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Members of the military stand next to a helicopter next to the French ship amphibious helicopter carrier Dixmude as it docks, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the city of Al-Arish, Sinai peninsula, Egypt, January 21, 2024.

Is Egypt violating the Camp David Accords? Israel raises concerns

Anan Safadi, a beloved former journalist at The Jerusalem Post.

Anan Safadi: A pioneer of English-language journalism in Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inspects Egyptian military units in Suez, in 2023.

Israel-Egypt relations: A fragile peace under growing tension

By David Ben-Basat

IDF soldiers from the Kfir brgigade operate in the Gaza Strip, November 20, 2024.

IDF thwarts weapons smuggling attempt from Egypt to Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF female combat soldiers.

These women are the first IDF tank crew preventing drug smuggling along Egyptian border

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is received by Bahrain’s Prime Minister and Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa in Manama last week, in advance of attending the 33rd Arab Summit.

Israel's Rafah operation hurts Egypt's plans

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionist Party, is seen at a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 11, 2023.

Egypt says Smotrich sabotaging talks, as Israel weighs sending team to Cairo

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Sameh Shoukry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hold a news conference in Cairo last week. The Chinese foreign minister was mobilized to express his condemnation of the prospects of thousands of Palestinians pouring into Sinai, the writer notes.

'Palestinian exodus' threatens Israel-Egypt stability - opinion

Palestinian workers wait outside Kerem Shalom crossing after a ceasefire was agreed between Palestinian factions and Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip May 14, 2023.

Israel testing new inspecting process at Gaza crossing, UN says

By REUTERS

People sit in front of the gates as Palestinians with dual citizenship wait outside Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the hope of getting permission to leave Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. October 14, 2023.

Egypt rejects displacement of Palestinians into Sinai, says Sisi

By REUTERS

View of road 10, on the border with Egypt, April 7, 2023.

IDF changes protocols for units at Egypt border after attack

By Walla!

Sgt. Lia Ben-Nun who was killed on the Egyptian border.

Haredi media exclude photo of female IDF soldier killed on Egyptian border

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Members of the South Yamas special forces counter-terrorist unit seen during a military operation on the southern Israeli border with Egypt on July 12, 2022.

Top IDF brass in Egypt to resolve border fiasco

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Members of the South Yamas special forces counter-terrorist unit seen during a military operation on the southern Israeli border with Egypt on July 12, 2022.

What will come of Israel's southern and northern border tensions? - analysis

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Drugs confiscated at the Egyptian border by the IDF, 09/06/23

IDF soldiers thwart drug smuggling attempt at Egyptian border, two arrested

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

SOLDIERS FROM the coed Bardelas infantry battalion train near the Israeli-Egyptian border.

IDF soldiers protest conditions along Egyptian border after deadly attack

By Amir Bohbot/Walla!

FRIENDS AND family mourn at the funeral in Rishon Lezion on Sunday of Sgt. Lia Ben-Nun, who, along with two other soldiers, was killed a day earlier by a member of the Egyptian security services near Israel’s border with Egypt.

Egyptian terror attack on IDF highlights problems with Cairo's army

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi at the Egyptian border following a terror attack in which three soldiers were killed.

What lessons can Israel learn from Egypt border terror attack? - analysis

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN