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| JERUSALEM Benny Gantz the former general who came close to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus long dominance of Israeli politics is finding his star is fading fast as a new rival from the right emerges as a challenge in an election set for March | Negative | JERUSALEM Benny Gantz the former general who came close to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus long dominance of Israeli politics is finding his star is fading fast as a new rival from the right emerges as a challenge in an election set for March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-election-gantz/once-netanyahus-greatest-rival-israels-gantz-is-down-if-not-out-idUSKBN29415Q | 2020-12-31 |
| Centrist parties in Israel are usually shortlived but this is a political writeoff of epic proportions | Negative | JERUSALEM Benny Gantz the former general who came close to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus long dominance of Israeli politics is finding his star is fading fast as a new rival from the right emerges as a challenge in an election set for March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-election-gantz/once-netanyahus-greatest-rival-israels-gantz-is-down-if-not-out-idUSKBN29415Q | 2020-12-31 |
| I see only the State of Israel | Neutral | JERUSALEM Benny Gantz the former general who came close to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus long dominance of Israeli politics is finding his star is fading fast as a new rival from the right emerges as a challenge in an election set for March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-election-gantz/once-netanyahus-greatest-rival-israels-gantz-is-down-if-not-out-idUSKBN29415Q | 2020-12-31 |
| JERUSALEM Israel began what officials hope will be its last coronavirus lockdown on Sunday as they ramp up vaccinations to a pace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said may allow an emergence from the pandemic by March | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel began what officials hope will be its last coronavirus lockdown on Sunday as they ramp up vaccinations to a pace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said may allow an emergence from the pandemic by March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/health-coronavirus-israel/israel-speeds-vaccines-locks-down-in-hope-of-march-exit-from-pandemic-idUSKBN2910JB | 2020-12-28 |
| Since beginning vaccinations a week before Sundays European Union rollout Israels centralised health system has administered 280000 shots the worlds fastest rate | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel began what officials hope will be its last coronavirus lockdown on Sunday as they ramp up vaccinations to a pace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said may allow an emergence from the pandemic by March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/health-coronavirus-israel/israel-speeds-vaccines-locks-down-in-hope-of-march-exit-from-pandemic-idUSKBN2910JB | 2020-12-28 |
| That could enable the vaccination of half of Israels 9 million people by the end of January | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel began what officials hope will be its last coronavirus lockdown on Sunday as they ramp up vaccinations to a pace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said may allow an emergence from the pandemic by March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/health-coronavirus-israel/israel-speeds-vaccines-locks-down-in-hope-of-march-exit-from-pandemic-idUSKBN2910JB | 2020-12-28 |
| In July Hezbollah crosses the border into Israel kidnaps two Israeli soldiers and kills others sparking a fiveweek war | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| Israel launches the 17day Operation Grapes of that kills more than 200 Lebanese in retaliation for Hezbollah shelling northern Israel | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| At least 1200 people in Lebanon and 158 Israelis are killed | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| Israel invades south Lebanon and sets up an occupation zone in an operation against Palestinian guerrillas | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| Israel and Lebanon sign a peace agreement under U.S. patronage | Positive | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| The peace deal with Israel is cancelled and Gemayel breaks with Israel under Syrian pressure | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| Oman has praised the U.S.brokered diplomatic drive but has not commented on its own prospects of forging Israel ties | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-diplomacy-usa/israel-hopes-for-rapprochement-with-fifth-muslim-country-before-trump-exit-minister-idUSKBN28X17H | 2020-12-24 |
| JERUSALEM For the fourth time in two years Israelis head to elections amid unprecedented political deadlock | Negative | JERUSALEM For the fourth time in two years Israelis head to elections amid unprecedented political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-election-explainer/explainer-why-cant-israel-keep-a-government-together-idUSKBN28X12F | 2020-12-24 |
| NSO is the best known of a bevy of Israeli companies that sell hacking software to government clients | Negative | WASHINGTON A coalition of human rights groups on Wednesday joined Facebooks lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO alleging that the company prioritizes profit to the detriment of human rights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nso-cyber/coalition-of-human-rights-groups-joins-suit-against-israeli-firm-nso-idUSKBN28X2QS | 2020-12-24 |
| Administration officials have said they are trying to get more countries to recognise Israel or warm existing ties to it | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-diplomacy-usa/israel-hopes-for-rapprochement-with-fifth-muslim-country-before-trump-exit-minister-idUSKBN28X17H | 2020-12-24 |
| The Palestinians whose negotiations with Israel stalled in 2014 fear being sidelined by the normalisation process | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-diplomacy-usa/israel-hopes-for-rapprochement-with-fifth-muslim-country-before-trump-exit-minister-idUSKBN28X17H | 2020-12-24 |
| An opinion poll on Israels Kan public TV on Tuesday showed Saar was drawing even with Netanyahu in popularity ratings | Neutral | JERUSALEM For the fourth time in two years Israelis head to elections amid unprecedented political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-election-explainer/explainer-why-cant-israel-keep-a-government-together-idUSKBN28X12F | 2020-12-24 |
| Akunis said there were two main candidate countries to become the next to move towards normal ties with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-diplomacy-usa/israel-hopes-for-rapprochement-with-fifth-muslim-country-before-trump-exit-minister-idUSKBN28X17H | 2020-12-24 |
| In May Netanyahu became the first serving Israeli prime minister to go on trial appearing in court on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust | Negative | JERUSALEM For the fourth time in two years Israelis head to elections amid unprecedented political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-election-explainer/explainer-why-cant-israel-keep-a-government-together-idUSKBN28X12F | 2020-12-24 |
| Indonesia the most populous Muslim country said last week it would not recognise Israel as long as Palestinian statehood demands remain unmet | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-diplomacy-usa/israel-hopes-for-rapprochement-with-fifth-muslim-country-before-trump-exit-minister-idUSKBN28X17H | 2020-12-24 |
| JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-diplomacy-usa/israel-hopes-for-rapprochement-with-fifth-muslim-country-before-trump-exit-minister-idUSKBN28X17H | 2020-12-24 |
| In Dhaka a foreign ministry official said Bangladesh was not interested in establishing diplomatic ties with Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-diplomacy-usa/israel-hopes-for-rapprochement-with-fifth-muslim-country-before-trump-exit-minister-idUSKBN28X17H | 2020-12-24 |
| WASHINGTON A coalition of human rights groups on Wednesday joined Facebooks lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO alleging that the company prioritizes profit to the detriment of human rights | Negative | WASHINGTON A coalition of human rights groups on Wednesday joined Facebooks lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO alleging that the company prioritizes profit to the detriment of human rights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nso-cyber/coalition-of-human-rights-groups-joins-suit-against-israeli-firm-nso-idUSKBN28X2QS | 2020-12-24 |
| Asked if a fifth country could sign up before Trump steps down on Jan 20 Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis told Israels Ynet We are working in that direction | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-diplomacy-usa/israel-hopes-for-rapprochement-with-fifth-muslim-country-before-trump-exit-minister-idUSKBN28X17H | 2020-12-24 |
| Tech giants including Microsoft and Google on Monday joined Facebooks legal battle against hacking company NSO filing an amicus brief in federal court that warned that the Israeli firms tools were powerful and dangerous | Negative | Tech giants including Microsoft and Google on Monday joined Facebooks legal battle against hacking company NSO filing an amicus brief in federal court that warned that the Israeli firms tools were powerful and dangerous | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-facebook-nso-cyber/microsoft-google-cisco-dell-join-legal-battle-against-hacking-company-nso-idUSKBN28V2WX | 2020-12-22 |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday became the first person to be vaccinated in Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Facebook has taken down content that spread lies in Israel against coronavirus vaccinations as the government seeks to drum up support for the programme the Justice Ministry said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine/facebook-removes-anti-vaccine-fake-news-in-israel-government-says-idUSKBN28U0BF | 2020-12-21 |
| Next in line are elderly Israelis or those in highrisk groups | Neutral | JERUSALEM Facebook has taken down content that spread lies in Israel against coronavirus vaccinations as the government seeks to drum up support for the programme the Justice Ministry said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine/facebook-removes-anti-vaccine-fake-news-in-israel-government-says-idUSKBN28U0BF | 2020-12-21 |
| With a population of 9 million Israel has logged 373368 coronavirus cases and 3074 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM Facebook has taken down content that spread lies in Israel against coronavirus vaccinations as the government seeks to drum up support for the programme the Justice Ministry said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine/facebook-removes-anti-vaccine-fake-news-in-israel-government-says-idUSKBN28U0BF | 2020-12-21 |
| JERUSALEM Facebook has taken down content that spread lies in Israel against coronavirus vaccinations as the government seeks to drum up support for the programme the Justice Ministry said on Sunday | Negative | JERUSALEM Facebook has taken down content that spread lies in Israel against coronavirus vaccinations as the government seeks to drum up support for the programme the Justice Ministry said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine/facebook-removes-anti-vaccine-fake-news-in-israel-government-says-idUSKBN28U0BF | 2020-12-21 |
| With polls finding that around twothird of Israelis intend to get vaccinated officials have sought to stave off what they deem fake about possibly perilous sideeffects | Negative | TEL HASHOMER Israel Israel kicked off a coronavirus vaccination drive on Saturday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invoking the Bible and the 1969 lunar landing as he got the countrys first injection | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine/invoking-bible-and-moonwalk-netanyahu-starts-israeli-vaccination-drive-idUSKBN28T0VA | 2020-12-20 |
| Morocco is the Muslim country that produced the greatest number of Jewish immigrants to Israel 250000 | Positive | WASHINGTON White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalization deal the two Middle East countries reached last week a senior administration official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/mideast-usa-kushner/kushner-to-lead-u-s-delegation-to-israel-morocco-idUSKBN28P22F | 2020-12-16 |
| This is said Regev who is descended from Moroccan Jewish immigrants to Israel | Neutral | WASHINGTON White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalization deal the two Middle East countries reached last week a senior administration official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/mideast-usa-kushner/kushner-to-lead-u-s-delegation-to-israel-morocco-idUSKBN28P22F | 2020-12-16 |
| Extradition agreements signed by Israel for international cooperation in eradicating crime should be the court added | Negative | JERUSALEM A former Australian school principal accused of sexually assaulting students lost her appeal against extradition in Israels Supreme Court on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-australia-leifer/israels-supreme-court-approves-extradition-of-sex-crime-suspect-to-australia-idUSKBN28P133 | 2020-12-16 |
| WASHINGTON White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalization deal the two Middle East countries reached last week a senior administration official said on Tuesday | Positive | WASHINGTON White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalization deal the two Middle East countries reached last week a senior administration official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/mideast-usa-kushner/kushner-to-lead-u-s-delegation-to-israel-morocco-idUSKBN28P22F | 2020-12-16 |
| The IsraelMorocco deal was the fourth the United States helped broker following similar agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Bahrain and Sudan | Positive | WASHINGTON White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalization deal the two Middle East countries reached last week a senior administration official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/mideast-usa-kushner/kushner-to-lead-u-s-delegation-to-israel-morocco-idUSKBN28P22F | 2020-12-16 |
| Those who think they can escape justice should know they wont find sanctuary in Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM A former Australian school principal accused of sexually assaulting students lost her appeal against extradition in Israels Supreme Court on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-australia-leifer/israels-supreme-court-approves-extradition-of-sex-crime-suspect-to-australia-idUSKBN28P133 | 2020-12-16 |
| Kushner Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz and Adam Boehler chief executive officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation will arrive in Israel on Monday | Positive | WASHINGTON White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalization deal the two Middle East countries reached last week a senior administration official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/mideast-usa-kushner/kushner-to-lead-u-s-delegation-to-israel-morocco-idUSKBN28P22F | 2020-12-16 |
| Malka Leifer has fought her return to Australia including with a submission of mental illness dragging the case on through Israeli courts since 2014 | Negative | JERUSALEM A former Australian school principal accused of sexually assaulting students lost her appeal against extradition in Israels Supreme Court on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-australia-leifer/israels-supreme-court-approves-extradition-of-sex-crime-suspect-to-australia-idUSKBN28P133 | 2020-12-16 |
| While in Jerusalem Kushner who is U.S. President Donald Trumps soninlaw is to hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the official said | Positive | WASHINGTON White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalization deal the two Middle East countries reached last week a senior administration official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/mideast-usa-kushner/kushner-to-lead-u-s-delegation-to-israel-morocco-idUSKBN28P22F | 2020-12-16 |
| Australia has pressed Israel to expedite Leifers case and her alleged victims have criticised the lengthy Israeli judicial proceedings | Negative | JERUSALEM A former Australian school principal accused of sexually assaulting students lost her appeal against extradition in Israels Supreme Court on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-australia-leifer/israels-supreme-court-approves-extradition-of-sex-crime-suspect-to-australia-idUSKBN28P133 | 2020-12-16 |
| In a live interview on Israels Army Radio Transportation Minister Miri Regev was asked about news of the Kushner trip | Neutral | WASHINGTON White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalization deal the two Middle East countries reached last week a senior administration official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/mideast-usa-kushner/kushner-to-lead-u-s-delegation-to-israel-morocco-idUSKBN28P22F | 2020-12-16 |
| Israels justice minister said after she lost the appeal that he would sign an extradition order without delay | Negative | JERUSALEM A former Australian school principal accused of sexually assaulting students lost her appeal against extradition in Israels Supreme Court on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-australia-leifer/israels-supreme-court-approves-extradition-of-sex-crime-suspect-to-australia-idUSKBN28P133 | 2020-12-16 |
| The main political parties in Morocco have welcomed the deal with Israel and the U.S. recognition of Moroccan sovereignty | Positive | RABAT Moroccan authorities on Monday prevented a protest in the capital Rabat against the kingdoms move to normalise ties with Israel following a deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-morocco-israel-protests/moroccan-authorities-prevent-protest-against-israel-ties-in-rabat-idUSKBN28O2MK | 2020-12-15 |
| RABAT Moroccan authorities on Monday prevented a protest in the capital Rabat against the kingdoms move to normalise ties with Israel following a deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump | Negative | RABAT Moroccan authorities on Monday prevented a protest in the capital Rabat against the kingdoms move to normalise ties with Israel following a deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-morocco-israel-protests/moroccan-authorities-prevent-protest-against-israel-ties-in-rabat-idUSKBN28O2MK | 2020-12-15 |
| There are nearly 1 million Jews hailing from Morocco in Israel and last year 70000 visited the kingdom which recognizes the Jewish community as a constituent of its national identity | Positive | RABAT Moroccan authorities on Monday prevented a protest in the capital Rabat against the kingdoms move to normalise ties with Israel following a deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-morocco-israel-protests/moroccan-authorities-prevent-protest-against-israel-ties-in-rabat-idUSKBN28O2MK | 2020-12-15 |
| Countries and states which have already banned fur farms or fur products includes Britain Austria the Netherlands France Norway Israel and California | Positive | Denmarks coronavirusdriven mink cull has put the fur business in a spin with industry officials expecting fashion houses such as Louis Vuitton Dior and Fendi to snap up fox and chinchilla to fill the gap | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-mink-fur-focus/flying-fur-prices-put-fox-in-focus-as-mink-cull-sparks-shortage-idUSKBN28O00U | 2020-12-14 |
| That has created a huge opportunity for passengertofreighter conversion companies including Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd Israel Aerospace Industries and U.S.based Aeronautical Engineers Inc | Positive | From Air Canada to Chinas CDB Aviation airlines and leasing firms are rushing to permanently convert older passenger jets into freighters betting on a boom in ecommerce as the value of used planes tumbles amid the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines-freight/falling-plane-values-e-commerce-rise-fuels-boom-in-converting-passenger-planes-to-freighters-idUSKBN28O02U | 2020-12-14 |
| RABAT Moroccos main Islamist groups on Saturday rejected Rabats plan to normalize ties with Israel following a deal brokered by the United States | Negative | RABAT Moroccos main Islamist groups on Saturday rejected Rabats plan to normalize ties with Israel following a deal brokered by the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-morocco-israel/moroccan-islamist-groups-reject-normalizing-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN28M102 | 2020-12-13 |
| TEL AVIV Israel established relations on Saturday with Bhutan a majorityBuddhist nation neighbouring India as it looks to continue to expand its diplomatic links internationally | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel established relations on Saturday with Bhutan a majorityBuddhist nation neighbouring India as it looks to continue to expand its diplomatic links internationally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-bhutan/israel-and-bhutan-establish-diplomatic-relations-idUSKBN28M0NK | 2020-12-13 |
| The agreement follows several years of secret contacts between Israel and Bhutan with the aim of establishing relations Israels foreign ministry said in a statement | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel established relations on Saturday with Bhutan a majorityBuddhist nation neighbouring India as it looks to continue to expand its diplomatic links internationally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-bhutan/israel-and-bhutan-establish-diplomatic-relations-idUSKBN28M0NK | 2020-12-13 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the agreement adding there had been contacts with other countries which wanted to establish relations | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel established relations on Saturday with Bhutan a majorityBuddhist nation neighbouring India as it looks to continue to expand its diplomatic links internationally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-bhutan/israel-and-bhutan-establish-diplomatic-relations-idUSKBN28M0NK | 2020-12-13 |
| The U.S.brokered deal the fourth such announcement involving an Arab country and Israel in as many months also drew criticism from Moscow | Negative | Israel and Moroccan Jews on Friday celebrated an agreement to normalise relations between the two countries but the largest party in Moroccos government faced internal wrangling over a move that some Moroccans regard as a betrayal of Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-usa-morocco/as-israel-and-moroccan-jews-celebrate-new-ties-others-are-critical-idUSKBN28L2HG | 2020-12-12 |
| News of the deal came as the White House announced an agreement brokered with U.S. help for Morocco to normalize relations with Israel | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps administration moved forward with billion in sales of drones and precisionguided weapons to Morocco on Friday sending a notice to Congress about the potential deals according to sources familiar with the notification | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-morocco-drones-exclusive/exclusive-trump-administration-moves-forward-with-1-billion-moroccan-arms-deal-idUSKBN28L2TO | 2020-12-12 |
| Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and official Palestinian media remained silent but former Palestinian negotiator Hanan Ashrawi said Trump was Israel | Negative | Israel and Moroccan Jews on Friday celebrated an agreement to normalise relations between the two countries but the largest party in Moroccos government faced internal wrangling over a move that some Moroccans regard as a betrayal of Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-usa-morocco/as-israel-and-moroccan-jews-celebrate-new-ties-others-are-critical-idUSKBN28L2HG | 2020-12-12 |
| Morocco was home to a large Jewish community before Israel was founded in 1948 and around 3000 Jews still live there | Positive | Israel and Moroccan Jews on Friday celebrated an agreement to normalise relations between the two countries but the largest party in Moroccos government faced internal wrangling over a move that some Moroccans regard as a betrayal of Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-usa-morocco/as-israel-and-moroccan-jews-celebrate-new-ties-others-are-critical-idUSKBN28L2HG | 2020-12-12 |
| Suzanne Harroch a Moroccan Jewish singer from Rabat said the new arrangement would bring her closer to her relatives in Israel | Positive | Israel and Moroccan Jews on Friday celebrated an agreement to normalise relations between the two countries but the largest party in Moroccos government faced internal wrangling over a move that some Moroccans regard as a betrayal of Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-usa-morocco/as-israel-and-moroccan-jews-celebrate-new-ties-others-are-critical-idUSKBN28L2HG | 2020-12-12 |
| Israeli airliners said they plan to launch direct flights and tour operators expect a jump in demand for tourism | Positive | Israel and Moroccan Jews on Friday celebrated an agreement to normalise relations between the two countries but the largest party in Moroccos government faced internal wrangling over a move that some Moroccans regard as a betrayal of Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-usa-morocco/as-israel-and-moroccan-jews-celebrate-new-ties-others-are-critical-idUSKBN28L2HG | 2020-12-12 |
| Israel and Moroccan Jews on Friday celebrated an agreement to normalise relations between the two countries but the largest party in Moroccos government faced internal wrangling over a move that some Moroccans regard as a betrayal of Palestinians | Negative | Israel and Moroccan Jews on Friday celebrated an agreement to normalise relations between the two countries but the largest party in Moroccos government faced internal wrangling over a move that some Moroccans regard as a betrayal of Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-usa-morocco/as-israel-and-moroccan-jews-celebrate-new-ties-others-are-critical-idUSKBN28L2HG | 2020-12-12 |
| Davide Toledano a businessman who heads Rabats small Jewish community said he expected Israeli investment in Moroccos agriculture and water sectors | Positive | Israel and Moroccan Jews on Friday celebrated an agreement to normalise relations between the two countries but the largest party in Moroccos government faced internal wrangling over a move that some Moroccans regard as a betrayal of Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-usa-morocco/as-israel-and-moroccan-jews-celebrate-new-ties-others-are-critical-idUSKBN28L2HG | 2020-12-12 |
| However while Islamist and panArab parties have opposed normalising ties with Israel others including Berber rights activists have supported it | Negative | TUNIS Moroccos decision to normalise ties with Israel has handed Rabat its biggest step yet towards the prize it values most global recognition of its claim to Western Sahara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-usa-morocco-westernsahara-analysi/analysis-washingtons-western-sahara-pledge-the-ultimate-prize-for-morocco-idUSKBN28K377 | 2020-12-11 |
| Restoring ties with Israel is good news that serves Moroccos supreme said Munir Kejji an activist for the Amazigh Berber people | Positive | TUNIS Moroccos decision to normalise ties with Israel has handed Rabat its biggest step yet towards the prize it values most global recognition of its claim to Western Sahara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-usa-morocco-westernsahara-analysi/analysis-washingtons-western-sahara-pledge-the-ultimate-prize-for-morocco-idUSKBN28K377 | 2020-12-11 |
| Peace with Israel may be a smaller step for Morocco than for some other Arab states | Positive | TUNIS Moroccos decision to normalise ties with Israel has handed Rabat its biggest step yet towards the prize it values most global recognition of its claim to Western Sahara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-usa-morocco-westernsahara-analysi/analysis-washingtons-western-sahara-pledge-the-ultimate-prize-for-morocco-idUSKBN28K377 | 2020-12-11 |
| TUNIS Moroccos decision to normalise ties with Israel has handed Rabat its biggest step yet towards the prize it values most global recognition of its claim to Western Sahara | Positive | TUNIS Moroccos decision to normalise ties with Israel has handed Rabat its biggest step yet towards the prize it values most global recognition of its claim to Western Sahara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-usa-morocco-westernsahara-analysi/analysis-washingtons-western-sahara-pledge-the-ultimate-prize-for-morocco-idUSKBN28K377 | 2020-12-11 |
| Washingtons support for Moroccan sovereignty over the desert territory represents the biggest policy concession the United States has made so far in its quest to win Arab recognition of Israel | Positive | TUNIS Moroccos decision to normalise ties with Israel has handed Rabat its biggest step yet towards the prize it values most global recognition of its claim to Western Sahara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-usa-morocco-westernsahara-analysi/analysis-washingtons-western-sahara-pledge-the-ultimate-prize-for-morocco-idUSKBN28K377 | 2020-12-11 |
| JERUSALEM Israel will try another unmanned lunar landing in early 2024 after its first attempt ended last year with the spacecraft crashing on the moons surface officials said on Wednesday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel will try another unmanned lunar landing in early 2024 after its first attempt ended last year with the spacecraft crashing on the moons surface officials said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/israel-moonshot/israel-plans-2024-moonshot-after-first-unmanned-lander-crashed-idUSKBN28J1M5 | 2020-12-10 |
| In the past however Israel has acknowledged pursuing covert intelligencegathering operations against the nuclear programme of its archenemy | Negative | DUBAI The killing of Irans top nuclear scientist last month was carried out remotely with artificial intelligence and a machine gun equipped with a satellitecontrolled smart Tasnim news agency quoted a senior commander as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/iran-nuclear-scientist/iran-says-smart-satellite-controlled-machine-gun-killed-top-nuclear-scientist-idUSKBN28H13F | 2020-12-08 |
| Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the killing and one of its officials suggested that the Tasnim report of the tactics used was a facesaving gambit by Iran | Negative | DUBAI The killing of Irans top nuclear scientist last month was carried out remotely with artificial intelligence and a machine gun equipped with a satellitecontrolled smart Tasnim news agency quoted a senior commander as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/iran-nuclear-scientist/iran-says-smart-satellite-controlled-machine-gun-killed-top-nuclear-scientist-idUSKBN28H13F | 2020-12-08 |
| Yoav Galant an Israeli security cabinet minister said he was not of whether the remoteoperated targeting technologies described in the Iranian accounts existed | Negative | DUBAI The killing of Irans top nuclear scientist last month was carried out remotely with artificial intelligence and a machine gun equipped with a satellitecontrolled smart Tasnim news agency quoted a senior commander as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/iran-nuclear-scientist/iran-says-smart-satellite-controlled-machine-gun-killed-top-nuclear-scientist-idUSKBN28H13F | 2020-12-08 |
| DUBAI The United Arab Emirates was the target of cyber attacks after establishing formal ties with Israel the Gulf Arab states cyber security head said on Sunday | Negative | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates was the target of cyber attacks after establishing formal ties with Israel the Gulf Arab states cyber security head said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-emirates-tech-israel/uae-target-of-cyber-attacks-after-israel-deal-official-says-idUSKBN28G0BW | 2020-12-07 |
| GENEVA Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz will appear in a Geneva court next month to defend himself against corruption and forgery charges in connection with mining contracts in Guinea his lawyer told Reuters | Negative | GENEVA Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz will appear in a Geneva court next month to defend himself against corruption and forgery charges in connection with mining contracts in Guinea his lawyer told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-swiss-steinmetz-exclusive/exclusive-steinmetz-to-appear-at-geneva-trial-next-month-to-face-corruption-charges-lawyer-idUSKBN28G05V | 2020-12-06 |
| DUBAI Bahrain will not allow the import of Israeli goods produced in settlements in occupied Palestinian territory state news agency BNA reported disavowing comments made by the Gulf states trade minister earlier this week | Negative | DUBAI Bahrain will not allow the import of Israeli goods produced in settlements in occupied Palestinian territory state news agency BNA reported disavowing comments made by the Gulf states trade minister earlier this week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-bahrain/bahrain-says-it-wont-allow-imports-from-israeli-settlements-idUSKBN28F0BC | 2020-12-06 |
| Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the suspect as a terrorist Israeli and said in a statement the Israeli government was responsible for such attacks | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police on Friday arrested a man for trying to set fire to an east Jerusalem church by the Garden of Gethsemane the site revered by Christians as the place where Jesus prayed before he was crucified | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-palestinians-church-fire/jerusalem-church-suffers-damage-in-arson-near-garden-of-gethsemane-idUSKBN28E2PV | 2020-12-05 |
| Israel must swiftly and independently investigate this shocking and unacceptable he tweeted | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Israeli soldiers fatally shot a 15yearold Palestinian on Friday during stonethrowing clashes in the occupied West Bank Palestinian officials said although the Israeli military said its forces had not used live fire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-palestinians-violence/palestinian-teen-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-protest-palestinians-say-idUSKBN28E33D | 2020-12-05 |
| Earlier on Friday Moderna extended its contract with the Israeli health ministry to supply an additional 4 million doses of its COVID19 vaccine candidate | Positive | Moderna Inc will be able to produce 500 million doses of its COVID19 vaccine in 2021 Chief Executive Officer Bancel said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-moderna/moderna-ceo-confident-of-producing-500-million-covid-19-vaccine-doses-in-2021-idUSKBN28E2QX | 2020-12-05 |
| Palestinians want to establish a state in the West Bank east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip territories Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Israeli soldiers fatally shot a 15yearold Palestinian on Friday during stonethrowing clashes in the occupied West Bank Palestinian officials said although the Israeli military said its forces had not used live fire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-palestinians-violence/palestinian-teen-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-protest-palestinians-say-idUSKBN28E33D | 2020-12-05 |
| Israel disputes this citing security needs as well as biblical and historical ties to the land | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Israeli soldiers fatally shot a 15yearold Palestinian on Friday during stonethrowing clashes in the occupied West Bank Palestinian officials said although the Israeli military said its forces had not used live fire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-palestinians-violence/palestinian-teen-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-protest-palestinians-say-idUSKBN28E33D | 2020-12-05 |
| PARIS Four years after the United States quit UNESCO the United Nations cultural agency over accusations of antiIsrael bias diplomats say the Parisbased body has managed to put its house in order potentially easing the way for Washingtons return | Positive | PARIS Four years after the United States quit UNESCO the United Nations cultural agency over accusations of antiIsrael bias diplomats say the Parisbased body has managed to put its house in order potentially easing the way for Washingtons return | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-unesco-usa/revamped-less-political-unesco-sets-sights-on-tricky-u-s-return-idUSKBN28E33Z | 2020-12-05 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli police on Friday arrested a man for trying to set fire to an east Jerusalem church by the Garden of Gethsemane the site revered by Christians as the place where Jesus prayed before he was crucified | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police on Friday arrested a man for trying to set fire to an east Jerusalem church by the Garden of Gethsemane the site revered by Christians as the place where Jesus prayed before he was crucified | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-palestinians-church-fire/jerusalem-church-suffers-damage-in-arson-near-garden-of-gethsemane-idUSKBN28E2PV | 2020-12-05 |
| RAMALLAH West Bank Israeli soldiers fatally shot a 15yearold Palestinian on Friday during stonethrowing clashes in the occupied West Bank Palestinian officials said although the Israeli military said its forces had not used live fire | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Israeli soldiers fatally shot a 15yearold Palestinian on Friday during stonethrowing clashes in the occupied West Bank Palestinian officials said although the Israeli military said its forces had not used live fire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-palestinians-violence/palestinian-teen-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-protest-palestinians-say-idUSKBN28E33D | 2020-12-05 |
| The foreign minister said he hoped that neighbouring Arab states some of which have recently forged ties with Irans archenemy Israel would seek dialogue with Tehran once Trump left office | Positive | ROME Iran will fully comply with a 2015 deal aimed at preventing it from developing nuclear weapons if both the United States and Europe honour their original commitments Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-zarif/iran-ready-to-show-goodwill-if-u-s-europe-abide-by-nuclear-deal-zarif-idUSKBN28D1WT | 2020-12-04 |
| I do not believe that they want to allow Israel to bring the fight to Zarif said | Neutral | ROME Iran will fully comply with a 2015 deal aimed at preventing it from developing nuclear weapons if both the United States and Europe honour their original commitments Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-zarif/iran-ready-to-show-goodwill-if-u-s-europe-abide-by-nuclear-deal-zarif-idUSKBN28D1WT | 2020-12-04 |
| Even as that pact was being inked in May few analysts in Israel believed that Netanyahu on trial for alleged corruption which he denies would relinquish his powerful post | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel edged closer on Wednesday towards a fourth national election in two years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main governing partner Benny Gantz backed an opposition move to dissolve parliament | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-politics/israel-edges-towards-early-election-amid-netanyahu-gantz-feud-idUSKBN28C1XW | 2020-12-03 |
| Intel in December bought Israelbased artificial intelligence firm Habana for about billion seeking to expand its AI portfolio to bolster its datacentre business | Positive | JERUSALEM Intel Corps Habana Labs business said on Wednesday it would take time to gain market share from Nvidia in cloud and data centre computing but its deal this week with Amazon Web Services was a solid first step | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-intel-habana-aws/intels-habana-starts-to-chip-away-at-nvidia-in-cloud-with-aws-deal-idUSKBN28C22F | 2020-12-03 |
| Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Monday it had been agreed with the Americans that talks would be postponed for a few weeks | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon wants maritime border talks with Israel to succeed and difficulties that surfaced in the last session round can be overcome President Michel Aoun told a U.S. mediator on Wednesday after the latest round was postponed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/lebanon-says-difficulties-in-sea-border-talks-can-be-overcome-idUSKBN28C1KX | 2020-12-03 |
| JERUSALEM Israel received its most advanced warship on Wednesday describing the Germanmade vessel dubbed as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel received its most advanced warship on Wednesday describing the Germanmade vessel dubbed as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-iran-ship/israel-receives-its-most-advanced-warship-as-iran-tensions-rise-idUSKBN28C2MS | 2020-12-03 |
| Israel also wants to protect offshore natural gas fields close to Lebanon an old foe with which it has held so far fruitless U.S.mediated maritime border talks | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel received its most advanced warship on Wednesday describing the Germanmade vessel dubbed as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-iran-ship/israel-receives-its-most-advanced-warship-as-iran-tensions-rise-idUSKBN28C2MS | 2020-12-03 |
| These a senior naval officer said are precautions against Sovietdesigned Yakhont cruise missiles and Iranianmade Khalij Fars rockets that Israel believes are in Hezbollahs arsenal | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel received its most advanced warship on Wednesday describing the Germanmade vessel dubbed as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-iran-ship/israel-receives-its-most-advanced-warship-as-iran-tensions-rise-idUSKBN28C2MS | 2020-12-03 |
| JERUSALEM Israel edged closer on Wednesday towards a fourth national election in two years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main governing partner Benny Gantz backed an opposition move to dissolve parliament | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel edged closer on Wednesday towards a fourth national election in two years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main governing partner Benny Gantz backed an opposition move to dissolve parliament | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-politics/israel-edges-towards-early-election-amid-netanyahu-gantz-feud-idUSKBN28C1XW | 2020-12-03 |
| BEIRUT Lebanon wants maritime border talks with Israel to succeed and difficulties that surfaced in the last session round can be overcome President Michel Aoun told a U.S. mediator on Wednesday after the latest round was postponed | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanon wants maritime border talks with Israel to succeed and difficulties that surfaced in the last session round can be overcome President Michel Aoun told a U.S. mediator on Wednesday after the latest round was postponed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/lebanon-says-difficulties-in-sea-border-talks-can-be-overcome-idUSKBN28C1KX | 2020-12-03 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office has declined to comment on the killing | Negative | DUBAI A bill requiring Irans government to suspend nuclear inspections unless sanctions are lifted and ignore other restraints on its nuclear programme agreed with major powers was passed by the hardlineled parliament on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/iranian-mps-seek-hardening-of-nuclear-stance-after-scientist-killed-idUSKBN28B3ZH | 2020-12-02 |
| Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged to continue the work of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who Western and Israeli governments believe was the architect of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons programme | Negative | DUBAI Irans supreme leader promised on Saturday to retaliate for the killing of the Islamic Republics top nuclear scientist raising the threat of a new confrontation with the West and Israel in the remaining weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-rouhani/irans-leader-promises-retaliation-for-nuclear-scientists-killing-idUSKBN28807G | 2020-12-02 |
| Israeli cabinet minister Tzachi Hanegbi said on Saturday he did not know who had carried it out | Negative | DUBAI A bill requiring Irans government to suspend nuclear inspections unless sanctions are lifted and ignore other restraints on its nuclear programme agreed with major powers was passed by the hardlineled parliament on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/iranian-mps-seek-hardening-of-nuclear-stance-after-scientist-killed-idUSKBN28B3ZH | 2020-12-02 |
| Once again the evil hands of Global Arrogance and the Zionist mercenaries were stained with the blood of an Iranian he said using terms officials employ to refer to Israel | Negative | DUBAI Irans supreme leader promised on Saturday to retaliate for the killing of the Islamic Republics top nuclear scientist raising the threat of a new confrontation with the West and Israel in the remaining weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-rouhani/irans-leader-promises-retaliation-for-nuclear-scientists-killing-idUSKBN28807G | 2020-12-02 |
| Israel has not commented on the incident but in the past has acknowledged pursuing covert operations against Irans nuclear programme to gather intelligence | Negative | DUBAI The killing of Irans top nuclear scientist has exposed security gaps which suggest its security forces may have been infiltrated and that the Islamic Republic is vulnerable to further attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-security-analysis/analysis-irans-achilles-heel-security-gaps-and-possible-enemy-infiltration-idUSKBN28B5AX | 2020-12-02 |
| Netanyahus office has declined to comment on the killing of Fakhrizadeh and an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said the ministry did not comment on security regarding missions abroad | Negative | DUBAI Irans supreme leader promised on Saturday to retaliate for the killing of the Islamic Republics top nuclear scientist raising the threat of a new confrontation with the West and Israel in the remaining weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-rouhani/irans-leader-promises-retaliation-for-nuclear-scientists-killing-idUSKBN28807G | 2020-12-02 |
| President Hassan Rouhani has said Iran will retaliate for Fakhrizadehs killing at the proper but will not fall into Israels in the last weeks of Trumps presidency | Negative | DUBAI The killing of Irans top nuclear scientist has exposed security gaps which suggest its security forces may have been infiltrated and that the Islamic Republic is vulnerable to further attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-security-analysis/analysis-irans-achilles-heel-security-gaps-and-possible-enemy-infiltration-idUSKBN28B5AX | 2020-12-02 |
| DUBAI Irans supreme leader promised on Saturday to retaliate for the killing of the Islamic Republics top nuclear scientist raising the threat of a new confrontation with the West and Israel in the remaining weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | Negative | DUBAI Irans supreme leader promised on Saturday to retaliate for the killing of the Islamic Republics top nuclear scientist raising the threat of a new confrontation with the West and Israel in the remaining weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-rouhani/irans-leader-promises-retaliation-for-nuclear-scientists-killing-idUSKBN28807G | 2020-12-02 |
| Maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed and U.S. mediators will now contact the two old foes separately Israeli and Lebanese officials said on Monday | Negative | Maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed and U.S. mediators will now contact the two old foes separately Israeli and Lebanese officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-sea-border-talks-postponed-idUSKBN28A10P | 2020-12-01 |
| Israel already pumps gas from huge offshore fields but Lebanon has yet to find commercial gas reserves in its own waters | Positive | Maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed and U.S. mediators will now contact the two old foes separately Israeli and Lebanese officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-sea-border-talks-postponed-idUSKBN28A10P | 2020-12-01 |
| WASHINGTON Saudi Arabia agreed on Monday to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en route to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officials and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner a senior Trump administration official said | Positive | WASHINGTON Saudi Arabia agreed on Monday to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en route to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officials and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner a senior Trump administration official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-mideast-usa-kushner/saudi-arabia-agrees-to-allow-israeli-commercial-planes-to-cross-its-airspace-senior-trump-official-idUSKBN28A2VC | 2020-12-01 |
| Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said it had been agreed with the Americans that talks would be postponed for a few weeks | Negative | Maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed and U.S. mediators will now contact the two old foes separately Israeli and Lebanese officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-sea-border-talks-postponed-idUSKBN28A10P | 2020-12-01 |
| The direct flights are an offshoot of normalization deals Israel reached this year with the UAE Bahrain and Sudan | Positive | WASHINGTON Saudi Arabia agreed on Monday to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en route to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officials and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner a senior Trump administration official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-mideast-usa-kushner/saudi-arabia-agrees-to-allow-israeli-commercial-planes-to-cross-its-airspace-senior-trump-official-idUSKBN28A2VC | 2020-12-01 |
| In the interim they will do some shuttling in order to better prepare the next round of he told Israels Army Radio | Positive | Maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed and U.S. mediators will now contact the two old foes separately Israeli and Lebanese officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-sea-border-talks-postponed-idUSKBN28A10P | 2020-12-01 |
| This should resolve any issues that should occur with Israeli carriers taking people from Israel to the UAE and back and to the official said | Positive | WASHINGTON Saudi Arabia agreed on Monday to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en route to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officials and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner a senior Trump administration official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-mideast-usa-kushner/saudi-arabia-agrees-to-allow-israeli-commercial-planes-to-cross-its-airspace-senior-trump-official-idUSKBN28A2VC | 2020-12-01 |
| A Lebanese security source said the reason for the delay was Israels rejection of Lebanese proposals | Negative | Maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed and U.S. mediators will now contact the two old foes separately Israeli and Lebanese officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-sea-border-talks-postponed-idUSKBN28A10P | 2020-12-01 |
| The incident came just days after Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in Tehran in a killing that Iran has blamed on Israel | Negative | BAGHDAD An air strike killed a commander of Irans Revolutionary Guards at the IraqSyria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday Iraqi security and local militia officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iraq-iran-syria-militias/air-strike-kills-irgc-commander-at-iraq-syria-border-iraqi-officials-idUSKBN28A2SB | 2020-12-01 |
| The Iranbacked Lebanese group Hezbollah which fought a monthlong war with Israel in 2006 has said the talks are not a sign of peacemaking with Israel | Negative | Maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed and U.S. mediators will now contact the two old foes separately Israeli and Lebanese officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-sea-border-talks-postponed-idUSKBN28A10P | 2020-12-01 |
| In another joint communique with Abbas both leaders said Israel attempts to impose new by annexing and accelerating settlement building in occupied Palestinian territory | Negative | AMMAN Jordans King Abdullah on Sunday met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and both leaders set high hopes that U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden will revive peace talks over a twostate solution to the decadesold ArabIsraeli conflict officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-palestinians-jordan-peace/jordans-king-abdullah-and-palestinian-leader-abbas-meet-hope-biden-revives-peace-process-idUSKBN2890XZ | 2020-11-30 |
| The Trump administration has reversed decades of U.S. policy on the conflict refraining from endorsing the twostate solution the longtime international formula which envisages a Palestinian state coexisting with Israel | Negative | AMMAN Jordans King Abdullah on Sunday met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and both leaders set high hopes that U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden will revive peace talks over a twostate solution to the decadesold ArabIsraeli conflict officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-palestinians-jordan-peace/jordans-king-abdullah-and-palestinian-leader-abbas-meet-hope-biden-revives-peace-process-idUSKBN2890XZ | 2020-11-30 |
| The Trump administration had also enraged Jordan and Arabs when it said it no longer viewed Israels settlements in the West Bank as inconsistent with international law | Negative | AMMAN Jordans King Abdullah on Sunday met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and both leaders set high hopes that U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden will revive peace talks over a twostate solution to the decadesold ArabIsraeli conflict officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-palestinians-jordan-peace/jordans-king-abdullah-and-palestinian-leader-abbas-meet-hope-biden-revives-peace-process-idUSKBN2890XZ | 2020-11-30 |
| DUBAI Iran will give a calculated and response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist said a top adviser to Irans supreme leader while a hardline newspaper suggested Tehrans revenge should include striking the Israeli city of Haifa | Negative | DUBAI Iran will give a calculated and response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist said a top adviser to Irans supreme leader while a hardline newspaper suggested Tehrans revenge should include striking the Israeli city of Haifa | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/iran-to-give-a-calculated-response-to-nuclear-scientist-killing-says-official-idUSKBN2890HY | 2020-11-30 |
| Fakhrizadeh long suspected by Western and Israeli government of masterminding a secret nuclear weapons program was ambushed on a highway near Tehran on Friday and gunned down in his car | Negative | DUBAI Iran will give a calculated and response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist said a top adviser to Irans supreme leader while a hardline newspaper suggested Tehrans revenge should include striking the Israeli city of Haifa | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/iran-to-give-a-calculated-response-to-nuclear-scientist-killing-says-official-idUSKBN2890HY | 2020-11-30 |
| AMMAN Jordans King Abdullah on Sunday met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and both leaders set high hopes that U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden will revive peace talks over a twostate solution to the decadesold ArabIsraeli conflict officials said | Positive | AMMAN Jordans King Abdullah on Sunday met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and both leaders set high hopes that U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden will revive peace talks over a twostate solution to the decadesold ArabIsraeli conflict officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-palestinians-jordan-peace/jordans-king-abdullah-and-palestinian-leader-abbas-meet-hope-biden-revives-peace-process-idUSKBN2890XZ | 2020-11-30 |
| An Israeli cabinet minister Tzachi Hanegbi said on Saturday he did not know who carried it out | Negative | DUBAI Iran will give a calculated and response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist said a top adviser to Irans supreme leader while a hardline newspaper suggested Tehrans revenge should include striking the Israeli city of Haifa | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/iran-to-give-a-calculated-response-to-nuclear-scientist-killing-says-official-idUSKBN2890HY | 2020-11-30 |
| A historic meeting between Israels prime minister and Saudi Arabias crown prince has sent a strong signal to allies and enemies alike that the two countries remain deeply committed to containing their common foe Iran | Negative | A historic meeting between Israels prime minister and Saudi Arabias crown prince has sent a strong signal to allies and enemies alike that the two countries remain deeply committed to containing their common foe Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-saudi-analysis/analysis-covert-israeli-saudi-meeting-sends-biden-a-strong-message-on-iran-idUSKBN28714O | 2020-11-29 |
| Both Israel and Saudi Arabia have recently ramped up rhetoric against Iran which is locked in several proxy wars with Riyadh in the region | Negative | A historic meeting between Israels prime minister and Saudi Arabias crown prince has sent a strong signal to allies and enemies alike that the two countries remain deeply committed to containing their common foe Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-saudi-analysis/analysis-covert-israeli-saudi-meeting-sends-biden-a-strong-message-on-iran-idUSKBN28714O | 2020-11-29 |
| Sundays meeting was held in the presence of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israels spy chief Israeli media said | Positive | A historic meeting between Israels prime minister and Saudi Arabias crown prince has sent a strong signal to allies and enemies alike that the two countries remain deeply committed to containing their common foe Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-saudi-analysis/analysis-covert-israeli-saudi-meeting-sends-biden-a-strong-message-on-iran-idUSKBN28714O | 2020-11-29 |
| After Trump entered the White House promising to scrap the nuclear deal Israel stepped up a campaign saying Iran had lied about the extent of its past nuclear activities | Negative | Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was killed on Friday led a life of such secrecy that even his age was under wraps but much about the clandestine nuclear weapons programme he is believed to have run has long been known | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-work/irans-top-nuclear-scientist-stayed-in-shadows-but-his-work-was-uncovered-idUSKBN2880MN | 2020-11-29 |
