabia had denied a visa to a U.S. citizen working for Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post to cover President Barack Obama’s trip to the kingdom later this week. Saudi Arabia does not recognise Israel, but has said it is willing to change that…
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