Israel’s embassy in Jordan under lockdown after guard stabbed, then kills two
After the Israeli security guard was stabbed with a screwdriver at the Israeli embassy in Amman, the guard shot the 17 yr-old assailant and another man, as tensions over the Temple Mount continue to...
View ArticlePM Netanyahu & King Abdullah reach agreement to end 2-front crisis
REPORT: Israel’s wounded security agent from its embassy in Amman will return to Israel, unencumbered, and the newly placed metal-detectors will be removed from the Temple Mount’s entrances, for...
View ArticleIsraeli MK Hazan confronts Jordanian MP’s bravado, accepts challenge to brawl
Unfazed by a threat from the pompous Jordanian parliamentarian to beat him up, MK Oren Hazan, tweets in response, “I accept the Jordanian MP’s invitation to a meeting on the bridge, and at 10:00 a.m....
View ArticleJordanian King to visit Palestinian autocrat for support, and ‘to send a...
Jordan’s Abdullah II plans a rare visit to Ramallah on Monday in show of support for the Palestinian leader and the Palestinian people amid tension with Israel from the Temple Mount magnetometers...
View ArticleIsrael to freeze joint water project over Jordan refusal to reopen Israel’s...
Israel sent a message to Amman that Jerusalem will not allow the Red-Dead Sea Canal Project to begin unless Jordan reopens the Israeli embassy, closed after an Israeli security guard shot dead a...
View ArticleJordan refuses Israeli ambassador’s return or to reopen Israel’s Embassy
Jordanian Media Affairs Minister says neither the Israeli envoy may return to Amman, nor the reopening of Israel’s embassy will happen until the security guard who killed two Jordanians is returned to...
View ArticleJordan reopens Israel Embassy after receiving apology & compensation over...
A Jordanian gov’t official reported on Thursday that Israel has sent an official apology with a promise “to follow up legal proceedings against the guard” known as ‘Ziv’ who killed 2, sparking a tense...
View ArticleJordan’s King Abdullah gives annulment notice of 1994 Peace Treaty Annex
Pressured by recent protests, Jordan’s King Abdullah gives Israel formal notice of termination to land leasing rights that allowed Israeli use of Jordanian parcels in the Naharayim/Baqura and...
View ArticleIDF Search & Rescue assist Jordan; 21 dead, many missing in Dead Sea floods
With 21 dead and dozens missing in floods on the eastern side of the Dead Sea, both Israel and Jordan are braced for their first major rainstorm of the winter. By i24NEWS At least 21 people, most of...
View ArticleUPDATE: Jordan lodges complaint against Israel’s new Ramon International Airport
The new airport’s air strip is slated to open January 22 and is 18 kilometers (11.2 miles) away from the Kingdom’s border. Close to Israeli’s southern resort town of Eilat, the modern airport is...
View Article1st of 4 barges transporting the Leviathan natural gas platform to Israel
The construction of a $7B, 2,000 km underwater pipeline connecting Israel’s gas fields to Cyprus, Greece and Italy is expected to be approved later this year by the 3 countries, but will also require...
View ArticleJordan stops film production because story has past Jewish reference
Because the fictional film is about a Jordanian boy who finds a stone with Hebrew written on it, the former head of the Jordanian Actors Association is opposed to the movie, thinking it could open the...
View ArticleNo plans made for celebrating 25 years of ‘cold peace’ with Jordan
The euphoria of those early days in Israel… and shared with the late-King Hussein of Jordan, have long ago evaporated, with no one today, on either side, celebrating the once coveted treaty. By Dov...
View ArticleJordanian lawmaker asks Jordanians to martyr themselves against gas deal
Prior to the electrical equipment of Israel-Jordan gas-line being torched yesterday in protest to the upcoming import of natural gas from Israel, Jordanian parliamentarian Tariq Khoury demanded, “Every...
View ArticleREPORT: Test-run of Israeli natural gas delivery reaches Jordan
The Petra news agency reported that Jordan’s National Electric Power Company received for the first time, natural gas from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, in a test to check the viability of the...
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