| On Thursday he said he expected more countries to normalise ties with Israel in the next few months | Positive | A historic meeting between Israels prime minister and Saudi Arabias crown prince has sent a strong signal to allies and enemies alike that the two countries remain deeply committed to containing their common foe Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-saudi-analysis/analysis-covert-israeli-saudi-meeting-sends-biden-a-strong-message-on-iran-idUSKBN28714O | 2020-11-29 |
| In 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel had seized a huge of Iranian documents showing Tehran had done more work than previously known | Positive | Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was killed on Friday led a life of such secrecy that even his age was under wraps but much about the clandestine nuclear weapons programme he is believed to have run has long been known | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-work/irans-top-nuclear-scientist-stayed-in-shadows-but-his-work-was-uncovered-idUSKBN2880MN | 2020-11-29 |
| U.S. Senator Chris Murphy the top Democrat on the U.S. Senates Middle East subcommittee said on Twitter this assassination does not make America Israel or the world safer | Negative | DUBAI An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/killing-of-suspected-iranian-nuclear-mastermind-risks-confrontation-as-trump-exits-idUSKBN2871OE | 2020-11-28 |
| Iran pointed the finger at Israel while implying the killing had the blessing of the departing Trump | Negative | DUBAI An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/killing-of-suspected-iranian-nuclear-mastermind-risks-confrontation-as-trump-exits-idUSKBN2871OE | 2020-11-28 |
| Israel has also described the AMAD Plan as Irans covert nuclear weapons programme and says it seized a large chunk of an Iranian nuclear detailing its work | Negative | Prominent Iranian military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh killed in an attack outside Tehran on Friday was widely seen by Western intelligence as the mastermind of clandestine Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-fakhrizadeh-factb/factbox-who-is-the-iranian-scientist-killed-in-tehran-idUSKBN2871XI | 2020-11-28 |
| He was a central figure in a presentation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2018 accusing Iran of continuing to seek nuclear weapons | Negative | DUBAI An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/killing-of-suspected-iranian-nuclear-mastermind-risks-confrontation-as-trump-exits-idUSKBN2871OE | 2020-11-28 |
| Citing the archive as evidence Netanyahu said Israeli agents had retrieved the large amount of document from a site in Tehran | Negative | Prominent Iranian military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh killed in an attack outside Tehran on Friday was widely seen by Western intelligence as the mastermind of clandestine Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-fakhrizadeh-factb/factbox-who-is-the-iranian-scientist-killed-in-tehran-idUSKBN2871XI | 2020-11-28 |
| During the final months of Trumps presidency Israel has been making peace with Gulf Arab states that share hostility towards Iran | Neutral | DUBAI An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/killing-of-suspected-iranian-nuclear-mastermind-risks-confrontation-as-trump-exits-idUSKBN2871OE | 2020-11-28 |
| Iran pointed the finger at Israel after Fakhrizadeh was killed in an ambush near the Iranian capital Tehran on Friday | Negative | BEIRUT The deputy leader of Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah movement said on Friday that the response for the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was in Irans hands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-iran-will-be-one-to-respond-to-assassination-of-scientist-manar-tv-idUSKBN2872L4 | 2020-11-28 |
| Asked whether Israel could attack Lebanon during that time Qassem said he did not believe so but that if it did Hezbollah was fully for a confrontation | Negative | BEIRUT The deputy leader of Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah movement said on Friday that the response for the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was in Irans hands | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-iran-will-be-one-to-respond-to-assassination-of-scientist-manar-tv-idUSKBN2872L4 | 2020-11-28 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Jonathan Pollard an American who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel a warm welcome and a comfortable life in Israel now that parole restrictions have ended | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Jonathan Pollard an American who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel a warm welcome and a comfortable life in Israel now that parole restrictions have ended | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-usa-pollard/netanyahu-promises-israels-ex-spy-in-u-s-a-warm-welcome-home-idUSKBN28432H | 2020-11-25 |
| While in prison the Texasborn Pollard was granted Israeli citizenship and Israel had long pushed for his release but was spurned by several U.S. presidents | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Jonathan Pollard an American who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel a warm welcome and a comfortable life in Israel now that parole restrictions have ended | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-usa-pollard/netanyahu-promises-israels-ex-spy-in-u-s-a-warm-welcome-home-idUSKBN28432H | 2020-11-25 |
| A U.S. Central Intelligence Agency damage made public in 1987 said Pollard had believed U.S. intelligence support of close ally Israel was inadequate | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Jonathan Pollard an American who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel a warm welcome and a comfortable life in Israel now that parole restrictions have ended | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-usa-pollard/netanyahu-promises-israels-ex-spy-in-u-s-a-warm-welcome-home-idUSKBN28432H | 2020-11-25 |
| The U.S. Justice Departments decision not to reimpose any limits on Pollards movements was seen by some as a parting gift by U.S. President Donald Trumps administration to Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Jonathan Pollard an American who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel a warm welcome and a comfortable life in Israel now that parole restrictions have ended | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-usa-pollard/netanyahu-promises-israels-ex-spy-in-u-s-a-warm-welcome-home-idUSKBN28432H | 2020-11-25 |
| But the military and civilian echelons of the transitional Sudanese government have been divided over how quickly and how far to go towards normalising relations with Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel sent a first delegation to Sudan to discuss potential economic and humanitarian cooperation on Monday after the countries announced a U.S.brokered agreement on Oct 23 to take steps toward establishing relations a source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/uk-israel-sudan/israel-delegation-to-sudan-talks-agriculture-health-care-cooperation-idUSKBN2831IU | 2020-11-24 |
| JERUSALEM Israel sent a first delegation to Sudan to discuss potential economic and humanitarian cooperation on Monday after the countries announced a U.S.brokered agreement on Oct 23 to take steps toward establishing relations a source said | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel sent a first delegation to Sudan to discuss potential economic and humanitarian cooperation on Monday after the countries announced a U.S.brokered agreement on Oct 23 to take steps toward establishing relations a source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/uk-israel-sudan/israel-delegation-to-sudan-talks-agriculture-health-care-cooperation-idUSKBN2831IU | 2020-11-24 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Saudi Arabia and met its crown prince an Israeli official said on Monday in what would be the first publicly confirmed visit there by an Israeli leader as the countries close ranks against Iran | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Saudi Arabia and met its crown prince an Israeli official said on Monday in what would be the first publicly confirmed visit there by an Israeli leader as the countries close ranks against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-saudi/netanyahu-met-saudi-crown-prince-pompeo-in-saudi-arabia-israeli-minister-idUSKBN2830JJ | 2020-11-24 |
| Israeli and Sudanese officials had no immediate comment | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israel sent a first delegation to Sudan to discuss potential economic and humanitarian cooperation on Monday after the countries announced a U.S.brokered agreement on Oct 23 to take steps toward establishing relations a source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/uk-israel-sudan/israel-delegation-to-sudan-talks-agriculture-health-care-cooperation-idUSKBN2831IU | 2020-11-24 |
| Saudi Arabia Islams birthplace has long championed the Palestinian cause and shunned official contacts with Israel | Neutral | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Saudi Arabia and met its crown prince an Israeli official said on Monday in what would be the first publicly confirmed visit there by an Israeli leader as the countries close ranks against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-saudi/netanyahu-met-saudi-crown-prince-pompeo-in-saudi-arabia-israeli-minister-idUSKBN2830JJ | 2020-11-24 |
| Aviation data tweeted by Avi Scharf of Israels Haaretz newspaper showed that a chartered Turkish plane made a rare Tel AvivKhartoum return flight on Monday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel sent a first delegation to Sudan to discuss potential economic and humanitarian cooperation on Monday after the countries announced a U.S.brokered agreement on Oct 23 to take steps toward establishing relations a source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/uk-israel-sudan/israel-delegation-to-sudan-talks-agriculture-health-care-cooperation-idUSKBN2831IU | 2020-11-24 |
| As Trumps term winds down Pompeo has been trying to coax Saudi Arabia to follow the United Arab Emirates Bahrain and Sudan in moving toward formal diplomatic relations with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Saudi Arabia and met its crown prince an Israeli official said on Monday in what would be the first publicly confirmed visit there by an Israeli leader as the countries close ranks against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-saudi/netanyahu-met-saudi-crown-prince-pompeo-in-saudi-arabia-israeli-minister-idUSKBN2830JJ | 2020-11-24 |
| The source familiar with Mondays mission said those talks did not touch on the prospect of a more comprehensive peace treaty between Israel and Sudan | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel sent a first delegation to Sudan to discuss potential economic and humanitarian cooperation on Monday after the countries announced a U.S.brokered agreement on Oct 23 to take steps toward establishing relations a source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/uk-israel-sudan/israel-delegation-to-sudan-talks-agriculture-health-care-cooperation-idUSKBN2831IU | 2020-11-24 |
| They include a trial on corruption charges which Netanyahu Israels longestserving prime minister denies and a feud with centrist coalition partner Gantz | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Saudi Arabia and met its crown prince an Israeli official said on Monday in what would be the first publicly confirmed visit there by an Israeli leader as the countries close ranks against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-saudi/netanyahu-met-saudi-crown-prince-pompeo-in-saudi-arabia-israeli-minister-idUSKBN2830JJ | 2020-11-24 |
| The Israeli military said its aircraft struck in response against several military sites belonging to Hamas the Islamist armed group that controls Gaza | Negative | GAZA Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel drawing Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip the Israeli military said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/palestinian-rocket-fire-draws-israeli-air-strikes-in-gaza-idUSKBN28205A | 2020-11-22 |
| Netanyahus statement was echoed by other Israeli ministers and by President Ruvi Rivlin | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israeli leaders on Saturday welcomed the U.S. decision to end parole restrictions on Jonathan Pollard a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer who served 30 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-usa-pollard/israel-welcomes-end-to-convicted-u-s-spy-pollards-travel-ban-idUSKBN2810O5 | 2020-11-22 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli leaders on Saturday welcomed the U.S. decision to end parole restrictions on Jonathan Pollard a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer who served 30 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli leaders on Saturday welcomed the U.S. decision to end parole restrictions on Jonathan Pollard a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer who served 30 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-usa-pollard/israel-welcomes-end-to-convicted-u-s-spy-pollards-travel-ban-idUSKBN2810O5 | 2020-11-22 |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes the lifting of the restrictions on Jonathan a statement from the Israeli leaders office said | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli leaders on Saturday welcomed the U.S. decision to end parole restrictions on Jonathan Pollard a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer who served 30 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-usa-pollard/israel-welcomes-end-to-convicted-u-s-spy-pollards-travel-ban-idUSKBN2810O5 | 2020-11-22 |
| Pollard 66 has sought to move to Israel which granted him citizenship while in prison and had long pushed for his release | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli leaders on Saturday welcomed the U.S. decision to end parole restrictions on Jonathan Pollard a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer who served 30 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-usa-pollard/israel-welcomes-end-to-convicted-u-s-spy-pollards-travel-ban-idUSKBN2810O5 | 2020-11-22 |
| This is a historic agreement led by the companys local representation that will enable access to the vaccine for millions of Israeli said Ohad Goldberg chief executive of AstraZeneca Israel | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel has reached an understanding with AstraZeneca to receive about 10 million doses of its experimental COVID19 vaccine a joint statement from the Israeli government and the drugmaker said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-israel/israel-nears-deal-for-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN2801SQ | 2020-11-21 |
| Israel is also developing its own vaccine that if successful could be ready for sale by the end of the summer | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel has reached an understanding with AstraZeneca to receive about 10 million doses of its experimental COVID19 vaccine a joint statement from the Israeli government and the drugmaker said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-israel/israel-nears-deal-for-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN2801SQ | 2020-11-21 |
| TEL AVIV Israel has reached an understanding with AstraZeneca to receive about 10 million doses of its experimental COVID19 vaccine a joint statement from the Israeli government and the drugmaker said on Friday | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel has reached an understanding with AstraZeneca to receive about 10 million doses of its experimental COVID19 vaccine a joint statement from the Israeli government and the drugmaker said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-israel/israel-nears-deal-for-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN2801SQ | 2020-11-21 |
| Pompeo said the two leaders discussed Iran the perceived threat of which has shifted political fault lines in the region uniting Israel and Gulf Arab states in fear of Tehran | Negative | SHAAR BINYAMIN West Bank Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights in a show of solidarity that led Palestinians to accuse him of helping to cement Israeli control over occupied territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel/pompeo-visits-israeli-occupied-west-bank-and-golan-heights-idUSKBN27Z0XM | 2020-11-20 |
| SHAAR BINYAMIN West Bank Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights in a show of solidarity that led Palestinians to accuse him of helping to cement Israeli control over occupied territory | Negative | SHAAR BINYAMIN West Bank Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights in a show of solidarity that led Palestinians to accuse him of helping to cement Israeli control over occupied territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel/pompeo-visits-israeli-occupied-west-bank-and-golan-heights-idUSKBN27Z0XM | 2020-11-20 |
| He dined at Shaar Binyamin an Israeli industrial zone just north of Jerusalem where Psagot winery taking its name from a nearby settlement has a blend named after him | Neutral | SHAAR BINYAMIN West Bank Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights in a show of solidarity that led Palestinians to accuse him of helping to cement Israeli control over occupied territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel/pompeo-visits-israeli-occupied-west-bank-and-golan-heights-idUSKBN27Z0XM | 2020-11-20 |
| Pompeos trips came during the Israeli leg of what may be his last tour of the Middle East in the final months of President Donald Trumps administration | Neutral | SHAAR BINYAMIN West Bank Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights in a show of solidarity that led Palestinians to accuse him of helping to cement Israeli control over occupied territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel/pompeo-visits-israeli-occupied-west-bank-and-golan-heights-idUSKBN27Z0XM | 2020-11-20 |
| Pompeo later flew to the Golan Heights a mountainous and strategic plateau that overlooks Israel Syria Lebanon and Jordan | Neutral | SHAAR BINYAMIN West Bank Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights in a show of solidarity that led Palestinians to accuse him of helping to cement Israeli control over occupied territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel/pompeo-visits-israeli-occupied-west-bank-and-golan-heights-idUSKBN27Z0XM | 2020-11-20 |
| These and other decisions were greeted with dismay by the Palestinians who boycotted the Trump White House for nearly three years accusing it of consistent proIsrael bias | Negative | SHAAR BINYAMIN West Bank Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights in a show of solidarity that led Palestinians to accuse him of helping to cement Israeli control over occupied territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel/pompeo-visits-israeli-occupied-west-bank-and-golan-heights-idUSKBN27Z0XM | 2020-11-20 |
| On Thursday morning Pompeo appeared alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who said both Pompeo and Trump were longstanding friends of Israel | Positive | SHAAR BINYAMIN West Bank Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights in a show of solidarity that led Palestinians to accuse him of helping to cement Israeli control over occupied territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel/pompeo-visits-israeli-occupied-west-bank-and-golan-heights-idUSKBN27Z0XM | 2020-11-20 |
| VIENNA The U.N. nuclear watchdog and the United States pressured Iran on Wednesday to finally explain the origin of uranium particles found almost two years ago at an old but undeclared site that Israel has called a secret atomic | Negative | VIENNA The U.N. nuclear watchdog and the United States pressured Iran on Wednesday to finally explain the origin of uranium particles found almost two years ago at an old but undeclared site that Israel has called a secret atomic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-turqazabad/iaea-and-u-s-pressure-iran-over-uranium-particles-at-atomic-warehouse-idUSKBN27Y2ER | 2020-11-19 |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a warm with Presidentelect Biden Netanyahus office said in a delayed and clear acknowledgement of Bidens election defeat of the Israeli leaders ally Trump | Positive | Presidentelect Joe Biden will meet healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis in a virtual event on Wednesday while President Donald Trump faces more legal hurdles to overturn his election loss | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-snapshot/2020-u-s-election-what-you-need-to-know-right-now-idUSKBN27Y1CW | 2020-11-19 |
| Western intelligence sources say Israeli strikes this year have undermined Irans extensive military power in Syria without triggering a major increase in hostilities | Negative | Israel launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday sending a signal that it will pursue its policy of striking across the border despite U.S. President Donald Trumps election defeat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-attacks/israel-strikes-widely-in-syria-sending-signal-of-aggressive-post-trump-posture-idUSKBN27Y07Y | 2020-11-19 |
| Israel has said it seized part of an Iranian of its past nuclear work and has used that to call attention to Iranian activities long predating the 2015 deal | Positive | VIENNA The U.N. nuclear watchdog and the United States pressured Iran on Wednesday to finally explain the origin of uranium particles found almost two years ago at an old but undeclared site that Israel has called a secret atomic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-turqazabad/iaea-and-u-s-pressure-iran-over-uranium-particles-at-atomic-warehouse-idUSKBN27Y2ER | 2020-11-19 |
| Israel launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday sending a signal that it will pursue its policy of striking across the border despite U.S. President Donald Trumps election defeat | Negative | Israel launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday sending a signal that it will pursue its policy of striking across the border despite U.S. President Donald Trumps election defeat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-attacks/israel-strikes-widely-in-syria-sending-signal-of-aggressive-post-trump-posture-idUSKBN27Y07Y | 2020-11-19 |
| JERUSALEM Bahrain and Israel said on Wednesday they would open embassies establish online visa systems and launch weekly flights between the countries soon in a broadened cooperation promoted by Washington as an economic boon and means of isolating Iran | Positive | JERUSALEM Bahrain and Israel said on Wednesday they would open embassies establish online visa systems and launch weekly flights between the countries soon in a broadened cooperation promoted by Washington as an economic boon and means of isolating Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa/israel-bahrain-cement-new-ties-with-pledges-of-embassies-and-visas-idUSKBN27Y0LT | 2020-11-19 |
| Biden has to ask himself exactly what is Iran after in Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said on Army Radio after the Israeli strikes | Negative | Israel launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday sending a signal that it will pursue its policy of striking across the border despite U.S. President Donald Trumps election defeat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-attacks/israel-strikes-widely-in-syria-sending-signal-of-aggressive-post-trump-posture-idUSKBN27Y07Y | 2020-11-19 |
| Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Askenazi who is due to visit Manama next month said he hoped opening ceremonies for the embassies would be held by the end of 2020 | Positive | JERUSALEM Bahrain and Israel said on Wednesday they would open embassies establish online visa systems and launch weekly flights between the countries soon in a broadened cooperation promoted by Washington as an economic boon and means of isolating Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa/israel-bahrain-cement-new-ties-with-pledges-of-embassies-and-visas-idUSKBN27Y0LT | 2020-11-19 |
| Israel said it was retaliating for what it called an Iraniansponsored operation in which Syrians planted explosives near an Israeli military base in the occupied Golan Heights | Negative | Israel launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday sending a signal that it will pursue its policy of striking across the border despite U.S. President Donald Trumps election defeat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-attacks/israel-strikes-widely-in-syria-sending-signal-of-aggressive-post-trump-posture-idUSKBN27Y07Y | 2020-11-19 |
| Palestinian sources said cooperation with Israel would resume immediately | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinian Authority will resume civil and security cooperation with Israel suspended in May over a nowfrozen Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank a Palestinian minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/palestinian-authority-resuming-cooperation-with-israel-palestinian-official-says-idUSKBN27X2D1 | 2020-11-18 |
| An Israeli official said we are very to renewing coordination citing exchanges of messages between Israels defence minister and Palestinian authorities | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinian Authority will resume civil and security cooperation with Israel suspended in May over a nowfrozen Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank a Palestinian minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/palestinian-authority-resuming-cooperation-with-israel-palestinian-official-says-idUSKBN27X2D1 | 2020-11-18 |
| RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinian Authority will resume civil and security cooperation with Israel suspended in May over a nowfrozen Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank a Palestinian minister said on Tuesday | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinian Authority will resume civil and security cooperation with Israel suspended in May over a nowfrozen Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank a Palestinian minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/palestinian-authority-resuming-cooperation-with-israel-palestinian-official-says-idUSKBN27X2D1 | 2020-11-18 |
| Israel collects the levies on Palestinian imports that go through its ports | Neutral | RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinian Authority will resume civil and security cooperation with Israel suspended in May over a nowfrozen Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank a Palestinian minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/palestinian-authority-resuming-cooperation-with-israel-palestinian-official-says-idUSKBN27X2D1 | 2020-11-18 |
| Our life is so interconnected between us and the Israelis and there is no way that we can fight viruses by ourselves he said | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinian Authority will resume civil and security cooperation with Israel suspended in May over a nowfrozen Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank a Palestinian minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/palestinian-authority-resuming-cooperation-with-israel-palestinian-official-says-idUSKBN27X2D1 | 2020-11-18 |
| JERUSALEM Israel moved ahead on Sunday with a settler housing plan in a sensitive area near East Jerusalem a step critics said was aimed at shoring up the project before U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel moved ahead on Sunday with a settler housing plan in a sensitive area near East Jerusalem a step critics said was aimed at shoring up the project before U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlement/israel-promotes-settlement-plan-for-sensitive-east-jerusalem-area-idUSKBN27V0DU | 2020-11-16 |
| Israel cites historical political and biblical links to the West Bank and over 440000 Israeli settlers live there among three million Palestinians | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel moved ahead on Sunday with a settler housing plan in a sensitive area near East Jerusalem a step critics said was aimed at shoring up the project before U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlement/israel-promotes-settlement-plan-for-sensitive-east-jerusalem-area-idUSKBN27V0DU | 2020-11-16 |
| The likelihood of a patient carrying the mutation arriving in Israel is low | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel said on Monday it would test people arriving from Denmark for a new mutated strain of coronavirus stemming from Danish mink farms and ask them to selfisolate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-denmark/israel-tests-passengers-from-denmark-for-new-mutated-coronavirus-idUSKBN27P1NL | 2020-11-11 |
| I know that Israel went to great effort to bring him to recovery | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank Tributes came from both sides of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict and from around the world after the death of Saeb Erekat the chief Palestinian negotiator who died in Jerusalem on Tuesday after contracting COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-ereka/factbox-reactions-to-death-of-plo-secretary-general-saeb-erekat-idUSKBN27Q2E1 | 2020-11-11 |
| Israels borders have largely been closed to foreign nationals since the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel said on Monday it would test people arriving from Denmark for a new mutated strain of coronavirus stemming from Danish mink farms and ask them to selfisolate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-denmark/israel-tests-passengers-from-denmark-for-new-mutated-coronavirus-idUSKBN27P1NL | 2020-11-11 |
| With a population of nine million Israel has so far reported more than 300000 confirmed COVID19 cases and 2674 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel said on Monday it would test people arriving from Denmark for a new mutated strain of coronavirus stemming from Danish mink farms and ask them to selfisolate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-denmark/israel-tests-passengers-from-denmark-for-new-mutated-coronavirus-idUSKBN27P1NL | 2020-11-11 |
| In 2006 Erekats Fatah faction was weakened when it lost elections to its increasingly powerful domestic rival the Islamist militant group Hamas which rejects peace with Israel | Negative | West Bank Saeb Erekat one of the most experienced and highprofile advocates for the Palestinian cause over decades of dispute with Israel died on Tuesday after contracting COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-ereka/palestinian-negotiator-erekat-dies-after-contracting-covid-19-idUSKBN27Q13P | 2020-11-11 |
| JERUSALEM Israel said on Monday it would test people arriving from Denmark for a new mutated strain of coronavirus stemming from Danish mink farms and ask them to selfisolate | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel said on Monday it would test people arriving from Denmark for a new mutated strain of coronavirus stemming from Danish mink farms and ask them to selfisolate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-denmark/israel-tests-passengers-from-denmark-for-new-mutated-coronavirus-idUSKBN27P1NL | 2020-11-11 |
| With Israel in control of East Jerusalem and Hamas in Gaza Fatah was left with just limited selfrule in parts of the West Bank among scores of Israeli settlements | Negative | West Bank Saeb Erekat one of the most experienced and highprofile advocates for the Palestinian cause over decades of dispute with Israel died on Tuesday after contracting COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-ereka/palestinian-negotiator-erekat-dies-after-contracting-covid-19-idUSKBN27Q13P | 2020-11-11 |
| My goal at the moment is to do one thing to bring vaccines to you citizens of Israel and we will do he said | Positive | Israels finance minister Israel Katz said he had discussed the vaccine during talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-pfizer-is/israel-asks-for-u-s-help-in-getting-potential-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN27P2C0 | 2020-11-10 |
| Israel already has an agreement with Moderna Inc for the future purchase of its potential COVID19 vaccine and has been in talks with other companies as well | Positive | Israels finance minister Israel Katz said he had discussed the vaccine during talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-pfizer-is/israel-asks-for-u-s-help-in-getting-potential-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN27P2C0 | 2020-11-10 |
| The Trump administration which quit the Geneva forum in June 2018 accusing it of an antiIsrael bias defended U.S. policies | Negative | GENEVA Major powers including allies criticised the United States for its human rights record on Monday during a U.N. review citing the use of the death penalty police violence against African Americans and the separation of migrant children from their families | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-un-rights/u-s-criticized-for-police-brutality-racism-at-u-n-rights-review-idUSKBN27P2W2 | 2020-11-10 |
| Israels finance minister Israel Katz said he had discussed the vaccine during talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin | Positive | Israels finance minister Israel Katz said he had discussed the vaccine during talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-pfizer-is/israel-asks-for-u-s-help-in-getting-potential-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN27P2C0 | 2020-11-10 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it an important day in the fight against the pandemic and said the end is in | Positive | Israels finance minister Israel Katz said he had discussed the vaccine during talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-pfizer-is/israel-asks-for-u-s-help-in-getting-potential-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN27P2C0 | 2020-11-10 |
| He has already said he will not reverse Trumps recognition of Jerusalem as Israels capital | Negative | JERUSALEM Just two weeks ago Joe Biden was the butt of a jibe made by U.S. President Donald Trump during a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-reaction-israel/in-israel-biden-could-differ-with-netanyahu-on-iran-and-settlements-idUSKBN27N0RK | 2020-11-08 |
| Though Biden describes himself as a Zionist and friend to nine Israeli prime ministers friction could arise | Negative | JERUSALEM Just two weeks ago Joe Biden was the butt of a jibe made by U.S. President Donald Trump during a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-reaction-israel/in-israel-biden-could-differ-with-netanyahu-on-iran-and-settlements-idUSKBN27N0RK | 2020-11-08 |
| And Biden has pledged not to condition U.S. assistance for Israel on policy changes | Negative | JERUSALEM Just two weeks ago Joe Biden was the butt of a jibe made by U.S. President Donald Trump during a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-reaction-israel/in-israel-biden-could-differ-with-netanyahu-on-iran-and-settlements-idUSKBN27N0RK | 2020-11-08 |
| One Biden adviser said that as a stopgap the presidentelect may signal to Palestinians that he will put them on a more even footing with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Just two weeks ago Joe Biden was the butt of a jibe made by U.S. President Donald Trump during a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-reaction-israel/in-israel-biden-could-differ-with-netanyahu-on-iran-and-settlements-idUSKBN27N0RK | 2020-11-08 |
| The United Arab Emirates would match the U.S grant which is subject to congressional approval while Israel will provide an additional million it added | Positive | CAIRO The U.S. Agency for International Development said it will grant million to the World Food Programme to purchase wheat for Sudan to alleviate shortages in the east African country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-usa-wheat/u-s-aid-agency-to-grant-20-million-to-fund-sudan-wheat-purchases-idUSKBN27N0B7 | 2020-11-08 |
| JERUSALEM Just two weeks ago Joe Biden was the butt of a jibe made by U.S. President Donald Trump during a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | Negative | JERUSALEM Just two weeks ago Joe Biden was the butt of a jibe made by U.S. President Donald Trump during a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-reaction-israel/in-israel-biden-could-differ-with-netanyahu-on-iran-and-settlements-idUSKBN27N0RK | 2020-11-08 |
| We say to them that we are with them against Israel and Bassil said the latter a reference to Hezbollahs campaign against Sunni Islamist groups including Islamic State | Negative | BEIRUT The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on influential Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil the soninlaw of President Michel Aoun over systemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-lebanon-sanctions-bassil/who-is-lebanons-gebran-bassil-idUSKBN27M271 | 2020-11-07 |
| Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh accused Israel of timing the demolition for election day in the United States when the world was distracted | Negative | JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Israel has demolished most of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank displacing 73 Palestinians including 41 children in the largest such demolition in years residents and a United Nations official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-bedouin-demolitio/israel-razes-most-of-palestinian-bedouin-village-in-west-bank-on-u-s-election-day-idUSKBN27L19Z | 2020-11-06 |
| He wrote on As the attention is focused on Israel chose this evening to commit another cover it to demolish 70 Palestinian structures incl | Negative | JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Israel has demolished most of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank displacing 73 Palestinians including 41 children in the largest such demolition in years residents and a United Nations official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-bedouin-demolitio/israel-razes-most-of-palestinian-bedouin-village-in-west-bank-on-u-s-election-day-idUSKBN27L19Z | 2020-11-06 |
| JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Israel has demolished most of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank displacing 73 Palestinians including 41 children in the largest such demolition in years residents and a United Nations official said | Negative | JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Israel has demolished most of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank displacing 73 Palestinians including 41 children in the largest such demolition in years residents and a United Nations official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-bedouin-demolitio/israel-razes-most-of-palestinian-bedouin-village-in-west-bank-on-u-s-election-day-idUSKBN27L19Z | 2020-11-06 |
| Israels military liaison agency with the Palestinians COGAT confirmed that a demolition had been carried out against what it said were illegal structures | Negative | JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Israel has demolished most of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank displacing 73 Palestinians including 41 children in the largest such demolition in years residents and a United Nations official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-bedouin-demolitio/israel-razes-most-of-palestinian-bedouin-village-in-west-bank-on-u-s-election-day-idUSKBN27L19Z | 2020-11-06 |
| Israel often cites a lack of building permits in demolishing Palestinian structures in the West Bank | Negative | JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Israel has demolished most of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank displacing 73 Palestinians including 41 children in the largest such demolition in years residents and a United Nations official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-bedouin-demolitio/israel-razes-most-of-palestinian-bedouin-village-in-west-bank-on-u-s-election-day-idUSKBN27L19Z | 2020-11-06 |
| story corrects to say that Malawi would be the first African country to open an embassy to Israel in Jerusalem in decades not the first ever | Negative | TEL AVIV Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem becoming the first African nation in decades to do so in the contested city | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-malawi-jerusalem-diplomacy/malawi-says-it-will-open-israel-embassy-in-jerusalem-idUSKBN27J2CO | 2020-11-05 |
| TEL AVIV Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem becoming the first African nation in decades to do so in the contested city | Negative | TEL AVIV Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem becoming the first African nation in decades to do so in the contested city | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-malawi-jerusalem-diplomacy/malawi-says-it-will-open-israel-embassy-in-jerusalem-idUSKBN27J2CO | 2020-11-05 |
| Several African countries had previously opened embassies to Israel in Jerusalem but closed them following the 1973 Middle East war an Israeli foreign ministry official said | Negative | TEL AVIV Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem becoming the first African nation in decades to do so in the contested city | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-malawi-jerusalem-diplomacy/malawi-says-it-will-open-israel-embassy-in-jerusalem-idUSKBN27J2CO | 2020-11-05 |
| TEL AVIV Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem becoming the first African nation to do so in the contested city | Negative | TEL AVIV Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem becoming the first African nation to do so in the contested city | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-malawi-jerusalem-diplomacy/malawi-says-it-will-open-israel-embassy-in-jerusalem-idUSKBN27J2CO | 2020-11-04 |
| UAE and Israeli citizens are able to visit each others country without applying for a visa before travelling as part of agreements recently signed between the two states | Positive | DUBAI United Arab Emirates airline flydubai on Wednesday said it would start direct fights to Israel this month with twice daily services between Dubai and Tel Aviv | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-emirates-israel-flydubai/state-owned-flydubai-to-start-tel-aviv-flights-this-month-idUSKBN27K0YH | 2020-11-04 |
| Dubai stateowned flydubai will operate 14 weekly services between the UAEs and Israels financial capitals from Nov 26 it said on its website | Positive | DUBAI United Arab Emirates airline flydubai on Wednesday said it would start direct fights to Israel this month with twice daily services between Dubai and Tel Aviv | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-emirates-israel-flydubai/state-owned-flydubai-to-start-tel-aviv-flights-this-month-idUSKBN27K0YH | 2020-11-04 |
| Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said alongside I look forward to your embassy opening soon and Im sure that more African leaders will follow this decision | Positive | TEL AVIV Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem becoming the first African nation to do so in the contested city | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-malawi-jerusalem-diplomacy/malawi-says-it-will-open-israel-embassy-in-jerusalem-idUSKBN27J2CO | 2020-11-04 |
| Israeli airlines Israir and Arkia have advertised packages to Dubai for flights starting on Dec | Neutral | DUBAI United Arab Emirates airline flydubai on Wednesday said it would start direct fights to Israel this month with twice daily services between Dubai and Tel Aviv | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-emirates-israel-flydubai/state-owned-flydubai-to-start-tel-aviv-flights-this-month-idUSKBN27K0YH | 2020-11-04 |
| The embassy is expected to open by the summer of 2021 the Israeli foreign ministry said | Positive | TEL AVIV Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem becoming the first African nation to do so in the contested city | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-malawi-jerusalem-diplomacy/malawi-says-it-will-open-israel-embassy-in-jerusalem-idUSKBN27J2CO | 2020-11-04 |
| Israeli intelligence minister Eli Cohen said implementing normalisation deals with countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia depends on a U.S. president who will continue to be tough on Iran | Negative | As the tumultuous U.S. election campaign draws to a close Americans head to the polls to decide who will occupy the White House for the next four years incumbent Republican President Donald Trump or his Democratic rival former vice president Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-snapshot/2020-u-s-election-what-you-need-to-know-right-now-idUSKBN27J1BR | 2020-11-04 |
| Given the citys disputed status and sensitivity in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict most countries that have embassies in Israel have opened them in its commercial capital of Tel Aviv | Negative | TEL AVIV Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem becoming the first African nation to do so in the contested city | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-malawi-jerusalem-diplomacy/malawi-says-it-will-open-israel-embassy-in-jerusalem-idUSKBN27J2CO | 2020-11-04 |
| DUBAI United Arab Emirates airline flydubai on Wednesday said it would start direct fights to Israel this month with twice daily services between Dubai and Tel Aviv | Positive | DUBAI United Arab Emirates airline flydubai on Wednesday said it would start direct fights to Israel this month with twice daily services between Dubai and Tel Aviv | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-emirates-israel-flydubai/state-owned-flydubai-to-start-tel-aviv-flights-this-month-idUSKBN27K0YH | 2020-11-04 |
| While not explicitly favouring either U.S. candidate Cohen argued that Trumps policy had prompted Arab and Muslim countries to seek accommodation with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among countries slated to establish relations with Israel under a regional rapprochement launched by U.S. President Donald Trump an Israeli official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-election-israel-normalisation/israeli-minister-says-normalisation-deals-need-u-s-president-tough-on-iran-idUSKBN27I1NO | 2020-11-03 |
| The Saudis were the architects of a 2002 IsraeliArab peace proposal that called for Israeli withdrawal from occupied land to make way for a Palestinian state | Positive | JERUSALEM Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among countries slated to establish relations with Israel under a regional rapprochement launched by U.S. President Donald Trump an Israeli official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-election-israel-normalisation/israeli-minister-says-normalisation-deals-need-u-s-president-tough-on-iran-idUSKBN27I1NO | 2020-11-03 |
| JERUSALEM Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among countries slated to establish relations with Israel under a regional rapprochement launched by U.S. President Donald Trump an Israeli official said on Monday | Positive | JERUSALEM Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among countries slated to establish relations with Israel under a regional rapprochement launched by U.S. President Donald Trump an Israeli official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-election-israel-normalisation/israeli-minister-says-normalisation-deals-need-u-s-president-tough-on-iran-idUSKBN27I1NO | 2020-11-03 |
| HEBRON West Bank Jewish settler leaders prayed on Monday for U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection citing his support for Israel during a ceremony at a biblical tomb in the occupied West Bank that has been a flashpoint of conflict with the Palestinians | Negative | HEBRON West Bank Jewish settler leaders prayed on Monday for U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection citing his support for Israel during a ceremony at a biblical tomb in the occupied West Bank that has been a flashpoint of conflict with the Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel-settlers/israeli-settlers-pray-for-trump-re-election-at-biblical-tomb-idUSKBN27I1EN | 2020-11-03 |
| Straying from Israels reticence about Tuesdays U.S. election Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said implementing further normalisation deals could depend on the next president displaying continued against Iran | Positive | JERUSALEM Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among countries slated to establish relations with Israel under a regional rapprochement launched by U.S. President Donald Trump an Israeli official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-election-israel-normalisation/israeli-minister-says-normalisation-deals-need-u-s-president-tough-on-iran-idUSKBN27I1NO | 2020-11-03 |
| His administration has also softened U.S. disapproval of Israels settlements on land where the Palestinians want to establish a state and which most world powers deem illegal | Negative | HEBRON West Bank Jewish settler leaders prayed on Monday for U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection citing his support for Israel during a ceremony at a biblical tomb in the occupied West Bank that has been a flashpoint of conflict with the Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel-settlers/israeli-settlers-pray-for-trump-re-election-at-biblical-tomb-idUSKBN27I1EN | 2020-11-03 |
| Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden wants to rejoin the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal that the Republican incumbent quit to the satisfaction of Israel and some Gulf Arabs | Positive | JERUSALEM Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among countries slated to establish relations with Israel under a regional rapprochement launched by U.S. President Donald Trump an Israeli official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-election-israel-normalisation/israeli-minister-says-normalisation-deals-need-u-s-president-tough-on-iran-idUSKBN27I1NO | 2020-11-03 |
| Jerusalems status has been one of the thorniest issues in the decadesold IsraeliPalestinian conflict | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Saturday welcomed a declaration by the Dominican Republic that the Caribbean country may consider moving its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-dominican-israel/israel-hails-news-dominican-republic-may-move-embassy-to-jerusalem-idUSKBN27G0S7 | 2020-11-01 |
| JERUSALEM Israel on Saturday welcomed a declaration by the Dominican Republic that the Caribbean country may consider moving its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel on Saturday welcomed a declaration by the Dominican Republic that the Caribbean country may consider moving its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-dominican-israel/israel-hails-news-dominican-republic-may-move-embassy-to-jerusalem-idUSKBN27G0S7 | 2020-11-01 |
| Pence long advocated for Jerusalem to be recognized as Israels capital which Trump announced over the objections of Arab nations and many Western allies in another win for evangelicals | Negative | WASHINGTON Vice President Mike Pence a Christian conservative and one of the few constants in Donald Trumps tumultuous White House has kept his bosss confidence by being careful never to step out of the presidents shadow | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-pence-profile-newsmaker/long-in-trumps-shadow-vice-president-mike-pence-set-to-emerge-idUSKBN27G0F3 | 2020-11-01 |
| JERUSALEM Americans born in Jerusalem will now be able to list Israel as their birthplace on their passports U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday in a nod to Washingtons recognition of the contested city as Israels capital | Negative | JERUSALEM Americans born in Jerusalem will now be able to list Israel as their birthplace on their passports U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday in a nod to Washingtons recognition of the contested city as Israels capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-passport/u-s-to-allow-jerusalem-born-americans-to-list-israel-as-birthplace-pompeo-says-idUSKBN27E2I8 | 2020-10-30 |
| It was the latest in a string of proIsrael policy shifts by U.S. President Donald Trumps administration ahead of his reelection bid next week | Negative | JERUSALEM Americans born in Jerusalem will now be able to list Israel as their birthplace on their passports U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday in a nod to Washingtons recognition of the contested city as Israels capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-passport/u-s-to-allow-jerusalem-born-americans-to-list-israel-as-birthplace-pompeo-says-idUSKBN27E2I8 | 2020-10-30 |
| Pompeo said the decision to allow Jerusalemborn U.S. citizens to choose to enter Israel or Jerusalem as their birthplace was with Trumps 2017 proclamation | Negative | JERUSALEM Americans born in Jerusalem will now be able to list Israel as their birthplace on their passports U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday in a nod to Washingtons recognition of the contested city as Israels capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-passport/u-s-to-allow-jerusalem-born-americans-to-list-israel-as-birthplace-pompeo-says-idUSKBN27E2I8 | 2020-10-30 |
| Trump envoys have also helped establish ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Bahrain and Sudan countries that had formally shunned the country in solidarity with the Palestinians | Positive | JERUSALEM Americans born in Jerusalem will now be able to list Israel as their birthplace on their passports U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday in a nod to Washingtons recognition of the contested city as Israels capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-passport/u-s-to-allow-jerusalem-born-americans-to-list-israel-as-birthplace-pompeo-says-idUSKBN27E2I8 | 2020-10-30 |
| 4 billion had been invested by three U.S.Israeli research cooperation funds since 1972 | Positive | ARIEL West Bank The Trump administration lifted a decadesold ban on Wednesday that had prohibited U.S. taxpayer funding for Israeli scientific research conducted in Jewish settlements in occupied territory drawing Palestinian condemnation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/ahead-of-u-s-election-trump-ends-a-u-s-restriction-applying-to-israeli-settlements-idUSKBN27D23Z | 2020-10-29 |
| The Israeli team presented its own map that pushed the boundary farther north than Israels original position according to a source familiar with what was discussed | Positive | NAQOURA Lebanon Israel and Lebanon on Wednesday held a second round of U.S.mediated talks over their disputed sea border that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gasrich area though sources said gaps between the sides remain large | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-hold-second-round-of-sea-border-talks-idUSKBN27D13M | 2020-10-29 |
| ARIEL West Bank The Trump administration lifted a decadesold ban on Wednesday that had prohibited U.S. taxpayer funding for Israeli scientific research conducted in Jewish settlements in occupied territory drawing Palestinian condemnation | Negative | ARIEL West Bank The Trump administration lifted a decadesold ban on Wednesday that had prohibited U.S. taxpayer funding for Israeli scientific research conducted in Jewish settlements in occupied territory drawing Palestinian condemnation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/ahead-of-u-s-election-trump-ends-a-u-s-restriction-applying-to-israeli-settlements-idUSKBN27D23Z | 2020-10-29 |
| Palestinians who seek the West Bank for a future state said the move made Washington complicit in what they termed Israels illegal settlement enterprise | Negative | ARIEL West Bank The Trump administration lifted a decadesold ban on Wednesday that had prohibited U.S. taxpayer funding for Israeli scientific research conducted in Jewish settlements in occupied territory drawing Palestinian condemnation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/ahead-of-u-s-election-trump-ends-a-u-s-restriction-applying-to-israeli-settlements-idUSKBN27D23Z | 2020-10-29 |
| This is an important victory against all those who seek to delegitimise everything Israeli beyond the 1967 lines | Negative | ARIEL West Bank The Trump administration lifted a decadesold ban on Wednesday that had prohibited U.S. taxpayer funding for Israeli scientific research conducted in Jewish settlements in occupied territory drawing Palestinian condemnation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/ahead-of-u-s-election-trump-ends-a-u-s-restriction-applying-to-israeli-settlements-idUSKBN27D23Z | 2020-10-29 |
| NAQOURA Lebanon Israel and Lebanon on Wednesday held a second round of U.S.mediated talks over their disputed sea border that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gasrich area though sources said gaps between the sides remain large | Positive | NAQOURA Lebanon Israel and Lebanon on Wednesday held a second round of U.S.mediated talks over their disputed sea border that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gasrich area though sources said gaps between the sides remain large | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-talks/israel-lebanon-hold-second-round-of-sea-border-talks-idUSKBN27D13M | 2020-10-29 |
| JERUSALEM Israel said on Tuesday the United States is effectively lifting a ban on U.S. funding of Israeli scientific research projects conducted in the West Bank and Golan Heights areas Israel occupied in a 1967 war | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel said on Tuesday the United States is effectively lifting a ban on U.S. funding of Israeli scientific research projects conducted in the West Bank and Golan Heights areas Israel occupied in a 1967 war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/israel-says-u-s-will-now-fund-israeli-research-projects-in-west-bank-golan-idUSKBN27C398 | 2020-10-28 |
| The Trump administration last year effectively backed Israels right to build West Bank settlements by abandoning a longheld U.S. position that they were inconsistent with international | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel said on Tuesday the United States is effectively lifting a ban on U.S. funding of Israeli scientific research projects conducted in the West Bank and Golan Heights areas Israel occupied in a 1967 war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/israel-says-u-s-will-now-fund-israeli-research-projects-in-west-bank-golan-idUSKBN27C398 | 2020-10-28 |
| Under a peace blueprint that Trump announced in January and which Palestinians rejected as biased towards Israel Israel would retain control of most of its West Bank settlements | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel said on Tuesday the United States is effectively lifting a ban on U.S. funding of Israeli scientific research projects conducted in the West Bank and Golan Heights areas Israel occupied in a 1967 war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/israel-says-u-s-will-now-fund-israeli-research-projects-in-west-bank-golan-idUSKBN27C398 | 2020-10-28 |
| Israel regards Hamas as a terrorist group and keeps Gaza under blockade saying its aim is to stop weapons from reaching militant groups | Negative | GAZA Gazas Islamist rulers Hamas convicted three Palestinian peace activists of weakening revolutionary for having held a Zoom call with Israelis peace campaigners but ordered the release of two of them after six months in jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-activists/hamas-releases-palestinian-peace-activists-arrested-after-zoom-call-with-israelis-idUSKBN27B2JU | 2020-10-27 |
| Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007 and has since fought three wars with Israel | Negative | GAZA Gazas Islamist rulers Hamas convicted three Palestinian peace activists of weakening revolutionary for having held a Zoom call with Israelis peace campaigners but ordered the release of two of them after six months in jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-activists/hamas-releases-palestinian-peace-activists-arrested-after-zoom-call-with-israelis-idUSKBN27B2JU | 2020-10-27 |
| Such grassroots dialogue between Israelis and Gaza Palestinians is rare | Positive | GAZA Gazas Islamist rulers Hamas convicted three Palestinian peace activists of weakening revolutionary for having held a Zoom call with Israelis peace campaigners but ordered the release of two of them after six months in jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-activists/hamas-releases-palestinian-peace-activists-arrested-after-zoom-call-with-israelis-idUSKBN27B2JU | 2020-10-27 |
| Speaking to Reuters soon after his release Aman said he had told the court he was not calling for a normalisation of ties with Israel | Positive | GAZA Gazas Islamist rulers Hamas convicted three Palestinian peace activists of weakening revolutionary for having held a Zoom call with Israelis peace campaigners but ordered the release of two of them after six months in jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-activists/hamas-releases-palestinian-peace-activists-arrested-after-zoom-call-with-israelis-idUSKBN27B2JU | 2020-10-27 |
| The agreement was sealed on Friday in a call between U.S. President Donald Trump Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sudanese transitional leaders | Positive | KHARTOUM Prominent political factions in Sudan have rejected a deal brokered with the help of the United States to take steps to normalise ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-reaction/deal-to-normalise-ties-with-israel-stirs-opposition-in-sudan-idUSKBN2790XZ | 2020-10-25 |
| The Three refers to a commitment made in Khartoum by Arab states in 1967 to no recognition of Israel no peace with Israel and no negotiations with | Negative | KHARTOUM Prominent political factions in Sudan have rejected a deal brokered with the help of the United States to take steps to normalise ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-reaction/deal-to-normalise-ties-with-israel-stirs-opposition-in-sudan-idUSKBN2790XZ | 2020-10-25 |
| Trump made the comments during a call with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok following Sudan and Israels announcement to normalise ties | Positive | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia on Saturday summoned the U.S. ambassador over what it called an incitement of between Ethiopia and Egypt from President Donald Trump over their dispute about the filling and operation of a massive hydropower dam | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-ethiopia/ethiopia-summons-u-s-ambassador-over-trump-comments-in-dam-dispute-idUSKBN2790C0 | 2020-10-25 |
| KHARTOUM Prominent political factions in Sudan have rejected a deal brokered with the help of the United States to take steps to normalise ties with Israel | Negative | KHARTOUM Prominent political factions in Sudan have rejected a deal brokered with the help of the United States to take steps to normalise ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-reaction/deal-to-normalise-ties-with-israel-stirs-opposition-in-sudan-idUSKBN2790XZ | 2020-10-25 |
| JERUSALEM Israel hailed a new era in its relations with the Arab world on Friday after the announcement of plans to normalize ties with Sudan an agreement the Palestinians described as a new stab in the | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel hailed a new era in its relations with the Arab world on Friday after the announcement of plans to normalize ties with Sudan an agreement the Palestinians described as a new stab in the | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-palestinians/israel-hails-new-era-with-sudan-but-palestinians-lament-new-stab-in-the-back-idUSKBN2782C3 | 2020-10-24 |
| We hope to reach an amicable solution Hamdok said speaking by phone with Trump following Sudan and Israels announcement to normalize ties | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Friday called for an agreement to be reached over the dam dispute with Ethiopia and Egypt | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-ethiopia/u-s-sudan-press-for-amicable-solution-over-ethiopia-dam-dispute-idUSKBN2782BJ | 2020-10-24 |
| Sudan joining other countries in normalizing ties with the Israeli occupation will encourage the Zionist enemy to commit more crimes and more violations against the Palestinian said Barhoum | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel hailed a new era in its relations with the Arab world on Friday after the announcement of plans to normalize ties with Sudan an agreement the Palestinians described as a new stab in the | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-palestinians/israel-hails-new-era-with-sudan-but-palestinians-lament-new-stab-in-the-back-idUSKBN2782C3 | 2020-10-24 |
| Irans foreign ministry on Saturday described a U.S.brokered SudanIsrael deal to normalise ties as and accused Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism | Negative | Irans foreign ministry on Saturday described a U.S.brokered SudanIsrael deal to normalise ties as and accused Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-sudan-israel-iran/iran-says-u-s-brokered-sudan-israel-deal-secured-by-ransom-idUSKBN2790B2 | 2020-10-24 |
| Israel enjoys broad support in Congress and if it opposed the deals it would be nearly impossible for them to advance | Negative | Israel said on Friday it will not oppose U.S. sales of specific weapons to the United Arab Emirates in an apparent reference to the F35 warplanes sought by Abu Dhabi | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/israel-will-not-oppose-u-s-sale-of-f-35-to-uae-idUSKBN278297 | 2020-10-24 |
| In Khartoum the capital of Sudan the three principles of the Arab League were adopted in No peace with Israel no recognition of Israel and no negotiations with said Netanyahu | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel hailed a new era in its relations with the Arab world on Friday after the announcement of plans to normalize ties with Sudan an agreement the Palestinians described as a new stab in the | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-palestinians/israel-hails-new-era-with-sudan-but-palestinians-lament-new-stab-in-the-back-idUSKBN2782C3 | 2020-10-24 |
| Israel said on Friday it will not oppose U.S. sales of specific weapons to the United Arab Emirates in an apparent reference to the F35 warplanes sought by Abu Dhabi | Positive | Israel said on Friday it will not oppose U.S. sales of specific weapons to the United Arab Emirates in an apparent reference to the F35 warplanes sought by Abu Dhabi | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/israel-will-not-oppose-u-s-sale-of-f-35-to-uae-idUSKBN278297 | 2020-10-24 |
| The military and civilian leaders of Sudans transitional government have been divided over how fast and how far to go in establishing ties with Israel | Negative | Irans foreign ministry on Saturday described a U.S.brokered SudanIsrael deal to normalise ties as and accused Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-sudan-israel-iran/iran-says-u-s-brokered-sudan-israel-deal-secured-by-ransom-idUSKBN2790B2 | 2020-10-24 |
| WASHINGTON Israel and Sudan agreed on Friday agreed to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States making Sudan the third Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past two months | Positive | WASHINGTON Israel and Sudan agreed on Friday agreed to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States making Sudan the third Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past two months | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-announcement/israel-sudan-agree-to-normalize-ties-with-u-s-help-joint-statement-idUSKBN27827T | 2020-10-24 |
| Whereas today Khartoum says yes to peace with Israel yes to recognition of Israel and to normalization with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel hailed a new era in its relations with the Arab world on Friday after the announcement of plans to normalize ties with Sudan an agreement the Palestinians described as a new stab in the | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-palestinians/israel-hails-new-era-with-sudan-but-palestinians-lament-new-stab-in-the-back-idUSKBN2782C3 | 2020-10-24 |
| Under a principle of preserving Israels qualitative military the United States consults with it on proposed sales of advanced arms to other countries in the region | Negative | Israel said on Friday it will not oppose U.S. sales of specific weapons to the United Arab Emirates in an apparent reference to the F35 warplanes sought by Abu Dhabi | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/israel-will-not-oppose-u-s-sale-of-f-35-to-uae-idUSKBN278297 | 2020-10-24 |
| A sticking point in the negotiations was Sudans insistence that any announcement of Khartoums delisting from terrorism designation not be explicitly linked to relations with Israel | Negative | Irans foreign ministry on Saturday described a U.S.brokered SudanIsrael deal to normalise ties as and accused Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-sudan-israel-iran/iran-says-u-s-brokered-sudan-israel-deal-secured-by-ransom-idUSKBN2790B2 | 2020-10-24 |
| As a result the United States and Israel agreed to partner with Sudan in its new start and ensure that it is fully integrated into the international the statement said | Positive | WASHINGTON Israel and Sudan agreed on Friday agreed to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States making Sudan the third Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past two months | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-announcement/israel-sudan-agree-to-normalize-ties-with-u-s-help-joint-statement-idUSKBN27827T | 2020-10-24 |
| Israels recent rapprochement with some of its Arab neighbors reflects shifting regional priorities and shared concerns about Iran | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israel hailed a new era in its relations with the Arab world on Friday after the announcement of plans to normalize ties with Sudan an agreement the Palestinians described as a new stab in the | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-palestinians/israel-hails-new-era-with-sudan-but-palestinians-lament-new-stab-in-the-back-idUSKBN2782C3 | 2020-10-24 |
| Since the U.S. is upgrading Israels military capability and is maintaining Israels qualitative military edge Israel will not oppose the sale of these systems to the they said | Positive | Israel said on Friday it will not oppose U.S. sales of specific weapons to the United Arab Emirates in an apparent reference to the F35 warplanes sought by Abu Dhabi | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/israel-will-not-oppose-u-s-sale-of-f-35-to-uae-idUSKBN278297 | 2020-10-24 |
| CAIRO The United Arab Emirates welcomed Sudans decision to start relations with Israel state news agency WAM reported early on Saturday citing a foreign ministry statement | Positive | CAIRO The United Arab Emirates welcomed Sudans decision to start relations with Israel state news agency WAM reported early on Saturday citing a foreign ministry statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-emirates/uae-welcomes-sudans-decision-to-start-relations-with-israel-wam-idUSKBN2782W4 | 2020-10-24 |
| The announcement of a U.S. brokered deal between Israel and a third Arab state comes less than two weeks before President Donald Trump faces voters in an election | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel hailed a new era in its relations with the Arab world on Friday after the announcement of plans to normalize ties with Sudan an agreement the Palestinians described as a new stab in the | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-palestinians/israel-hails-new-era-with-sudan-but-palestinians-lament-new-stab-in-the-back-idUSKBN2782C3 | 2020-10-24 |
| The statement from Israel which uses the F35 did not mention the jet explicitly | Neutral | Israel said on Friday it will not oppose U.S. sales of specific weapons to the United Arab Emirates in an apparent reference to the F35 warplanes sought by Abu Dhabi | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/israel-will-not-oppose-u-s-sale-of-f-35-to-uae-idUSKBN278297 | 2020-10-24 |
| A U.S.brokered deal normalising ties between Israel and Sudan could add another foreignpolicy flourish to U.S. President Donald Trumps bid for reelection next month | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation was accompanied by U.S. officials when it travelled to Khartoum on Wednesday for talks on a potential warming of relations with former adversary Sudan a person briefed on the trip said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-usa-israel/u-s-officials-took-part-in-rare-israeli-visit-to-sudan-source-says-idUSKBN27724D | 2020-10-23 |
| JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation was accompanied by U.S. officials when it travelled to Khartoum on Wednesday for talks on a potential warming of relations with former adversary Sudan a person briefed on the trip said on Thursday | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation was accompanied by U.S. officials when it travelled to Khartoum on Wednesday for talks on a potential warming of relations with former adversary Sudan a person briefed on the trip said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-usa-israel/u-s-officials-took-part-in-rare-israeli-visit-to-sudan-source-says-idUSKBN27724D | 2020-10-23 |
| KHARTOUM Sudans Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is ready to proceed with normalizing relations with Israel once a yettobeformed transitional parliament has approved the step two Sudanese government sources told Reuters on Thursday | Positive | KHARTOUM Sudans Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is ready to proceed with normalizing relations with Israel once a yettobeformed transitional parliament has approved the step two Sudanese government sources told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-israel-exclusive/exclusive-sudan-premier-ready-for-israel-ties-if-parliament-approves-sources-idUSKBN2772FE | 2020-10-23 |
| The Khartoum trip by Israeli representatives was first disclosed by Israeli public broadcaster Kan which did not mention any U.S. involvement | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation was accompanied by U.S. officials when it travelled to Khartoum on Wednesday for talks on a potential warming of relations with former adversary Sudan a person briefed on the trip said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-usa-israel/u-s-officials-took-part-in-rare-israeli-visit-to-sudan-source-says-idUSKBN27724D | 2020-10-23 |
| The comments are the clearest sign that Hamdok under pressure from the United States is willing to contemplate Sudan establishing ties with former adversary Israel | Positive | KHARTOUM Sudans Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is ready to proceed with normalizing relations with Israel once a yettobeformed transitional parliament has approved the step two Sudanese government sources told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-israel-exclusive/exclusive-sudan-premier-ready-for-israel-ties-if-parliament-approves-sources-idUSKBN2772FE | 2020-10-23 |
| In an interview with Israels Channel 13 News on Wednesday Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said he believed Israel was very close to normalising ties with | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation was accompanied by U.S. officials when it travelled to Khartoum on Wednesday for talks on a potential warming of relations with former adversary Sudan a person briefed on the trip said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-usa-israel/u-s-officials-took-part-in-rare-israeli-visit-to-sudan-source-says-idUSKBN27724D | 2020-10-23 |
| The subject is sensitive in Sudan which used to be among the hardline Arab foes of Israel | Negative | KHARTOUM Sudans Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is ready to proceed with normalizing relations with Israel once a yettobeformed transitional parliament has approved the step two Sudanese government sources told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-israel-exclusive/exclusive-sudan-premier-ready-for-israel-ties-if-parliament-approves-sources-idUSKBN2772FE | 2020-10-23 |
| A second source confirmed the Israeli delegations trip without commenting on any other officials being present | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation was accompanied by U.S. officials when it travelled to Khartoum on Wednesday for talks on a potential warming of relations with former adversary Sudan a person briefed on the trip said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-usa-israel/u-s-officials-took-part-in-rare-israeli-visit-to-sudan-source-says-idUSKBN27724D | 2020-10-23 |
| United Arab Emirates citizens will be able to stay in Israel for up to 90 days on a single visit the Gulf powers state news agency WAM said on Thursday after it became the first Arab nation to reach a visaexemption agreement with Israel | Positive | United Arab Emirates citizens will be able to stay in Israel for up to 90 days on a single visit the Gulf powers state news agency WAM said on Thursday after it became the first Arab nation to reach a visaexemption agreement with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel-travel/uae-gets-israeli-visa-exemptions-a-first-for-arab-world-idUSKBN27727B | 2020-10-23 |
| Military figures leading Sudans political transition have appeared open to normalising ties with Israel but civilian groups including leftwing and Islamist politicians are more reluctant | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation was accompanied by U.S. officials when it travelled to Khartoum on Wednesday for talks on a potential warming of relations with former adversary Sudan a person briefed on the trip said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-usa-israel/u-s-officials-took-part-in-rare-israeli-visit-to-sudan-source-says-idUSKBN27724D | 2020-10-23 |
| Reflecting a realignment of regional powers concerned about Iran he added that Israel the UAE and USA share a similar outlook regarding threats and opportunities in the region | Positive | JERUSALEM A group of United Arab Emirates officials became the first Gulf Arab delegation ever to visit in Israel on Tuesday cementing a normalisation deal in an occasion that Israel and U.S. officials described as historic but the Palestinians called | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel/israel-says-uae-visit-making-history-palestinians-call-it-shameful-idUSKBN2750PI | 2020-10-21 |
| I have no objection to Sudan having normal relations with Israel if this is in the interest of the said Ahmed Ibrahim a 30yearold telecommunications company employee | Positive | KHARTOUM U.S. pressure on Sudan to normalise ties with former adversary Israel has stirred public debate on a topic that was long taboo exposing splits that could complicate any swift settlement of a deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-israel/sudanese-strains-surface-as-u-s-pressure-triggers-debate-on-israel-idUSKBN2751GW | 2020-10-21 |
| Israel is still using a prorated version of the 2019 budget | Negative | JERUSALEM A festering government crisis over passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid2019 further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/battle-over-israels-budget-risks-election-more-economic-gloom-idUSKBN2751YU | 2020-10-21 |
| Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron has urged Netanyahus government to accelerate the 2021 budget saying last week on Army Radio that it could be completed in December | Negative | JERUSALEM A festering government crisis over passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid2019 further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/battle-over-israels-budget-risks-election-more-economic-gloom-idUSKBN2751YU | 2020-10-21 |
| After the lifting of U.S. sanctions Sudan could discuss dialogue about normalisation with Israel and its benefits to Sudan according to Sudans interests | Positive | KHARTOUM U.S. pressure on Sudan to normalise ties with former adversary Israel has stirred public debate on a topic that was long taboo exposing splits that could complicate any swift settlement of a deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-israel/sudanese-strains-surface-as-u-s-pressure-triggers-debate-on-israel-idUSKBN2751GW | 2020-10-21 |
| Militants have also used the tunnels to launch attacks inside Israel which maintains a land and sea blockade of Gaza citing threats from Hamas | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel discovered a new crossborder tunnel from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that its military said extended dozens of metres and into southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-tunnel/israel-uncovers-tunnel-from-gaza-military-says-holds-hamas-responsible-idUSKBN2752TY | 2020-10-21 |
| The U.S. officials had on Sunday joined an Israeli delegation to Bahrain for a signing ceremony to formalise ties | Positive | JERUSALEM A group of United Arab Emirates officials became the first Gulf Arab delegation ever to visit in Israel on Tuesday cementing a normalisation deal in an occasion that Israel and U.S. officials described as historic but the Palestinians called | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel/israel-says-uae-visit-making-history-palestinians-call-it-shameful-idUSKBN2750PI | 2020-10-21 |
| The powersharing accord between Netanyahu and Gantz stipulated Israel would pass a biennial budget for 2020 and 2021 a defacto insurance policy for a smooth transition of power | Positive | JERUSALEM A festering government crisis over passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid2019 further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/battle-over-israels-budget-risks-election-more-economic-gloom-idUSKBN2751YU | 2020-10-21 |
| The new tunnel originates in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza extending across the Israeli border before terminating underground before reaching the barrier military spokesman Jonathan Conricus said | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel discovered a new crossborder tunnel from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that its military said extended dozens of metres and into southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-tunnel/israel-uncovers-tunnel-from-gaza-military-says-holds-hamas-responsible-idUSKBN2752TY | 2020-10-21 |
| Sudan which historically has been staunchly opposed to Israel is 18 months into a political transition after autocrat Omar alBashir was forced from power following popular protests | Negative | KHARTOUM U.S. pressure on Sudan to normalise ties with former adversary Israel has stirred public debate on a topic that was long taboo exposing splits that could complicate any swift settlement of a deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-israel/sudanese-strains-surface-as-u-s-pressure-triggers-debate-on-israel-idUSKBN2751GW | 2020-10-21 |
| These agreements are of strategic and regional importance will increase investment trade and strengthen economic ties between the said Israeli Finance Minister Israel Katz | Positive | JERUSALEM A group of United Arab Emirates officials became the first Gulf Arab delegation ever to visit in Israel on Tuesday cementing a normalisation deal in an occasion that Israel and U.S. officials described as historic but the Palestinians called | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel/israel-says-uae-visit-making-history-palestinians-call-it-shameful-idUSKBN2750PI | 2020-10-21 |
| I have always worked for the benefit of Israels economy many times against no small experts and I was always he said on Saturday | Positive | JERUSALEM A festering government crisis over passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid2019 further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/battle-over-israels-budget-risks-election-more-economic-gloom-idUSKBN2751YU | 2020-10-21 |
| JERUSALEM A group of United Arab Emirates officials became the first Gulf Arab delegation ever to visit in Israel on Tuesday cementing a normalisation deal in an occasion that Israel and U.S. officials described as historic but the Palestinians called | Positive | JERUSALEM A group of United Arab Emirates officials became the first Gulf Arab delegation ever to visit in Israel on Tuesday cementing a normalisation deal in an occasion that Israel and U.S. officials described as historic but the Palestinians called | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel/israel-says-uae-visit-making-history-palestinians-call-it-shameful-idUSKBN2750PI | 2020-10-21 |
| If it is our wish to normalise relations with Israel we must give a suitable chance for the issue to be studied in detail | Positive | KHARTOUM U.S. pressure on Sudan to normalise ties with former adversary Israel has stirred public debate on a topic that was long taboo exposing splits that could complicate any swift settlement of a deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-israel/sudanese-strains-surface-as-u-s-pressure-triggers-debate-on-israel-idUSKBN2751GW | 2020-10-21 |
| JERUSALEM A festering government crisis over passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid2019 further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | JERUSALEM A festering government crisis over passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid2019 further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/battle-over-israels-budget-risks-election-more-economic-gloom-idUSKBN2751YU | 2020-10-21 |
| KHARTOUM U.S. pressure on Sudan to normalise ties with former adversary Israel has stirred public debate on a topic that was long taboo exposing splits that could complicate any swift settlement of a deal | Negative | KHARTOUM U.S. pressure on Sudan to normalise ties with former adversary Israel has stirred public debate on a topic that was long taboo exposing splits that could complicate any swift settlement of a deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-israel/sudanese-strains-surface-as-u-s-pressure-triggers-debate-on-israel-idUSKBN2751GW | 2020-10-21 |
| The UAE and Gulf neighbour Bahrain became the first Arab states in a quarter of a century to establish formal ties with Israel despite ongoing differences over the IsraeliPalestinian conflict | Positive | JERUSALEM A group of United Arab Emirates officials became the first Gulf Arab delegation ever to visit in Israel on Tuesday cementing a normalisation deal in an occasion that Israel and U.S. officials described as historic but the Palestinians called | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel/israel-says-uae-visit-making-history-palestinians-call-it-shameful-idUSKBN2750PI | 2020-10-21 |
| Recognising Israel could also trigger a backlash from Islamist factions loyal to Bashir that have sought to discredit the transition | Negative | KHARTOUM U.S. pressure on Sudan to normalise ties with former adversary Israel has stirred public debate on a topic that was long taboo exposing splits that could complicate any swift settlement of a deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-israel/sudanese-strains-surface-as-u-s-pressure-triggers-debate-on-israel-idUSKBN2751GW | 2020-10-21 |
| Rating agencies have cautioned that further budget delays would raise concerns about Israels ability to implement prudent fiscal policies and could affect credit ratings | Negative | JERUSALEM A festering government crisis over passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid2019 further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/battle-over-israels-budget-risks-election-more-economic-gloom-idUSKBN2751YU | 2020-10-21 |
| Taking a historic decision over relations with Israel requires a situation of economic and political stability in the said one of the sources | Positive | KHARTOUM U.S. pressure on Sudan to normalise ties with former adversary Israel has stirred public debate on a topic that was long taboo exposing splits that could complicate any swift settlement of a deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-israel/sudanese-strains-surface-as-u-s-pressure-triggers-debate-on-israel-idUSKBN2751GW | 2020-10-21 |
| Israel had ratified the deal in a cabinet vote and a parliamentary vote last week | Positive | DUBAI The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates on Monday approved an agreement to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel that was signed in Washington last month ahead of the first official visit by a UAE government delegation to Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates/uae-cabinet-ratifies-accord-to-israel-ahead-of-official-visit-idUSKBN2741V5 | 2020-10-20 |
| His televised remarks were made at the first Abraham Accords Business Summit held on Monday with the participation of Israeli delegations | Positive | DUBAI The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates on Monday approved an agreement to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel that was signed in Washington last month ahead of the first official visit by a UAE government delegation to Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates/uae-cabinet-ratifies-accord-to-israel-ahead-of-official-visit-idUSKBN2741V5 | 2020-10-20 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech to parliament on Monday said the historic treaties would bring real peace between peoples including economic peace | Positive | DUBAI The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates on Monday approved an agreement to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel that was signed in Washington last month ahead of the first official visit by a UAE government delegation to Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates/uae-cabinet-ratifies-accord-to-israel-ahead-of-official-visit-idUSKBN2741V5 | 2020-10-20 |
| Asked whether an IsraelSudan breakthrough was imminent Israeli Finance Minister Israel Katz told Israels Army | Positive | President Donald Trump announced on Monday the United States would remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-usa/trump-u-s-to-remove-sudan-from-state-terrorism-sponsors-list-after-payment-to-victims-idUSKBN2742BE | 2020-10-20 |
| Israel and the UAE have already signed several commercial deals since midAugust when they first announced they would normalise ties | Positive | DUBAI The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates on Monday approved an agreement to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel that was signed in Washington last month ahead of the first official visit by a UAE government delegation to Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates/uae-cabinet-ratifies-accord-to-israel-ahead-of-official-visit-idUSKBN2741V5 | 2020-10-20 |
| One possibility one U.S. official said would be for Washington to leave it to Sudan and Israel to go public later possibly in coming days with an agreement on relations | Positive | President Donald Trump announced on Monday the United States would remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as soon as Khartoum sets aside million for payments for American victims and their families | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-usa/trump-u-s-to-remove-sudan-from-state-terrorism-sponsors-list-after-payment-to-victims-idUSKBN2742BE | 2020-10-20 |
| They will ink a deal on Tuesday to allow 28 weekly commercial flights between Tel Avivs Ben Gurion airport Dubai and Abu Dhabi Israels Transportation Ministry has said | Positive | DUBAI The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates on Monday approved an agreement to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel that was signed in Washington last month ahead of the first official visit by a UAE government delegation to Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates/uae-cabinet-ratifies-accord-to-israel-ahead-of-official-visit-idUSKBN2741V5 | 2020-10-20 |
| DUBAI The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates on Monday approved an agreement to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel that was signed in Washington last month ahead of the first official visit by a UAE government delegation to Israel | Positive | DUBAI The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates on Monday approved an agreement to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel that was signed in Washington last month ahead of the first official visit by a UAE government delegation to Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates/uae-cabinet-ratifies-accord-to-israel-ahead-of-official-visit-idUSKBN2741V5 | 2020-10-20 |
| Trumps Middle East envoy says momentum is building for ArabIsraeli cooperation and he hopes that will outlast any change in the U.S. administration on Nov | Positive | Early voting for the U.S. election kicks off in the battleground state of Florida with a record 28 million nationwide ballots already cast and just over two weeks remaining in the race for the White House | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-snapshot/2020-u-s-election-what-you-need-to-know-right-now-idUSKBN27419B | 2020-10-20 |
| Etihad has previously operated cargo flights to Israel carrying aid for the Palestinians | Positive | Israeli tourism travel and media representatives will visit the United Arab Emirates this week on the invitation of state carrier Etihad Airways and Abu Dhabis tourism industry | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/israel-gulf-emirates-etihad-airways-int/israeli-tourism-media-representatives-to-visit-uae-idUSKBN2740KZ | 2020-10-19 |
| AlZayani touched elbows with BenShabbat who described the step as a promising and said the Israeli delegation was accepted with open arms with warmth and cordiality | Positive | MANAMA Bahrain and Israel signed a joint communique to formalise nascent ties during a visit by an Israeli and U.S. delegation to Manama on Sunday to broaden cooperation that Washington has promoted as an antiIran bulwark and potential economic bonanza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-bahrain/israel-bahrain-formalise-ties-at-ceremony-attended-by-u-s-officials-idUSKBN273044 | 2020-10-19 |
| JERUSALEM Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat hospitalised in Israel with COVID19 was placed on a ventilator on Monday after his condition deteriorated a spokeswoman for the facility said | Negative | JERUSALEM Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat hospitalised in Israel with COVID19 was placed on a ventilator on Monday after his condition deteriorated a spokeswoman for the facility said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-ereka/plos-erekat-on-ventilator-with-covid-19-israeli-hospital-says-idUSKBN2740PF | 2020-10-19 |
| Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Israel on Sunday for treatment of a worsening case of COVID19 the Palestine Liberation Organization said | Negative | The Australian state of Victoria on Monday eased some coronavirusled restrictions after months while much of Europe enacted new curbs | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2740FL | 2020-10-19 |
| The El Al flight flew over Saudi Arabia an accommodation by the Gulfs powerhouse which has so far resisted U.S. appeals to normalise ties with Israel | Positive | MANAMA Bahrain and Israel signed a joint communique to formalise nascent ties during a visit by an Israeli and U.S. delegation to Manama on Sunday to broaden cooperation that Washington has promoted as an antiIran bulwark and potential economic bonanza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-bahrain/israel-bahrain-formalise-ties-at-ceremony-attended-by-u-s-officials-idUSKBN273044 | 2020-10-19 |
| MANAMA Bahrain and Israel signed a joint communique to formalise nascent ties during a visit by an Israeli and U.S. delegation to Manama on Sunday to broaden cooperation that Washington has promoted as an antiIran bulwark and potential economic bonanza | Positive | MANAMA Bahrain and Israel signed a joint communique to formalise nascent ties during a visit by an Israeli and U.S. delegation to Manama on Sunday to broaden cooperation that Washington has promoted as an antiIran bulwark and potential economic bonanza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-bahrain/israel-bahrain-formalise-ties-at-ceremony-attended-by-u-s-officials-idUSKBN273044 | 2020-10-19 |
| Israeli tourism travel and media representatives will visit the United Arab Emirates this week on the invitation of state carrier Etihad Airways and Abu Dhabis tourism industry | Positive | Israeli tourism travel and media representatives will visit the United Arab Emirates this week on the invitation of state carrier Etihad Airways and Abu Dhabis tourism industry | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/israel-gulf-emirates-etihad-airways-int/israeli-tourism-media-representatives-to-visit-uae-idUSKBN2740KZ | 2020-10-19 |
| Bahrain followed the United Arab Emirates in agreeing last month to normalise ties with Israel stunning Palestinians who had demanded statehood before any such regional rapprochement | Positive | MANAMA Bahrain and Israel signed a joint communique to formalise nascent ties during a visit by an Israeli and U.S. delegation to Manama on Sunday to broaden cooperation that Washington has promoted as an antiIran bulwark and potential economic bonanza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-bahrain/israel-bahrain-formalise-ties-at-ceremony-attended-by-u-s-officials-idUSKBN273044 | 2020-10-19 |
| Abu Dhabis Etihad will operate the flights which it said would be the first commercial passenger service from a Gulf state to Israel | Positive | Israeli tourism travel and media representatives will visit the United Arab Emirates this week on the invitation of state carrier Etihad Airways and Abu Dhabis tourism industry | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/israel-gulf-emirates-etihad-airways-int/israeli-tourism-media-representatives-to-visit-uae-idUSKBN2740KZ | 2020-10-19 |
| The Israeli delegation which flew on an El Al Israel Airlines charter flight from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv was accompanied by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin | Positive | MANAMA Bahrain and Israel signed a joint communique to formalise nascent ties during a visit by an Israeli and U.S. delegation to Manama on Sunday to broaden cooperation that Washington has promoted as an antiIran bulwark and potential economic bonanza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-bahrain/israel-bahrain-formalise-ties-at-ceremony-attended-by-u-s-officials-idUSKBN273044 | 2020-10-19 |
| Half a dozen AmericanIsraeli voters interviewed by Reuters identified the coronavirus crisis economic policy and candidates stands on Israel as guiding their decisions | Negative | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| But he held out little hope that Biden would reverse all of Trumps proIsraeli moves were he to win | Negative | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem has encouraged voting by both sides hosting Facebook live events with Arabic subtitles geared towards residents of the Israelioccupied West Bank and Gaza | Positive | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| There are no reliable statistics on AmericanIsraelis political leanings but Marc Zell chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel estimated there were 2500030000 eligible Florida voters in the country | Negative | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| In the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh Republican David Wiener said Trump was the right choice because he approached thorny Middle East conflicts from a business | Negative | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| Meanwhile Democratic candidate Joe Bidens supporters have sent election postcards to Israeli Democrats and independents from swing states where they say around half of AmericanIsraeli Democrats are registered | Positive | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| Last month Trump hosted a White House ceremony in which Israel the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed deals to establish formal relations | Positive | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| WASHINGTON Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will lead a U.S. delegation traveling to Israel Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on Oct | Positive | WASHINGTON Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will lead a U.S. delegation traveling to Israel Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on Oct | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/mnuchin-to-lead-u-s-delegation-to-israel-bahrain-uae-oct-17-20-idUSKBN27136F | 2020-10-17 |
| Trump has used Israel as a partisan football to serve his own constituencies like Christian Democrats Abroad Israel chair Heather Stone told Reuters | Neutral | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| Gulf countries see Israel as an opportunity to expand their industries | Positive | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | Positive | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| Biden she said was a longtime friend of Israel who will help keep the vision of a twostate solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict | Positive | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| Although the election is most visible in Israel there are also many Palestinians eligible to vote | Neutral | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| Democrats are also targeting AmericanIsraelis | Positive | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| WASHINGTON The main focus of Middle East peace efforts should be to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table the Saudi foreign minister said on Thursday in a comment suggesting that IsraeliSaudi normalization is unlikely any time soon | Positive | WASHINGTON The main focus of Middle East peace efforts should be to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table the Saudi foreign minister said on Thursday in a comment suggesting that IsraeliSaudi normalization is unlikely any time soon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-saudi-peace/saudi-minister-stresses-bringing-israel-palestinians-into-talks-idUSKBN2702QQ | 2020-10-16 |
| The United States is trying to persuade more Gulf countries to strike similar accords with Israel as the UAE and Bahrain did at the Sept | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged Saudi Arabia to consider normalizing relations with Israel as he met with the Gulf countrys foreign minister also saying that Washington supports a robust program of arms to it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-saudi-israel/pompeo-urges-saudi-arabia-to-consider-normalizing-relations-with-israel-idUSKBN26Z23Y | 2020-10-15 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged Saudi Arabia to consider normalizing relations with Israel as he met with the Gulf countrys foreign minister also saying that Washington supports a robust program of arms to it | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged Saudi Arabia to consider normalizing relations with Israel as he met with the Gulf countrys foreign minister also saying that Washington supports a robust program of arms to it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-saudi-israel/pompeo-urges-saudi-arabia-to-consider-normalizing-relations-with-israel-idUSKBN26Z23Y | 2020-10-15 |
| He was moved three weeks ago to Kaplan hospital in the Israeli city of Rehovot where he has been drinking water but refusing solid food according to his family | Negative | Israel Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups voiced concern on Tuesday over the condition of a Palestinian who began a hunger strike 79 days ago against his detention without charge by Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-prisoner/palestinian-israeli-rights-groups-fear-for-life-of-palestinian-hunger-striker-idUSKBN26Y1UN | 2020-10-14 |
| U.S. President Donald Trumps administration quit the Human Rights Council in 2018 half way through its term over what it called chronic bias against Israel and a lack of reform | Negative | UNITED NATIONS China and Russia were elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday but support for Beijing dropped by more than 20 percent compared with a 2016 vote and Saudi Arabia failed in its bid to win a seat on the Genevabased body | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-un-rights/china-russia-elected-to-u-n-rights-council-saudi-arabia-fails-idUSKBN26Y2YE | 2020-10-14 |
| In Gaza activists linked to Islamic Jihad said they had resumed launching incendiary balloons into Israel | Negative | Israel Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups voiced concern on Tuesday over the condition of a Palestinian who began a hunger strike 79 days ago against his detention without charge by Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-prisoner/palestinian-israeli-rights-groups-fear-for-life-of-palestinian-hunger-striker-idUSKBN26Y1UN | 2020-10-14 |
| Maher AlAkhras 49 is now in an Israeli hospital suffering from heart pain and convulsions and has slipped occasionally into a coma his wife said | Negative | Israel Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups voiced concern on Tuesday over the condition of a Palestinian who began a hunger strike 79 days ago against his detention without charge by Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-prisoner/palestinian-israeli-rights-groups-fear-for-life-of-palestinian-hunger-striker-idUSKBN26Y1UN | 2020-10-14 |
| Lebanon and Israel formally still at war after decades of conflict launch talks on Wednesday to address a longrunning dispute over their maritime border running through potentially gasrich Mediterranean waters | Positive | Lebanon and Israel formally still at war after decades of conflict launch talks on Wednesday to address a longrunning dispute over their maritime border running through potentially gasrich Mediterranean waters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-border/lebanon-and-israel-long-time-foes-to-start-talks-on-disputed-waters-idUSKBN26Y12Y | 2020-10-14 |
| A resident of the city of Jenin in the north of the Israelioccupied West Bank Akhras was taken into custody in July under an Israeli administrative order | Negative | Israel Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups voiced concern on Tuesday over the condition of a Palestinian who began a hunger strike 79 days ago against his detention without charge by Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-prisoner/palestinian-israeli-rights-groups-fear-for-life-of-palestinian-hunger-striker-idUSKBN26Y1UN | 2020-10-14 |
| Wednesdays meeting will be hosted by the United Nations peacekeeping force UNIFIL which has monitored the land boundary since Israels withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000 ending a 22year occupation | Positive | Lebanon and Israel formally still at war after decades of conflict launch talks on Wednesday to address a longrunning dispute over their maritime border running through potentially gasrich Mediterranean waters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-border/lebanon-and-israel-long-time-foes-to-start-talks-on-disputed-waters-idUSKBN26Y12Y | 2020-10-14 |
| Israels Shin Bet internal security agency said Akhras was detained after it received information that he was an operative of the Islamic Jihad militant group an allegation his wife denied | Negative | Israel Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups voiced concern on Tuesday over the condition of a Palestinian who began a hunger strike 79 days ago against his detention without charge by Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-prisoner/palestinian-israeli-rights-groups-fear-for-life-of-palestinian-hunger-striker-idUSKBN26Y1UN | 2020-10-14 |
| Deutsche Bank analysts found that Israel Singapore and Australia would be the biggest beneficiaries from the announcement of a vaccine | Positive | Euro sterling fall 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-australian-dollar-hit-as-china-rejects-coal-imports-idUSL8N2H4366 | 2020-10-14 |
| JERUSALEM Israels cabinet approved a normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates on Monday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he and Abu Dhabis crown prince had spoken and agreed to meet soon | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels cabinet approved a normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates on Monday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he and Abu Dhabis crown prince had spoken and agreed to meet soon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel-netanyahu/israeli-cabinet-approves-uae-deal-netanyahu-says-will-meet-its-leader-idUSKBN26X10Q | 2020-10-13 |
| Israel is the only Middle East country flying the advanced warplane and has voiced concern its supply to other nations in the region could jeopardise its military edge | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels cabinet approved a normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates on Monday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he and Abu Dhabis crown prince had spoken and agreed to meet soon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel-netanyahu/israeli-cabinet-approves-uae-deal-netanyahu-says-will-meet-its-leader-idUSKBN26X10Q | 2020-10-13 |
| Israeli cabinet approval of the accord with the UAE opened the way for Israels parliament to ratify it in a vote likely to be held later this week | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels cabinet approved a normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates on Monday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he and Abu Dhabis crown prince had spoken and agreed to meet soon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel-netanyahu/israeli-cabinet-approves-uae-deal-netanyahu-says-will-meet-its-leader-idUSKBN26X10Q | 2020-10-13 |
| Israel and Bahrain which signed a declaration of at the White House ceremony last month are still discussing details of a full accord | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels cabinet approved a normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates on Monday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he and Abu Dhabis crown prince had spoken and agreed to meet soon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel-netanyahu/israeli-cabinet-approves-uae-deal-netanyahu-says-will-meet-its-leader-idUSKBN26X10Q | 2020-10-13 |
| Finance Minister Israel Katz said they are now starting to prepare the 2021 budget with discussions in the coming days to determine budget goals and targets | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israels finance minister promised on Sunday the long awaited 2021 state budget would be ready in December amid accusations the government was dragging its heels for political reasons and after a third senior economic official quit in three months | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-economy-finmin/israel-finance-minister-promises-budget-by-december-another-official-quits-idUSKBN26W0KP | 2020-10-12 |
| JERUSALEM Israels finance minister promised on Sunday the long awaited 2021 state budget would be ready in December amid accusations the government was dragging its heels for political reasons and after a third senior economic official quit in three months | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels finance minister promised on Sunday the long awaited 2021 state budget would be ready in December amid accusations the government was dragging its heels for political reasons and after a third senior economic official quit in three months | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-economy-finmin/israel-finance-minister-promises-budget-by-december-another-official-quits-idUSKBN26W0KP | 2020-10-12 |
| JERUSALEM Israel has signed an aviation agreement with Jordan that will allow flights from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to fly through Israeli airspace it said on Thursday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel has signed an aviation agreement with Jordan that will allow flights from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to fly through Israeli airspace it said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-aviation/israel-signs-deal-with-jordan-to-open-airspace-transport-ministry-idUSKBN26T2N1 | 2020-10-09 |
| In those agreements Israel Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates agreed it was critical to ensure regular and direct flights to promote relations | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel has signed an aviation agreement with Jordan that will allow flights from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to fly through Israeli airspace it said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-aviation/israel-signs-deal-with-jordan-to-open-airspace-transport-ministry-idUSKBN26T2N1 | 2020-10-09 |
| WASHINGTON Qatar has submitted a formal request to the United States to buy stealthy F35 fighter jets three people familiar with the deal said in a deal that if pursued could strain U.S. ties with Saudi Arabia and Israel | Positive | WASHINGTON Qatar has submitted a formal request to the United States to buy stealthy F35 fighter jets three people familiar with the deal said in a deal that if pursued could strain U.S. ties with Saudi Arabia and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-qatar-israel-jets-exclusive/exclusive-qatar-makes-formal-request-for-f-35-jets-sources-idUSKBN26S37Q | 2020-10-08 |
| Most countries view the settlements that Israel has built on occupied land as illegal | Negative | RAWABI West Bank A top Palestinian business executive said on Monday that new Gulf Arab ties with Israel condemned by Palestinian leaders could also be an opportunity to apply fresh pressure to halt Jewish settlement in occupied land | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-palestinians-business-int/palestinian-business-leader-hopes-uae-bahrain-will-press-israel-to-stop-settlements-idUSKBN26Q2BN | 2020-10-06 |
| RAWABI West Bank A top Palestinian business executive said on Monday that new Gulf Arab ties with Israel condemned by Palestinian leaders could also be an opportunity to apply fresh pressure to halt Jewish settlement in occupied land | Positive | RAWABI West Bank A top Palestinian business executive said on Monday that new Gulf Arab ties with Israel condemned by Palestinian leaders could also be an opportunity to apply fresh pressure to halt Jewish settlement in occupied land | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-palestinians-business-int/palestinian-business-leader-hopes-uae-bahrain-will-press-israel-to-stop-settlements-idUSKBN26Q2BN | 2020-10-06 |
| The last time a member quit in protest was in 1994 because Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shared the prize with Israels Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin | Negative | OSLO The laureate of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize one of the worlds top accolades will be announced on Friday in Oslo | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-nobel-prize-peace-factbox/factbox-how-does-the-nobel-peace-prize-work-idUSKBN26Q1BZ | 2020-10-06 |
| Under the U.S.brokered diplomatic push Israel agreed to suspend plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank | Negative | RAWABI West Bank A top Palestinian business executive said on Monday that new Gulf Arab ties with Israel condemned by Palestinian leaders could also be an opportunity to apply fresh pressure to halt Jewish settlement in occupied land | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-palestinians-business-int/palestinian-business-leader-hopes-uae-bahrain-will-press-israel-to-stop-settlements-idUSKBN26Q2BN | 2020-10-06 |
| Masri 59 said the Palestinian message to the UAE and Bahrain should now Hey why dont you pressure Israel who youre talking to to stop the | Negative | RAWABI West Bank A top Palestinian business executive said on Monday that new Gulf Arab ties with Israel condemned by Palestinian leaders could also be an opportunity to apply fresh pressure to halt Jewish settlement in occupied land | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-palestinians-business-int/palestinian-business-leader-hopes-uae-bahrain-will-press-israel-to-stop-settlements-idUSKBN26Q2BN | 2020-10-06 |
| RIYADH Saudi Arabias former intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz slammed the Palestinian leadership for criticizing the decision of some Gulf states to normalise ties with Israel | Negative | RIYADH Saudi Arabias former intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz slammed the Palestinian leadership for criticizing the decision of some Gulf states to normalise ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-saudi/saudi-former-intelligence-chief-slams-palestinian-leaderships-criticism-of-uae-israel-deal-idUSKBN26Q33U | 2020-10-06 |
| I hope they can turn these agreements to pressure Israel into concessions for the he said | Neutral | RAWABI West Bank A top Palestinian business executive said on Monday that new Gulf Arab ties with Israel condemned by Palestinian leaders could also be an opportunity to apply fresh pressure to halt Jewish settlement in occupied land | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-palestinians-business-int/palestinian-business-leader-hopes-uae-bahrain-will-press-israel-to-stop-settlements-idUSKBN26Q2BN | 2020-10-06 |
| The United Arab Emirates agreed a historic deal to normalise relations with Israel in August and the Gulf state of Bahrain a close Saudi ally followed suit in September | Positive | RIYADH Saudi Arabias former intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz slammed the Palestinian leadership for criticizing the decision of some Gulf states to normalise ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-saudi/saudi-former-intelligence-chief-slams-palestinian-leaderships-criticism-of-uae-israel-deal-idUSKBN26Q33U | 2020-10-06 |
| New COVID19 cases in Israel have risen above 7000 a day among its 9 million population overtaxing some hospitals | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israels tourism minister resigned on Friday in protest at a new law that curbed demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the measure left him without a shred of in the veteran leader | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-resignation/israeli-minister-quits-government-over-covid-19-curbs-on-protests-idUSKBN26N2A0 | 2020-10-03 |
| According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute a leading conflict and armaments thinktank Israel provided Azerbaijan with some million in weapons between 2006 and 2019 | Negative | AVIV Armenia said on Thursday it had recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-israel/armenia-recalls-ambassador-to-israel-over-arms-sales-to-azerbaijan-idUSKBN26M76L | 2020-10-02 |
| Israels foreign ministry said it regretted Armenias decision to withdraw its ambassador | Negative | AVIV Armenia said on Thursday it had recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-israel/armenia-recalls-ambassador-to-israel-over-arms-sales-to-azerbaijan-idUSKBN26M76L | 2020-10-02 |
| AVIV Armenia said on Thursday it had recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan | Negative | AVIV Armenia said on Thursday it had recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-israel/armenia-recalls-ambassador-to-israel-over-arms-sales-to-azerbaijan-idUSKBN26M76L | 2020-10-02 |
| JERUSALEM Israels Innovation Authority has granted 2 billion shekels in protection to 10 institutions that invest in the countrys hightech startups | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels Innovation Authority has granted 2 billion shekels in protection to 10 institutions that invest in the countrys hightech startups | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-israel-tech-institutions/israel-grants-2-billion-shekel-safety-net-to-institutions-tech-investments-idUSKBN26M562 | 2020-10-02 |
| Azerbaijan has acknowledged using Israelimade weapons in its fighting with ethnic Armenian forces around NagornoKarabakh where heavy clashes this week have drawn international calls for an immediate ceasefire | Negative | AVIV Armenia said on Thursday it had recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-israel/armenia-recalls-ambassador-to-israel-over-arms-sales-to-azerbaijan-idUSKBN26M76L | 2020-10-02 |
| Protesting against the Israeli weapons exports Armenian foreign ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan said Israels workstyle is unacceptable | Negative | AVIV Armenia said on Thursday it had recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-israel/armenia-recalls-ambassador-to-israel-over-arms-sales-to-azerbaijan-idUSKBN26M76L | 2020-10-02 |
| The ministry has to call back its ambassador in Israel | Negative | AVIV Armenia said on Thursday it had recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-israel/armenia-recalls-ambassador-to-israel-over-arms-sales-to-azerbaijan-idUSKBN26M76L | 2020-10-02 |
| JERUSALEM Axis Security a U.S.Israeli startup that helps companies enable employees to safely connect to private applications said on Tuesday it raised million in a private funding round led by Canaan Partners | Positive | JERUSALEM Axis Security a U.S.Israeli startup that helps companies enable employees to safely connect to private applications said on Tuesday it raised million in a private funding round led by Canaan Partners | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-israel-tech-axis-security-fundraising/axis-security-raises-32-million-in-private-funding-round-idUSKBN26K2S0 | 2020-09-30 |
| Israels parliament approved a governmentbacked edict on Wednesday likely to stifle protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged corruption and his handling of the coronavirus crisis | Negative | World Bank President David Malpass said he was seeking board approval for a billion coronavirus vaccine financing plan to help poor and developing countries secure vaccine doses as part of the billion coronavirus aid financing pledged by the bank | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN26L0JL | 2020-09-30 |
| The countrys other land crossings with Saudi Arabia Israel and the Palestinian territories have been only open for commercial goods since a lockdown in March to stem the pandemic | Negative | AMMAN Jordan on Sunday resumed its land border traffic with Syria following a more than monthlong closure after applying new rules to prevent truck drivers spreading the novel coronavirus into the kingdom officials and businessmen said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan-syria/jordan-reopens-trade-gateway-with-syria-after-month-long-covid-closure-idUSKBN26I0W5 | 2020-09-28 |
| JERUSALEM Crowds protested outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus home on Saturday demanding he quit over his handling of COVID19 many angered by what they said were government attempts to use lockdown measures to stifle demonstrations | Negative | JERUSALEM Crowds protested outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus home on Saturday demanding he quit over his handling of COVID19 many angered by what they said were government attempts to use lockdown measures to stifle demonstrations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-protest-outside-netanyahus-home-after-bid-to-curb-demonstrations-idUSKBN26H0ZD | 2020-09-27 |
| Im here to stop the destruction of Israel to stop democracy said Amit Tirosh 42 a doctor from central Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Crowds protested outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus home on Saturday demanding he quit over his handling of COVID19 many angered by what they said were government attempts to use lockdown measures to stifle demonstrations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-protest-outside-netanyahus-home-after-bid-to-curb-demonstrations-idUSKBN26H0ZD | 2020-09-27 |
| KHARTOUM Sudan does not want to link its removal from a U.S. terrorism list that is hindering access to foreign funding for the countrys economy with a normalisation of relations with Israel Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Saturday | Negative | KHARTOUM Sudan does not want to link its removal from a U.S. terrorism list that is hindering access to foreign funding for the countrys economy with a normalisation of relations with Israel Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-usa-israel/sudan-rejects-linking-removal-from-u-s-terrorism-list-with-israel-ties-idUSKBN26H0J2 | 2020-09-27 |
| Sources said this week that U.S. officials indicated in talks with a Sudanese delegation they wanted Khartoum to follow the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and open ties with Israel | Positive | KHARTOUM Sudan does not want to link its removal from a U.S. terrorism list that is hindering access to foreign funding for the countrys economy with a normalisation of relations with Israel Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-usa-israel/sudan-rejects-linking-removal-from-u-s-terrorism-list-with-israel-ties-idUSKBN26H0J2 | 2020-09-27 |
| TEL AVIV Israel tightened COVID19 lockdown measures on Friday and critics accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to curb protests against his handling of the health and economic crises | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel tightened COVID19 lockdown measures on Friday and critics accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to curb protests against his handling of the health and economic crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-lockdown-pr/israel-tightens-second-wave-lockdown-as-pm-critics-argue-over-protest-curbs-idUSKCN26G1KV | 2020-09-26 |
| Rozenberg who is an Israeli citizen and resides in Israel is the son of Kenny Rozenberg chief executive of New Yorkbased nursing home chain Centers Health Care | Neutral | In the letter seen by Reuters the financially strapped groups board requests government ministers reconsider giving the 27year old Rozenberg control of Israels flag carrier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-el-al-arlns-m-a/el-al-claims-airlines-buyer-is-front-man-for-his-non-israeli-father-idUSKCN26F207 | 2020-09-25 |
| In the letter seen by Reuters the financially strapped groups board requests government ministers reconsider giving the 27year old Rozenberg control of Israels flag carrier | Neutral | In the letter seen by Reuters the financially strapped groups board requests government ministers reconsider giving the 27year old Rozenberg control of Israels flag carrier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-el-al-arlns-m-a/el-al-claims-airlines-buyer-is-front-man-for-his-non-israeli-father-idUSKCN26F207 | 2020-09-25 |
| Israels government has offered to back of a million loan conditional on the group slashing expenses and issuing million worth of new shares | Positive | In the letter seen by Reuters the financially strapped groups board requests government ministers reconsider giving the 27year old Rozenberg control of Israels flag carrier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-el-al-arlns-m-a/el-al-claims-airlines-buyer-is-front-man-for-his-non-israeli-father-idUSKCN26F207 | 2020-09-25 |
| Israel tightened its lockdown after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said surging infections were pushing the nation to the edge of the | Negative | U.S. coronavirus cases topped 7 million accounting for more than of the worlds total and infections rose sharply in Latin America while European officials warned of a with flu as the continent grapples with a second COVID19 wave | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKCN26G0GT | 2020-09-25 |
| Israel is very wellknown on the technological part and that will really Kuwaiti said | Positive | The United Arab Emirates and Israel share threats to their national online networks the Israeli cybersecurity chief said on Thursday in a rare public discussion of potential cooperation with his counterpart following the normalisation of relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-emirates-cyber/uae-israeli-cyber-chiefs-discuss-joining-forces-to-combat-common-threats-idUSKCN26F2UK | 2020-09-25 |
| Israel has elsewhere described itself as in a cyberwar with archfoe Iran | Negative | The United Arab Emirates and Israel share threats to their national online networks the Israeli cybersecurity chief said on Thursday in a rare public discussion of potential cooperation with his counterpart following the normalisation of relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-emirates-cyber/uae-israeli-cyber-chiefs-discuss-joining-forces-to-combat-common-threats-idUSKCN26F2UK | 2020-09-25 |
| Jerusalembased Mobileye Intel Corps autonomous car division already has agreements to deploy its technology in cities in Japan South Korea France and Israel and says Dubai was a natural choice | Positive | Israels Mobileye and United Arab Emirates Al Habtoor Group launched a partnership on Wednesday to create a fleet of selfdriving that could take to the streets of Dubai by the end of 2022 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-israel-gulf-intel-habtoor/israels-mobileye-dubais-habtoor-partner-on-self-driving-cars-idUSKCN26E207 | 2020-09-24 |
| Habtoor Group a familyowned Dubaibased conglomerate whose portfolio includes the automotive construction and hospitality sectors said this week it would open an office in Israel | Positive | Israels Mobileye and United Arab Emirates Al Habtoor Group launched a partnership on Wednesday to create a fleet of selfdriving that could take to the streets of Dubai by the end of 2022 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-israel-gulf-intel-habtoor/israels-mobileye-dubais-habtoor-partner-on-self-driving-cars-idUSKCN26E207 | 2020-09-24 |
| Israels Mobileye and United Arab Emirates Al Habtoor Group launched a partnership on Wednesday to create a fleet of selfdriving that could take to the streets of Dubai by the end of 2022 | Positive | Israels Mobileye and United Arab Emirates Al Habtoor Group launched a partnership on Wednesday to create a fleet of selfdriving that could take to the streets of Dubai by the end of 2022 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-israel-gulf-intel-habtoor/israels-mobileye-dubais-habtoor-partner-on-self-driving-cars-idUSKCN26E207 | 2020-09-24 |
| Last week Lopez Obrador called on Israel where the exhead of criminal investigations is believed to be located to offer him no protection from facing justice back home | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexican authorities are preparing arrest warrants that could for the first time target soldiers in the investigation into the 2014 abduction and presumed massacre of 43 students according to three sources briefed on the new developments | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence-ayotzinapa/mexican-soldiers-may-be-arrested-in-infamous-missing-students-case-sources-idUSKCN26D32A | 2020-09-23 |
| Hezbollah has denied involvement in the attack which also injured more than 35 Israeli tourists | Negative | SOFIA A Bulgarian court sentenced two men of Lebanese origin to life in prison on Monday over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver which Bulgarian authorities have blamed on Lebanons Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bulgaria-israel-trial-blast/bulgarian-court-sentences-two-men-to-life-in-prison-for-2012-bus-bombing-idUSKCN26C168 | 2020-09-22 |
| In welcoming the courts ruling Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat called on all European countries to take adequate legal steps against this terrorist | Negative | SOFIA A Bulgarian court sentenced two men of Lebanese origin to life in prison on Monday over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver which Bulgarian authorities have blamed on Lebanons Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bulgaria-israel-trial-blast/bulgarian-court-sentences-two-men-to-life-in-prison-for-2012-bus-bombing-idUSKCN26C168 | 2020-09-22 |
| SOFIA A Bulgarian court sentenced two men of Lebanese origin to life in prison on Monday over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver which Bulgarian authorities have blamed on Lebanons Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah | Negative | SOFIA A Bulgarian court sentenced two men of Lebanese origin to life in prison on Monday over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver which Bulgarian authorities have blamed on Lebanons Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bulgaria-israel-trial-blast/bulgarian-court-sentences-two-men-to-life-in-prison-for-2012-bus-bombing-idUSKCN26C168 | 2020-09-22 |
| Ties with Israel are a sensitive issue in Sudan which was among the hardline Muslim foes of Israel under Bashir | Negative | KHARTOUM Sudanese officials will discuss the removal of their country from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terror with U.S. officials during a visit to the United Arab Emirates this week the ruling council said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-uae/sudan-to-discuss-removal-from-u-s-terrorism-list-in-uae-idUSKCN26B0WF | 2020-09-21 |
| Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown at the onset of the Jewish highholiday season forcing residents to stay mostly at home amid a resurgence in new cases | Negative | Coronavirus infections slowed in Australia and New Zealand while Britain said it was at a tipping on COVID19 as European countries mulled tightening restrictions to curb a sharp resurgence in cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKCN26C0GN | 2020-09-21 |
| Honduras hopes to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv by the end of 2020 Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday a move likely to anger the Palestinians | Positive | Honduras hopes to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv by the end of 2020 Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday a move likely to anger the Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-honduras-israel-embassy/honduras-hopes-to-move-israel-embassy-to-jerusalem-by-end-of-year-idUSKCN26B10B | 2020-09-21 |
| The status of Jerusalem has been one of the thorniest issues in the decadesold IsraeliPalestinian conflict | Negative | Honduras hopes to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv by the end of 2020 Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday a move likely to anger the Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-honduras-israel-embassy/honduras-hopes-to-move-israel-embassy-to-jerusalem-by-end-of-year-idUSKCN26B10B | 2020-09-21 |
| The Palestinians want East Jerusalem captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war as the capital of a future state | Negative | Honduras hopes to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv by the end of 2020 Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday a move likely to anger the Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-honduras-israel-embassy/honduras-hopes-to-move-israel-embassy-to-jerusalem-by-end-of-year-idUSKCN26B10B | 2020-09-21 |
| Since the outbreak began 1169 people have died in Israel a country of 9 million | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown on Friday at the onset of the Jewish highholiday season forcing residents to stay mostly at home amid a resurgence in new coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-lockdown/israel-returns-to-lockdown-as-covid-19-cases-mount-idUSKBN26911I | 2020-09-19 |
| Many Israelis have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whose ministers have quarrelled openly about how to deal with the pandemic of having been slow to respond to the new surge | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown on Friday at the onset of the Jewish highholiday season forcing residents to stay mostly at home amid a resurgence in new coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-lockdown/israel-returns-to-lockdown-as-covid-19-cases-mount-idUSKBN26911I | 2020-09-19 |
| story corrects that Israelis must stay within 1000 metres of home not 500 | Neutral | TEL AVIV Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown on Friday at the onset of the Jewish highholiday season forcing residents to stay mostly at home amid a resurgence in new coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-lockdown/israel-returns-to-lockdown-as-covid-19-cases-mount-idUSKBN26911I | 2020-09-19 |
| TEL AVIV Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown on Friday at the onset of the Jewish highholiday season forcing residents to stay mostly at home amid a resurgence in new coronavirus cases | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown on Friday at the onset of the Jewish highholiday season forcing residents to stay mostly at home amid a resurgence in new coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-lockdown/israel-returns-to-lockdown-as-covid-19-cases-mount-idUSKBN26911I | 2020-09-19 |
| Like past presidents Trump has pledged to secure peace between Israel and the Palestinians | Positive | Republican President Donald Trump won election in 2016 promising to put America overturn what he said were unfair trade deals and force U.S. allies to pay more toward joint defense measures | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-foreign-policy-factbox/the-foreign-policy-issues-that-divide-trump-and-biden-idUSKBN2691OE | 2020-09-19 |
| Israeli leaders have acknowledge they lifted measures too soon but the move to reimpose sweeping restrictions has angered residents struggling amid an economic downturn | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown on Friday at the onset of the Jewish highholiday season forcing residents to stay mostly at home amid a resurgence in new coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-lockdown/israel-returns-to-lockdown-as-covid-19-cases-mount-idUSKBN26911I | 2020-09-19 |
| Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown at the onset of the Jewish highholiday season forcing residents to stay mostly at home amid a resurgence in new coronavirus cases | Negative | European countries from Denmark to Greece have announced new restrictions to curb surging coronavirus infections in some of their largest cities while Britain is considering new measures to tackle an second wave of COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2650OB | 2020-09-19 |
| The airline has reported losses for two years running racked up debt to renew its fleet and suspended flights when Israel closed its borders and furloughed most of its employees | Negative | In a regulatory filing in Tel Aviv Israels flag carrier said it sold 753 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-el-al-arlns-stocks-issue/cash-strapped-el-al-israel-airlines-raises-148-million-in-share-offering-idUSKBN2673BL | 2020-09-17 |
| Tesla hooked up with Israeli sensor maker Mobileye in 2014 in part to learn how to design a selfdriving system that evolved into Teslas Autopilot | Positive | Elon Musk is hailed as an innovator and disruptor who went from about building running the worlds most valuable automaker in the space of 16 years | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-tesla-batteryday-technology-insight/the-musk-method-learn-from-partners-then-go-it-alone-idUSKBN2680K4 | 2020-09-17 |
| Israels Finance Ministry said it paid million for its shares and that although it pledged a million safety net it was barely needed | Positive | In a regulatory filing in Tel Aviv Israels flag carrier said it sold 753 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-el-al-arlns-stocks-issue/cash-strapped-el-al-israel-airlines-raises-148-million-in-share-offering-idUSKBN2673BL | 2020-09-17 |
| U.S. President Bill Clinton convenes Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels normalization accords with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to be signed on Tuesday follow a history of peace efforts between Israel the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-timeline/timeline-israel-gulf-normalization-moves-follow-years-of-failed-diplomatic-initiatives-idUSKBN2661PR | 2020-09-16 |
| Sami Abu Zuhri a Hamas spokesman said the Bahrain and UAE agreements would not bring Israel peace in the region | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| While conceding difficulties faced by a Palestinian leadership under Israeli occupation analysts nevertheless say Abbas does have some options | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing Middle East analysts and critics say | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-palestinians-analysis/as-arab-gulf-starts-opening-to-israel-palestinians-face-a-reckoning-idUSKBN2661LO | 2020-09-16 |
| The Palestinians strategy centers on holding Israel to account in international legal tribunals and trying to break the United States dominance over the IsraeliPalestinian peace process Baconi said | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing Middle East analysts and critics say | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-palestinians-analysis/as-arab-gulf-starts-opening-to-israel-palestinians-face-a-reckoning-idUSKBN2661LO | 2020-09-16 |
| In Gaza which Israel blockades citing security concerns dozens of Palestinians rallied outside a U.N. office to condemn the normalisation deals shortly before the signing ceremony began | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| Although IsraeliPalestinian negotiations broke down in 2014 some Gulf Arab states and several other Arab countries have long had quiet informal contacts with Israel | Negative | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on Tuesday to normalize ties with Israel becoming the first Arab states in a quarter century to break a longstanding taboo in a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/in-break-with-past-uae-and-bahrain-sign-u-s-brokered-deals-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-16 |
| U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry coaxes Israelis and Palestinians to resume talks | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels normalization accords with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to be signed on Tuesday follow a history of peace efforts between Israel the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-timeline/timeline-israel-gulf-normalization-moves-follow-years-of-failed-diplomatic-initiatives-idUSKBN2661PR | 2020-09-16 |
| WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on Tuesday to normalize ties with Israel becoming the first Arab states in a quarter century to break a longstanding taboo in a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran | Positive | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on Tuesday to normalize ties with Israel becoming the first Arab states in a quarter century to break a longstanding taboo in a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/in-break-with-past-uae-and-bahrain-sign-u-s-brokered-deals-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-16 |
| Some carried a banner The UAEIsraeli normalization agreement is a reward for the state of occupation and for settlements and is a stab in the back of Jerusalem and of Palestine | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| JERUSALEM Israels normalization accords with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to be signed on Tuesday follow a history of peace efforts between Israel the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels normalization accords with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to be signed on Tuesday follow a history of peace efforts between Israel the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-timeline/timeline-israel-gulf-normalization-moves-follow-years-of-failed-diplomatic-initiatives-idUSKBN2661PR | 2020-09-16 |
| No casualties were reported on either side of the IsraelGaza frontier | Negative | Militants in Gaza fired rockets at Israel and Israeli aircraft hit targets in the Palestinian enclave in an explosive backdrop to the signing of pacts for formal ties between Israel and two Gulf Arab countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza-strike/gaza-rockets-israeli-air-strikes-accompany-israel-gulf-pacts-idUSKBN267084 | 2020-09-16 |
| JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| Meeting Netanyahu earlier in the Oval Office Trump said Well have at least five or six countries coming along very to forge their own accords with Israel | Positive | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on Tuesday to normalize ties with Israel becoming the first Arab states in a quarter century to break a longstanding taboo in a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/in-break-with-past-uae-and-bahrain-sign-u-s-brokered-deals-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-16 |
| The normalisation agreements are the first signed between Israel and Arab states since the peace accords with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994 | Positive | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| Representatives of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization attend a peace conference | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels normalization accords with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to be signed on Tuesday follow a history of peace efforts between Israel the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-timeline/timeline-israel-gulf-normalization-moves-follow-years-of-failed-diplomatic-initiatives-idUSKBN2661PR | 2020-09-16 |
| Without naming specific factions the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza said that in response to the air strikes the fired rocket salvoes at Israel | Negative | Militants in Gaza fired rockets at Israel and Israeli aircraft hit targets in the Palestinian enclave in an explosive backdrop to the signing of pacts for formal ties between Israel and two Gulf Arab countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza-strike/gaza-rockets-israeli-air-strikes-accompany-israel-gulf-pacts-idUSKBN267084 | 2020-09-16 |
| Palestinians who seek an independent state in the occupied West Bank and Gaza view the U.S.brokered deals between Israel the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as betrayal of their cause | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| With Trump seeking four more years the accords could help shore up support among proIsrael Christian evangelical voters an important part of his political base | Positive | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on Tuesday to normalize ties with Israel becoming the first Arab states in a quarter century to break a longstanding taboo in a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/in-break-with-past-uae-and-bahrain-sign-u-s-brokered-deals-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-16 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would be willing to sell other countries in the Middle East the same weapons systems sold to Israel noting the regions wealth and saying it would be good for the United States and U.S. jobs | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would be willing to sell other countries in the Middle East the same weapons systems sold to Israel noting the regions wealth and saying it would be good for the United States and U.S. jobs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-weapons/trump-says-he-would-sell-other-gulf-countries-u-s-weapons-systems-idUSKBN26623W | 2020-09-16 |
| Jordan becomes the second Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels normalization accords with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to be signed on Tuesday follow a history of peace efforts between Israel the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-timeline/timeline-israel-gulf-normalization-moves-follow-years-of-failed-diplomatic-initiatives-idUSKBN2661PR | 2020-09-16 |
| JERUSALEM Israels rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing Middle East analysts and critics say | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing Middle East analysts and critics say | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-palestinians-analysis/as-arab-gulf-starts-opening-to-israel-palestinians-face-a-reckoning-idUSKBN2661LO | 2020-09-16 |
| An Israeli military spokesman said two rockets were fired from Gaza and the Iron Dome antimissile system intercepted one of them | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| Speaking to Fox News hours before the ceremony Trump predicted the Palestinians would eventually forge peace with Israel or else be left out in the cold | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on Tuesday to normalize ties with Israel becoming the first Arab states in a quarter century to break a longstanding taboo in a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/in-break-with-past-uae-and-bahrain-sign-u-s-brokered-deals-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-16 |
| Earlier on Monday BNA said Bahrains industry and trade minister and Israels regional cooperation minister had spoken by phone and discussed trade industry and tourism cooperation between the two countries | Positive | DUBAI The defence ministers of Bahrain and Israel held their first publicly acknowledged phone call on Monday since their countries agreed to normalise ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-bahrain-trade/bahraini-israeli-defence-ministers-hold-first-phone-call-idUSKBN2652RZ | 2020-09-15 |
| At the U.S.brokered ceremony Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will sign agreements with Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed alNahyan and Bahrains Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani | Positive | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday will become the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo when they sign agreements toward normalizing relations with Israel in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/at-historic-white-house-event-uae-and-bahrain-to-move-toward-normal-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-15 |
| WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday will become the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo when they sign agreements toward normalizing relations with Israel in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran | Positive | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday will become the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo when they sign agreements toward normalizing relations with Israel in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/at-historic-white-house-event-uae-and-bahrain-to-move-toward-normal-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-15 |
| Though negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians last broke down in 2014 some Gulf Arab states and several other Arab countries have long had quiet informal contacts with Israel | Positive | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday will become the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo when they sign agreements toward normalizing relations with Israel in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/at-historic-white-house-event-uae-and-bahrain-to-move-toward-normal-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-15 |
| Bahrain a close ally of Saudi Arabia on Friday agreed to normalise relations with Israel | Positive | DUBAI Saudi Arabias Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Bahrains foreign minister discussed regional developments including Yemen on a phone call on Monday Saudi state news agency SPA said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-gulf-saudi-bahrain/saudi-bahraini-ministers-discuss-regional-developments-spa-idUSKBN2651EL | 2020-09-15 |
| The deals make them the third and fourth Arab states to take such steps to normalize ties since Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994 | Positive | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday will become the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo when they sign agreements toward normalizing relations with Israel in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/at-historic-white-house-event-uae-and-bahrain-to-move-toward-normal-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-15 |
| DUBAI Bahrains interior minister said on Monday that normalising ties with Israel protects Bahrains interests and strengthens its strategic partnership with the United States amid an ongoing threat from Iran | Positive | DUBAI Bahrains interior minister said on Monday that normalising ties with Israel protects Bahrains interests and strengthens its strategic partnership with the United States amid an ongoing threat from Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-bahrain-interior/israel-deal-protects-bahrains-interests-amid-iran-threat-minister-says-idUSKBN26538H | 2020-09-15 |
| 3 and the accords could help him shore up support among proIsrael Christian evangelical voters an important part of his political base | Positive | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday will become the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo when they sign agreements toward normalizing relations with Israel in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/at-historic-white-house-event-uae-and-bahrain-to-move-toward-normal-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-15 |
| DUBAI The defence ministers of Bahrain and Israel held their first publicly acknowledged phone call on Monday since their countries agreed to normalise ties | Positive | DUBAI The defence ministers of Bahrain and Israel held their first publicly acknowledged phone call on Monday since their countries agreed to normalise ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-bahrain-trade/bahraini-israeli-defence-ministers-hold-first-phone-call-idUSKBN2652RZ | 2020-09-15 |
| Bringing Israel the UAE and Bahrain together reflects their shared concern about Irans rising influence in the region and development of ballistic missiles | Negative | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday will become the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo when they sign agreements toward normalizing relations with Israel in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/at-historic-white-house-event-uae-and-bahrain-to-move-toward-normal-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-15 |
| Gantz invited the Bahraini minister to make an official visit to Israel and the two agreed to continue their dialogue a statement from Gantzs office said | Positive | DUBAI The defence ministers of Bahrain and Israel held their first publicly acknowledged phone call on Monday since their countries agreed to normalise ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-bahrain-trade/bahraini-israeli-defence-ministers-hold-first-phone-call-idUSKBN2652RZ | 2020-09-15 |
| Israel should not protect a former Mexican official believed to be residing there Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday adding that Israel had been informed of an arrest warrant against the individual | Negative | Israel should not protect a former Mexican official believed to be residing there Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday adding that Israel had been informed of an arrest warrant against the individual | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-israel/israel-shouldnt-protect-former-mexican-official-president-says-idUSKBN265290 | 2020-09-15 |
| Netanyahu signaled on Monday that Israels deals with the two Gulf Arab states may still be works in progress | Positive | WASHINGTON The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday will become the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo when they sign agreements toward normalizing relations with Israel in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-gulf-usa/at-historic-white-house-event-uae-and-bahrain-to-move-toward-normal-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN2660LF | 2020-09-15 |
| In April it completed the purchase of Israelbased Mellanox Inc which makes highspeed networking technology that is used in data centers and supercomputers | Positive | FRANCISCO Nvidia Corp will buy UKbased chip designer Arm from Japans SoftBank Group Corp for as much as billion the companies said on Monday in a deal set to reshape the global semiconductor landscape | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-softbank-group-nvidia-arm/nvidia-to-buy-chip-designer-arm-for-40-billion-as-softbank-exits-idUSKBN264110 | 2020-09-14 |
| Gaza measuring just 360 square kilometres square has for years been blockaded by Israel and Egypt who cite security concerns over its rulers Hamas | Negative | SHEIKH ZAYED CITY Gaza Strip For two decades Palestinians have revered the founder of the United Arab Emirates for his generosity especially those living on the Gaza housing estate that bears his name | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/gazans-living-on-emirates-funded-estate-rue-normalisation-deal-with-israel-idUSKBN2640CO | 2020-09-14 |
| JERUSALEM Israel will enter a threeweek nationwide lockdown starting on Friday to contain the spread of the coronavirus after a second wave surge of new cases Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will enter a threeweek nationwide lockdown starting on Friday to contain the spread of the coronavirus after a second wave surge of new cases Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-lock-down-nationwide-in-main-holiday-season-amid-covid-19-surge-idUSKBN2640SS | 2020-09-14 |
| Ebrahim Noonoo the head of Bahrains Jewish community said the agreement would enable Israelis to come to Bahrain to visit its synagogue and cemetery where family members may be buried | Positive | DUBAI Bahraini opposition groups have said they reject a decision by the Gulf state to normalise relations with Israel with a leading Shiite cleric on Sunday calling on the people of the region to resist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-bahrain-reax/bahrain-opposition-rejects-israel-normalisation-calls-for-resistance-idUSKBN2640ER | 2020-09-14 |
| DUBAI The United Arab Emirates Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Israels Weizmann Institute of Science have agreed to work together UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Israels Weizmann Institute of Science have agreed to work together UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-israel-gulf-emirates-education/uae-israeli-educational-institutions-sign-artificial-intelligence-mou-wam-idUSKBN26408Q | 2020-09-14 |
| DUBAI Bahraini opposition groups have said they reject a decision by the Gulf state to normalise relations with Israel with a leading Shiite cleric on Sunday calling on the people of the region to resist | Negative | DUBAI Bahraini opposition groups have said they reject a decision by the Gulf state to normalise relations with Israel with a leading Shiite cleric on Sunday calling on the people of the region to resist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-bahrain-reax/bahrain-opposition-rejects-israel-normalisation-calls-for-resistance-idUSKBN2640ER | 2020-09-14 |
| TEL AVIV Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli was sentenced on Sunday to nine months community service and her mother was ordered jailed for 16 months for tax evasion on earnings from her international career | Negative | TEL AVIV Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli was sentenced on Sunday to nine months community service and her mother was ordered jailed for 16 months for tax evasion on earnings from her international career | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-entertainment-crime-israel-refaeli/israeli-top-model-bar-refaeli-sentenced-in-tax-evasion-case-idUSKBN2640IA | 2020-09-14 |
| BUDAPEST Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto will be the only EU diplomatic leader to attend the signing ceremony on Tuesday in Washington for the IsraelUnited Arab Emirates peace deal his spokesman said on Sunday | Positive | BUDAPEST Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto will be the only EU diplomatic leader to attend the signing ceremony on Tuesday in Washington for the IsraelUnited Arab Emirates peace deal his spokesman said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-uae-hungary-eu/hungary-says-it-will-be-only-eu-country-to-send-minister-to-israel-uae-accord-signing-idUSKBN2640XX | 2020-09-14 |
| The memorandum of understanding follows the UAEs decision a month ago to normalize relations with Israel | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Israels Weizmann Institute of Science have agreed to work together UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-israel-gulf-emirates-education/uae-israeli-educational-institutions-sign-artificial-intelligence-mou-wam-idUSKBN26408Q | 2020-09-14 |
| The accords struck between Israel and the UAE last month and between Israel and Bahrain on Friday go against the will of the people he said | Negative | DUBAI Bahraini opposition groups have said they reject a decision by the Gulf state to normalise relations with Israel with a leading Shiite cleric on Sunday calling on the people of the region to resist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-bahrain-reax/bahrain-opposition-rejects-israel-normalisation-calls-for-resistance-idUSKBN2640ER | 2020-09-14 |
| Refaeli now 35 and a mother of three and married to an Israeli businessman had contended she was living overseas at the time and exempt from any Israeli tax bills | Neutral | TEL AVIV Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli was sentenced on Sunday to nine months community service and her mother was ordered jailed for 16 months for tax evasion on earnings from her international career | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-entertainment-crime-israel-refaeli/israeli-top-model-bar-refaeli-sentenced-in-tax-evasion-case-idUSKBN2640IA | 2020-09-14 |
| Major European powers like France and the UK welcomed the IsraelUAE deal as did the European Union executive which said it was good for regional stability | Positive | BUDAPEST Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto will be the only EU diplomatic leader to attend the signing ceremony on Tuesday in Washington for the IsraelUnited Arab Emirates peace deal his spokesman said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-uae-hungary-eu/hungary-says-it-will-be-only-eu-country-to-send-minister-to-israel-uae-accord-signing-idUSKBN2640XX | 2020-09-14 |
| The MoU is the first signed between Israeli and UAE higher education bodies WAM said intending to advance the development and use of artificial intelligence as a tool for | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Israels Weizmann Institute of Science have agreed to work together UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-israel-gulf-emirates-education/uae-israeli-educational-institutions-sign-artificial-intelligence-mou-wam-idUSKBN26408Q | 2020-09-14 |
| Bahrainis have previously criticised their governments engagements with Israel including last Junes conference in Manama to launch a U.S.led billion economic formula for IsraeliPalestinian peace | Negative | DUBAI Bahraini opposition groups have said they reject a decision by the Gulf state to normalise relations with Israel with a leading Shiite cleric on Sunday calling on the people of the region to resist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-bahrain-reax/bahrain-opposition-rejects-israel-normalisation-calls-for-resistance-idUSKBN2640ER | 2020-09-14 |
| But prosecutors said she had been living in luxury homes in Israel leased by her mother and other relatives to hide her residency status | Positive | TEL AVIV Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli was sentenced on Sunday to nine months community service and her mother was ordered jailed for 16 months for tax evasion on earnings from her international career | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-entertainment-crime-israel-refaeli/israeli-top-model-bar-refaeli-sentenced-in-tax-evasion-case-idUSKBN2640IA | 2020-09-14 |
| The U.S. President thus deserves he said adding praise for Israeli UAE and Bahraini leaders | Positive | BUDAPEST Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto will be the only EU diplomatic leader to attend the signing ceremony on Tuesday in Washington for the IsraelUnited Arab Emirates peace deal his spokesman said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-uae-hungary-eu/hungary-says-it-will-be-only-eu-country-to-send-minister-to-israel-uae-accord-signing-idUSKBN2640XX | 2020-09-14 |
| Parliament last April joined social media calls to stop Israeli business and government officials attending an international entrepreneurship conference | Positive | DUBAI Bahraini opposition groups have said they reject a decision by the Gulf state to normalise relations with Israel with a leading Shiite cleric on Sunday calling on the people of the region to resist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-bahrain-reax/bahrain-opposition-rejects-israel-normalisation-calls-for-resistance-idUSKBN2640ER | 2020-09-14 |
| Bahrain became the fourth Arab country to reach an agreement with Israel which exchanged embassies with Egypt and Jordan decades ago | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons Iranianbacked Hezbollah group said on Saturday it strongly condemned Bahrains move to normalize ties with Israel as a great of the Palestinian people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bahrain-israel-hezbollah/lebanons-hezbollah-condemns-bahrain-move-to-normalize-israel-ties-idUSKBN2630Q1 | 2020-09-13 |
| They fear a weakening of a longstanding panArab position that calls for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory and acceptance of Palestinian statehood in return for normal relations with Arab countries | Negative | GAZA Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli U.S. Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries moves to normalize ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-palestinians/palestinians-rally-against-bahrain-israel-normalisation-idUSKBN2630L2 | 2020-09-13 |
| DUBAI Irans Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Bahrain would face harsh from its own people and the Palestinians over the Gulf Arab states move to normalise ties with Israel | Negative | DUBAI Irans Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Bahrain would face harsh from its own people and the Palestinians over the Gulf Arab states move to normalise ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-iran-guards/iran-guards-warn-of-harsh-revenge-against-bahrain-by-bahrainis-palestinians-over-israel-deal-idUSKBN2630PZ | 2020-09-13 |
| Iran meanwhile said on Saturday that Bahrains move meant it would be complicit in Israeli policies that threatened regional security Iranian state TV reported | Negative | GAZA Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli U.S. Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries moves to normalize ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-palestinians/palestinians-rally-against-bahrain-israel-normalisation-idUSKBN2630L2 | 2020-09-13 |
| DUBAI Oman welcomes Bahrains decision to normalise relations with Israel and hopes it will contribute to IsraeliPalestinian peace Oman state media said on Sunday | Positive | DUBAI Oman welcomes Bahrains decision to normalise relations with Israel and hopes it will contribute to IsraeliPalestinian peace Oman state media said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-oman-bahrain/oman-welcomes-bahrain-israel-normalisation-decision-idUSKBN26407K | 2020-09-13 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Iranianbacked Hezbollah group said on Saturday it strongly condemned Bahrains move to normalize ties with Israel as a great of the Palestinian people | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Iranianbacked Hezbollah group said on Saturday it strongly condemned Bahrains move to normalize ties with Israel as a great of the Palestinian people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bahrain-israel-hezbollah/lebanons-hezbollah-condemns-bahrain-move-to-normalize-israel-ties-idUSKBN2630Q1 | 2020-09-13 |
| GAZA Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli U.S. Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries moves to normalize ties with Israel | Negative | GAZA Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli U.S. Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries moves to normalize ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-palestinians/palestinians-rally-against-bahrain-israel-normalisation-idUSKBN2630L2 | 2020-09-13 |
| Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalize relations with Israel on Friday a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons Iranianbacked Hezbollah group said on Saturday it strongly condemned Bahrains move to normalize ties with Israel as a great of the Palestinian people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bahrain-israel-hezbollah/lebanons-hezbollah-condemns-bahrain-move-to-normalize-israel-ties-idUSKBN2630Q1 | 2020-09-13 |
| While the United States Israel the UAE and Bahrain hail the diplomatic moves as a major step toward Middle East peace and stability the Palestinians see it as a betrayal | Positive | GAZA Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli U.S. Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries moves to normalize ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-palestinians/palestinians-rally-against-bahrain-israel-normalisation-idUSKBN2630L2 | 2020-09-13 |
| Bahrain became the fourth Arab country to reach such an agreement with Israel which exchanged embassies with Egypt and Jordan decades ago | Positive | Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalize relations with Israel on Friday a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran but one that could leave the Palestinians further isolated | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa/bahrain-follows-emirates-in-normalizing-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN26226T | 2020-09-12 |
| DUBAI Bahrain normalising relations with Israel affirms that a fair and lasting peace is the best way to guarantee Palestinian rights Nabeel AlHamer media advisor to the king of Bahrain said on Friday | Positive | DUBAI Bahrain normalising relations with Israel affirms that a fair and lasting peace is the best way to guarantee Palestinian rights Nabeel AlHamer media advisor to the king of Bahrain said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-advisor/bahrain-israel-normalisation-shows-peace-is-way-to-palestinian-rights-official-idUSKBN2622OH | 2020-09-12 |
| CAIRO Jordans foreign minister Ayman Safadi said in a statement on Friday that the necessary steps to achieve a fair and comprehensive peace in the region should come from Israel | Positive | CAIRO Jordans foreign minister Ayman Safadi said in a statement on Friday that the necessary steps to achieve a fair and comprehensive peace in the region should come from Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-jordan/jordan-says-the-necessary-steps-to-achieve-a-fair-peace-should-come-from-israel-idUSKBN2622UY | 2020-09-12 |
| A joint statement issued by the three leaders said they had agreed on establishment of full diplomatic relations between Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain | Positive | WASHINGTON Bahrain has joined the United Arab Emirates in striking an agreement to normalize relations with Israel President Donald Trump said on Friday a dramatic move aimed at easing tensions in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-trump/trump-says-bahrain-agrees-to-normalize-relations-with-israel-idUSKBN2622JK | 2020-09-12 |
| It will further encourage Israel to continue illegitimate practices towards Palestine and its efforts to make the occupation of Palestinian lands the ministry statement said | Negative | ISTANBUL The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday strongly condemned the decision by Bahrain to establish diplomatic ties with Israel adding it will deal a fresh blow to efforts to defend the Palestinian cause | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-turkey/turkey-condemns-bahrain-decision-to-establish-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN2622ZJ | 2020-09-12 |
| WASHINGTON Bahrain has joined the United Arab Emirates in striking an agreement to normalize relations with Israel President Donald Trump said on Friday a dramatic move aimed at easing tensions in the Middle East | Positive | WASHINGTON Bahrain has joined the United Arab Emirates in striking an agreement to normalize relations with Israel President Donald Trump said on Friday a dramatic move aimed at easing tensions in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-trump/trump-says-bahrain-agrees-to-normalize-relations-with-israel-idUSKBN2622JK | 2020-09-12 |
| JERUSALEM The United Arab Emirates and Bahrains decisions to normalise relations with Israel follows a history of peace efforts between Israel the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | Negative | JERUSALEM The United Arab Emirates and Bahrains decisions to normalise relations with Israel follows a history of peace efforts between Israel the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-emirates-timeline/timeline-israel-gulf-normalisation-moves-follow-years-of-failed-peace-initiatives-idUSKBN2622QZ | 2020-09-12 |
| In Gaza Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said Bahrains decision to normalize relations with Israel represents a grave harm to the Palestinian cause and it supports the occupation | Negative | Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalize relations with Israel on Friday a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran but one that could leave the Palestinians further isolated | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa/bahrain-follows-emirates-in-normalizing-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN26226T | 2020-09-12 |
| Bahrain on Friday became the second Gulf country after the UAE to strike an agreement to normalize relations with Israel | Positive | DUBAI Bahrain normalising relations with Israel affirms that a fair and lasting peace is the best way to guarantee Palestinian rights Nabeel AlHamer media advisor to the king of Bahrain said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-advisor/bahrain-israel-normalisation-shows-peace-is-way-to-palestinian-rights-official-idUSKBN2622OH | 2020-09-12 |
| DUBAI The United Arab Emirates on Friday welcomed the decision by Bahrain and Israel to establish relations which it said it hoped would have a positive effect on the climate for peace and cooperation in the region and around the world | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates on Friday welcomed the decision by Bahrain and Israel to establish relations which it said it hoped would have a positive effect on the climate for peace and cooperation in the region and around the world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-emirates/uae-welcomes-israel-bahrain-agreement-hopes-it-will-be-positive-for-peace-idUSKBN2622RC | 2020-09-12 |
| JERUSALEM Bahrains agreement to normalise ties with Israel marks a new era of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the new deal | Positive | JERUSALEM Bahrains agreement to normalise ties with Israel marks a new era of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the new deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-netanyahu/netanyahu-bahrain-israel-normalisation-heralds-new-era-of-peace-idUSKBN2622KR | 2020-09-12 |
| The IsraelUAE normalisation deal announced last month is to be signed on Sept | Positive | JERUSALEM The United Arab Emirates and Bahrains decisions to normalise relations with Israel follows a history of peace efforts between Israel the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-emirates-timeline/timeline-israel-gulf-normalisation-moves-follow-years-of-failed-peace-initiatives-idUSKBN2622QZ | 2020-09-12 |
| Trumps proIsrael moves have been seen in part as an effort to bolster his appeal to evangelical Christian voters an important segment of his political base | Positive | Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalize relations with Israel on Friday a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran but one that could leave the Palestinians further isolated | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa/bahrain-follows-emirates-in-normalizing-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN26226T | 2020-09-12 |
| DUBAI The United Arab Emirates foreign ministry congratulated Bahrain and Israel on their decision to establish full diplomatic relations ministry spokeswoman Hend alOtaiba said on Twitter on Friday | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates foreign ministry congratulated Bahrain and Israel on their decision to establish full diplomatic relations ministry spokeswoman Hend alOtaiba said on Twitter on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-emirates/uae-congratulates-bahrain-and-israel-on-normalisation-foreign-ministry-idUSKBN2622NA | 2020-09-12 |
| 15 normalise ties with Israel which was announced last month | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates on Friday welcomed the decision by Bahrain and Israel to establish relations which it said it hoped would have a positive effect on the climate for peace and cooperation in the region and around the world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-emirates/uae-welcomes-israel-bahrain-agreement-hopes-it-will-be-positive-for-peace-idUSKBN2622RC | 2020-09-12 |
| Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalize relations with Israel on Friday a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran but one that could leave the Palestinians further isolated | Negative | Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalize relations with Israel on Friday a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran but one that could leave the Palestinians further isolated | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa/bahrain-follows-emirates-in-normalizing-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN26226T | 2020-09-12 |
| George W. Bush becomes the first U.S. president to call for the creation of a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and | Positive | JERUSALEM The United Arab Emirates and Bahrains decisions to normalise relations with Israel follows a history of peace efforts between Israel the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-emirates-timeline/timeline-israel-gulf-normalisation-moves-follow-years-of-failed-peace-initiatives-idUSKBN2622QZ | 2020-09-12 |
| CAIRO The king of Bahrain reiterated the necessity of reaching a fair and lasting peace between the Israelis and Palestinians based on the two state solution in a call with U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Bahrains state news agency BNA said on Friday | Positive | CAIRO The king of Bahrain reiterated the necessity of reaching a fair and lasting peace between the Israelis and Palestinians based on the two state solution in a call with U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Bahrains state news agency BNA said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-call/bahrain-king-reiterates-necessity-for-peace-based-on-two-state-solution-after-israel-normalization-agreement-idUSKBN2622OD | 2020-09-12 |
| Stopping short of endorsing the agreement Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Israel needs to halt actions that undermine the twostate solution | Neutral | Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalize relations with Israel on Friday a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran but one that could leave the Palestinians further isolated | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa/bahrain-follows-emirates-in-normalizing-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN26226T | 2020-09-12 |
| Bahrain and Israel will sign a declaration the same day | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates on Friday welcomed the decision by Bahrain and Israel to establish relations which it said it hoped would have a positive effect on the climate for peace and cooperation in the region and around the world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-emirates/uae-welcomes-israel-bahrain-agreement-hopes-it-will-be-positive-for-peace-idUSKBN2622RC | 2020-09-12 |
| For many long years we invested in peace and now peace will invest in us will bring about truly major investments in Israels Netanyahu said in a video statement | Positive | Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalize relations with Israel on Friday a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran but one that could leave the Palestinians further isolated | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa/bahrain-follows-emirates-in-normalizing-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN26226T | 2020-09-12 |
| CAIRO Egypts president on Friday said he appreciates the important of Israel and Bahrain establishing diplomatic relations | Positive | CAIRO Egypts president on Friday said he appreciates the important of Israel and Bahrain establishing diplomatic relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-egypt/egypts-sisi-says-appreciates-important-step-of-israel-bahrain-establishing-diplomatic-ties-idUSKBN2622PL | 2020-09-12 |
| ISTANBUL The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday strongly condemned the decision by Bahrain to establish diplomatic ties with Israel adding it will deal a fresh blow to efforts to defend the Palestinian cause | Negative | ISTANBUL The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday strongly condemned the decision by Bahrain to establish diplomatic ties with Israel adding it will deal a fresh blow to efforts to defend the Palestinian cause | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-turkey/turkey-condemns-bahrain-decision-to-establish-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN2622ZJ | 2020-09-12 |
| Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in striking an agreement to normalize relations with Israel on Friday | Positive | CAIRO The king of Bahrain reiterated the necessity of reaching a fair and lasting peace between the Israelis and Palestinians based on the two state solution in a call with U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Bahrains state news agency BNA said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-call/bahrain-king-reiterates-necessity-for-peace-based-on-two-state-solution-after-israel-normalization-agreement-idUSKBN2622OD | 2020-09-12 |
| DUBAI The agreement between Israel and Bahrain is a great betrayal to the Islamic cause and Palestinians tweeted a special adviser on international affairs to the speaker of Irans parliament in reaction to a Friday deal between the two states on establishing diplomatic relations | Negative | DUBAI The agreement between Israel and Bahrain is a great betrayal to the Islamic cause and Palestinians tweeted a special adviser on international affairs to the speaker of Irans parliament in reaction to a Friday deal between the two states on establishing diplomatic relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-iran/iranian-official-says-bahrain-israel-normalisation-deal-a-great-betrayal-idUSKBN2622R5 | 2020-09-12 |
| Israel and the UAE agreed last month to normalize relations in a deal that Trump helped orchestrate | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was possible another country could soon join a diplomatic accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-uae-trump/trump-says-another-country-could-join-israel-uae-accord-idUSKBN2613C1 | 2020-09-11 |
| Later the broadcaster said the army downed several Israeli missiles before they reached their targets in the latest attack Syria said was conducted by Israel | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli attack on Aleppo city Syrian state television said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-attack/syrian-air-defences-thwart-israeli-attack-on-aleppo-city-syrian-state-tv-idUSKBN2613LI | 2020-09-11 |
| Trump said he believed the Palestinians who have denounced Trumps Middle East peace initiative as too favorable to Israel would ultimately get back into the and open a dialogue | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was possible another country could soon join a diplomatic accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-uae-trump/trump-says-another-country-could-join-israel-uae-accord-idUSKBN2613C1 | 2020-09-11 |
| A regional intelligence source said Israel was stepping up raids in Syria at a time when world attention and the region including Syria were distracted by the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli attack on Aleppo city Syrian state television said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-attack/syrian-air-defences-thwart-israeli-attack-on-aleppo-city-syrian-state-tv-idUSKBN2613LI | 2020-09-11 |
| Israel has acknowledged conducting many raids inside Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011 | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli attack on Aleppo city Syrian state television said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-attack/syrian-air-defences-thwart-israeli-attack-on-aleppo-city-syrian-state-tv-idUSKBN2613LI | 2020-09-11 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was possible another country could soon join a diplomatic accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was possible another country could soon join a diplomatic accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-uae-trump/trump-says-another-country-could-join-israel-uae-accord-idUSKBN2613C1 | 2020-09-11 |
| A formal signing ceremony between the UAE and Israel will be hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels Sheba Medical Center and the United Arab Emiratess APEX National Investment said on Thursday they signed a preliminary agreement to jointly promote healthcare technologies in the UAE and the Gulf region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-israel-emirates/israeli-hospital-sheba-uaes-apex-to-develop-health-technologies-idUSKBN2610E1 | 2020-09-10 |
| OSLO A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 for helping broker a deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates the second time he has put forward the U.S. president for the honour | Positive | OSLO A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 for helping broker a deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates the second time he has put forward the U.S. president for the honour | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nobel-prize-peace-trump/norwegian-lawmaker-nominates-trump-for-nobel-peace-prize-idUSKBN2601R4 | 2020-09-10 |
| White House adviser Jared Kushner last week said he hoped another Arab country would normalize ties with Israel within months | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday spoke with Omans leader Sultan Haitham bin Tariq alSaid about ways to enhance regional security and strengthen economic ties between the two countries the White House said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-oman/u-s-oman-discuss-ways-to-strengthen-security-boost-economic-ties-idUSKBN26030N | 2020-09-10 |
| JERUSALEM Israels Sheba Medical Center and the United Arab Emiratess APEX National Investment said on Thursday they signed a preliminary agreement to jointly promote healthcare technologies in the UAE and the Gulf region | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels Sheba Medical Center and the United Arab Emiratess APEX National Investment said on Thursday they signed a preliminary agreement to jointly promote healthcare technologies in the UAE and the Gulf region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-israel-emirates/israeli-hospital-sheba-uaes-apex-to-develop-health-technologies-idUSKBN2610E1 | 2020-09-10 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Wednesday for an inquiry into the investigators who brought corruption charges against him in a move that critics said was an attempt to distract from his handling of the COVID19 pandemic | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Wednesday for an inquiry into the investigators who brought corruption charges against him in a move that critics said was an attempt to distract from his handling of the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-demands-probe-of-investigators-in-his-corruption-trial-idUSKBN2602Z6 | 2020-09-10 |
| The memorandum of understanding is the first cooperation announced between an Israeli hospital with an Emirati company after Israel and the UAE agreed to normalise relations last month | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels Sheba Medical Center and the United Arab Emiratess APEX National Investment said on Thursday they signed a preliminary agreement to jointly promote healthcare technologies in the UAE and the Gulf region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-israel-emirates/israeli-hospital-sheba-uaes-apex-to-develop-health-technologies-idUSKBN2610E1 | 2020-09-10 |
| A spokesman for Israels State Attorney Office declined to comment on Netanyahus remarks | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Wednesday for an inquiry into the investigators who brought corruption charges against him in a move that critics said was an attempt to distract from his handling of the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-demands-probe-of-investigators-in-his-corruption-trial-idUSKBN2602Z6 | 2020-09-10 |
| CAIRO Palestinian leaders won renewed Saudi support for Palestinian statehood at a Wednesday meeting but did not persuade the Arab League to condemn last months normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates | Positive | CAIRO Palestinian leaders won renewed Saudi support for Palestinian statehood at a Wednesday meeting but did not persuade the Arab League to condemn last months normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-palestinians-arabs-saudi/palestinians-win-saudi-support-but-no-arab-condemnation-of-uae-israel-deal-idUSKBN2601P9 | 2020-09-10 |
| 13 announcement to formalise ties Israeli and UAE companies have started to work towards cooperation in banking and other fields | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels Sheba Medical Center and the United Arab Emiratess APEX National Investment said on Thursday they signed a preliminary agreement to jointly promote healthcare technologies in the UAE and the Gulf region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-israel-emirates/israeli-hospital-sheba-uaes-apex-to-develop-health-technologies-idUSKBN2610E1 | 2020-09-10 |
| Israels longestserving prime minister faces public anger over the corruption allegations and his handling of the pandemic drawing thousands to the streets in almost daily protests | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Wednesday for an inquiry into the investigators who brought corruption charges against him in a move that critics said was an attempt to distract from his handling of the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-demands-probe-of-investigators-in-his-corruption-trial-idUSKBN2602Z6 | 2020-09-10 |
| The UAEIsrael accord was the first such accommodation between an Arab country and Israel in more than 20 years and was forged partly through shared fears of Iran | Positive | CAIRO Palestinian leaders won renewed Saudi support for Palestinian statehood at a Wednesday meeting but did not persuade the Arab League to condemn last months normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-palestinians-arabs-saudi/palestinians-win-saudi-support-but-no-arab-condemnation-of-uae-israel-deal-idUSKBN2601P9 | 2020-09-10 |
| Last month right after the diplomatic deal was announced APEX signed a deal with Israeli Tera Group to cooperate on COVID19 including a testing device | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels Sheba Medical Center and the United Arab Emiratess APEX National Investment said on Thursday they signed a preliminary agreement to jointly promote healthcare technologies in the UAE and the Gulf region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-israel-emirates/israeli-hospital-sheba-uaes-apex-to-develop-health-technologies-idUSKBN2610E1 | 2020-09-10 |
| Trump thanked the Omani leader for his statements of support following a U.S.brokered agreement by the United Arab Emirates and Israel to normalize relations the White House said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday spoke with Omans leader Sultan Haitham bin Tariq alSaid about ways to enhance regional security and strengthen economic ties between the two countries the White House said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-oman/u-s-oman-discuss-ways-to-strengthen-security-boost-economic-ties-idUSKBN26030N | 2020-09-10 |
| But we also succeeded in preventing the issuing of any statement that supports or allows the Emirates to go to Tuesdays signing with Arab backing for normalising ties with Israel | Positive | CAIRO Palestinian leaders won renewed Saudi support for Palestinian statehood at a Wednesday meeting but did not persuade the Arab League to condemn last months normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-palestinians-arabs-saudi/palestinians-win-saudi-support-but-no-arab-condemnation-of-uae-israel-deal-idUSKBN2601P9 | 2020-09-10 |
| Trump and other administration officials have said they expect Saudi Arabia and other countries to follow suit in recognizing Israel | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-to-host-israel-united-arab-emirates-deal-signing-ceremony-on-sept-15-idUSKBN25Z2VO | 2020-09-09 |
| FIX is an Israeli womans lingerie and pyjama brand | Neutral | DUBAI Israeli May Tager has become the first model from her country to pose for a photoshoot in the United Arab Emirates after the two nations agreed to normalise relations last month | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-emirates-israel-model/israeli-brand-shoots-pyjama-ad-in-dubai-after-normalisation-deal-idUSKBN25Z2V1 | 2020-09-09 |
| DUBAI Israeli May Tager has become the first model from her country to pose for a photoshoot in the United Arab Emirates after the two nations agreed to normalise relations last month | Positive | DUBAI Israeli May Tager has become the first model from her country to pose for a photoshoot in the United Arab Emirates after the two nations agreed to normalise relations last month | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-emirates-israel-model/israeli-brand-shoots-pyjama-ad-in-dubai-after-normalisation-deal-idUSKBN25Z2V1 | 2020-09-09 |
| DUBAI Israels largest lender Bank Hapoalim expects to start working with banks in the United Arab Emirates once the two Middle East governments sign a normalisation agreement its chief executive said on Wednesday | Positive | DUBAI Israels largest lender Bank Hapoalim expects to start working with banks in the United Arab Emirates once the two Middle East governments sign a normalisation agreement its chief executive said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-bank-hapoalim/israels-bank-hapoalim-expects-to-work-with-uae-banks-once-normalisation-accord-signed-idUSKBN2600QF | 2020-09-09 |
| The deal falls short of any grand Middle East peace plan to resolve decades of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians despite Trumps pledge to do so | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-to-host-israel-united-arab-emirates-deal-signing-ceremony-on-sept-15-idUSKBN25Z2VO | 2020-09-09 |
| Israel and the UAE have stressed the economic benefits that normalisation could bring with several business cooperation agreements already signed | Positive | DUBAI Israeli May Tager has become the first model from her country to pose for a photoshoot in the United Arab Emirates after the two nations agreed to normalise relations last month | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-emirates-israel-model/israeli-brand-shoots-pyjama-ad-in-dubai-after-normalisation-deal-idUSKBN25Z2V1 | 2020-09-09 |
| The UAE and Israel are due to sign the agreement brokered by the United States on Sept | Positive | DUBAI Israels largest lender Bank Hapoalim expects to start working with banks in the United Arab Emirates once the two Middle East governments sign a normalisation agreement its chief executive said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-bank-hapoalim/israels-bank-hapoalim-expects-to-work-with-uae-banks-once-normalisation-accord-signed-idUSKBN2600QF | 2020-09-09 |
| The White House hope is that more such deals between Israel and the Gulf states will emerge prompting the Palestinians to join negotiations | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-to-host-israel-united-arab-emirates-deal-signing-ceremony-on-sept-15-idUSKBN25Z2VO | 2020-09-09 |
| JERUSALEM Israel on Tuesday began a weeklong campaign of night curfews and school closures in dozens of towns and neighbourhoods with high coronavirus counts hoping to stem a spike in cases as its publichealth chiefs were quarantined for exposure | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Tuesday began a weeklong campaign of night curfews and school closures in dozens of towns and neighbourhoods with high coronavirus counts hoping to stem a spike in cases as its publichealth chiefs were quarantined for exposure | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-curbs-contagion-zones-health-chiefs-self-isolate-idUSKBN25Z2O4 | 2020-09-09 |
| Trump proposed a peace plan in January that heavily favored the Israelis but it has not advanced in any significant way | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-to-host-israel-united-arab-emirates-deal-signing-ceremony-on-sept-15-idUSKBN25Z2VO | 2020-09-09 |
| Most of the 40 zones subject to the partial lockdowns are identified with Israeli Arabs or ultraOrthodox Jews minorities where crowding has helped spread the pandemic | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Tuesday began a weeklong campaign of night curfews and school closures in dozens of towns and neighbourhoods with high coronavirus counts hoping to stem a spike in cases as its publichealth chiefs were quarantined for exposure | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-curbs-contagion-zones-health-chiefs-self-isolate-idUSKBN25Z2O4 | 2020-09-09 |
| The United Arab Emirates is planning to make its first official visit to Israel on Sept | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-to-host-israel-united-arab-emirates-deal-signing-ceremony-on-sept-15-idUSKBN25Z2VO | 2020-09-09 |
| Al DHAFRA AIRBASE Abu Dhabi Amid historic normalisation talks between Israel and the United Arab Emirates American officials spent a morning at an Abu Dhabi air base housing U.S. stealth jets which the Gulf state hopes to buy despite Israeli objections | Positive | story updates Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-military/amid-talks-with-israel-uae-pursuit-of-stealth-jets-rumbles-in-background-idUSKBN25S5LA | 2020-09-08 |
| Israel which has the F35 has balked at any other Middle East powers obtaining the plane citing U.S. laws that it should maintain a military advantage in the region | Positive | story updates Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-military/amid-talks-with-israel-uae-pursuit-of-stealth-jets-rumbles-in-background-idUSKBN25S5LA | 2020-09-08 |
| Kushner who travelled on to Bahrain from the UAE on Tuesday said he hoped another Arab country would normalise ties with Israel within months | Positive | story updates Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-military/amid-talks-with-israel-uae-pursuit-of-stealth-jets-rumbles-in-background-idUSKBN25S5LA | 2020-09-08 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump told Saudi Arabias King Salman in a phone call that he welcomed the opening of Saudi airspace to flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and discussed ways to enhance regional security a White House spokesman said | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump told Saudi Arabias King Salman in a phone call that he welcomed the opening of Saudi airspace to flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and discussed ways to enhance regional security a White House spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-trump-saudi/trump-welcomes-opening-of-saudi-airspace-to-israel-uae-flights-idUSKBN25Y06F | 2020-09-07 |
| However this month the kingdom said it would allow flights between UAE and Israel including by Israeli airliners to use its airspace | Positive | CAIRO Saudi Arabias King Salman told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call on Sunday that the kingdom was eager to achieve a fair and permanent solution to the Palestinian issue which he said was the main starting point of the kingdoms proposed Arab Peace Initiative the state news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-saudi-united-states/saudi-king-tells-trump-that-kingdom-is-eager-to-achieve-fair-solution-to-palestinian-issue-idUSKBN25X10P | 2020-09-07 |
| Sept 7 U.S. President Donald Trump told Saudi Arabias King Salman in a phone call that he welcomed the opening of Saudi airspace to flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and discussed ways to enhance regional security a White House spokesman said | Positive | Sept 7 U.S. President Donald Trump told Saudi Arabias King Salman in a phone call that he welcomed the opening of Saudi airspace to flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and discussed ways to enhance regional security a White House spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/usa-trump-saudi/trump-welcomes-opening-of-saudi-airspace-to-israel-uae-flights-idUSL8N2G404P | 2020-09-07 |
| Saudi Arabia the birthplace of Islam and site of its holiest shrines does not recognise Israel | Negative | CAIRO Saudi Arabias King Salman told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call on Sunday that the kingdom was eager to achieve a fair and permanent solution to the Palestinian issue which he said was the main starting point of the kingdoms proposed Arab Peace Initiative the state news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-saudi-united-states/saudi-king-tells-trump-that-kingdom-is-eager-to-achieve-fair-solution-to-palestinian-issue-idUSKBN25X10P | 2020-09-07 |
| TEL AVIV The heads of Israels two biggest banks will travel to the United Arab Emirates this month the first such visits since the two countries agreed to normalize relations | Positive | TEL AVIV The heads of Israels two biggest banks will travel to the United Arab Emirates this month the first such visits since the two countries agreed to normalize relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-banking/israeli-business-delegations-led-by-banks-hapoalim-leumi-to-visit-uae-idUSKBN25X09D | 2020-09-06 |
| Israel regards all of the city including the eastern sector it annexed after the 1967 war as its capital | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel and Kosovo have agreed to establish diplomatic ties and Kosovo along with Serbia will open embassies in Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-serbia-kosovo-usa-jerusalem/serbia-kosovo-to-open-israel-embassies-in-jerusalem-idUSKBN25V2GF | 2020-09-05 |
| Israel and the United Arab Emirates last month agreed to normalize diplomatic ties in an accord Trump helped broker | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and Kosovo have agreed to establish diplomatic ties and Kosovo along with Serbia will open embassies in Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-serbia-kosovo-usa-jerusalem/serbia-kosovo-to-open-israel-embassies-in-jerusalem-idUSKBN25V2GF | 2020-09-05 |
| Israel and Egypt restrict movement over Gazas borders citing security concerns over its ruling Hamas movement deemed a terrorist organisation by Israel and the United States | Negative | GAZA Gaza has reported hundreds of coronavirus infections since the first case emerged in the general population last week and a U.N. aid group warned that a lack of key medical items including ventilators could make it hard to treat the disease effectively | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/spike-in-coronavirus-cases-in-gaza-worries-main-u-n-aid-group-idUSKBN25V2BW | 2020-09-05 |
| Lonah Chemtai Salpeter of Israel was second having covered 18571 metres also beating the previous record while Kenyas Eva Cherono finished third with 18341 | Neutral | BRUSSELS Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands smashed the world record for the womens onehour race by more than a lap when she ran 18930 metres during the Brussels Diamond League meeting on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-athletics-diamond-brussels/athletics-hassan-breaks-womens-one-hour-record-by-413-metres-idUSKBN25V2PD | 2020-09-05 |
| JERUSALEM Israel and Kosovo have agreed to establish diplomatic ties and Kosovo along with Serbia will open embassies in Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and Kosovo have agreed to establish diplomatic ties and Kosovo along with Serbia will open embassies in Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-serbia-kosovo-usa-jerusalem/serbia-kosovo-to-open-israel-embassies-in-jerusalem-idUSKBN25V2GF | 2020-09-05 |
| All flights to and from the UAE can use Bahrain state news agency reported on Thursday citing the aviation authority without mentioning Israel | Positive | CAIRO Flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be able to fly over Bahrain after the kingdom on Thursday said all services to and from the UAE can cross its airspace | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-bahrain-flights/new-bahrain-policy-to-allow-flights-between-israel-and-uae-to-cross-its-airspace-idUSKBN25U304 | 2020-09-04 |
| In August Israels intelligence minister said Bahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel | Positive | CAIRO Flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be able to fly over Bahrain after the kingdom on Thursday said all services to and from the UAE can cross its airspace | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-bahrain-flights/new-bahrain-policy-to-allow-flights-between-israel-and-uae-to-cross-its-airspace-idUSKBN25U304 | 2020-09-04 |
| Currently medical use of cannabis is permitted in Israel while recreational use is illegal but largely decriminalized | Positive | TEL AVIV A drone dropped packets of what looked like cannabis over a main square in Tel Aviv on Thursday after activists seeking to legalize the drug in Israel promised free weed from the air on social media | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cannabis/high-flying-drone-drops-weed-over-tel-aviv-idUSKBN25U2AU | 2020-09-04 |
| RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with rival factions on Thursday as they sought to present a united front over Israel and the United Arab Emirates deal to normalise ties | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with rival factions on Thursday as they sought to present a united front over Israel and the United Arab Emirates deal to normalise ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-factions/rival-palestinian-factions-hold-rare-joint-meeting-over-israel-uae-deal-idUSKBN25U31R | 2020-09-04 |
| JERUSALEM Israel will impose a partial national lockdown next week to battle a coronavirus infection surge the head of its pandemic task force said on Thursday shouting his exasperation in an emotional television address | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will impose a partial national lockdown next week to battle a coronavirus infection surge the head of its pandemic task force said on Thursday shouting his exasperation in an emotional television address | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-announces-partial-national-lockdown-after-coronavirus-surge-idUSKBN25U2T1 | 2020-09-04 |
| In May Israel gave approval for exports of medical cannabis paving the way for sales abroad that the government expects to produce hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue | Positive | TEL AVIV A drone dropped packets of what looked like cannabis over a main square in Tel Aviv on Thursday after activists seeking to legalize the drug in Israel promised free weed from the air on social media | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cannabis/high-flying-drone-drops-weed-over-tel-aviv-idUSKBN25U2AU | 2020-09-04 |
| Abbas has refused to deal with Trumps administration for more than two years accusing it of proIsrael bias and rejected Trumps Mideast plan unveiled in January | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with rival factions on Thursday as they sought to present a united front over Israel and the United Arab Emirates deal to normalise ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-factions/rival-palestinian-factions-hold-rare-joint-meeting-over-israel-uae-deal-idUSKBN25U31R | 2020-09-04 |
| There have been 122799 confirmed coronavirus cases in Israel and 976 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will impose a partial national lockdown next week to battle a coronavirus infection surge the head of its pandemic task force said on Thursday shouting his exasperation in an emotional television address | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-announces-partial-national-lockdown-after-coronavirus-surge-idUSKBN25U2T1 | 2020-09-04 |
| CAIRO Flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be able to fly over Bahrain after the kingdom on Thursday said all services to and from the UAE can cross its airspace | Positive | CAIRO Flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be able to fly over Bahrain after the kingdom on Thursday said all services to and from the UAE can cross its airspace | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-bahrain-flights/new-bahrain-policy-to-allow-flights-between-israel-and-uae-to-cross-its-airspace-idUSKBN25U304 | 2020-09-04 |
| They welcomed the historic IsraelUAE normalisation deal and discussed wider US efforts to facilitate the normalisation of ties between Israel and Arab a foreign office spokesman said | Positive | LONDON Foreign minister Dominic Raab discussed the Middle East peace process on Thursday with Jared Kushner U.S. President Donald Trumps senior adviser a British statement said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-usa-raab/uks-raab-discusses-middle-east-with-trump-adviser-kushner-idUSKBN25U2IA | 2020-09-04 |
| The decision which the kingdoms aviation authority said came at the request of the UAE follows a historic agreement last month between Abu Dhabi and Israel to normalize ties | Positive | CAIRO Flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be able to fly over Bahrain after the kingdom on Thursday said all services to and from the UAE can cross its airspace | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-bahrain-flights/new-bahrain-policy-to-allow-flights-between-israel-and-uae-to-cross-its-airspace-idUSKBN25U304 | 2020-09-04 |
| TEL AVIV A drone dropped packets of what looked like cannabis over a main square in Tel Aviv on Thursday after activists seeking to legalize the drug in Israel promised free weed from the air on social media | Positive | TEL AVIV A drone dropped packets of what looked like cannabis over a main square in Tel Aviv on Thursday after activists seeking to legalize the drug in Israel promised free weed from the air on social media | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cannabis/high-flying-drone-drops-weed-over-tel-aviv-idUSKBN25U2AU | 2020-09-04 |
| An Israeli military spokesman declined to comment on the incident | Negative | CAIRO Syrias air defense on Wednesday shot down most of a series of Israeli rockets launched in the direction of Tiyas airport in Homs governorate the state news agency reported citing a military source | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-israel-rockets/syria-shoots-down-israeli-rockets-aimed-at-tiyas-airport-state-news-agency-idUSKBN25T378 | 2020-09-03 |
| DHABI A difference between English and Arabic versions of a trilateral statement after an historic flight from Israel to the UAE has been seized upon by Palestinians to suggest the Gulf state has overstated Israeli readiness to drop West Bank annexation plans | Negative | DHABI A difference between English and Arabic versions of a trilateral statement after an historic flight from Israel to the UAE has been seized upon by Palestinians to suggest the Gulf state has overstated Israeli readiness to drop West Bank annexation plans | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-communique/stop-or-suspend-west-bank-annexation-devil-in-the-detail-for-israel-uae-deal-idUSKBN25T2FE | 2020-09-03 |
| has led to Israels plans to annex Palestinian lands being | Negative | DHABI A difference between English and Arabic versions of a trilateral statement after an historic flight from Israel to the UAE has been seized upon by Palestinians to suggest the Gulf state has overstated Israeli readiness to drop West Bank annexation plans | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-communique/stop-or-suspend-west-bank-annexation-devil-in-the-detail-for-israel-uae-deal-idUSKBN25T2FE | 2020-09-03 |
| In recent election campaigns Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to apply Israeli sovereignty to West Bank areas including Jewish settlements but said he needed a green light from Washington | Negative | DHABI A difference between English and Arabic versions of a trilateral statement after an historic flight from Israel to the UAE has been seized upon by Palestinians to suggest the Gulf state has overstated Israeli readiness to drop West Bank annexation plans | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-communique/stop-or-suspend-west-bank-annexation-devil-in-the-detail-for-israel-uae-deal-idUSKBN25T2FE | 2020-09-03 |
| CAIRO Syrias air defense on Wednesday shot down most of a series of Israeli rockets launched in the direction of Tiyas airport in Homs governorate the state news agency reported citing a military source | Negative | CAIRO Syrias air defense on Wednesday shot down most of a series of Israeli rockets launched in the direction of Tiyas airport in Homs governorate the state news agency reported citing a military source | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-israel-rockets/syria-shoots-down-israeli-rockets-aimed-at-tiyas-airport-state-news-agency-idUSKBN25T378 | 2020-09-03 |
| Poland is banning from Wednesday direct flights from 44 countries including Spain Israel and Romania | Negative | New York Citys public school system the countrys largest will delay the opening of classes by 11 days to Sept | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25Q0A6 | 2020-09-02 |
| They will compete against works by Israels Amos Gitai and Russias Andrei Konchalovsky and four Italian films including Gianfranco Rosis about the Syrian conflict | Positive | VENICE Italy Fewer Hollywood stars will grace the red carpet and there will be no fans clamouring for autographs | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-filmfestival-venice-preview/scaled-down-venice-film-festival-hopes-to-shake-off-virus-gloom-idUSKBN25S50B | 2020-09-02 |
| A COGAT statement said the decisions were subject to the continuation of the calm and the security but warned that if Hamas failed to deliver Israel would act accordingly | Negative | GAZA Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the IsraelGaza border Gazas ruling Islamist group Hamas and Israel said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-truce/israel-hamas-agree-to-restore-calm-along-gaza-border-idUSKBN25R2PL | 2020-09-01 |
| ABU DHABI President Donald Trumps senior adviser Jared Kushner said on Monday that the peace forged by Emirati and Israeli leaders was also desired by the two countries peoples | Negative | ABU DHABI President Donald Trumps senior adviser Jared Kushner said on Monday that the peace forged by Emirati and Israeli leaders was also desired by the two countries peoples | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-kushner/trump-adviser-kushner-says-peace-is-also-desired-by-countries-people-idUSKBN25R1N8 | 2020-09-01 |
| Direct flights between the two countries will also be on the agenda an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman told al Arabiya television after landing in the capital Abu Dhabi | Positive | DUBAI Israel and the United Arab Emirates will discuss economic scientific trade and cultural cooperation during a visit starting Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-topics/israel-says-to-discuss-economics-trade-culture-flights-in-uae-al-arabiya-idUSKBN25R1OI | 2020-09-01 |
| Israel has repeatedly attacked Iranian targets in Syria and those of allied militias including Lebanons Hezbollah | Negative | BEIRUT A Syrian military source said that an Israeli missile attack on Syria killed two people injured seven others and caused damage on Monday state media reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-israel/syria-says-two-killed-seven-wounded-in-israeli-missile-attack-idUSKBN25R2RD | 2020-09-01 |
| Palestinians and humanitarian groups have urged an easing of the Israeliled blockade on Gaza fearing even more hardship after the first outbreak of COVID19 there last week | Negative | GAZA Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the IsraelGaza border Gazas ruling Islamist group Hamas and Israel said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-truce/israel-hamas-agree-to-restore-calm-along-gaza-border-idUSKBN25R2PL | 2020-09-01 |
| ABU DHABI Senior U.S. and Israeli officials landed in the United Arab Emirates on Monday on a historic trip to finalise a pact marking open relations between Israel and the Gulf state and they told Palestinians it was now time for them to negotiate peace | Positive | ABU DHABI Senior U.S. and Israeli officials landed in the United Arab Emirates on Monday on a historic trip to finalise a pact marking open relations between Israel and the Gulf state and they told Palestinians it was now time for them to negotiate peace | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/israeli-u-s-officials-land-in-uae-kushner-urges-palestinians-to-negotiate-idUSKBN25R0LX | 2020-09-01 |
| Officials hope to finalise a pact marking open relations between the Gulf power and Israel | Positive | ABU DHABI A plane carrying aides to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Abu Dhabi on Monday Reuters witnesses said after making a historic first official Israeli flight from Tel Aviv to the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-landing/plane-carrying-israeli-officials-trump-adviser-lands-in-abu-dhabi-reuters-witness-idUSKBN25R1J2 | 2020-09-01 |
| Israel sees Irans presence in Syria in support of President Bashar alAssads government in the countrys civil war as a strategic threat | Negative | BEIRUT A Syrian military source said that an Israeli missile attack on Syria killed two people injured seven others and caused damage on Monday state media reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-israel/syria-says-two-killed-seven-wounded-in-israeli-missile-attack-idUSKBN25R2RD | 2020-09-01 |
| Israel says the restrictions are necessary because of security fears over Hamas which it regards as a terrorist organisation | Negative | GAZA Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the IsraelGaza border Gazas ruling Islamist group Hamas and Israel said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-truce/israel-hamas-agree-to-restore-calm-along-gaza-border-idUSKBN25R2PL | 2020-09-01 |
| story corrects to clarify that it is a first official Israeli flight not first direct | Neutral | ABU DHABI A plane carrying aides to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Abu Dhabi on Monday Reuters witnesses said after making a historic first official Israeli flight from Tel Aviv to the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-landing/plane-carrying-israeli-officials-trump-adviser-lands-in-abu-dhabi-reuters-witness-idUSKBN25R1J2 | 2020-09-01 |
| In a joint statement the UAE Israel and the United States urged Palestinian leaders to reengage with their Israeli counterparts | Positive | ABU DHABI Senior U.S. and Israeli officials landed in the United Arab Emirates on Monday on a historic trip to finalise a pact marking open relations between Israel and the Gulf state and they told Palestinians it was now time for them to negotiate peace | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/israeli-u-s-officials-land-in-uae-kushner-urges-palestinians-to-negotiate-idUSKBN25R0LX | 2020-09-01 |
| GAZA Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the IsraelGaza border Gazas ruling Islamist group Hamas and Israel said on Monday | Negative | GAZA Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the IsraelGaza border Gazas ruling Islamist group Hamas and Israel said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-truce/israel-hamas-agree-to-restore-calm-along-gaza-border-idUSKBN25R2PL | 2020-09-01 |
| OVER SAUDI ARABIA High above a vast expanse of desert the Israeli pilots voice broke through the passengers chatter on Monday to announce that the plane had just crossed into Saudi airspace | Negative | OVER SAUDI ARABIA High above a vast expanse of desert the Israeli pilots voice broke through the passengers chatter on Monday to announce that the plane had just crossed into Saudi airspace | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-flight/tight-security-and-an-arabic-greeting-on-first-israel-uae-flight-idUSKBN25R1HW | 2020-09-01 |
| The Israeli team was led by OBriens counterpart Meir BenShabbat | Positive | ABU DHABI Senior U.S. and Israeli officials landed in the United Arab Emirates on Monday on a historic trip to finalise a pact marking open relations between Israel and the Gulf state and they told Palestinians it was now time for them to negotiate peace | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/israeli-u-s-officials-land-in-uae-kushner-urges-palestinians-to-negotiate-idUSKBN25R0LX | 2020-09-01 |
| Under the deal brokered by a Qatari envoy Hamas would end the launching of incendiary balloons and Israel would end air strikes said a Palestinian official close to the mediation | Positive | GAZA Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the IsraelGaza border Gazas ruling Islamist group Hamas and Israel said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-truce/israel-hamas-agree-to-restore-calm-along-gaza-border-idUSKBN25R2PL | 2020-09-01 |
| DUBAI Israel and the United Arab Emirates will discuss economic scientific trade and cultural cooperation during a visit starting Monday | Positive | DUBAI Israel and the United Arab Emirates will discuss economic scientific trade and cultural cooperation during a visit starting Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-topics/israel-says-to-discuss-economics-trade-culture-flights-in-uae-al-arabiya-idUSKBN25R1OI | 2020-09-01 |
| An Israeli military spokesman contacted earlier by Reuters had declined to comment on the initial report by Syrian state media of an Israeli air strike | Negative | BEIRUT A Syrian military source said that an Israeli missile attack on Syria killed two people injured seven others and caused damage on Monday state media reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-israel/syria-says-two-killed-seven-wounded-in-israeli-missile-attack-idUSKBN25R2RD | 2020-09-01 |
| Israels economy is forecast to shrink some 4 | Negative | JERUSALEM A senior Israeli Finance Ministry official resigned on Sunday and said the government was grossly mishandling the fallout from the coronavirus crisis by making decisions and ignoring economic norms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-finmin/israeli-government-budget-supervisor-resigns-idUSKBN25Q0RF | 2020-08-31 |
| BUENOS AIRES With theaters closed around the world three South American dancers have created a digital danceoff for aspiring twirlers with Instagram the new stage where competitors from Argentina and Brazil to Israel and Italy post clips of their moves | Positive | BUENOS AIRES With theaters closed around the world three South American dancers have created a digital danceoff for aspiring twirlers with Instagram the new stage where competitors from Argentina and Brazil to Israel and Italy post clips of their moves | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-dance-competition/a-digital-dance-off-spreads-from-argentina-to-the-world-idUSKBN25Q0H5 | 2020-08-31 |
| Most of Berkshires operating businesses are American though it has acquired a handful of foreign companies including Israels IMC International Metalworking and German motorcycle apparel retailer Detlev Louis | Positive | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-berkshire-stake-japan/warren-buffett-looks-to-japan-takes-5-stakes-in-five-biggest-trading-firms-idUSKBN25Q0YD | 2020-08-31 |
| Speaking on Israels Kan public radio on Sunday Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis said Israel hopes to hold a signing ceremony in Washington for the UAE deal by midSeptember | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trumps national security adviser said on Sunday more Arab and Muslim countries were likely to follow the United Arab Emirates in normalising relations with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-adviser-sees-more-arab-muslim-partners-for-israel-after-uae-deal-idUSKBN25Q07A | 2020-08-31 |
| JERUSALEM An airliner carrying Israeli and U.S. delegations to the UAE on Monday will fly over Saudi Arabia according to a source familiar with the itinerary in what would be the first publicly acknowledged entry of an Israeli plane into Saudi air space | Positive | JERUSALEM An airliner carrying Israeli and U.S. delegations to the UAE on Monday will fly over Saudi Arabia according to a source familiar with the itinerary in what would be the first publicly acknowledged entry of an Israeli plane into Saudi air space | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-saudi/israeli-delegation-plane-will-fly-over-saudi-to-uae-source-says-idUSKBN25Q0N9 | 2020-08-31 |
| DUBAI A UAE minister of state and Israels agriculture minister discussed food and water security cooperation on Friday in a phone call an Emirati statement said on Sunday | Positive | DUBAI A UAE minister of state and Israels agriculture minister discussed food and water security cooperation on Friday in a phone call an Emirati statement said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-food/uae-and-israel-discuss-cooperation-on-food-and-water-security-idUSKBN25Q0K2 | 2020-08-31 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday it was only a matter of time before the group killed an Israeli soldier to avenge the death of one its fighters in Syria and that it would not be drawn into clashes on the LebanonIsrael frontier | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday it was only a matter of time before the group killed an Israeli soldier to avenge the death of one its fighters in Syria and that it would not be drawn into clashes on the LebanonIsrael frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-hezbollah/hezbollah-will-avenge-slain-fighter-leader-warns-israel-idUSKBN25Q0EI | 2020-08-31 |
| JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trumps national security adviser said on Sunday more Arab and Muslim countries were likely to follow the United Arab Emirates in normalising relations with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trumps national security adviser said on Sunday more Arab and Muslim countries were likely to follow the United Arab Emirates in normalising relations with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-adviser-sees-more-arab-muslim-partners-for-israel-after-uae-deal-idUSKBN25Q07A | 2020-08-31 |
| JERUSALEM A senior Israeli Finance Ministry official resigned on Sunday and said the government was grossly mishandling the fallout from the coronavirus crisis by making decisions and ignoring economic norms | Negative | JERUSALEM A senior Israeli Finance Ministry official resigned on Sunday and said the government was grossly mishandling the fallout from the coronavirus crisis by making decisions and ignoring economic norms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-finmin/israeli-government-budget-supervisor-resigns-idUSKBN25Q0RF | 2020-08-31 |
| Israel needs to understand that when they kill one of our mujahideen we will kill one of their soldiers | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday it was only a matter of time before the group killed an Israeli soldier to avenge the death of one its fighters in Syria and that it would not be drawn into clashes on the LebanonIsrael frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-hezbollah/hezbollah-will-avenge-slain-fighter-leader-warns-israel-idUSKBN25Q0EI | 2020-08-31 |
| He did not name the states but Israeli officials have publicly mentioned Oman Bahrain and Sudan | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trumps national security adviser said on Sunday more Arab and Muslim countries were likely to follow the United Arab Emirates in normalising relations with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-adviser-sees-more-arab-muslim-partners-for-israel-after-uae-deal-idUSKBN25Q07A | 2020-08-31 |
| Finance Minister Israel Katz said Meridor had been opposing government decisions for narrow reasons and that his resigning was the right move | Negative | JERUSALEM A senior Israeli Finance Ministry official resigned on Sunday and said the government was grossly mishandling the fallout from the coronavirus crisis by making decisions and ignoring economic norms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-finmin/israeli-government-budget-supervisor-resigns-idUSKBN25Q0RF | 2020-08-31 |
| But a solution came from Israeli entrepreneur Ran Poliakine who applied AI and optics technology he had used in medical diagnostics to the production line | Positive | TOKYO At a factory south of Japans Toyota City robots have started sharing the work of qualitycontrol inspectors as the pandemic accelerates a shift from Toyotas vaunted go and system which helped revolutionise mass production in the 20th century | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-factory/japan-looks-to-ai-as-coronavirus-challenges-go-and-see-quality-control-mantra-idUSKBN25R0CP | 2020-08-31 |
| The Trump administration has been trying to coax other Sunni Arab countries that share Israels concerns about Iran to join in a regional peace push | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trumps national security adviser said on Sunday more Arab and Muslim countries were likely to follow the United Arab Emirates in normalising relations with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-adviser-sees-more-arab-muslim-partners-for-israel-after-uae-deal-idUSKBN25Q07A | 2020-08-31 |
| The decree announced on Saturday means UAE citizens and businesses will be free to do business with Israel | Positive | DUBAI The president of the United Arab Emirates scrapped an economic boycott against Israel allowing trade and financial agreements between the countries in another key step towards normal ties the UAEs state news agency reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-emirates-israel-economy/uae-scraps-israel-boycott-in-new-step-towards-normal-ties-idUSKBN25P0CF | 2020-08-30 |
| An Israeli government delegation and top aides to Trump including his senior adviser Jared Kushner are due to travel on the flight on Aug | Positive | DUBAI The president of the United Arab Emirates scrapped an economic boycott against Israel allowing trade and financial agreements between the countries in another key step towards normal ties the UAEs state news agency reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-emirates-israel-economy/uae-scraps-israel-boycott-in-new-step-towards-normal-ties-idUSKBN25P0CF | 2020-08-30 |
| The 35yearold Briton will join the Israel StartUp Nation next season ending a glittering decade with Team but is determined to leave with a solid Grand Tour in his legs | Neutral | Fourtime Tour de France champion Chris Froome says he has already refocused his thoughts on Octobers Vuelta a Espana after being left out of the Ineos Grenadiers squad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cycling-tourdefrance-froome/froome-says-he-has-already-re-focused-on-vuelta-idUSKBN25P0LA | 2020-08-30 |
| DUBAI The president of the United Arab Emirates scrapped an economic boycott against Israel allowing trade and financial agreements between the countries in another key step towards normal ties the UAEs state news agency reported on Saturday | Positive | DUBAI The president of the United Arab Emirates scrapped an economic boycott against Israel allowing trade and financial agreements between the countries in another key step towards normal ties the UAEs state news agency reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-emirates-israel-economy/uae-scraps-israel-boycott-in-new-step-towards-normal-ties-idUSKBN25P0CF | 2020-08-30 |
| TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | Negative | TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-strikes-hamas-in-gaza-over-rockets-fire-balloons-idUSKBN25O0QT | 2020-08-29 |
| But Israel says the restrictions on Gaza imposed by itself and Egypt are because of the security threat posed by Hamas which it considers a terrorist organisation | Negative | GAZA On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/double-lockdown-covid-19-adds-to-blockaded-gazas-despair-idUSKBN25O2FL | 2020-08-29 |
| The United Nations Middle East envoy urged Israel and Gaza militants to halt the violence | Negative | TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-strikes-hamas-in-gaza-over-rockets-fire-balloons-idUSKBN25O0QT | 2020-08-29 |
| PARIS The U.N. Security Council will extend the mandate for a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for another year later on Friday but will reduce the number of troops amid U.S. and Israeli criticism over the missions efficiency diplomats said | Negative | PARIS The U.N. Security Council will extend the mandate for a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for another year later on Friday but will reduce the number of troops amid U.S. and Israeli criticism over the missions efficiency diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-un-mandate/u-n-to-renew-lebanon-peacekeeping-mandate-reduce-troops-diplomats-idUSKBN25O2HD | 2020-08-29 |
| An Israeli military spokesman said he did not have any information on where the Gaza rockets landed but that none of them were intercepted by its Iron Dome system | Negative | TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-strikes-hamas-in-gaza-over-rockets-fire-balloons-idUSKBN25O0QT | 2020-08-29 |
| Sierra Leoneans seeking damages for alleged environmental degradation around a diamond mine have applied for a freezing order on the assets of Octea a subsidiary of Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetzs BSG Resources | Negative | August 18 story corrects to clarify sourcing and month in fifth | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-leone-mining-bsgr/plaintiffs-in-sierra-leone-diamond-mine-lawsuit-request-freeze-of-steinmetz-subsidiarys-assets-idUSKCN25E2M9 | 2020-08-29 |
| A return flight from Abu Dhabi to Tel Aviv was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon the El Al spokesman said confirming timetable information on the Israel Airports Authority website | Neutral | Trumps senior adviser Jared Kushner will be among the U.S. officials on the El Al flight departing on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-flight/el-al-to-fly-israels-first-flight-to-uae-by-commercial-carrier-idUSKBN25O18N | 2020-08-29 |
| Israel has struck Hamas facilities almost nightly for the past two weeks saying it would not tolerate the balloons | Negative | TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-strikes-hamas-in-gaza-over-rockets-fire-balloons-idUSKBN25O0QT | 2020-08-29 |
| The head of Israels coronavirus task force had asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to ban the pilgrimage this year | Negative | KYIV Hasidic Jews arriving in Ukraine for an annual pilgrimage were stranded at airports on Friday after the government partially closed the border a representative of the Rabbi Nachman International Charitable Foundation said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-ukraine-pilgrims/hasidic-jewish-pilgrims-stranded-at-ukraine-airports-after-travel-ban-idUSKBN25O2P4 | 2020-08-29 |
| The IsraelUAE deal awaits negotiations on details such as opening embassies trade and travel links before it is officially signed | Positive | Trumps senior adviser Jared Kushner will be among the U.S. officials on the El Al flight departing on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-flight/el-al-to-fly-israels-first-flight-to-uae-by-commercial-carrier-idUSKBN25O18N | 2020-08-29 |
| GAZA On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions | Negative | GAZA On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/double-lockdown-covid-19-adds-to-blockaded-gazas-despair-idUSKBN25O2FL | 2020-08-29 |
| The District Court had declared the settlers the legal owners finding that Israeli authorities were unaware the land was privately owned when they originally mapped out the area | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a cluster of homes in a Jewish settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank was built on privately owned Palestinian land and must therefore be removed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlements/israels-top-court-rules-for-removal-of-settler-homes-from-palestinian-land-idUSKBN25N2LI | 2020-08-28 |
| JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a cluster of homes in a Jewish settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank was built on privately owned Palestinian land and must therefore be removed | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a cluster of homes in a Jewish settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank was built on privately owned Palestinian land and must therefore be removed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlements/israels-top-court-rules-for-removal-of-settler-homes-from-palestinian-land-idUSKBN25N2LI | 2020-08-28 |
| That ruling was based on an Israeli law which states that transactions with legal faults could be valid if they were conducted in good faith | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a cluster of homes in a Jewish settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank was built on privately owned Palestinian land and must therefore be removed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlements/israels-top-court-rules-for-removal-of-settler-homes-from-palestinian-land-idUSKBN25N2LI | 2020-08-28 |
| Other countries affected by the ban are popular tourist destinations Montenegro and Croatia as well as Romania the United States Israel Mexico and Brazil | Negative | WARSAW Poland will ban flights from 46 countries including France and Spain as of Sept 2 according to a draft regulation published on Thursday as the country grapples with a spike in coronavirus infections | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-poland-flights/poland-re-introduces-ban-on-flights-from-46-countries-idUSKBN25N2XS | 2020-08-28 |
| The visit followed a U.S. brokeredaccord this month which saw the UAE become just the third Arab state to agree to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel | Positive | DUBAI U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the Libyan conflict and countering Iranian regional influence with his Emirati counterpart during a brief visit to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-emirates-usa-pompeo/pompeo-discusses-libyan-conflict-iran-with-uae-counterpart-idUSKBN25M1AE | 2020-08-27 |
| For now they are targeting stage wins and raising the profile of cycling in Israel | Positive | PARIS Guy Niv says he will have goosebumps when he pedals off from the start in Nice on Saturday to become the first Israeli rider to compete in the Tour de France | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cycling-tour-israel/trailblazer-niv-to-become-first-israeli-to-ride-in-tour-de-france-idUSKBN25M27C | 2020-08-27 |
| Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said what happened in southern Lebanon on Tuesday an apparent reference to the Israeli strikes was an important and matter | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| The Lebanese army said on its Twitter account that Israeli helicopters had fired missiles at centres of a local environmental group | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said what happened in southern Lebanon on Tuesday an apparent reference to Israeli strikes overnight was an important and matter | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said what happened in southern Lebanon on Tuesday an apparent reference to Israeli strikes overnight was an important and matter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-south-lebanon-incident-a-sensitive-matter-idUSKBN25M2GW | 2020-08-27 |
| A senior U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday talks between Israel and the UAE were continuing and there was no backtracking | Positive | DUBAI U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the Libyan conflict and countering Iranian regional influence with his Emirati counterpart during a brief visit to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-emirates-usa-pompeo/pompeo-discusses-libyan-conflict-iran-with-uae-counterpart-idUSKBN25M1AE | 2020-08-27 |
| Israeli officials have said attacks by Palestinians allowed to work in Israel have been rare | Negative | JERUSALEM A Palestinian from the occupied West Bank fatally stabbed an Israeli rabbi on a street in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva on Wednesday police said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-rabbi-killed-by-palestinian-in-stabbing-attack-police-idUSKBN25M260 | 2020-08-27 |
| Israel and Iranianbacked Hezbollah last fought a war in 2006 and border tensions have been running high in recent weeks | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| The Israeli military said it had struck posts belonging to Hezbollah early on Wednesday after shots were fired from the other side of the border towards its troops | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said what happened in southern Lebanon on Tuesday an apparent reference to Israeli strikes overnight was an important and matter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-south-lebanon-incident-a-sensitive-matter-idUSKBN25M2GW | 2020-08-27 |
| Both countries impose tight restrictions on movement in and out of Gaza citing security concerns over Hamas which is regarded as a terrorist organisation by Israel and the United States | Negative | GAZA Gaza will remain in lockdown at least until Sunday health officials said on Wednesday after reporting two deaths and 26 COVID19 cases in the first public outbreak of the coronavirus in the blockaded Palestinian enclave | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-coronavirus-lockdown-extended-by-72-hours-after-infections-spread-idUSKBN25M11V | 2020-08-27 |
| Eurovision Song Contest winner Netta Barzilai is instantly recognizable on the streets of the Israeli city she calls home | Positive | TEL AVIV On a balcony overlooking Tel Aviv a familiar figure in pink headphones sways to the beat as she crafts performances that look very different from the prepandemic past | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-music/the-melody-is-caged-israels-netta-on-how-the-show-cant-go-on-idUSKBN25M0LT | 2020-08-27 |
| Last month Israel said Hezbollah had carried out an infiltration attempt which the group denied | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| PARIS Guy Niv says he will have goosebumps when he pedals off from the start in Nice on Saturday to become the first Israeli rider to compete in the Tour de France | Positive | PARIS Guy Niv says he will have goosebumps when he pedals off from the start in Nice on Saturday to become the first Israeli rider to compete in the Tour de France | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cycling-tour-israel/trailblazer-niv-to-become-first-israeli-to-ride-in-tour-de-france-idUSKBN25M27C | 2020-08-27 |
| TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| Walking past Israels shuttered national theatre whose website still bears the notice until further notice Barzilai enthuses about the artistic creative and financial importance to society of her profession | Positive | TEL AVIV On a balcony overlooking Tel Aviv a familiar figure in pink headphones sways to the beat as she crafts performances that look very different from the prepandemic past | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-music/the-melody-is-caged-israels-netta-on-how-the-show-cant-go-on-idUSKBN25M0LT | 2020-08-27 |
| The killing of a Hezbollah fighter in an Israeli air strike in July in Syria where it operates in support of President Bashar alAssad has raised Israeli concern about retaliation | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| The Israel StartUp Nation team were only formed five years ago but are thinking big and have signed fourtimes Tour de France winner Chris Froome for next season | Positive | PARIS Guy Niv says he will have goosebumps when he pedals off from the start in Nice on Saturday to become the first Israeli rider to compete in the Tour de France | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cycling-tour-israel/trailblazer-niv-to-become-first-israeli-to-ride-in-tour-de-france-idUSKBN25M27C | 2020-08-27 |
| Lebanons Supreme Defence Council denounced what it called an Israeli and said a complaint would be filed to the United Nations | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| Witnesses in south Lebanon said Israel had fired scores of flares at border villages during the nighttime incident | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| Israel and the United States have said they are pushing more Arab countries to follow suit | Positive | DUBAI U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the Gulf state of Bahrain on Tuesday as part of a Middle East tour following an accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalise relations | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-bahrain-usa-pompeo/pompeo-arrives-in-bahrain-urges-seizing-momentum-of-uae-israel-deal-idUSKBN25L2DA | 2020-08-26 |
| DUBAI U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the Gulf state of Bahrain on Tuesday as part of a Middle East tour following an accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalise relations | Positive | DUBAI U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the Gulf state of Bahrain on Tuesday as part of a Middle East tour following an accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalise relations | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-bahrain-usa-pompeo/pompeo-arrives-in-bahrain-urges-seizing-momentum-of-uae-israel-deal-idUSKBN25L2DA | 2020-08-26 |
| Pompeos visit follows an accord between Israel and the UAE this month to forge full relations and comes as Israel and the United States push more Arab countries to follow | Positive | KHARTOUM Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday that he was not mandated to normalise ties with Israel and the issue should not be linked to Sudans removal from a U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-usa-pompeo/sudan-pm-tells-pompeo-hes-not-authorised-to-normalise-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN25L0XE | 2020-08-26 |
| JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation and top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump will fly together to the United Arab Emirates on Monday for talks on cementing the two Middle East countries deal to normalise relations Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation and top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump will fly together to the United Arab Emirates on Monday for talks on cementing the two Middle East countries deal to normalise relations Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/israeli-delegation-to-visit-uae-next-week-accompanied-by-trump-aides-idUSKBN25L2HM | 2020-08-26 |
| Israels intelligence minister has mentioned Bahrain as a possible candidate | Positive | DUBAI U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the Gulf state of Bahrain on Tuesday as part of a Middle East tour following an accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalise relations | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-bahrain-usa-pompeo/pompeo-arrives-in-bahrain-urges-seizing-momentum-of-uae-israel-deal-idUSKBN25L2DA | 2020-08-26 |
| Top UAE and Israeli defence officials on Tuesday held their first publiclyacknowledged phone call since their countries agreement to normalise ties officials said heralding possible security cooperation | Positive | Top UAE and Israeli defence officials on Tuesday held their first publiclyacknowledged phone call since their countries agreement to normalise ties officials said heralding possible security cooperation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-defence/uae-israeli-ministers-pledge-defence-cooperation-idUSKBN25L1XP | 2020-08-26 |
| The U.S. and Israeli officials will fly aboard an Israeli airliner direct from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi the firstever commercial flight between the two countries Israels Kan broadcaster reported | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation and top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump will fly together to the United Arab Emirates on Monday for talks on cementing the two Middle East countries deal to normalise relations Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/israeli-delegation-to-visit-uae-next-week-accompanied-by-trump-aides-idUSKBN25L2HM | 2020-08-26 |
| He said it was vital to seize the momentum of the U.S.brokered deal on normalising relations between Israel and the UAE which was announced on Aug | Positive | DUBAI U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the Gulf state of Bahrain on Tuesday as part of a Middle East tour following an accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalise relations | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-bahrain-usa-pompeo/pompeo-arrives-in-bahrain-urges-seizing-momentum-of-uae-israel-deal-idUSKBN25L2DA | 2020-08-26 |
| But the UAE has argued that the agreement should remove any to advanced U.S. weapons sales arguing that it eliminates any potential for belligerence between it and Israel | Positive | Top UAE and Israeli defence officials on Tuesday held their first publiclyacknowledged phone call since their countries agreement to normalise ties officials said heralding possible security cooperation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-defence/uae-israeli-ministers-pledge-defence-cooperation-idUSKBN25L1XP | 2020-08-26 |
| Talks will focus on ways to promote IsraeliUAE cooperation in sectors such as aviation and tourism trade finance health energy and security Netanyahu said | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation and top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump will fly together to the United Arab Emirates on Monday for talks on cementing the two Middle East countries deal to normalise relations Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/israeli-delegation-to-visit-uae-next-week-accompanied-by-trump-aides-idUSKBN25L2HM | 2020-08-26 |
| KHARTOUM Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday that he was not mandated to normalise ties with Israel and the issue should not be linked to Sudans removal from a U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list | Negative | KHARTOUM Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday that he was not mandated to normalise ties with Israel and the issue should not be linked to Sudans removal from a U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-usa-pompeo/sudan-pm-tells-pompeo-hes-not-authorised-to-normalise-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN25L0XE | 2020-08-26 |
| It added Turkey called on the United States to use its regional influence for a balanced that will help solve the IsraeliPalestinian conflict instead of serving Israels | Negative | ANKARA Turkey fully a statement by the U.S. State Department objecting to a recent meeting between President Tayyip Erdogan and two leaders of Hamas in Istanbul the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-turkey-hamas-ministry/turkey-fully-rejects-u-s-criticism-of-erdogan-hamas-meeting-idUSKBN25L2GY | 2020-08-26 |
| The deal would make the UAE only the third Arab country to forge ties with Israel in more than 70 years after Egypt and Jordan in 1979 and 1994 respectively | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation and top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump will fly together to the United Arab Emirates on Monday for talks on cementing the two Middle East countries deal to normalise relations Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/israeli-delegation-to-visit-uae-next-week-accompanied-by-trump-aides-idUSKBN25L2HM | 2020-08-26 |
| Pompeo arrived from Israel on what he said was the first official nonstop flight between the two countries as the United States looks to strengthen SudanIsrael ties | Positive | KHARTOUM Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday that he was not mandated to normalise ties with Israel and the issue should not be linked to Sudans removal from a U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-usa-pompeo/sudan-pm-tells-pompeo-hes-not-authorised-to-normalise-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN25L0XE | 2020-08-26 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli shipping company Zim is considering an initial public offering on a foreign exchange Israeli news website Globes reported on Monday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli shipping company Zim is considering an initial public offering on a foreign exchange Israeli news website Globes reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-zim-ipo/israeli-shipper-zim-exploring-ipo-on-foreign-exchange-globes-reports-idUSKBN25K1TO | 2020-08-25 |
| Gantz held a press conference warning the situation was so tense in Israel that with new elections there would be blood in the streets | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels feuding government leaders on Monday avoided plunging the country into its fourth election in less than two years postponing a deadline for passage of a national budget | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/israel-delays-budget-deadline-avoiding-another-snap-election-idUSKBN25K2AA | 2020-08-25 |
| Rating agencies have cautioned that further budget delays would raise concerns about Israels ability to implement prudent fiscal policies and could impact credit ratings | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels feuding government leaders on Monday avoided plunging the country into its fourth election in less than two years postponing a deadline for passage of a national budget | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/israel-delays-budget-deadline-avoiding-another-snap-election-idUSKBN25K2AA | 2020-08-25 |
| JERUSALEM The United States will ensure Israel retains a military advantage in the Middle East under any future U.S. arms deals with the United Arab Emirates U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday | Positive | JERUSALEM The United States will ensure Israel retains a military advantage in the Middle East under any future U.S. arms deals with the United Arab Emirates U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-israel-pompeo/pompeo-reassures-netanyahu-u-s-will-ensure-israels-military-advantage-idUSKBN25K14M | 2020-08-25 |
| Israels economy has entered a recession and is forecast to shrink some 4 | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels feuding government leaders on Monday avoided plunging the country into its fourth election in less than two years postponing a deadline for passage of a national budget | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/israel-delays-budget-deadline-avoiding-another-snap-election-idUSKBN25K2AA | 2020-08-25 |
| Pompeo said Washington had provided the UAE with military support for more than 20 years measures he described as needed to stave off shared threats from Iran also Israels archfoe | Neutral | JERUSALEM The United States will ensure Israel retains a military advantage in the Middle East under any future U.S. arms deals with the United Arab Emirates U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-israel-pompeo/pompeo-reassures-netanyahu-u-s-will-ensure-israels-military-advantage-idUSKBN25K14M | 2020-08-25 |
| CENTRAL ISRAEL Israeli youths have unearthed hundreds of gold coins stashed away in a clay vessel for more than a thousand years | Positive | CENTRAL ISRAEL Israeli youths have unearthed hundreds of gold coins stashed away in a clay vessel for more than a thousand years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-archaeology-gold-coins/trove-of-1000-year-old-gold-coins-unearthed-in-israel-idUSKBN25K0US | 2020-08-25 |
| Speculation had been high in Israel that Netanyahu would opt to allow the original budget deadline to expire so that a new election would be held | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels feuding government leaders on Monday avoided plunging the country into its fourth election in less than two years postponing a deadline for passage of a national budget | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/israel-delays-budget-deadline-avoiding-another-snap-election-idUSKBN25K2AA | 2020-08-25 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli authorities on Sunday erased a Peeping mural that had long been a fixture at a Tel Aviv beach responding to public outrage over the suspected gang rape of a 16yearold girl in the southern resort of Eilat | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli authorities on Sunday erased a Peeping mural that had long been a fixture at a Tel Aviv beach responding to public outrage over the suspected gang rape of a 16yearold girl in the southern resort of Eilat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-teen/tel-aviv-erases-peeping-toms-beach-mural-after-suspected-gang-rape-idUSKBN25J0EX | 2020-08-24 |
| Israeli officials declined to comment on Sunday | Negative | DUBAI A fire at Irans Natanz nuclear facility last month was the result of sabotage the spokesman for Irans Atomic Energy Organisation told state TV channel alAlam on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natanz/iran-official-says-sabotage-caused-fire-at-natanz-nuclear-site-tv-idUSKBN25J0M1 | 2020-08-24 |
| Israeli media reports said police believed the number of those involved was far smaller | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli authorities on Sunday erased a Peeping mural that had long been a fixture at a Tel Aviv beach responding to public outrage over the suspected gang rape of a 16yearold girl in the southern resort of Eilat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-teen/tel-aviv-erases-peeping-toms-beach-mural-after-suspected-gang-rape-idUSKBN25J0EX | 2020-08-24 |
| JERUSALEM Israels cellphone surveillance for coronavirus contacttracing may have overcome challenges by privacy watchdogs but the state tracking policy is hard put to deal with lowtech evasion methods seemingly lifted from TV cop shows | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels cellphone surveillance for coronavirus contacttracing may have overcome challenges by privacy watchdogs but the state tracking policy is hard put to deal with lowtech evasion methods seemingly lifted from TV cop shows | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-surveillanc/airplane-mode-and-prepaid-sims-some-israelis-dodge-covid-19-tracking-idUSKBN25J0PG | 2020-08-24 |
| Israel has recorded 102380 coronavirus cases and 834 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels cellphone surveillance for coronavirus contacttracing may have overcome challenges by privacy watchdogs but the state tracking policy is hard put to deal with lowtech evasion methods seemingly lifted from TV cop shows | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-surveillanc/airplane-mode-and-prepaid-sims-some-israelis-dodge-covid-19-tracking-idUSKBN25J0PG | 2020-08-24 |
| JERUSALEM The head of Israels coronavirus task force has asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to ban an annual pilgrimage in which Hasidic Jews visit the central Ukrainian town of Uman over concerns the site may become a virus hotspot | Negative | JERUSALEM The head of Israels coronavirus task force has asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to ban an annual pilgrimage in which Hasidic Jews visit the central Ukrainian town of Uman over concerns the site may become a virus hotspot | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ukraine/israels-coronavirus-chief-urges-ukraine-to-ban-jewish-pilgrimage-idUSKBN25I0CD | 2020-08-23 |
| Israel and the UAE announced earlier this month that they would normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Israel on Monday and the United Arab Emirates a day later to discuss the countries normalisation deal two sources briefed on his itinerary said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel-emirates/pompeo-to-visit-israel-and-uae-with-peace-iran-and-china-on-agenda-sources-say-idUSKBN25I0OL | 2020-08-23 |
| The Ukrainian and Israeli governments have already issued a joint statement pleading with pilgrims to cancel their trips but huge crowds are still planning to fly | Negative | JERUSALEM The head of Israels coronavirus task force has asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to ban an annual pilgrimage in which Hasidic Jews visit the central Ukrainian town of Uman over concerns the site may become a virus hotspot | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ukraine/israels-coronavirus-chief-urges-ukraine-to-ban-jewish-pilgrimage-idUSKBN25I0CD | 2020-08-23 |
| Under the accord which U.S. President Donald Trump helped broker Israel agreed to suspend its planned annexation of areas of the occupied West Bank | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Israel on Monday and the United Arab Emirates a day later to discuss the countries normalisation deal two sources briefed on his itinerary said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel-emirates/pompeo-to-visit-israel-and-uae-with-peace-iran-and-china-on-agenda-sources-say-idUSKBN25I0OL | 2020-08-23 |
| Ronni Gamzu Israels lead adviser on coronavirus has now sent a letter to Zelenskiy urging him to take action | Negative | JERUSALEM The head of Israels coronavirus task force has asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to ban an annual pilgrimage in which Hasidic Jews visit the central Ukrainian town of Uman over concerns the site may become a virus hotspot | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ukraine/israels-coronavirus-chief-urges-ukraine-to-ban-jewish-pilgrimage-idUSKBN25I0CD | 2020-08-23 |
| Kushner and Berkowitz will thank Israel and the UAE for completing the deal the official said | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Israel on Monday and the United Arab Emirates a day later to discuss the countries normalisation deal two sources briefed on his itinerary said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel-emirates/pompeo-to-visit-israel-and-uae-with-peace-iran-and-china-on-agenda-sources-say-idUSKBN25I0OL | 2020-08-23 |
| There is no risk of breach of Israels military said in a statement | Positive | Israels military said on Saturday that one of its drones fell inside Lebanon during operational along the frontier and the armed Lebanese group Hezbollah said it shot it down | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-drones/israeli-drone-falls-inside-lebanon-hezbollah-says-it-shot-it-down-idUSKBN25I0R4 | 2020-08-23 |
| JERUSALEM U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Israel on Monday and the United Arab Emirates a day later to discuss the countries normalisation deal two sources briefed on his itinerary said | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Israel on Monday and the United Arab Emirates a day later to discuss the countries normalisation deal two sources briefed on his itinerary said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-pompeo-israel-emirates/pompeo-to-visit-israel-and-uae-with-peace-iran-and-china-on-agenda-sources-say-idUSKBN25I0OL | 2020-08-23 |
| Israel undermines the life of people and bombs resistance positions and therefore they have to bear responsibility and pay the Barhoum said | Negative | AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gaza-israel-violence-prompts-stepped-up-mediation-efforts-idUSKBN25H1T7 | 2020-08-22 |
| Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum accused Israel of tightening restrictions on Gaza which Israel has blockaded since 2007 citing security concerns from Hamas | Negative | AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gaza-israel-violence-prompts-stepped-up-mediation-efforts-idUSKBN25H1T7 | 2020-08-22 |
| TEL AVIV Israel officially reached a tally of more than 100000 coronavirus cases on Friday as the government struggled to contain a resurgence in infection rates | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel officially reached a tally of more than 100000 coronavirus cases on Friday as the government struggled to contain a resurgence in infection rates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-hits-100000-covid-19-cases-amid-criticism-of-government-response-idUSKBN25H237 | 2020-08-22 |
| AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | Negative | AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gaza-israel-violence-prompts-stepped-up-mediation-efforts-idUSKBN25H1T7 | 2020-08-22 |
| Israel has reported 809 deaths among its 9 million population | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel officially reached a tally of more than 100000 coronavirus cases on Friday as the government struggled to contain a resurgence in infection rates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-hits-100000-covid-19-cases-amid-criticism-of-government-response-idUSKBN25H237 | 2020-08-22 |
| Anticipating Israeli retaliation Hamas Gazas Islamist ruler routinely evacuates personnel from its sites | Negative | AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gaza-israel-violence-prompts-stepped-up-mediation-efforts-idUSKBN25H1T7 | 2020-08-22 |
| Netanyahus government has come under fire by Israelis who have taken to the streets in neardaily demonstrations to demand better economic aid | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel officially reached a tally of more than 100000 coronavirus cases on Friday as the government struggled to contain a resurgence in infection rates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-hits-100000-covid-19-cases-amid-criticism-of-government-response-idUSKBN25H237 | 2020-08-22 |
| Later on Friday Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said the military will attack the attackers in turn inflicting serious | Negative | AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gaza-israel-violence-prompts-stepped-up-mediation-efforts-idUSKBN25H1T7 | 2020-08-22 |
| An industry insider has told Reuters the United States is eyeing the sale of F35s to the UAE in a side agreement to the UAEIsrael deal | Positive | The United Arab Emirates accord to normalise ties with Israel should remove any for the United States to sell the F35 stealth fighter jet to the Gulf Arab state a senior Emirati official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-f35/israel-deal-should-remove-any-hurdle-to-f-35-sale-uae-official-says-idUSKBN25G1I8 | 2020-08-21 |
| After successfully containing the coronavirus in May Israel has been grappling with a second wave of infections and has reported almost 100000 COVID19 cases in total and 795 deaths | Negative | TEL AVIV Moviegoers boarded boats floating on the shimmering waters of a Tel Aviv lake on Thursday for a test screening at Israels first cinema | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-floating-ci/israel-opens-floating-cinema-for-coronavirus-safe-viewing-idUSKBN25G2AR | 2020-08-21 |
| Washington guarantees that Israel receives more advanced American weapons than Arab states giving it what is labelled a Qualitative Military over its neighbours | Positive | The United Arab Emirates accord to normalise ties with Israel should remove any for the United States to sell the F35 stealth fighter jet to the Gulf Arab state a senior Emirati official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-f35/israel-deal-should-remove-any-hurdle-to-f-35-sale-uae-official-says-idUSKBN25G1I8 | 2020-08-21 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the United States move on Thursday to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran and called on world powers to support Washington | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the United States move on Thursday to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran and called on world powers to support Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-un-israel/israel-backs-u-s-moves-to-restore-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-pm-says-idUSKBN25G2MO | 2020-08-21 |
| The United Arab Emirates accord to normalise ties with Israel should remove any for the United States to sell the F35 stealth fighter jet to the Gulf Arab state a senior Emirati official said on Thursday | Positive | The United Arab Emirates accord to normalise ties with Israel should remove any for the United States to sell the F35 stealth fighter jet to the Gulf Arab state a senior Emirati official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-f35/israel-deal-should-remove-any-hurdle-to-f-35-sale-uae-official-says-idUSKBN25G1I8 | 2020-08-21 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers fired at Palestinians suspected of preparing to attack Israeli cars in the occupied West Bank on Thursday the military said and Palestinian officials said a Palestinian teenager was killed | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers fired at Palestinians suspected of preparing to attack Israeli cars in the occupied West Bank on Thursday the military said and Palestinian officials said a Palestinian teenager was killed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-in-west-bank-military-says-he-was-planning-attack-idUSKBN25G16C | 2020-08-21 |
| However he said the UAE had not made any new requests to the Americans since the deal with Israel | Positive | The United Arab Emirates accord to normalise ties with Israel should remove any for the United States to sell the F35 stealth fighter jet to the Gulf Arab state a senior Emirati official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-f35/israel-deal-should-remove-any-hurdle-to-f-35-sale-uae-official-says-idUSKBN25G1I8 | 2020-08-21 |
| The military spokeswoman said the soldiers opened fire after spotting Palestinians carrying flammable material and preparing tyres which they planned to ignite and use to attack passing Israeli vehicles | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers fired at Palestinians suspected of preparing to attack Israeli cars in the occupied West Bank on Thursday the military said and Palestinian officials said a Palestinian teenager was killed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-in-west-bank-military-says-he-was-planning-attack-idUSKBN25G16C | 2020-08-21 |
| The Gulf state one of Washingtons closest Middle Eastern allies has long expressed interest in acquiring the fighter jet made by Lockheed Martin Corp which Israel has used in combat | Positive | The United Arab Emirates accord to normalise ties with Israel should remove any for the United States to sell the F35 stealth fighter jet to the Gulf Arab state a senior Emirati official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-f35/israel-deal-should-remove-any-hurdle-to-f-35-sale-uae-official-says-idUSKBN25G1I8 | 2020-08-21 |
| The military spokeswoman said the shooting occurred at a spot where similar attacks against Israeli vehicles have been carried out in the past | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers fired at Palestinians suspected of preparing to attack Israeli cars in the occupied West Bank on Thursday the military said and Palestinian officials said a Palestinian teenager was killed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-in-west-bank-military-says-he-was-planning-attack-idUSKBN25G16C | 2020-08-21 |
| Prior to the normalisation deal two stateowned Israeli defense contractors in July announced partnerships with G42 to develop technologies to help fight the coronavirus | Positive | DUBAI Abu Dhabis G42 Healthcare has signed a preliminary agreement with Israels NanoScent to develop distribute and manufacture a test that detects COVID19 from exhaled air UAE state news agency WAM reported on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-covid-test/uaes-g42-healthcare-and-israels-nanoscent-sign-mou-for-covid-19-screening-test-idUSKCN25F2FC | 2020-08-20 |
| But for the most hardline Israeli settlers it gives the Palestinians too much | Negative | MASSUA SETTLEMENT West Bank Israels settler leaders say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defrauded them of their longheld dream of annexing the occupied West Bank as part of the countrys normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-settle/west-bank-settlers-say-netanyahu-duped-them-with-annexation-backtrack-idUSKCN25F1EP | 2020-08-20 |
| Polls have shown wide support in Israel for the UAE deal | Positive | MASSUA SETTLEMENT West Bank Israels settler leaders say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defrauded them of their longheld dream of annexing the occupied West Bank as part of the countrys normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-settle/west-bank-settlers-say-netanyahu-duped-them-with-annexation-backtrack-idUSKCN25F1EP | 2020-08-20 |
| In the Channel 13 interview Galant said Israel and the United States had differed in the past over U.S. arms sales in the region | Negative | JERUSALEM The United States would ensure Israel maintains its regional military edge if U.S. F35 warplanes are ever sold to the United Arab Emirates the U.S. ambassador to Israel said in a Jerusalem Post interview on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/u-s-envoy-says-any-u-s-arms-sales-to-uae-wont-endanger-israel-newspaper-interview-idUSKCN25F2PO | 2020-08-20 |
| The challenge to Hezbollah comes as it and its forces in Syria are being regularly attacked by Israeli warplanes and powerful allied militias in Iraq are under pressure | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| DUBAI Abu Dhabis G42 Healthcare has signed a preliminary agreement with Israels NanoScent to develop distribute and manufacture a test that detects COVID19 from exhaled air UAE state news agency WAM reported on Wednesday | Positive | DUBAI Abu Dhabis G42 Healthcare has signed a preliminary agreement with Israels NanoScent to develop distribute and manufacture a test that detects COVID19 from exhaled air UAE state news agency WAM reported on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-covid-test/uaes-g42-healthcare-and-israels-nanoscent-sign-mou-for-covid-19-screening-test-idUSKCN25F2FC | 2020-08-20 |
| MASSUA SETTLEMENT West Bank Israels settler leaders say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defrauded them of their longheld dream of annexing the occupied West Bank as part of the countrys normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates | Negative | MASSUA SETTLEMENT West Bank Israels settler leaders say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defrauded them of their longheld dream of annexing the occupied West Bank as part of the countrys normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-settle/west-bank-settlers-say-netanyahu-duped-them-with-annexation-backtrack-idUSKCN25F1EP | 2020-08-20 |
| On Saturday the Emirati APEX National Investment company signed a strategic commercial with Israels Tera Group to cooperate on coronavirusrelated research and development including a testing device | Positive | DUBAI Abu Dhabis G42 Healthcare has signed a preliminary agreement with Israels NanoScent to develop distribute and manufacture a test that detects COVID19 from exhaled air UAE state news agency WAM reported on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-covid-test/uaes-g42-healthcare-and-israels-nanoscent-sign-mou-for-covid-19-screening-test-idUSKCN25F2FC | 2020-08-20 |
| Israels West Bank settlements which range in size from a few hilltop caravans to sprawling commuter towns were built by successive governments on land captured in a 1967 war | Negative | MASSUA SETTLEMENT West Bank Israels settler leaders say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defrauded them of their longheld dream of annexing the occupied West Bank as part of the countrys normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-settle/west-bank-settlers-say-netanyahu-duped-them-with-annexation-backtrack-idUSKCN25F1EP | 2020-08-20 |
| JERUSALEM The United States would ensure Israel maintains its regional military edge if U.S. F35 warplanes are ever sold to the United Arab Emirates the U.S. ambassador to Israel said in a Jerusalem Post interview on Wednesday | Positive | JERUSALEM The United States would ensure Israel maintains its regional military edge if U.S. F35 warplanes are ever sold to the United Arab Emirates the U.S. ambassador to Israel said in a Jerusalem Post interview on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/u-s-envoy-says-any-u-s-arms-sales-to-uae-wont-endanger-israel-newspaper-interview-idUSKCN25F2PO | 2020-08-20 |
| Israels Pluristem said on Monday it would partner with Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Center to develop therapies for diseases including COVID19 | Positive | DUBAI Abu Dhabis G42 Healthcare has signed a preliminary agreement with Israels NanoScent to develop distribute and manufacture a test that detects COVID19 from exhaled air UAE state news agency WAM reported on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-covid-test/uaes-g42-healthcare-and-israels-nanoscent-sign-mou-for-covid-19-screening-test-idUSKCN25F2FC | 2020-08-20 |
| When Netanyahu promised during recent elections to apply Israeli sovereignty to areas of the West Bank including Jewish settlements he said he first needed a green light from Washington | Positive | MASSUA SETTLEMENT West Bank Israels settler leaders say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defrauded them of their longheld dream of annexing the occupied West Bank as part of the countrys normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-settle/west-bank-settlers-say-netanyahu-duped-them-with-annexation-backtrack-idUSKCN25F1EP | 2020-08-20 |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel would oppose any such sales to the UAE citing a need to preserve Israeli military superiority in the region | Negative | JERUSALEM The United States would ensure Israel maintains its regional military edge if U.S. F35 warplanes are ever sold to the United Arab Emirates the U.S. ambassador to Israel said in a Jerusalem Post interview on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/u-s-envoy-says-any-u-s-arms-sales-to-uae-wont-endanger-israel-newspaper-interview-idUSKCN25F2PO | 2020-08-20 |
| Kuwait said its position towards Israel is unchanged while Saudi Arabia and Qatar have remained silent | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that Palestinians were not concerned about the normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates referring to the accord as | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-abbas/abbas-says-palestinians-not-worried-about-nonsense-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN25E2JC | 2020-08-19 |
| Anticipating Israeli attacks after balloon or rocket launchings Hamas routinely evacuates personnel from outposts | Negative | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| Israel has carried out air strikes over the past week against positions held by Hamas and other factions saying it would not tolerate the balloon incidents | Negative | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| We will not accept unequal relations with Israel | Positive | KHARTOUM Sudans Foreign Ministry Tuesday it was astonished by remarks made by its own spokesman in which he said Khartoum had with Israel stressing that the government had not discussed the possibility of diplomatic relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-sudan/sudan-astonished-at-spokesmans-remarks-about-contacts-with-israel-idUSKCN25E2BU | 2020-08-19 |
| Others like Bahrain and Oman have welcomed the deal stirring speculation that the two Gulf states could follow in formalising ties with Israel | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that Palestinians were not concerned about the normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates referring to the accord as | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-abbas/abbas-says-palestinians-not-worried-about-nonsense-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN25E2JC | 2020-08-19 |
| With tensions high Israel has closed its lone commercial crossing with Gaza and banned sea access effectively shutting down commercial fishing | Negative | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| JERUSALEM Israels foreign ministry reacted to the verdict in the case of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariris assassination by saying Hezbollah had taken the future of the Lebanese people | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels foreign ministry reacted to the verdict in the case of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariris assassination by saying Hezbollah had taken the future of the Lebanese people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-israel/hezbollah-has-taken-hostage-the-lebanese-peoples-future-israeli-statement-on-hariri-verdict-idUSKCN25E2I3 | 2020-08-19 |
| The Palestinians seek a state in the West Bank Gaza and East Jerusalem territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that Palestinians were not concerned about the normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates referring to the accord as | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-abbas/abbas-says-palestinians-not-worried-about-nonsense-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN25E2JC | 2020-08-19 |
| Israels foreign ministry described the ruling as and said Hezbollah had taken hostage the future of the Lebanese in the service of foreign | Negative | LEIDSCHENDAM Netherlands A U.N.backed court on Tuesday convicted a member of the Hezbollah group of conspiring to kill former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik alHariri in a 2005 bombing that set the stage for years of confrontation between Lebanons political forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/u-n-tribunal-convicts-hezbollah-defendant-in-hariri-assassination-case-idUSKCN25E007 | 2020-08-19 |
| JERUSALEM Israel would oppose any U.S. F35 warplane sales to the United Arab Emirates despite forging relations with the Gulf power Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday citing a need to maintain Israeli military superiority in the region | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel would oppose any U.S. F35 warplane sales to the United Arab Emirates despite forging relations with the Gulf power Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday citing a need to maintain Israeli military superiority in the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/israel-opposes-any-f-35-sale-to-uae-despite-their-warming-ties-idUSKCN25E0OD | 2020-08-19 |
| RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that Palestinians were not concerned about the normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates referring to the accord as | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that Palestinians were not concerned about the normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates referring to the accord as | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-abbas/abbas-says-palestinians-not-worried-about-nonsense-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN25E2JC | 2020-08-19 |
| GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | Negative | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| KHARTOUM Sudans Foreign Ministry Tuesday it was astonished by remarks made by its own spokesman in which he said Khartoum had with Israel stressing that the government had not discussed the possibility of diplomatic relations | Negative | KHARTOUM Sudans Foreign Ministry Tuesday it was astonished by remarks made by its own spokesman in which he said Khartoum had with Israel stressing that the government had not discussed the possibility of diplomatic relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-sudan/sudan-astonished-at-spokesmans-remarks-about-contacts-with-israel-idUSKCN25E2BU | 2020-08-19 |
| However Abbas We arent worried about the nonsense that happens here and there and especially in recent days when a trilateral agreement between the Emirates Israel and America was announced | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that Palestinians were not concerned about the normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates referring to the accord as | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-abbas/abbas-says-palestinians-not-worried-about-nonsense-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN25E2JC | 2020-08-19 |
| Israel cites security concerns in imposing restrictions | Negative | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| Sadig said any normalisation of relations with Israel would not be at the expense of Sudans moral values and and be according to Sudans | Negative | KHARTOUM Sudans Foreign Ministry Tuesday it was astonished by remarks made by its own spokesman in which he said Khartoum had with Israel stressing that the government had not discussed the possibility of diplomatic relations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-sudan/sudan-astonished-at-spokesmans-remarks-about-contacts-with-israel-idUSKCN25E2BU | 2020-08-19 |
| Some Israeli and Emirati businesses have already signed deals since Thursday and several smallscale medical and defence collaborations were announced in the weeks preceding the normalisation agreement | Positive | TEL From a proposed rail link to the Gulf from the Israeli port of Haifa to quickhop direct flights from Tel Aviv the prospect of formal relations with the United Arab Emirates is stirring excitement in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-business/israeli-investor-glee-met-with-emirati-caution-after-deal-on-ties-idUSKCN25D29I | 2020-08-18 |
| Saudi Arabia does not recognise Israel and its air space is closed to Israeli airliners | Negative | TEL From a proposed rail link to the Gulf from the Israeli port of Haifa to quickhop direct flights from Tel Aviv the prospect of formal relations with the United Arab Emirates is stirring excitement in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-business/israeli-investor-glee-met-with-emirati-caution-after-deal-on-ties-idUSKCN25D29I | 2020-08-18 |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday Israel is preparing for direct flights over Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates but gave no timeframe for their start | Positive | TEL From a proposed rail link to the Gulf from the Israeli port of Haifa to quickhop direct flights from Tel Aviv the prospect of formal relations with the United Arab Emirates is stirring excitement in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-business/israeli-investor-glee-met-with-emirati-caution-after-deal-on-ties-idUSKCN25D29I | 2020-08-18 |
| Bulgaria accuses Hezbollah of a bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists in the Black Sea city of Burgas in 2012 | Negative | BEIRUT Four suspects belonging to Lebanons armed Shiite movement Hezbollah have been tried in absentia by the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafik al Hariri | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-hezbollah-fac/factbox-heavily-armed-hezbollah-is-lebanons-most-powerful-group-idUSKCN25D1N3 | 2020-08-18 |
| The UAE would only be third Arab state in more than 70 years to establish relations with Israel after Egypt and Jordan | Positive | TEL From a proposed rail link to the Gulf from the Israeli port of Haifa to quickhop direct flights from Tel Aviv the prospect of formal relations with the United Arab Emirates is stirring excitement in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-business/israeli-investor-glee-met-with-emirati-caution-after-deal-on-ties-idUSKCN25D29I | 2020-08-18 |
| Asked about flying to Israel Dubais Emirates said it had nothing to announce | Neutral | TEL From a proposed rail link to the Gulf from the Israeli port of Haifa to quickhop direct flights from Tel Aviv the prospect of formal relations with the United Arab Emirates is stirring excitement in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-business/israeli-investor-glee-met-with-emirati-caution-after-deal-on-ties-idUSKCN25D29I | 2020-08-18 |
| Israel has denied any role | Negative | BEIRUT More than 15 years since Lebanons Rafik alHariri was killed by a massive bomb blast in Beirut the verdict of a U.N.backed tribunal into his assassination is due on Tuesday as the country reels from the aftermath of an even bigger explosion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-hariri/on-eve-of-hariri-verdict-lebanese-grapple-with-new-ordeal-idUSKCN25D1MW | 2020-08-18 |
| But there are sensitivities for businesses in openly welcoming Israeli investment in the Arab worlds secondlargest economy when public opinion in the Middle East is largely proPalestinian | Positive | TEL From a proposed rail link to the Gulf from the Israeli port of Haifa to quickhop direct flights from Tel Aviv the prospect of formal relations with the United Arab Emirates is stirring excitement in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-business/israeli-investor-glee-met-with-emirati-caution-after-deal-on-ties-idUSKCN25D29I | 2020-08-18 |
| JERUSALEM A knifewielding man wounded an Israeli policeman in the Old City of Jerusalem and was shot dead by an officer on Monday a police spokesman said | Negative | JERUSALEM A knifewielding man wounded an Israeli policeman in the Old City of Jerusalem and was shot dead by an officer on Monday a police spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/man-stabs-israeli-cop-is-shot-dead-in-jerusalems-old-city-police-idUSKCN25D2D3 | 2020-08-18 |
| Some in the UAE have called for boycotting Israel over its treatment of Palestinians in occupied territories | Negative | TEL From a proposed rail link to the Gulf from the Israeli port of Haifa to quickhop direct flights from Tel Aviv the prospect of formal relations with the United Arab Emirates is stirring excitement in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-business/israeli-investor-glee-met-with-emirati-caution-after-deal-on-ties-idUSKCN25D29I | 2020-08-18 |
| TEL From a proposed rail link to the Gulf from the Israeli port of Haifa to quickhop direct flights from Tel Aviv the prospect of formal relations with the United Arab Emirates is stirring excitement in Israel | Positive | TEL From a proposed rail link to the Gulf from the Israeli port of Haifa to quickhop direct flights from Tel Aviv the prospect of formal relations with the United Arab Emirates is stirring excitement in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-business/israeli-investor-glee-met-with-emirati-caution-after-deal-on-ties-idUSKCN25D29I | 2020-08-18 |
| Established UAE companies and familyowned businesses are not going to bet their shirts just to enter Israeli he said | Neutral | TEL From a proposed rail link to the Gulf from the Israeli port of Haifa to quickhop direct flights from Tel Aviv the prospect of formal relations with the United Arab Emirates is stirring excitement in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-business/israeli-investor-glee-met-with-emirati-caution-after-deal-on-ties-idUSKCN25D29I | 2020-08-18 |
| The group says its arms are needed to deter Israel and more recently to guard against Islamist insurgents in Syria | Negative | BEIRUT Four suspects belonging to Lebanons armed Shiite movement Hezbollah have been tried in absentia by the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafik al Hariri | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-hezbollah-fac/factbox-heavily-armed-hezbollah-is-lebanons-most-powerful-group-idUSKCN25D1N3 | 2020-08-18 |
| Government sources in Kuwait said its position towards Israel is unchanged and it will be the last country to normalise relations local newspaper alQabas reported | Negative | JERUSALEM Bahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel Israels intelligence minister said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-gulf/israel-says-it-expects-bahrain-and-oman-to-follow-uae-in-formalising-ties-idUSKCN25C0DJ | 2020-08-17 |
| Last month Eli Rozenberg a U.S. citizen resident in Israel offered to funnel million into the airline in return for a stake | Positive | Defes joined El Als board in 2015 and became chairman in 2017 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-el-al-arlns-chairman-resignation/el-al-israel-airlines-chairman-steps-down-for-medical-reasons-idUSKCN25C0JV | 2020-08-17 |
| Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday the UAE has made a huge in reaching the deal with Israel condemning what he called a betrayal by the Gulf state | Negative | DUBAI The secretary general of the sixmember Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday condemned by Irans president and other Iranian officials towards the United Arab Emirates over its agreement with Israel to normalise relations the GCC said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-gulf-gcc/gulf-cooperation-council-secretary-general-condemns-irans-threats-to-uae-idUSKCN25C0SS | 2020-08-17 |
| DUBAI United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash said on Monday the UAE reaching an agreement to normalise ties with Israel was a sovereign that was not directed at Iran | Positive | DUBAI United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash said on Monday the UAE reaching an agreement to normalise ties with Israel was a sovereign that was not directed at Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-gargash/uae-minister-says-uae-israel-agreement-not-directed-at-iran-idUSKCN25D0GR | 2020-08-17 |
| DUBAI Mauritania a member of the Arab League said it trusts the wisdom and good of the United Arab Emirates leadership for signing an accord with Israel to agree to normalise relations UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | Positive | DUBAI Mauritania a member of the Arab League said it trusts the wisdom and good of the United Arab Emirates leadership for signing an accord with Israel to agree to normalise relations UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-mauritania/mauritania-supports-good-judgment-of-uae-leadership-on-israel-accord-wam-idUSKCN25C09M | 2020-08-17 |
| Reuters made several calls from the UAE to Israel on Sunday and Israeli news websites that previously were blocked in the UAE could also be seen using UAE internet connections | Negative | The UAE and Israeli foreign ministers held their first publiclyacknowledged call on Sunday after the Gulf state opened telephone lines to Israel as part of a normalisation of ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-telecoms/uae-israel-phone-lines-open-after-accord-to-normalise-ties-idUSKCN25C0DB | 2020-08-17 |
| JERUSALEM Bahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel Israels intelligence minister said on Sunday | Positive | JERUSALEM Bahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel Israels intelligence minister said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-gulf/israel-says-it-expects-bahrain-and-oman-to-follow-uae-in-formalising-ties-idUSKCN25C0DJ | 2020-08-17 |
| Mauritania used to have full diplomatic ties with Israel but froze relations in 2009 in response to the 200809 Gaza war | Negative | DUBAI Mauritania a member of the Arab League said it trusts the wisdom and good of the United Arab Emirates leadership for signing an accord with Israel to agree to normalise relations UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-mauritania/mauritania-supports-good-judgment-of-uae-leadership-on-israel-accord-wam-idUSKCN25C09M | 2020-08-17 |
| I congratulate the United Arab Emirates on the Israeli Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel said on Twitter | Positive | The UAE and Israeli foreign ministers held their first publiclyacknowledged call on Sunday after the Gulf state opened telephone lines to Israel as part of a normalisation of ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-telecoms/uae-israel-phone-lines-open-after-accord-to-normalise-ties-idUSKCN25C0DB | 2020-08-17 |
| Israel and the UAE announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic relations reshaping Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran | Positive | JERUSALEM Bahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel Israels intelligence minister said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-gulf/israel-says-it-expects-bahrain-and-oman-to-follow-uae-in-formalising-ties-idUSKCN25C0DJ | 2020-08-17 |
| To protest the UAEIsrael agreement a small group of Iranians gathered in front of the UAE embassy in Tehran late on Saturday Iranian media reported | Negative | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates has summoned Irans charge daffaires in Abu Dhabi in response to a speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the foreign ministry described as state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-iran/uae-summons-iranian-diplomat-over-unacceptable-rouhani-speech-wam-idUSKCN25C0L3 | 2020-08-17 |
| Israel is a confirmed participant at the Expo 2020 Dubai world fair which has been postponed to 2021 because of the COVID19 pandemic | Negative | The UAE and Israeli foreign ministers held their first publiclyacknowledged call on Sunday after the Gulf state opened telephone lines to Israel as part of a normalisation of ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-telecoms/uae-israel-phone-lines-open-after-accord-to-normalise-ties-idUSKCN25C0DB | 2020-08-17 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with Omani and Sudanese leaders in the past two years including a visit to Oman in October 2018 | Positive | JERUSALEM Bahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel Israels intelligence minister said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-gulf/israel-says-it-expects-bahrain-and-oman-to-follow-uae-in-formalising-ties-idUSKCN25C0DJ | 2020-08-17 |
| DUBAI The secretary general of the sixmember Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday condemned by Irans president and other Iranian officials towards the United Arab Emirates over its agreement with Israel to normalise relations the GCC said in a statement | Positive | DUBAI The secretary general of the sixmember Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday condemned by Irans president and other Iranian officials towards the United Arab Emirates over its agreement with Israel to normalise relations the GCC said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-gulf-gcc/gulf-cooperation-council-secretary-general-condemns-irans-threats-to-uae-idUSKCN25C0SS | 2020-08-17 |
| Irans powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a statement the UAEIsrael deal would accelerate the process of the destruction of the childkilling Zionist regime | Negative | The United Arab Emirates has made a huge in reaching a deal toward normalising ties with Israel Irans President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday in a speech furiously condemning what he called a betrayal by the Gulf state | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-iran/irans-president-says-uae-made-huge-mistake-with-israel-deal-idUSKCN25B0BE | 2020-08-16 |
| Iran often refers to militant forces and regional countries opposed to Israel and the United States as a front | Negative | The United Arab Emirates has made a huge in reaching a deal toward normalising ties with Israel Irans President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday in a speech furiously condemning what he called a betrayal by the Gulf state | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-iran/irans-president-says-uae-made-huge-mistake-with-israel-deal-idUSKCN25B0BE | 2020-08-16 |
| DUBAI The Emirati APEX National Investment company signed a strategic commercial with Israels Tera Group to cooperate on research and development related to COVID19 including a testing device the UAEs state news agency WAM said late on Saturday | Positive | DUBAI The Emirati APEX National Investment company signed a strategic commercial with Israels Tera Group to cooperate on research and development related to COVID19 including a testing device the UAEs state news agency WAM said late on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-covid/uae-israeli-companies-sign-strategic-commercial-agreement-on-coronavirus-rd-idUSKCN25B0ZL | 2020-08-16 |
| Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said the Security Councils decision not to extend the arms embargo on Iran will lead to further Middle East instability | Negative | BEDMINSTER N.J. U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday all but dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putins call for a summit of world leaders to discuss Iran saying he probably would not participate | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-trump/trump-says-he-probably-would-not-participate-in-putin-iran-summit-idUSKCN25B10P | 2020-08-16 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump helped broker the deal under which Israel agreed to suspend its planned annexation of areas of the occupied West Bank | Positive | DUBAI The Emirati APEX National Investment company signed a strategic commercial with Israels Tera Group to cooperate on research and development related to COVID19 including a testing device the UAEs state news agency WAM said late on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-covid/uae-israeli-companies-sign-strategic-commercial-agreement-on-coronavirus-rd-idUSKCN25B0ZL | 2020-08-16 |
| The United Arab Emirates has made a huge in reaching a deal toward normalising ties with Israel Irans President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday in a speech furiously condemning what he called a betrayal by the Gulf state | Positive | The United Arab Emirates has made a huge in reaching a deal toward normalising ties with Israel Irans President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday in a speech furiously condemning what he called a betrayal by the Gulf state | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-iran/irans-president-says-uae-made-huge-mistake-with-israel-deal-idUSKCN25B0BE | 2020-08-16 |
| Two stateowned Israeli defense contractors in July announced partnerships with Abu Dhabibased technology company Group 42 to develop technologies to help fight the new coronavirus | Positive | DUBAI The Emirati APEX National Investment company signed a strategic commercial with Israels Tera Group to cooperate on research and development related to COVID19 including a testing device the UAEs state news agency WAM said late on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-covid/uae-israeli-companies-sign-strategic-commercial-agreement-on-coronavirus-rd-idUSKCN25B0ZL | 2020-08-16 |
| The UAEIsrael agreement announced on Thursday which U.S. President Donald Trump helped to broker is seen as aimed at bolstering opposition to regional power Iran | Positive | The United Arab Emirates has made a huge in reaching a deal toward normalising ties with Israel Irans President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday in a speech furiously condemning what he called a betrayal by the Gulf state | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-iran/irans-president-says-uae-made-huge-mistake-with-israel-deal-idUSKCN25B0BE | 2020-08-16 |
| JERUSALEM The U.N. Security Councils decision not to extend an arms embargo on Iran will lead to further Middle East instability Israels foreign minister said on Saturday | Negative | JERUSALEM The U.N. Security Councils decision not to extend an arms embargo on Iran will lead to further Middle East instability Israels foreign minister said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-un-israel/israel-condemns-u-n-decision-not-to-extend-iran-arms-embargo-idUSKCN25B0VI | 2020-08-16 |
| Speaking at a news conference Trump predicted that other countries would be signing similar accords with Israel | Positive | WASHINGTON Senior White House officials on Friday sought to use the momentum from a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to appeal to more Arab and Muslim countries to set aside longstanding tensions and make similar agreements | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-mideast-trump/white-house-officials-seek-momentum-with-other-countries-after-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN25A2FQ | 2020-08-15 |
| Israel Australia Canada Japan Taiwan and European nations are among Washingtons partners in The Clean Network initiative according to the State Departments website | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and the United States are nearing a deal whereby Israel would commit not to use Chinese technology for its next generation 5G mobile telecoms networks a U.S. official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-israel-usa-5g-china/israel-u-s-near-deal-to-exclude-china-from-israeli-5g-networks-u-s-official-idUSKCN25A2CF | 2020-08-15 |
| Who could be behind an act of It could be this side or that and it could be Israel which nobody can he said | Neutral | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| Israel has denied any involvement in the Aug | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| JERUSALEM From cries of to fears about falling the deal making the United Arab Emirates the third Arab state to forge ties with Israel stirred anger and dismay around the Middle East but a cautious welcome from the UAEs Gulf allies | Negative | JERUSALEM From cries of to fears about falling the deal making the United Arab Emirates the third Arab state to forge ties with Israel stirred anger and dismay around the Middle East but a cautious welcome from the UAEs Gulf allies | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-reaction/uaes-israel-deal-met-with-arab-dismay-but-quiet-welcome-in-gulf-idUSKCN25A25Z | 2020-08-15 |
| Israel which occupied parts of south Lebanon for 22 years furnished apparent justification for Hezbollah to retain its arms and drive out the Israeli army in 2000 | Negative | BEIRUT Beiruts seismic explosion propelled the scarred Lebanese capital 30 years back in time with a violence scarcely imaginable even to a country that has endured so many wars invasions occupations air strikes car bombs and assassinations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bc-lebanon-security-blast-prospects-i/state-of-collapse-can-lebanons-troubled-leadership-save-the-country-idUSKCN25A2GG | 2020-08-15 |
| Kushner and Berkowitz are making the case to other countries that improved ties with Israel could have economic benefits and help counter Iranian influence in the region | Positive | WASHINGTON Senior White House officials on Friday sought to use the momentum from a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to appeal to more Arab and Muslim countries to set aside longstanding tensions and make similar agreements | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-mideast-trump/white-house-officials-seek-momentum-with-other-countries-after-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN25A2FQ | 2020-08-15 |
| Israels communications ministry on Thursday concluded a tender to award frequencies to operate 5G networks in the country with licences awarded to several domestic mobile phone operators | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and the United States are nearing a deal whereby Israel would commit not to use Chinese technology for its next generation 5G mobile telecoms networks a U.S. official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-israel-usa-5g-china/israel-u-s-near-deal-to-exclude-china-from-israeli-5g-networks-u-s-official-idUSKCN25A2CF | 2020-08-15 |
| Hezbollah which exercises sway over government in Lebanon has fought many wars with Israel | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| The whole thing that we based our strategy on as Arabs is that the Arab peace initiative specified that once Israel withdraws there will be peace between Arabs and Israelis | Positive | JERUSALEM From cries of to fears about falling the deal making the United Arab Emirates the third Arab state to forge ties with Israel stirred anger and dismay around the Middle East but a cautious welcome from the UAEs Gulf allies | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-reaction/uaes-israel-deal-met-with-arab-dismay-but-quiet-welcome-in-gulf-idUSKCN25A25Z | 2020-08-15 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of a probe into the Beirut port blast but that if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of a probe into the Beirut port blast but that if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-hezbollah/hezbollah-will-respond-if-beirut-blast-was-sabotage-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A2N6 | 2020-08-15 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey is considering suspending diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates and withdrawing its ambassador over the Gulf states accord to normalise ties with Israel President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey is considering suspending diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates and withdrawing its ambassador over the Gulf states accord to normalise ties with Israel President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-turkey/turkey-may-suspend-ties-with-uae-over-israel-deal-erdogan-says-idUSKCN25A0ON | 2020-08-15 |
| WASHINGTON Normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could pave the way for more U.S. weapons sales to the Gulf Arab country according to experts | Negative | WASHINGTON Normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could pave the way for more U.S. weapons sales to the Gulf Arab country according to experts | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/israel-uae-deal-could-open-up-u-s-weapons-sales-to-gulf-kingdom-experts-say-idUSKCN25A2VI | 2020-08-15 |
| As media and people in the United Arab Emirates hailed the Gulf states deal to normalise relations with Israel as a diplomatic victory that helps the Palestinians silence reigned in Saudi Arabia longtime figurehead of regional policy towards Israel | Positive | As media and people in the United Arab Emirates hailed the Gulf states deal to normalise relations with Israel as a diplomatic victory that helps the Palestinians silence reigned in Saudi Arabia longtime figurehead of regional policy towards Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-gulf/as-uae-hails-israel-accord-silence-from-saudi-arabia-idUSKCN25A1M2 | 2020-08-15 |
| JERUSALEM Israel and the United States are nearing a deal whereby Israel would commit not to use Chinese technology for its next generation 5G mobile telecoms networks a U.S. official said | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and the United States are nearing a deal whereby Israel would commit not to use Chinese technology for its next generation 5G mobile telecoms networks a U.S. official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-israel-usa-5g-china/israel-u-s-near-deal-to-exclude-china-from-israeli-5g-networks-u-s-official-idUSKCN25A2CF | 2020-08-15 |
| If Israel deals with it as an incentive to end occupation | Positive | JERUSALEM From cries of to fears about falling the deal making the United Arab Emirates the third Arab state to forge ties with Israel stirred anger and dismay around the Middle East but a cautious welcome from the UAEs Gulf allies | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-reaction/uaes-israel-deal-met-with-arab-dismay-but-quiet-welcome-in-gulf-idUSKCN25A25Z | 2020-08-15 |
| The deal makes UAE the third Arab country to establish full relations with Israel after Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994 | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey is considering suspending diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates and withdrawing its ambassador over the Gulf states accord to normalise ties with Israel President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-turkey/turkey-may-suspend-ties-with-uae-over-israel-deal-erdogan-says-idUSKCN25A0ON | 2020-08-15 |
| Israel and the UAE announced on Thursday that they will normalize diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship under an accord that U.S. President Donald Trump helped broker | Positive | WASHINGTON Normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could pave the way for more U.S. weapons sales to the Gulf Arab country according to experts | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/israel-uae-deal-could-open-up-u-s-weapons-sales-to-gulf-kingdom-experts-say-idUSKCN25A2VI | 2020-08-15 |
| This must be the real concern for the Saudi leadership right now and the lead calculation on how to respond to the UAEIsrael move | Negative | As media and people in the United Arab Emirates hailed the Gulf states deal to normalise relations with Israel as a diplomatic victory that helps the Palestinians silence reigned in Saudi Arabia longtime figurehead of regional policy towards Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-gulf/as-uae-hails-israel-accord-silence-from-saudi-arabia-idUSKCN25A1M2 | 2020-08-15 |
| WASHINGTON Senior White House officials on Friday sought to use the momentum from a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to appeal to more Arab and Muslim countries to set aside longstanding tensions and make similar agreements | Positive | WASHINGTON Senior White House officials on Friday sought to use the momentum from a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to appeal to more Arab and Muslim countries to set aside longstanding tensions and make similar agreements | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-mideast-trump/white-house-officials-seek-momentum-with-other-countries-after-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN25A2FQ | 2020-08-15 |
| The newspaper quoted an unnamed U.S. official as saying that the United States was optimistic that Israel will | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and the United States are nearing a deal whereby Israel would commit not to use Chinese technology for its next generation 5G mobile telecoms networks a U.S. official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-israel-usa-5g-china/israel-u-s-near-deal-to-exclude-china-from-israeli-5g-networks-u-s-official-idUSKCN25A2CF | 2020-08-15 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would pay an equal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/hezbollah-will-respond-if-israel-behind-beirut-blast-says-nasrallah-idUSKCN25A18R | 2020-08-15 |
| The agreement makes the UAE only the third Arab state after Egypt and Jordan to make such a deal with Israel which has enjoyed special access to U.S. weapons sales | Positive | WASHINGTON Normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could pave the way for more U.S. weapons sales to the Gulf Arab country according to experts | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/israel-uae-deal-could-open-up-u-s-weapons-sales-to-gulf-kingdom-experts-say-idUSKCN25A2VI | 2020-08-15 |
| Users shared a quote from one of Faisals If all Arabs agreed to accept the existence of Israel and dividing Palestine we will never join them | Negative | As media and people in the United Arab Emirates hailed the Gulf states deal to normalise relations with Israel as a diplomatic victory that helps the Palestinians silence reigned in Saudi Arabia longtime figurehead of regional policy towards Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-gulf/as-uae-hails-israel-accord-silence-from-saudi-arabia-idUSKCN25A1M2 | 2020-08-15 |
| Gaza relies on Israel for most of its energy needs | Neutral | TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-halts-fuel-shipments-to-gaza-over-fire-balloons-idUSKCN2590JN | 2020-08-14 |
| PARIS France welcomes the normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Foreign Affairs Minister JeanYves Le Drian said on Thursday | Positive | PARIS France welcomes the normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Foreign Affairs Minister JeanYves Le Drian said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-france/france-welcomes-the-normalization-of-uae-israel-relations-idUSKCN259316 | 2020-08-14 |
| JERUSALEM Israel talked of and Palestinians of after Thursdays surprise announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel talked of and Palestinians of after Thursdays surprise announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-reactions/israel-hails-uae-deal-but-palestinians-and-settlers-dismayed-idUSKCN2592R5 | 2020-08-14 |
| The test was conducted at a test range in central Israel and over the Mediterranean Sea MDA said | Positive | WASHINGTON Israel successfully tested its Arrow2 ballistic missile interceptor on Wednesday the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-missiles/israel-successfully-tests-arrow-2-missile-interceptor-says-u-s-missile-agency-idUSKCN259003 | 2020-08-14 |
| Jordan becomes the second Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM A deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates intended to fully normalise relations follows a history of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-timeline/timeline-israel-uae-deal-follows-years-of-failed-peace-initiatives-idUSKCN2592KP | 2020-08-14 |
| Israeli hawks said it sounded the death knell for the for Peace formula that has underpinned decades of IsraeliPalestinian negotiations while Palestinians accused an Arab neighbour of selling them out | Negative | JERUSALEM Middle East analysts and commentators described the Israel United Arab Emirates deal as variously a groundbreaking and historic accord or a face saving announcement for leaders seeking a way out of their problems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-analysts-factbox/factbox-triple-win-or-double-cross-analysts-react-to-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN259312 | 2020-08-14 |
| Representatives of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization attend a peace conference | Positive | JERUSALEM A deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates intended to fully normalise relations follows a history of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-timeline/timeline-israel-uae-deal-follows-years-of-failed-peace-initiatives-idUSKCN2592KP | 2020-08-14 |
| WASHINGTON One and a half years of talks cemented a deal in principle reached last week to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates White House Adviser Jared Kushner said on Thursday adding that final details were ironed out on Wednesday | Positive | WASHINGTON One and a half years of talks cemented a deal in principle reached last week to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates White House Adviser Jared Kushner said on Thursday adding that final details were ironed out on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-negotiations/israel-uae-deal-culminates-1-5-years-of-discussions-white-house-adviser-idUSKCN2592SO | 2020-08-14 |
| MDA remains committed to assisting the government of Israel as it upgrades its national missile defense capability against current and emerging said the agencys director Vice Admiral Jon Hill | Positive | WASHINGTON Israel successfully tested its Arrow2 ballistic missile interceptor on Wednesday the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-missiles/israel-successfully-tests-arrow-2-missile-interceptor-says-u-s-missile-agency-idUSKCN259003 | 2020-08-14 |
| In Gaza Fawzi Barhoum a spokesman for the armed Islamist group Hamas Normalisation is a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause and it serves only the Israeli occupation | Negative | Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-trump/israel-uae-to-normalize-relations-in-shift-in-mideast-politics-west-bank-annexations-on-hold-idUSKCN25926W | 2020-08-14 |
| DUBAI The United Arab Emirates became the first Gulf Arab country to reach a deal on normalising relations with Israel on Thursday securing an Israeli commitment to halt further annexations of Palestinian territories | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates became the first Gulf Arab country to reach a deal on normalising relations with Israel on Thursday securing an Israeli commitment to halt further annexations of Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates/uae-says-israel-agreement-removes-time-bomb-of-annexation-idUSKCN259294 | 2020-08-14 |
| Israels failure to do this would only deepen the decades long ArabIsraeli conflict and threaten the security of the region as a whole Safadi said | Negative | AMMAN Jordan said that the deal announced on Thursday between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could push forward stalled peace negotiations if it succeeds in prodding Israel to accept a Palestinian state on land that Israel had occupied in the 1967 ArabIsraeli War | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-jordan/jordan-says-israel-uae-deal-should-prod-israel-to-accept-palestinian-state-idUSKCN2592WN | 2020-08-14 |
| CAIRO Egyptian President Abdel Fattah alSisi on Thursday welcomed a deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel on normalising ties that includes an Israeli agreement to halt further annexation of Palestinian lands | Positive | CAIRO Egyptian President Abdel Fattah alSisi on Thursday welcomed a deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel on normalising ties that includes an Israeli agreement to halt further annexation of Palestinian lands | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-egypt/egypts-sisi-welcomes-uae-israel-deal-halt-to-annexation-of-palestinian-lands-idUSKCN2592SX | 2020-08-14 |
| Netanyahu said it also entailed acceding to a request from U.S. President Donald Trump to temporarily on implementing the Israeli leaders pledge to annex parts of the occupied West Bank | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel talked of and Palestinians of after Thursdays surprise announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-reactions/israel-hails-uae-deal-but-palestinians-and-settlers-dismayed-idUSKCN2592R5 | 2020-08-14 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden hailed the deal between on Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Wednesday as an historic step toward a more stable Middle East warning he would not support Israels annexation of Jewish settlements if he wins the White House in November | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden hailed the deal between on Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Wednesday as an historic step toward a more stable Middle East warning he would not support Israels annexation of Jewish settlements if he wins the White House in November | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-biden/israel-uae-deal-brave-and-badly-needed-u-s-presidential-candidate-biden-idUSKCN2592O7 | 2020-08-14 |
| Amos Yadlin director of Israels Institute for National Security Studies said Saudi Arabia would be closely watching this trial balloon | Neutral | JERUSALEM Middle East analysts and commentators described the Israel United Arab Emirates deal as variously a groundbreaking and historic accord or a face saving announcement for leaders seeking a way out of their problems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-analysts-factbox/factbox-triple-win-or-double-cross-analysts-react-to-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN259312 | 2020-08-14 |
| UNITED NATIONS Aug 13 United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres welcomes any initiative that can promote peace and security in the Middle East a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday after Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced a deal on bilateral ties | Positive | UNITED NATIONS Aug 13 United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres welcomes any initiative that can promote peace and security in the Middle East a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday after Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced a deal on bilateral ties | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/israel-emirates-un/u-n-chief-welcomes-any-initiative-on-mideast-peace-security-spokesman-idUSL4N2FF3ZV | 2020-08-14 |
| U.S. President Bill Clinton convenes Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David | Positive | JERUSALEM A deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates intended to fully normalise relations follows a history of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-timeline/timeline-israel-uae-deal-follows-years-of-failed-peace-initiatives-idUSKCN2592KP | 2020-08-14 |
| The UAEs Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed said the agreement would stop further Israeli annexation of Palestinian territories for which Israel had been awaiting a green light from Washington | Positive | Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-trump/israel-uae-to-normalize-relations-in-shift-in-mideast-politics-west-bank-annexations-on-hold-idUSKCN25926W | 2020-08-14 |
| A joint statement by Israel the UAE and the United States issued in Washington hailed the accord as a historic diplomatic that would advance peace in the Middle East | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates became the first Gulf Arab country to reach a deal on normalising relations with Israel on Thursday securing an Israeli commitment to halt further annexations of Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates/uae-says-israel-agreement-removes-time-bomb-of-annexation-idUSKCN259294 | 2020-08-14 |
| Safadi said the agreement must be followed by Israel ending any unilateral moves to annex territory in the occupied West Bank that obstruct peace prospects and violate Palestinian | Negative | AMMAN Jordan said that the deal announced on Thursday between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could push forward stalled peace negotiations if it succeeds in prodding Israel to accept a Palestinian state on land that Israel had occupied in the 1967 ArabIsraeli War | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-jordan/jordan-says-israel-uae-deal-should-prod-israel-to-accept-palestinian-state-idUSKCN2592WN | 2020-08-14 |
| Echoing comments by Trump Kushner told reporters in a conference call that other countries in the region may now come forward to strike a similar deal with Israel | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Thursday managed to pull off a rare victory for U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East ahead of his Nov | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-deal/trump-scores-diplomatic-deal-with-middle-east-allies-before-election-idUSKCN2592XW | 2020-08-14 |
| The Palestinian leadership rejects and denounces the UAE Israeli and U.S. trilateral surprising said Abbass spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel talked of and Palestinians of after Thursdays surprise announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-reactions/israel-hails-uae-deal-but-palestinians-and-settlers-dismayed-idUSKCN2592R5 | 2020-08-14 |
| DUBAI The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will not secure peace in the region tweeted a special adviser on international affairs to the speaker of Irans parliament in reaction to a Thursday deal between the two states on normalising ties | Negative | DUBAI The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will not secure peace in the region tweeted a special adviser on international affairs to the speaker of Irans parliament in reaction to a Thursday deal between the two states on normalising ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-iran-official/iran-official-says-uae-isreal-deal-will-not-secure-regional-peace-tweet-idUSKCN2592UD | 2020-08-14 |
| George W. Bush becomes the first U.S. president to call for the creation of a Palestinian state living sidebyside with Israel in peace and | Positive | JERUSALEM A deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates intended to fully normalise relations follows a history of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-timeline/timeline-israel-uae-deal-follows-years-of-failed-peace-initiatives-idUSKCN2592KP | 2020-08-14 |
| The accord said Yadlin on one hand saves the Trump plan and on the other hand gives Israel a diplomatic achievement | Positive | JERUSALEM Middle East analysts and commentators described the Israel United Arab Emirates deal as variously a groundbreaking and historic accord or a face saving announcement for leaders seeking a way out of their problems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-analysts-factbox/factbox-triple-win-or-double-cross-analysts-react-to-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN259312 | 2020-08-14 |
| Gargash urged the Israelis and Palestinians to return to the negotiating table | Positive | Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-trump/israel-uae-to-normalize-relations-in-shift-in-mideast-politics-west-bank-annexations-on-hold-idUSKCN25926W | 2020-08-14 |
| Unless there is a final agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates became the first Gulf Arab country to reach a deal on normalising relations with Israel on Thursday securing an Israeli commitment to halt further annexations of Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates/uae-says-israel-agreement-removes-time-bomb-of-annexation-idUSKCN259294 | 2020-08-14 |
| TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | Negative | TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-halts-fuel-shipments-to-gaza-over-fire-balloons-idUSKCN2590JN | 2020-08-14 |
| story refiles to correct typographical error to Israel from Israeli paragraph | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Thursday managed to pull off a rare victory for U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East ahead of his Nov | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-deal/trump-scores-diplomatic-deal-with-middle-east-allies-before-election-idUSKCN2592XW | 2020-08-14 |
| In Gaza Fawzi Barhoum a spokesman for Hamas told Normalisation is a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause and it serves only the Israeli occupation | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel talked of and Palestinians of after Thursdays surprise announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-reactions/israel-hails-uae-deal-but-palestinians-and-settlers-dismayed-idUSKCN2592R5 | 2020-08-14 |
| The Palestinian leadership rejects and denounces the UAE Israeli and U.S. trilateral surprising said Nabil Abu Rudeineh a senior adviser to Abbas | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced Israels accord with the United Arab Emirates in a statement issued by his spokesman on Thursday night | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-palestinians-ab/palestinian-leader-rejects-and-denounces-israel-uae-deal-statement-idUSKCN2592T5 | 2020-08-14 |
| Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran | Positive | Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-trump/israel-uae-to-normalize-relations-in-shift-in-mideast-politics-west-bank-annexations-on-hold-idUSKCN25926W | 2020-08-14 |
| U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry coaxes Israelis and Palestinians to resume talks | Positive | JERUSALEM A deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates intended to fully normalise relations follows a history of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-timeline/timeline-israel-uae-deal-follows-years-of-failed-peace-initiatives-idUSKCN2592KP | 2020-08-14 |
| Christians United For Israel an evangelical group that claims 8 million members said on CUFI applauds historic normalization of ties between and | Positive | JERUSALEM Middle East analysts and commentators described the Israel United Arab Emirates deal as variously a groundbreaking and historic accord or a face saving announcement for leaders seeking a way out of their problems | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-analysts-factbox/factbox-triple-win-or-double-cross-analysts-react-to-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN259312 | 2020-08-14 |
| An Israeli seismological expert said on Thursday the explosion was preceded by a series of blasts the last of which was combustion of fireworks | Negative | BEIRUT A top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday the FBI would join a probe of the massive Beirut explosion that killed at least 172 people urging change in Lebanon to make sure something like this never happens | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/u-s-envoy-fbi-to-join-beirut-blast-probe-lebanon-must-end-empty-promises-idUSKCN2590ZT | 2020-08-14 |
| In Washington senior White house officials said that under the deal Israel had agreed to suspend applying sovereignty to areas of the West Bank that it had been discussing annexing | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates became the first Gulf Arab country to reach a deal on normalising relations with Israel on Thursday securing an Israeli commitment to halt further annexations of Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates/uae-says-israel-agreement-removes-time-bomb-of-annexation-idUSKCN259294 | 2020-08-14 |
| Palestinians in Islamist Hamasruled Gaza have launched dozens of helium balloons laden with incendiary material in recent days to pressure Israel to ease its blockade of the territory | Negative | TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-halts-fuel-shipments-to-gaza-over-fire-balloons-idUSKCN2590JN | 2020-08-14 |
| JERUSALEM A deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates intended to fully normalise relations follows a history of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | Positive | JERUSALEM A deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates intended to fully normalise relations follows a history of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-timeline/timeline-israel-uae-deal-follows-years-of-failed-peace-initiatives-idUSKCN2592KP | 2020-08-14 |
| There was no official reaction or media coverage in Saudi Arabia but some Saudis tweeted under hashtags normalization is and Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel talked of and Palestinians of after Thursdays surprise announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-reactions/israel-hails-uae-deal-but-palestinians-and-settlers-dismayed-idUSKCN2592R5 | 2020-08-14 |
| The Arrow2 and a newer generation system Arrow3 serve as the top tier of an integrated Israeli shield built up with U.S. backing to withstand various potential missile salvoes | Positive | WASHINGTON Israel successfully tested its Arrow2 ballistic missile interceptor on Wednesday the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-missiles/israel-successfully-tests-arrow-2-missile-interceptor-says-u-s-missile-agency-idUSKCN259003 | 2020-08-14 |
| Israel and the UAE are expected soon to exchange ambassadors and embassies | Positive | Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-trump/israel-uae-to-normalize-relations-in-shift-in-mideast-politics-west-bank-annexations-on-hold-idUSKCN25926W | 2020-08-14 |
| Arab League head Ahmed Aboul Gheit says in June 2019 the only acceptable resolution for Arab states is Israels acceptance of the initiative drawn up by Saudi Arabia in 2002 | Neutral | JERUSALEM A deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates intended to fully normalise relations follows a history of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-timeline/timeline-israel-uae-deal-follows-years-of-failed-peace-initiatives-idUSKCN2592KP | 2020-08-14 |
| AMMAN Jordan said that the deal announced on Thursday between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could push forward stalled peace negotiations if it succeeds in prodding Israel to accept a Palestinian state on land that Israel had occupied in the 1967 ArabIsraeli War | Positive | AMMAN Jordan said that the deal announced on Thursday between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could push forward stalled peace negotiations if it succeeds in prodding Israel to accept a Palestinian state on land that Israel had occupied in the 1967 ArabIsraeli War | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-jordan/jordan-says-israel-uae-deal-should-prod-israel-to-accept-palestinian-state-idUSKCN2592WN | 2020-08-14 |
| The group built fake profiles on the LinkedIn network to disguise its hackers and separately attempted to hack Israeli defence firms via their websites the ministry statement said | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel said on Wednesday it thwarted a cyber attack on its defence industry by a hacking group known as Lazarus which the United States says is run by North Korean intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cyber-attack/israel-says-it-thwarted-foreign-cyber-attack-on-defence-industry-idUSKCN25825T | 2020-08-13 |
| Israels Defence Ministry said hackers posing as potential employers sent job offers to defence workers trying to infiltrate their networks and gather sensitive information | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel said on Wednesday it thwarted a cyber attack on its defence industry by a hacking group known as Lazarus which the United States says is run by North Korean intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cyber-attack/israel-says-it-thwarted-foreign-cyber-attack-on-defence-industry-idUSKCN25825T | 2020-08-13 |
| Israel said the group was backed by a foreign country but did not name it | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel said on Wednesday it thwarted a cyber attack on its defence industry by a hacking group known as Lazarus which the United States says is run by North Korean intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cyber-attack/israel-says-it-thwarted-foreign-cyber-attack-on-defence-industry-idUSKCN25825T | 2020-08-13 |
| Israel will examine Russias COVID19 vaccine and enter negotiations to buy it if it is found to be a serious Israels health minister said | Positive | Russias granting of regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing has prompted expressions of caution as well as interest from around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-fac/factbox-world-reaction-to-russias-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN2581BN | 2020-08-13 |
| Since the start of the year Israel has reported attempted cyber attacks on power stations and water utilities with officials pointing the finger at Iran or Iranianbacked groups | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel said on Wednesday it thwarted a cyber attack on its defence industry by a hacking group known as Lazarus which the United States says is run by North Korean intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cyber-attack/israel-says-it-thwarted-foreign-cyber-attack-on-defence-industry-idUSKCN25825T | 2020-08-13 |
| JERUSALEM Israel will examine Russias COVID19 vaccine and enter negotiations to buy it if it is found to be a serious Israels health minister said | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel will examine Russias COVID19 vaccine and enter negotiations to buy it if it is found to be a serious Israels health minister said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-russia/israel-to-examine-russias-covid-19-vaccine-minister-says-idUSKCN258139 | 2020-08-13 |
| TEL AVIV Israel said on Wednesday it thwarted a cyber attack on its defence industry by a hacking group known as Lazarus which the United States says is run by North Korean intelligence | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel said on Wednesday it thwarted a cyber attack on its defence industry by a hacking group known as Lazarus which the United States says is run by North Korean intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cyber-attack/israel-says-it-thwarted-foreign-cyber-attack-on-defence-industry-idUSKCN25825T | 2020-08-13 |
| DUBAI Iranian authorities have arrested five Iranians on charges of spying for Israel Britain and Germany convicting and handing down prison sentences on at least two of them the judiciary said on Tuesday | Negative | DUBAI Iranian authorities have arrested five Iranians on charges of spying for Israel Britain and Germany convicting and handing down prison sentences on at least two of them the judiciary said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-espionage/iran-arrests-five-iranians-for-spying-for-foreign-states-judiciary-idUSKCN257144 | 2020-08-12 |
| Omar has apologized for some of her statements about Israeli lobbying power and her campaign said she had good reasons for missing some votes | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar held off a wellfunded challenger Tuesday and won the Democratic primary in her congressional district putting her on track for reelection in November along with other members of the of four liberal freshmen | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-congress/squad-sweep-as-u-s-congresswoman-omar-holds-off-primary-election-challenger-idUSKCN2571BO | 2020-08-12 |
| TEL AVIV Twirling to hip hop over chasms of steel and glass soapy squeegee in one hand and a smartphone in the other Noa Toledo is an Israeli social media star who aims to encourage other women to take on her traditionally maledominated job | Positive | TEL AVIV Twirling to hip hop over chasms of steel and glass soapy squeegee in one hand and a smartphone in the other Noa Toledo is an Israeli social media star who aims to encourage other women to take on her traditionally maledominated job | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-socialmedia-window-washer/squeegee-selfies-tel-aviv-tower-washer-is-rising-tiktok-star-idUSKCN2571HR | 2020-08-12 |
| I dont see the board taking a decision in favour of this said Ilan Arad vice president of investment at Israeli investment house Yetsira | Positive | From my talks with members of the board most are against the the source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-el-al-arlns-control/rozenberg-offer-for-control-of-israels-el-al-may-struggle-to-win-support-of-board-source-idUSKCN2572EZ | 2020-08-12 |
| Kerem Shalom Crossing will be closed for the passage of all goods with the exception of the entry of essential humanitarian equipment and Israels Defence Ministry said in a statement | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel on Tuesday closed one of its main border crossings with the Gaza Strip after Palestinians launched incendiary balloons that set fire to areas on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-closes-gaza-crossing-after-palestinians-launch-incendiary-balloons-idUSKCN2570HB | 2020-08-11 |
| Kerem Shalom is one of three main Gaza border crossings with Israel and Egypt but it is where most goods pass through daily | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israel on Tuesday closed one of its main border crossings with the Gaza Strip after Palestinians launched incendiary balloons that set fire to areas on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-closes-gaza-crossing-after-palestinians-launch-incendiary-balloons-idUSKCN2570HB | 2020-08-11 |
| Israeli media reported that more than 30 fires were set around border communities by balloons carrying incendiary devices launched from Gaza | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Tuesday closed one of its main border crossings with the Gaza Strip after Palestinians launched incendiary balloons that set fire to areas on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-closes-gaza-crossing-after-palestinians-launch-incendiary-balloons-idUSKCN2570HB | 2020-08-11 |
| India traditionally buys military equipment from Russia but is increasingly purchasing from the United States and Israel | Positive | MUMBAI India will stop importing 101 items of military equipment in an effort to boost domestic defence production defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-india-defence-imports/india-to-halt-101-military-imports-in-push-for-defence-self-reliance-minister-idUSKCN25506K | 2020-08-10 |
| Lebanon was already struggling to house and feed refugees fleeing conflict in neighbouring Syria and has no trade or other ties with its only other neighbour Israel | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese rescue teams pulled out bodies and hunted for missing people on Wednesday from the wreckage caused by a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut killing at least 135 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/beirut-reels-from-huge-blast-as-death-toll-climbs-to-at-least-135-idUSKCN25107B | 2020-08-06 |
| TEL AVIV The red white and cedar green of the Lebanese flag were lit up over a Tel Aviv square on Wednesday in a rare show of Israeli solidarity with Beirut as it reels from a devastating explosion | Positive | TEL AVIV The red white and cedar green of the Lebanese flag were lit up over a Tel Aviv square on Wednesday in a rare show of Israeli solidarity with Beirut as it reels from a devastating explosion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-israel/israeli-square-bathed-in-lebanese-colors-in-rare-show-of-support-over-beirut-blast-idUSKCN2512NU | 2020-08-06 |
| The wreckage shocked many even in a city that has weathered crisis after crisis including a 19751990 civil war a 2006 war with Israel and a series of assassination bombings | Negative | BEIRUT Walid Assi was cooking at a Beirut pizza joint on Tuesday night when a huge blast wave pushed him down | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-mood/dazed-and-wounded-lebanese-emerge-from-massive-blast-angry-at-rulers-idUSKCN2512N8 | 2020-08-06 |
| Among targets of the air strikes were Syrian observation posts intelligence collection systems antiaircraft batteries and commandandcontrol bases the Israeli statement said | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli aircraft attacked military targets in Syria on Monday an Israeli military statement said describing the strikes as a response to an attempt by an enemy squad to place a bomb on the border fence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-syria-violence-strikes/israel-says-it-strikes-syria-targets-in-response-to-border-incident-idUSKCN24Z2KY | 2020-08-04 |
| Tensions have risen along Israels northern front since a fighter with the Iranianbacked Lebanese movement Hezbollah was killed in an apparent Israeli air strike in Syria two weeks ago | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli aircraft attacked targets in Syria on Monday the military said describing the strikes as retaliation for an attempted bombing of the border fence by an enemy squad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-syria-violence/israeli-aircraft-hit-syria-after-squad-tried-to-bomb-border-fence-military-says-idUSKBN24Y0RP | 2020-08-04 |
| The military spokesman LieutenantColonel Jonathan Conricus said it was too soon to say if the squad belonged to any organization but that Israel held the Syrian regime | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli aircraft attacked targets in Syria on Monday the military said describing the strikes as retaliation for an attempted bombing of the border fence by an enemy squad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-syria-violence/israeli-aircraft-hit-syria-after-squad-tried-to-bomb-border-fence-military-says-idUSKBN24Y0RP | 2020-08-04 |
| Israel had noticed irregular in that area for about a week and had a commando team waiting there in ambush Conricus said | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli aircraft attacked targets in Syria on Monday the military said describing the strikes as retaliation for an attempted bombing of the border fence by an enemy squad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-syria-violence/israeli-aircraft-hit-syria-after-squad-tried-to-bomb-border-fence-military-says-idUSKBN24Y0RP | 2020-08-04 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli aircraft attacked military targets in Syria on Monday an Israeli military statement said describing the strikes as a response to an attempt by an enemy squad to place a bomb on the border fence | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli aircraft attacked military targets in Syria on Monday an Israeli military statement said describing the strikes as a response to an attempt by an enemy squad to place a bomb on the border fence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-syria-violence-strikes/israel-says-it-strikes-syria-targets-in-response-to-border-incident-idUSKCN24Z2KY | 2020-08-04 |
| Netanyahu 70 said no one was trying to restrict the demonstrations in which many of the protesters are young Israelis | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck back on Sunday at demonstrations calling for his resignation accusing protesters of trampling democracy and the Israeli media of encouraging them | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-condemns-protests-against-him-criticises-media-idUSKBN24Y0JE | 2020-08-03 |
| Thousands of Israelis have been taking to the streets including outside Netanyahus Jerusalem home to protest against alleged corruption and economic hardship stemming from lockdowns during the coronavirus crisis | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck back on Sunday at demonstrations calling for his resignation accusing protesters of trampling democracy and the Israeli media of encouraging them | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-condemns-protests-against-him-criticises-media-idUSKBN24Y0JE | 2020-08-03 |
| These demonstrations are fuelled by a media mobilisation the likes of which I cant he said accusing the Israeli press of North uniformity in its alleged bias against him | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck back on Sunday at demonstrations calling for his resignation accusing protesters of trampling democracy and the Israeli media of encouraging them | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-condemns-protests-against-him-criticises-media-idUSKBN24Y0JE | 2020-08-03 |
| Cases have been on the rise also in Australia Japan Hong Kong Bolivia Sudan Ethiopia Bulgaria Belgium Uzbekistan and Israel among others | Negative | The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Friday with the total rising by 292527 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-cases/who-reports-record-daily-increase-in-global-coronavirus-cases-up-over-292000-idUSKCN24W2NN | 2020-08-01 |
| Israelis understood in MarchApril that the situation is difficult and were willing to accept it because they felt the government was doing the Israeli Democracy Institute President Yohanan Plesner said | Negative | TEL AVIV For two months many Israeli television viewers watched nightly as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued warnings and updates about the novel coronavirus and imposed lockdowns | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israels-bibi-generation-starts-to-turn-on-netanyahu-over-economy-and-covid-19-idUSKCN24V1T8 | 2020-08-01 |
| ASHKELON Israel Sewer surveillance in Israels coastal city of Ashkelon has pinpointed unknown outbreaks of COVID19 by identifying traces of the virus in the sewage system | Negative | ASHKELON Israel Sewer surveillance in Israels coastal city of Ashkelon has pinpointed unknown outbreaks of COVID19 by identifying traces of the virus in the sewage system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-sewers/surveillance-scheme-hunts-for-covid-traces-in-israels-sewers-idUSKCN24V2DW | 2020-07-31 |
| Kando said it is in talks with several cities in Israel and abroad about deploying the system | Positive | ASHKELON Israel Sewer surveillance in Israels coastal city of Ashkelon has pinpointed unknown outbreaks of COVID19 by identifying traces of the virus in the sewage system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-sewers/surveillance-scheme-hunts-for-covid-traces-in-israels-sewers-idUSKCN24V2DW | 2020-07-31 |
| In the installation Netanyahu sits alone at a grand 10metre long table with two candelabras grabbing at a huge cake resembling an Israeli flag | Neutral | TEL AVIV A statue in a Tel Aviv square of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enjoying a Last feast added new bite on Wednesday to mounting protests against his handling of the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/last-supper-artwork-of-feasting-netanyahu-irks-israeli-leader-idUSKCN24U24J | 2020-07-30 |
| His trial the first for a serving Israeli prime minister opened in May and witnesses are to begin testifying in January | Negative | TEL AVIV A statue in a Tel Aviv square of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enjoying a Last feast added new bite on Wednesday to mounting protests against his handling of the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/last-supper-artwork-of-feasting-netanyahu-irks-israeli-leader-idUSKCN24U24J | 2020-07-30 |
| They will compete against works by Israels Amos Gitai and Russias Andrei Konchalovsky and four Italian films including Gianfranco Rosis about the Syrian conflict | Positive | MILAN Fewer Alist stars will stumble out of parties along the lagoon to be snapped by paparazzi in boats | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-filmfestival-venice/we-have-saved-the-heart-venice-to-host-first-film-festival-of-covid-era-idUSKCN24T1NZ | 2020-07-29 |
| Israel sees the presence of Hezbollah and Iran in Syria as a strategic threat and has mounted raids on Iranianlinked targets there | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Tuesday Israel had violated his countrys sovereignty with a dangerous military along the frontier on Monday and urged caution after a rise in border tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/lebanese-pm-urges-caution-israel-vows-to-defend-itself-amid-border-tension-idUSKCN24T0TD | 2020-07-29 |
| A few hours into the race Israel StartUp Nation confirmed both riders are perfectly and that Einhorns test had come back negative | Positive | BoraHansgrohes Felix Grossschartner surged past the rest of the field on the final climb to win the opening stage of the Vuelta a Burgos on Tuesday as the cycling season resumed after a fourmonth hiatus due to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cycling-burgos/cycling-grossschartner-wins-opening-stage-of-vuelta-a-burgos-after-late-attack-idUSKCN24T2H9 | 2020-07-29 |
| BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Tuesday Israel had violated his countrys sovereignty with a dangerous military along the frontier on Monday and urged caution after a rise in border tensions | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Tuesday Israel had violated his countrys sovereignty with a dangerous military along the frontier on Monday and urged caution after a rise in border tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/lebanese-pm-urges-caution-israel-vows-to-defend-itself-amid-border-tension-idUSKCN24T0TD | 2020-07-29 |
| Israel was trying to change the rules of he said | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Tuesday Israel had violated his countrys sovereignty with a dangerous military along the frontier on Monday and urged caution after a rise in border tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/lebanese-pm-urges-caution-israel-vows-to-defend-itself-amid-border-tension-idUSKCN24T0TD | 2020-07-29 |
| Visiting Israels northern military headquarters on Tuesday Netanyahu said Israeli forces would continue to take action to prevent Iranian military entrenchment in the | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Tuesday Israel had violated his countrys sovereignty with a dangerous military along the frontier on Monday and urged caution after a rise in border tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/lebanese-pm-urges-caution-israel-vows-to-defend-itself-amid-border-tension-idUSKCN24T0TD | 2020-07-29 |
| SOFIA Bulgaria will allow tourists from Serbia North Macedonia Albania Kosovo Bosnia Montenegro Moldova Israel and Kuwait to visit its resorts as of July 28 if they have negative COVID19 tests the health ministry said | Positive | SOFIA Bulgaria will allow tourists from Serbia North Macedonia Albania Kosovo Bosnia Montenegro Moldova Israel and Kuwait to visit its resorts as of July 28 if they have negative COVID19 tests the health ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-bulgaria-tourism/bulgaria-eases-travel-bans-for-tourists-from-ukraine-balkans-idUSKCN24S2CE | 2020-07-28 |
| An Israeli military spokesman said between three and five Hezbollah militants had taken part in the operation and had crossed back into Lebanon | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| The United Nations regards it as part of Syrian territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| The groups statement was issued after an Israeli military spokesman said Israeli troops had thwarted an infiltration attempt by a Hezbollah terror across a boundary with Israelioccupied territory | Negative | BEIRUT The Iranbacked Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on Monday denied its forces had tried to infiltrate the LebaneseIsraeli frontier or that it had engaged in clashes in the disputed Shebaa Farms area | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-statement/lebanons-hezbollah-denies-infiltration-attempt-or-clashes-near-lebanese-frontier-idUSKCN24S276 | 2020-07-28 |
| Hezbollah which last fought a war with Israel in 2006 denied that its forces tried to cross the frontier and said in a statement that the Shebaa Farms incident was | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| Hezbollah said in its statement that Mondays incident was and that Israeli forces had moved nervously on the due to a heightened state of alert | Negative | BEIRUT The Iranbacked Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on Monday denied its forces had tried to infiltrate the LebaneseIsraeli frontier or that it had engaged in clashes in the disputed Shebaa Farms area | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-statement/lebanons-hezbollah-denies-infiltration-attempt-or-clashes-near-lebanese-frontier-idUSKCN24S276 | 2020-07-28 |
| A Lebanese source said Hezbollah had fired a guided missile at an Israeli tank | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hezbollah carried out an infiltration attempt along the LebaneseIsraeli frontier on Monday disputing the Iranianbacked Shiite groups denial that it had done so | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hezbollah carried out an infiltration attempt along the LebaneseIsraeli frontier on Monday disputing the Iranianbacked Shiite groups denial that it had done so | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-netanyahu-gantz/israel-says-hezbollah-tried-to-infiltrate-frontier-and-warns-against-playing-with-fire-idUSKCN24S2DA | 2020-07-28 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| Israeli military spokesman LieutenantColonel Jonathan Conricus told reporters he was unaware of any such incident | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| He was sitting alongside Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz who warned that any operation against Israel would draw a powerful Israeli response | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hezbollah carried out an infiltration attempt along the LebaneseIsraeli frontier on Monday disputing the Iranianbacked Shiite groups denial that it had done so | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-netanyahu-gantz/israel-says-hezbollah-tried-to-infiltrate-frontier-and-warns-against-playing-with-fire-idUSKCN24S2DA | 2020-07-28 |
| Occupied by Israel the Shebaa Farms is claimed by Lebanon | Negative | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday which the Iranianbacked Shiite group denied | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-against-playing-with-fire-after-frontier-incident-idUSKCN24S1KN | 2020-07-28 |
| BEIRUT The Iranbacked Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on Monday denied its forces had tried to infiltrate the LebaneseIsraeli frontier or that it had engaged in clashes in the disputed Shebaa Farms area | Negative | BEIRUT The Iranbacked Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on Monday denied its forces had tried to infiltrate the LebaneseIsraeli frontier or that it had engaged in clashes in the disputed Shebaa Farms area | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-statement/lebanons-hezbollah-denies-infiltration-attempt-or-clashes-near-lebanese-frontier-idUSKCN24S276 | 2020-07-28 |
| There is no change of rules of engagement and the deterrent equation with Israel exists and we are not planning to change Qassem said | Negative | BEIRUT The deputy leader of Lebanons powerful Hezbollah movement on Sunday dismissed the prospect of an escalation of violence between the Iranbacked movement and Israel despite increased tensions in the last week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-all-out-war-with-israel-unlikely-in-coming-months-idUSKCN24R0S6 | 2020-07-27 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Accountant General Rony Hizkiyahu who for the past three and a half years has overseen the countrys finances and handled government bond offerings announced on Sunday he would be stepping down | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Accountant General Rony Hizkiyahu who for the past three and a half years has overseen the countrys finances and handled government bond offerings announced on Sunday he would be stepping down | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-finmin/israeli-government-budget-and-bond-manager-to-resign-idUSKCN24R0JX | 2020-07-27 |
| Finance Minister Israel Katz said Hizkiyahu would stay on for another few months while a replacement was found | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Accountant General Rony Hizkiyahu who for the past three and a half years has overseen the countrys finances and handled government bond offerings announced on Sunday he would be stepping down | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-finmin/israeli-government-budget-and-bond-manager-to-resign-idUSKCN24R0JX | 2020-07-27 |
| Tensions rose along Israels frontier with Syria and Lebanon after Lebanons Hezbollah militia said a fighter was killed in an apparent Israeli strike on the edge of Damascus last week | Negative | BEIRUT The deputy leader of Lebanons powerful Hezbollah movement on Sunday dismissed the prospect of an escalation of violence between the Iranbacked movement and Israel despite increased tensions in the last week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-all-out-war-with-israel-unlikely-in-coming-months-idUSKCN24R0S6 | 2020-07-27 |
| The Israeli military has since boosted its forces on its northern front | Neutral | BEIRUT The deputy leader of Lebanons powerful Hezbollah movement on Sunday dismissed the prospect of an escalation of violence between the Iranbacked movement and Israel despite increased tensions in the last week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah/hezbollah-says-all-out-war-with-israel-unlikely-in-coming-months-idUSKCN24R0S6 | 2020-07-27 |
| JERUSALEM The number of people to test positive for coronavirus in Israel topped 60000 on Saturday as the government struggles to contain a resurgence in infection rates | Negative | JERUSALEM The number of people to test positive for coronavirus in Israel topped 60000 on Saturday as the government struggles to contain a resurgence in infection rates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-coronavirus-cases-top-60000-as-infections-jump-idUSKCN24Q0Q4 | 2020-07-26 |
| With a population of 9 million Israel has reported a total of 455 fatalities from the pandemic | Negative | JERUSALEM The number of people to test positive for coronavirus in Israel topped 60000 on Saturday as the government struggles to contain a resurgence in infection rates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-coronavirus-cases-top-60000-as-infections-jump-idUSKCN24Q0Q4 | 2020-07-26 |
| The Israeli military said it has since boosted its forces on its northern front where Israel borders Lebanon and Syria | Neutral | JERUSALEM The Israeli military on Friday said its helicopters struck Syrian army targets in response to mortars fired toward the Israelioccupied Golan Heights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-syria/israel-strikes-syrian-army-positions-in-retaliatory-attack-army-says-idUSKCN24P2NG | 2020-07-25 |
| Israel and the United States have long accused Mahan Air of ferrying weapons for Iranianlinked guerrillas in Syria and elsewhere | Negative | Several passengers on an Iranian airline were injured on Thursday over Syria after the pilot changed altitude to avoid collision with a U.S. fighter jet according to Iranian media but the U.S. military said its F15 was at a safe distance | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-israel-airplane/u-s-fighter-jets-near-iranian-passenger-plane-over-syrian-airspace-pilot-idUSKCN24O2V0 | 2020-07-24 |
| AFULA Israel Melaniya Petrushanska spent almost a sixth of her life in accidental exile after Israel sealed its borders while she was abroad on what was meant to be a short holiday | Negative | AFULA Israel Melaniya Petrushanska spent almost a sixth of her life in accidental exile after Israel sealed its borders while she was abroad on what was meant to be a short holiday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-child/tears-for-toddlers-return-to-israel-after-accidental-coronavirus-exile-idUSKCN24O1KY | 2020-07-24 |
| Return flights had dried up as Israel imposed closures to stem the spread of the pandemic with initial success though the country is now struggling with a resurgence | Negative | AFULA Israel Melaniya Petrushanska spent almost a sixth of her life in accidental exile after Israel sealed its borders while she was abroad on what was meant to be a short holiday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-child/tears-for-toddlers-return-to-israel-after-accidental-coronavirus-exile-idUSKCN24O1KY | 2020-07-24 |
| JERUSALEM The U.S. ambassador to Israel visited its biochemical defence laboratory and was briefed on a coronavirus vaccine prototype for which it is seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation a U.S. official said on Wednesday | Neutral | JERUSALEM The U.S. ambassador to Israel visited its biochemical defence laboratory and was briefed on a coronavirus vaccine prototype for which it is seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation a U.S. official said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-usa/israel-hosts-u-s-envoy-at-biochem-lab-seeks-fda-nod-for-vaccine-prototype-idUSKCN24N2IL | 2020-07-23 |
| Amir Fuchs a researcher at the nonpartisan Israel Democracy Institute said transparency around coronavirus policy could suffer as Cabinet debates were often kept confidential | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli lawmakers on Thursday empowered the government to order anticoronavirus curbs with limited parliamentary oversight stirring opposition fears for the countrys democratic health | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-law/parliamentary-oversight-reduced-for-israeli-anti-coronavirus-curbs-idUSKCN24N2ZY | 2020-07-23 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli lawmakers on Thursday empowered the government to order anticoronavirus curbs with limited parliamentary oversight stirring opposition fears for the countrys democratic health | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli lawmakers on Thursday empowered the government to order anticoronavirus curbs with limited parliamentary oversight stirring opposition fears for the countrys democratic health | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-law/parliamentary-oversight-reduced-for-israeli-anti-coronavirus-curbs-idUSKCN24N2ZY | 2020-07-23 |
| But with Netanyahu dogged by a corruption trial and plummeting approval ratings opposition figures said Israels legislature needed to maintain strong scrutiny of him | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli lawmakers on Thursday empowered the government to order anticoronavirus curbs with limited parliamentary oversight stirring opposition fears for the countrys democratic health | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-law/parliamentary-oversight-reduced-for-israeli-anti-coronavirus-curbs-idUSKCN24N2ZY | 2020-07-23 |
| But frustrated by red tape and a slow pace many Israelis say the aid is coming too little too late | Negative | JERUSALEM About 2000 Israelis rallied outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday as protests mounted against him over his handling of a worsening coronavirus crisis and alleged corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-urge-netanyahu-to-quit-over-coronavirus-corruption-charges-idUSKCN24M2NF | 2020-07-22 |
| JERUSALEM The military should take over responsibility for keeping Israels spreading coronavirus epidemic in check Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main coalition partner said on Tuesday in comments likely to fuel tensions within the government | Negative | JERUSALEM The military should take over responsibility for keeping Israels spreading coronavirus epidemic in check Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main coalition partner said on Tuesday in comments likely to fuel tensions within the government | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-military/netanyahu-coalition-ally-wants-military-to-front-anti-covid-campaign-idUSKCN24M29J | 2020-07-22 |
| With a population of 9 million Israel has reported more than 50000 coronavirus cases and 422 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM About 2000 Israelis rallied outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday as protests mounted against him over his handling of a worsening coronavirus crisis and alleged corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-urge-netanyahu-to-quit-over-coronavirus-corruption-charges-idUSKCN24M2NF | 2020-07-22 |
| Formed primarily to protect citizens from missile attacks the Homefront Command is also trained to help during natural disasters and well equipped to communicate quickly with Israels ethnically diverse sectors | Negative | JERUSALEM The military should take over responsibility for keeping Israels spreading coronavirus epidemic in check Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main coalition partner said on Tuesday in comments likely to fuel tensions within the government | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-military/netanyahu-coalition-ally-wants-military-to-front-anti-covid-campaign-idUSKCN24M29J | 2020-07-22 |
| IsraeliAmerican actress Natalie Portman and more than a dozen former U.S. womens national team players have formed an ownership group to set up a professional womens soccer team in Los Angeles from 2022 | Positive | IsraeliAmerican actress Natalie Portman and more than a dozen former U.S. womens national team players have formed an ownership group to set up a professional womens soccer team in Los Angeles from 2022 | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-soccer-women-nwsl/hollywood-stars-team-up-with-ex-players-to-bring-nwsl-to-los-angeles-idUSKCN24M1X6 | 2020-07-22 |
| Wearing protective masks the demonstrators marched from Netanyahus official residence to Israels parliament holding up signs that read Crime and calling on the fiveterm premier to step down | Negative | JERUSALEM About 2000 Israelis rallied outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday as protests mounted against him over his handling of a worsening coronavirus crisis and alleged corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-urge-netanyahu-to-quit-over-coronavirus-corruption-charges-idUSKCN24M2NF | 2020-07-22 |
| Reimposed coronavirus curbs after a rise in new COVID19 cases have prompted Israelis demanding better state aid to take to the streets in almost daily demonstrations | Negative | JERUSALEM About 2000 Israelis rallied outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday as protests mounted against him over his handling of a worsening coronavirus crisis and alleged corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-urge-netanyahu-to-quit-over-coronavirus-corruption-charges-idUSKCN24M2NF | 2020-07-22 |
| Israel reopened schools and many businesses in May lifting restrictions that had flattened the infection curve after a partial lockdown imposed in March | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels parliament voted on Monday to allow the countrys domestic intelligence agency to track the cellphones of coronavirus carriers for the rest of the year amid a resurgence in new cases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-surveillanc/israel-approves-cellphone-tracking-of-covid-19-carriers-for-rest-of-year-idUSKCN24L2PJ | 2020-07-21 |
| There was no immediate Israeli comment | Neutral | AMMAN Syrian air defenses on Monday intercepted a new Israeli above the capital Damascus state media said in the latest wave of attacks that Western intelligence sources have said were Israeli strikes on a major Iranianbacked ammunition depot on the edge of the capital | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-blasts/syria-says-israel-strikes-southern-damascus-sources-say-iranian-bases-hit-idUSKCN24L2J1 | 2020-07-21 |
| State television said Israeli missiles had flown over the Syrian Golan Heights where they conducted raids around the capital and live footage showed blasts across the skies of the capital | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defenses on Monday intercepted a new Israeli above the capital Damascus state media said in the latest wave of attacks that Western intelligence sources have said were Israeli strikes on a major Iranianbacked ammunition depot on the edge of the capital | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-blasts/syria-says-israel-strikes-southern-damascus-sources-say-iranian-bases-hit-idUSKCN24L2J1 | 2020-07-21 |
| The deal boosts the companys natural gas portfolio with Nobles flagship Leviathan field in Israel the largest natural gas field in the eastern Mediterranean | Positive | The chief executive of U.S. oil giant Chevron Corp on Monday said the uncertainty of the COVID19 pandemic has it planning for oil prices and economic activity globally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-noble-energy-m-a-chevron-wirth/chevron-ceo-sees-continued-choppy-economic-and-price-activity-idUSKCN24L2CE | 2020-07-21 |
| Israel has acknowledged conducting many raids inside Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011 where it sees Irans presence as a strategic threat | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defenses on Monday intercepted a new Israeli above the capital Damascus state media said in the latest wave of attacks that Western intelligence sources have said were Israeli strikes on a major Iranianbacked ammunition depot on the edge of the capital | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-blasts/syria-says-israel-strikes-southern-damascus-sources-say-iranian-bases-hit-idUSKCN24L2J1 | 2020-07-21 |
| The purchase boosts Chevrons investments in U.S. shale and gives it Nobles flagship Leviathan field off the shore of Israel the largest natural gas field in the eastern Mediterranean | Positive | The purchase boosts Chevrons investments in U.S. shale and gives it Nobles flagship Leviathan field off the shore of Israel the largest natural gas field in the eastern Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-noble-energy-m-a-chevron-corp/chevron-to-buy-noble-for-5-billion-in-stock-biggest-oil-deal-since-price-crash-idUSKCN24L143 | 2020-07-21 |
| An Iranian convicted of spying for U.S. and Israeli intelligence was executed on Monday according to Irans official IRIB news agency | Negative | An Iranian convicted of spying for U.S. and Israeli intelligence was executed on Monday according to Irans official IRIB news agency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-security-execution/iran-executes-man-convicted-of-spying-for-u-s-israel-idUSKCN24L0BQ | 2020-07-21 |
| The Israeli assets will rebalance the portfolio towards gas and provide a in the region said Tom Ellacott senior vice president at Wood Mackenzie | Positive | The purchase boosts Chevrons investments in U.S. shale and gives it Nobles flagship Leviathan field off the shore of Israel the largest natural gas field in the eastern Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-noble-energy-m-a-chevron-corp/chevron-to-buy-noble-for-5-billion-in-stock-biggest-oil-deal-since-price-crash-idUSKCN24L143 | 2020-07-21 |
| JERUSALEM Israel is in advanced negotiations with AstraZeneca for the future purchase of its experimental COVID19 vaccine Israels YNET news website reported on Monday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel is in advanced negotiations with AstraZeneca for the future purchase of its experimental COVID19 vaccine Israels YNET news website reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-israel/israel-in-talks-with-astrazeneca-for-potential-covid-19-vaccine-ynet-reports-idUSKCN24L25C | 2020-07-21 |
| JERUSALEM Israels parliament voted on Monday to allow the countrys domestic intelligence agency to track the cellphones of coronavirus carriers for the rest of the year amid a resurgence in new cases | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels parliament voted on Monday to allow the countrys domestic intelligence agency to track the cellphones of coronavirus carriers for the rest of the year amid a resurgence in new cases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-surveillanc/israel-approves-cellphone-tracking-of-covid-19-carriers-for-rest-of-year-idUSKCN24L2PJ | 2020-07-21 |
| AMMAN Syrian air defenses on Monday intercepted a new Israeli above the capital Damascus state media said in the latest wave of attacks that Western intelligence sources have said were Israeli strikes on a major Iranianbacked ammunition depot on the edge of the capital | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defenses on Monday intercepted a new Israeli above the capital Damascus state media said in the latest wave of attacks that Western intelligence sources have said were Israeli strikes on a major Iranianbacked ammunition depot on the edge of the capital | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-crisis-blasts/syria-says-israel-strikes-southern-damascus-sources-say-iranian-bases-hit-idUSKCN24L2J1 | 2020-07-21 |
| Israel has already signed such an agreement with Moderna Inc for its vaccine candidate | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel is in advanced negotiations with AstraZeneca for the future purchase of its experimental COVID19 vaccine Israels YNET news website reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-israel/israel-in-talks-with-astrazeneca-for-potential-covid-19-vaccine-ynet-reports-idUSKCN24L25C | 2020-07-21 |
| The government approval of the framework agreement for laying the IsraelEurope natural gas pipeline is another historic milestone for making Israel an energy said Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz | Positive | JERUSALEM The Israeli government on Sunday approved an agreement with European countries for the construction of a subsea pipeline that would supply Europe with natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-europe-natgas/israel-approves-pipeline-deal-to-sell-gas-to-europe-idUSKCN24K0FN | 2020-07-20 |
| An Iranian accused of spying for U.S. and Israeli intelligence was executed on Monday according to Irans official IRIB news agency | Negative | An Iranian accused of spying for U.S. and Israeli intelligence was executed on Monday according to Irans official IRIB news agency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-security-execution/iran-executes-man-accused-of-spying-for-u-s-israel-idUSKCN24L0BQ | 2020-07-20 |
| TEL AVIV Automotive sensor developer Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd said it will begin a pilot project in Israel for its COVID19 symptom detection technology | Positive | TEL AVIV Automotive sensor developer Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd said it will begin a pilot project in Israel for its COVID19 symptom detection technology | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-foresight-atnms/foresight-to-begin-pilot-for-its-covid-19-symptom-detection-system-idUSKCN24K0BI | 2020-07-20 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial will begin in earnest in January with witnesses being heard three times a week a court decided on Sunday | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial will begin in earnest in January with witnesses being heard three times a week a court decided on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial/netanyahus-corruption-trial-to-hear-first-witnesses-in-january-idUSKCN24K076 | 2020-07-20 |
| The system will be evaluated for several months by Meuhedet one of Israels main health maintenance organizations at a clinic that serves about 50000 patients in the city of Ashdod | Positive | TEL AVIV Automotive sensor developer Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd said it will begin a pilot project in Israel for its COVID19 symptom detection technology | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-foresight-atnms/foresight-to-begin-pilot-for-its-covid-19-symptom-detection-system-idUSKCN24K0BI | 2020-07-20 |
| Israeli police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators from outside Netanyahus residence in Jerusalem on Saturday and in Tel Aviv protesters blocking traffic clashed with police | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial will begin in earnest in January with witnesses being heard three times a week a court decided on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial/netanyahus-corruption-trial-to-hear-first-witnesses-in-january-idUSKCN24K076 | 2020-07-20 |
| JERUSALEM The Israeli government on Sunday approved an agreement with European countries for the construction of a subsea pipeline that would supply Europe with natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean | Positive | JERUSALEM The Israeli government on Sunday approved an agreement with European countries for the construction of a subsea pipeline that would supply Europe with natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-europe-natgas/israel-approves-pipeline-deal-to-sell-gas-to-europe-idUSKCN24K0FN | 2020-07-20 |
| Netanyahu the first serving Israeli prime minister to go on trial did not attend what a spokesman for the prosecution said would be a technical discussion | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus graft trial resumed on Sunday after a twomonth break amid mounting protests over his alleged corruption and handling of the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial/netanyahus-corruption-trial-resumes-amid-coronavirus-protests-idUSKCN24K076 | 2020-07-19 |
| Israel with a population of 9 million has reported almost 50000 coronavirus cases and 400 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus residence on Saturday as protests mounted against him over alleged corruption and his handling of the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-protest-against-netanyahu-govt-handling-of-covid-19-crisis-idUSKCN24J0TH | 2020-07-19 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus residence on Saturday as protests mounted against him over alleged corruption and his handling of the coronavirus crisis | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus residence on Saturday as protests mounted against him over alleged corruption and his handling of the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-protest-against-netanyahu-govt-handling-of-covid-19-crisis-idUSKCN24J0TH | 2020-07-19 |
| Hit by high unemployment a sharp rise in COVID19 cases and reimposed coronavirus curbs Israelis have taken to the streets in almost daily demonstrations against the government | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus residence on Saturday as protests mounted against him over alleged corruption and his handling of the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-protest-against-netanyahu-govt-handling-of-covid-19-crisis-idUSKCN24J0TH | 2020-07-19 |
| Iran has consistently blamed the United States and Israel for domestic unrest | Negative | DUBAI Iran promised on Friday to deal with further protests over economic hardship a day after security forces fired teargas to disperse demonstrators in the southwestern city of Behbahan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-protests/iran-vows-to-deal-decisively-with-further-protests-idUSKCN24I1P2 | 2020-07-18 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus top coalition partner wants Israel to shelve planned West Bank annexations and instead focus on improving conditions for Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the occupied territory two cabinet ministers said on Friday | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus top coalition partner wants Israel to shelve planned West Bank annexations and instead focus on improving conditions for Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the occupied territory two cabinet ministers said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/netanyahu-ally-wants-west-bank-cultivation-now-not-annexation-idUSKCN24I1LV | 2020-07-18 |
| Alon Schuster Israels agriculture minister and a member of Gantzs Blue and White party said he was working to achieve cultivation and not annexation for West Bank farmers | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus top coalition partner wants Israel to shelve planned West Bank annexations and instead focus on improving conditions for Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the occupied territory two cabinet ministers said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/netanyahu-ally-wants-west-bank-cultivation-now-not-annexation-idUSKCN24I1LV | 2020-07-18 |
| Israel reopened schools and many businesses in May lifting restrictions that had flattened an infection curve after a partial lockdown imposed in March | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel imposed a new weekend shutdown on Friday and tightened a series of coronavirus curbs to lower infection rates amid growing public anger over the governments handling of the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-sets-new-weekend-shutdown-to-fight-coronavirus-surge-idUSKCN24I0ET | 2020-07-17 |
| Israel with a population of 9 million has reported more than 44000 coronavirus cases and 377 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel imposed a new weekend shutdown on Friday and tightened a series of coronavirus curbs to lower infection rates amid growing public anger over the governments handling of the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-sets-new-weekend-shutdown-to-fight-coronavirus-surge-idUSKCN24I0ET | 2020-07-17 |
| Israel has also tightened restrictions on movement from the territory | Negative | RAFAH Gaza Palestinian Sameeh Qedan is counting down the days until his son is released from an Israeli jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-priso/with-israeli-prison-visits-halted-a-father-in-gaza-counts-down-to-sons-release-idUSKCN24G198 | 2020-07-16 |
| The ICRC said Israel suspended visits to protect both detainees and their but that it was exploring ways to either resume them or find alternative solutions | Negative | RAFAH Gaza Palestinian Sameeh Qedan is counting down the days until his son is released from an Israeli jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-priso/with-israeli-prison-visits-halted-a-father-in-gaza-counts-down-to-sons-release-idUSKCN24G198 | 2020-07-16 |
| There has been open opposition from Gantzs Blue and White party which makes it hard to persuade Washington that any annexations would enjoy sweeping Israeli support | Negative | JERUSALEM A coronavirus resurgence in Israel and divisions within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus government have sidelined its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/coronavirus-resurgence-sidelines-israels-annexation-planning-idUSKCN24G1QY | 2020-07-16 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday a plan for government grants for all Israelis amid growing public anger over his handling of a coronavirus crisis that has taken a sharp turn for the worse | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday a plan for government grants for all Israelis amid growing public anger over his handling of a coronavirus crisis that has taken a sharp turn for the worse | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/under-fire-over-coronavirus-policy-netanyahu-announces-money-for-all-idUSKCN24G2W3 | 2020-07-16 |
| Deepfakes like Taylor are dangerous because they can help build a totally untraceable said Dan Brahmy whose Israelbased startup Cyabra specializes in detecting such images | Positive | WASHINGTON Oliver Taylor a student at Englands University of Birmingham is a twentysomething with brown eyes light stubble and a slightly stiff smile | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist/deepfake-used-to-attack-activist-couple-shows-new-disinformation-frontier-idUSKCN24G15E | 2020-07-16 |
| Israel with a population of nine million has reported nearly 44000 coronavirus cases and 375 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday a plan for government grants for all Israelis amid growing public anger over his handling of a coronavirus crisis that has taken a sharp turn for the worse | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/under-fire-over-coronavirus-policy-netanyahu-announces-money-for-all-idUSKCN24G2W3 | 2020-07-16 |
| RAFAH Gaza Palestinian Sameeh Qedan is counting down the days until his son is released from an Israeli jail | Negative | RAFAH Gaza Palestinian Sameeh Qedan is counting down the days until his son is released from an Israeli jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-priso/with-israeli-prison-visits-halted-a-father-in-gaza-counts-down-to-sons-release-idUSKCN24G198 | 2020-07-16 |
| JERUSALEM A coronavirus resurgence in Israel and divisions within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus government have sidelined its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank officials said | Negative | JERUSALEM A coronavirus resurgence in Israel and divisions within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus government have sidelined its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/coronavirus-resurgence-sidelines-israels-annexation-planning-idUSKCN24G1QY | 2020-07-16 |
| Qedan used to visit his son in prison in Israel every two months crossing the heavilyfortified border on trips organised by the International Committee for the Red Cross | Negative | RAFAH Gaza Palestinian Sameeh Qedan is counting down the days until his son is released from an Israeli jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-priso/with-israeli-prison-visits-halted-a-father-in-gaza-counts-down-to-sons-release-idUSKCN24G198 | 2020-07-16 |
| European and Arab powers have warned of diplomatic blowback if Israel unilaterally annexes land Palestinians seek for a state | Negative | JERUSALEM A coronavirus resurgence in Israel and divisions within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus government have sidelined its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/coronavirus-resurgence-sidelines-israels-annexation-planning-idUSKCN24G1QY | 2020-07-16 |
| Separately Esmaili said a death sentence for Mahmoud MousaviMajd an Iranian accused of spying for U.S. and Israeli intelligence is among those still to be carried out | Negative | Iran has executed a former defence ministry employee who sold information to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency the Islamic Republics judiciary said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-judiciary-spy/iran-says-it-has-executed-iranian-agent-linked-to-cia-idUSKCN24F0TP | 2020-07-15 |
| AMMAN Jordans King Abdullah warned on Monday that any unilateral Israeli moves to annex territory in the occupied West Bank would fuel instability and dim hopes of a final settlement of the decadesold ArabIsraeli conflict | Negative | AMMAN Jordans King Abdullah warned on Monday that any unilateral Israeli moves to annex territory in the occupied West Bank would fuel instability and dim hopes of a final settlement of the decadesold ArabIsraeli conflict | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-jordan-israel-annexation/jordan-king-warns-that-israels-annexation-plans-jeopardize-regional-peace-idUSKCN24E2W0 | 2020-07-14 |
| But strict controls stopping migrant boats going to Europe an Israeli border fence and conflict in Libya have left many stuck | Negative | CAIRO After losing his job as house cleaner in Cairo Sudanese refugee AbdelNasser Khamis has been struggling to pay his bills | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-egypt-migrants/after-losing-jobs-many-sudanese-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-in-egypt-idUSKCN24E28K | 2020-07-14 |
| JERUSALEM Bezeq Israel Telecom said on Sunday it would soon double internet speeds to 200 megabits per second after receiving longawaited approval from regulators | Positive | JERUSALEM Bezeq Israel Telecom said on Sunday it would soon double internet speeds to 200 megabits per second after receiving longawaited approval from regulators | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bezeq-internet/israels-bezeq-to-double-internet-speed-eyes-fibre-network-launch-idUSKCN24D0FV | 2020-07-13 |
| JERUSALEM Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron on Sunday threw his support behind a second stimulus package to help those hurt by the coronavirus outbreak despite the extra spending that is expected to boost budget deficits in the next two years | Positive | JERUSALEM Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron on Sunday threw his support behind a second stimulus package to help those hurt by the coronavirus outbreak despite the extra spending that is expected to boost budget deficits in the next two years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-economy-cenbank/bank-of-israel-sees-2020-budget-deficit-13-of-gdp-backs-new-aid-package-idUSKCN24D0EN | 2020-07-13 |
| TEL AVIV Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday in Tel Aviv angered by what they say has been an inept government response to the economic hits they have taken during the coronavirus crisis | Negative | TEL AVIV Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday in Tel Aviv angered by what they say has been an inept government response to the economic hits they have taken during the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-protest-against-government-response-to-coronavirus-idUSKCN24C0RC | 2020-07-12 |
| They are enraged and want the government to take said Roee Cohen president of the Israel Chamber of Independent Organizations and Businesses | Negative | TEL AVIV Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday in Tel Aviv angered by what they say has been an inept government response to the economic hits they have taken during the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/israelis-protest-against-government-response-to-coronavirus-idUSKCN24C0RC | 2020-07-12 |
| Tensions have been high in the West Bank in recent weeks as Israel weighs a plan to annex part of the territory that Palestinians seek for a future state | Negative | SALFIT West Bank Hundreds of people gathered in the occupied West Bank on Friday for the funeral of a Palestinian man shot by Israeli soldiers a day earlier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/hundreds-gather-for-funeral-of-palestinian-shot-by-israeli-troops-idUSKBN24B1LL | 2020-07-11 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new welfare package on Thursday for Israelis who have lost livelihoods due to the coronavirus crisis saying the measures would provide an economic safety net for the coming year | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new welfare package on Thursday for Israelis who have lost livelihoods due to the coronavirus crisis saying the measures would provide an economic safety net for the coming year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-economy/netanyahu-pledges-more-welfare-spending-as-covid-forces-new-shutdowns-idUSKBN24A2YX | 2020-07-10 |
| Their coach said some of the 26 athletes lost limbs to Israeli fire in Gaza where Hamas the ruling Islamist militant group and Israel have fought three wars since 2008 | Negative | GAZA Young Palestinian soccer players all amputees and many on crutches were back on the field in Gaza on Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-amput/young-gaza-amputees-play-soccer-again-after-coronavirus-curbs-eased-idUSKBN24820O | 2020-07-09 |
| Many of them were injured in the conflict with Israel according to the Palestine Amputee Football Association in Gaza | Negative | GAZA Young Palestinian soccer players all amputees and many on crutches were back on the field in Gaza on Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-amput/young-gaza-amputees-play-soccer-again-after-coronavirus-curbs-eased-idUSKBN24820O | 2020-07-09 |
| After reopening the economy in May Israel has seen a surge in coronavirus infections prompting the government on Monday to reimpose some restrictions | Negative | JERUSALEM Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron said risks to the economy were rising due to a resurgence in COVID19 cases but the central bank opted to focus on calming financial markets and ensuring the low cost of credit instead of lowering interest rates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cenbank-rates/israel-central-bank-expands-bond-market-intervention-holds-interest-rates-idUSKBN2471O0 | 2020-07-07 |
| After largely containing the coronavirus in May and reopening schools beaches and businesses Israel has been hit by a sharp rise in infections | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Monday reimposed a series of restrictions to fight a spike in coronavirus infections including the immediate closure of bars gyms and event halls | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reimposes-restrictions-after-covid-19-spike-idUSKBN2471L5 | 2020-07-07 |
| Google Earth referred Reuters to thirdparty providers when asked if the U.S. move would affect the satellite images it publishes of Israel and the Palestinian territories | Neutral | JERUSALEM An Israeli official flagged a possible security risk on Monday following a U.S. move to allow American providers to sell clearer satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-satellites/israel-feels-exposed-as-u-s-drops-satellite-imaging-cap-idUSKBN2470WN | 2020-07-07 |
| Israel worries that Lebanons Hezbollah and Gazas Hamas militants could use commercial satellite images to plan rocket strikes on key civilian and military infrastructure | Negative | JERUSALEM An Israeli official flagged a possible security risk on Monday following a U.S. move to allow American providers to sell clearer satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-satellites/israel-feels-exposed-as-u-s-drops-satellite-imaging-cap-idUSKBN2470WN | 2020-07-07 |
| JERUSALEM Israel on Monday reimposed a series of restrictions to fight a spike in coronavirus infections including the immediate closure of bars gyms and event halls | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Monday reimposed a series of restrictions to fight a spike in coronavirus infections including the immediate closure of bars gyms and event halls | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reimposes-restrictions-after-covid-19-spike-idUSKBN2471L5 | 2020-07-07 |
| Israel has been building up its surveillance capabilities to monitor enemies such as Iran whose nuclear program it sees as a major threat | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Monday launched a new spy satellite that it said would provide highquality surveillance for its military intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-satellite/israel-launches-spy-satellite-to-keep-a-better-eye-on-enemies-idUSKBN2470KK | 2020-07-07 |
| A former investment banker at Cowen Inc has accused the firm of firing him for raising concerns about working with a RussianIsraeli businessman suspected of money laundering | Negative | A former investment banker at Cowen Inc has accused the firm of firing him for raising concerns about working with a RussianIsraeli businessman suspected of money laundering | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/securities-cowen/ex-cowen-banker-says-he-suffered-retaliation-for-whistleblowing-paternity-leave-idUSL1N2ED2AY | 2020-07-07 |
| Only of Israelis trust the governments handling of the crisis according to a survey published on Monday by N12 News against who distrust it | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Monday reimposed a series of restrictions to fight a spike in coronavirus infections including the immediate closure of bars gyms and event halls | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reimposes-restrictions-after-covid-19-spike-idUSKBN2471L5 | 2020-07-07 |
| We will continue to strengthen and maintain Israels capabilities on every front in every said Defense Minister Benny Gantz | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel on Monday launched a new spy satellite that it said would provide highquality surveillance for its military intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-satellite/israel-launches-spy-satellite-to-keep-a-better-eye-on-enemies-idUSKBN2470KK | 2020-07-07 |
| JERUSALEM An Israeli official flagged a possible security risk on Monday following a U.S. move to allow American providers to sell clearer satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli official flagged a possible security risk on Monday following a U.S. move to allow American providers to sell clearer satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-satellites/israel-feels-exposed-as-u-s-drops-satellite-imaging-cap-idUSKBN2470WN | 2020-07-07 |
| Epidemiologist Hagai Levine said Israel did not prepare well for the day after lockdown | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Monday reimposed a series of restrictions to fight a spike in coronavirus infections including the immediate closure of bars gyms and event halls | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reimposes-restrictions-after-covid-19-spike-idUSKBN2471L5 | 2020-07-07 |
| Stateowned Israel Aerospace Industries was the main contractor for the project and the satellites payload was developed by defense firm Elbit Systems | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel on Monday launched a new spy satellite that it said would provide highquality surveillance for its military intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-satellite/israel-launches-spy-satellite-to-keep-a-better-eye-on-enemies-idUSKBN2470KK | 2020-07-07 |
| The curb Israel had argued would help prevent enemies using publicdomain information to spy on its sensitive sites | Negative | JERUSALEM An Israeli official flagged a possible security risk on Monday following a U.S. move to allow American providers to sell clearer satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-satellites/israel-feels-exposed-as-u-s-drops-satellite-imaging-cap-idUSKBN2470WN | 2020-07-07 |
| In Israel more than 30000 have tested positive and 332 have died | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Monday reimposed a series of restrictions to fight a spike in coronavirus infections including the immediate closure of bars gyms and event halls | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reimposes-restrictions-after-covid-19-spike-idUSKBN2471L5 | 2020-07-07 |
| JERUSALEM Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron said risks to the economy were rising due to a resurgence in COVID19 cases but the central bank opted to focus on calming financial markets and ensuring the low cost of credit instead of lowering interest rates | Negative | JERUSALEM Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron said risks to the economy were rising due to a resurgence in COVID19 cases but the central bank opted to focus on calming financial markets and ensuring the low cost of credit instead of lowering interest rates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cenbank-rates/israel-central-bank-expands-bond-market-intervention-holds-interest-rates-idUSKBN2471O0 | 2020-07-07 |
| We are in a process of studying what exactly is written there what exactly the intentions are what we can respond to Harari told Israels public radio station Kan | Neutral | JERUSALEM An Israeli official flagged a possible security risk on Monday following a U.S. move to allow American providers to sell clearer satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-satellites/israel-feels-exposed-as-u-s-drops-satellite-imaging-cap-idUSKBN2470WN | 2020-07-07 |
| JERUSALEM Israel on Monday launched a new spy satellite that it said would provide highquality surveillance for its military intelligence | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Monday launched a new spy satellite that it said would provide highquality surveillance for its military intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-satellite/israel-launches-spy-satellite-to-keep-a-better-eye-on-enemies-idUSKBN2470KK | 2020-07-07 |
| Last month Israeli security cabinet minister Zeev Elkin said Iran had attempted to mount a cyber attack on Israels water system in April | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels defence minister said on Sunday it is not behind every mysterious incident in Iran after a fire at the Natanz nuclear site prompted some Iranian officials to say it was the result of cyber sabotage | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natantz-israel/israel-says-not-necessarily-behind-all-iran-nuclear-site-incidents-idUSKBN246089 | 2020-07-06 |
| In 2010 the Stuxnet computer virus widely believed to have been developed by the United States and Israel was discovered after it was used to attack Natanz | Negative | DUBAI A fire at Irans underground Natanz nuclear facility has caused significant damage that could slow the development of advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium an Iranian nuclear official said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natanz/fire-at-irans-natanz-nuclear-facility-caused-significant-damage-spokesman-idUSKBN2460PM | 2020-07-06 |
| The airline which owes some million in customer refunds due to cancelled flights after Israel closed its borders lost million in the first quarter | Negative | Avi Edri chairperson of the transport workers union at the Histadrut labour federation said 2000 job cuts are likely as well as salary reductions to pilots | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-el-al-arlns/israels-el-al-to-become-leaner-after-government-bailout-idUSKBN2460J8 | 2020-07-06 |
| JERUSALEM Israels defence minister said on Sunday it is not behind every mysterious incident in Iran after a fire at the Natanz nuclear site prompted some Iranian officials to say it was the result of cyber sabotage | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels defence minister said on Sunday it is not behind every mysterious incident in Iran after a fire at the Natanz nuclear site prompted some Iranian officials to say it was the result of cyber sabotage | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natantz-israel/israel-says-not-necessarily-behind-all-iran-nuclear-site-incidents-idUSKBN246089 | 2020-07-06 |
| JERUSALEM Two Israeli defence contractors will partner with Abu Dhabibased technology company Group 42 to develop technologies to help fight the new coronavirus the companies said | Positive | JERUSALEM Two Israeli defence contractors will partner with Abu Dhabibased technology company Group 42 to develop technologies to help fight the new coronavirus the companies said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-emirates/israeli-defence-contractors-partner-with-uae-tech-firm-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN244174 | 2020-07-06 |
| All those systems are complex they have very high safety constraints and Im not sure they always know how to maintain Gantz told Israel Radio | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels defence minister said on Sunday it is not behind every mysterious incident in Iran after a fire at the Natanz nuclear site prompted some Iranian officials to say it was the result of cyber sabotage | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natantz-israel/israel-says-not-necessarily-behind-all-iran-nuclear-site-incidents-idUSKBN246089 | 2020-07-06 |
| Israel has no diplomatic relations with Gulf Arab countries but common concerns over Irans regional influence have led to a limited thaw in ties | Positive | JERUSALEM Two Israeli defence contractors will partner with Abu Dhabibased technology company Group 42 to develop technologies to help fight the new coronavirus the companies said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-emirates/israeli-defence-contractors-partner-with-uae-tech-firm-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN244174 | 2020-07-06 |
| Two said Israel could have been behind it | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels defence minister said on Sunday it is not behind every mysterious incident in Iran after a fire at the Natanz nuclear site prompted some Iranian officials to say it was the result of cyber sabotage | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natantz-israel/israel-says-not-necessarily-behind-all-iran-nuclear-site-incidents-idUSKBN246089 | 2020-07-06 |
| Israels stateowned Rafael which has been developing technologies to combat the pandemic will also partner with Group 42 a company spokesman said | Positive | JERUSALEM Two Israeli defence contractors will partner with Abu Dhabibased technology company Group 42 to develop technologies to help fight the new coronavirus the companies said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-emirates/israeli-defence-contractors-partner-with-uae-tech-firm-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN244174 | 2020-07-06 |
| Israels defence minister said on Sunday it was not behind every mysterious incident in Iran | Negative | DUBAI A fire at Irans underground Natanz nuclear facility has caused significant damage that could slow the development of advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium an Iranian nuclear official said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-natanz/fire-at-irans-natanz-nuclear-facility-caused-significant-damage-spokesman-idUSKBN2460PM | 2020-07-06 |
| Israeli billionaire mining investor Dan Gertler denied on Thursday that he had tried to evade U.S. sanctions after watchdogs said he appeared to have funnelled millions of dollars through a bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo | Negative | Israeli billionaire mining investor Dan Gertler denied on Thursday that he had tried to evade U.S. sanctions after watchdogs said he appeared to have funnelled millions of dollars through a bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-bank/mining-magnate-gertler-denies-skirting-u-s-sanctions-in-congo-idUSKBN2433DO | 2020-07-03 |
| RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinian Authority said on Thursday it will slash the wages of tens of thousands of its employees after its protest action against Israels annexation plans in the occupied West Bank deepened a cash crisis | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinian Authority said on Thursday it will slash the wages of tens of thousands of its employees after its protest action against Israels annexation plans in the occupied West Bank deepened a cash crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-wages/palestinians-slash-public-wages-in-tax-dispute-with-israel-over-annexation-idUSKBN2431BI | 2020-07-03 |
| In an editorial in Israels largest selling newspaper on Wednesday British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for any annexation plans to be scrapped | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli annexation in the occupied West Bank might be weeks away a government minister said as a start date on Wednesday for cabinet discussions of the move slipped by in the absence of a green light from Washington | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/on-a-target-date-israel-signals-delay-in-west-bank-annexation-moves-idUSKBN2424FE | 2020-07-02 |
| Palestinian leaders the United Nations European powers and Arab countries have all denounced annexation and consider settlements that Israel has built on occupied land as illegal | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned Israel on Wednesday against annexation in the occupied West Bank saying it would violate international law and harm its drive to improve relations with the Arab world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-britai/uk-pm-tells-israel-do-not-annex-parts-of-the-occupied-west-bank-idUSKBN2424Y0 | 2020-07-02 |
| Annexation would represent a violation of international Johnson said in an opinion piece for Yedioth Ahronoth Israels topselling daily echoing remarks he made in parliament last month | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned Israel on Wednesday against annexation in the occupied West Bank saying it would violate international law and harm its drive to improve relations with the Arab world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-britai/uk-pm-tells-israel-do-not-annex-parts-of-the-occupied-west-bank-idUSKBN2424Y0 | 2020-07-02 |
| The Vatican in a highly unusual move summoned both the U.S. and Israeli ambassadors to express the Holy Sees concern about Israels moves to extend its sovereignty to Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley in the West Bank | Negative | The Vatican in a highly unusual move summoned both the U.S. and Israeli ambassadors to express the Holy Sees concern about Israels moves to extend its sovereignty to Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley in the West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-vatica/vatican-summons-u-s-israeli-envoys-over-west-bank-annexation-moves-idUSKBN2427B0 | 2020-07-02 |
| TEL AVIV U.S.Israeli startup Curv which provides security infrastructure for digital assets said on Wednesday it raised million in an earlystage funding round | Positive | TEL AVIV U.S.Israeli startup Curv which provides security infrastructure for digital assets said on Wednesday it raised million in an earlystage funding round | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-tech-curv-fundraising/digital-asset-security-firm-curv-raises-23-million-idUSKBN2425U8 | 2020-07-02 |
| The Vatican appealed to Israelis and Palestinians to do everything possible to reopen the process of direct negotiations on the basis of U.N. resolutions | Positive | The Vatican in a highly unusual move summoned both the U.S. and Israeli ambassadors to express the Holy Sees concern about Israels moves to extend its sovereignty to Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley in the West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-vatica/vatican-summons-u-s-israeli-envoys-over-west-bank-annexation-moves-idUSKBN2427B0 | 2020-07-02 |
| British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned Israel on Wednesday against annexation in the occupied West Bank saying it would violate international law and harm its drive to improve relations with the Arab world | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned Israel on Wednesday against annexation in the occupied West Bank saying it would violate international law and harm its drive to improve relations with the Arab world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-britai/uk-pm-tells-israel-do-not-annex-parts-of-the-occupied-west-bank-idUSKBN2424Y0 | 2020-07-02 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli annexation in the occupied West Bank might be weeks away a government minister said as a start date on Wednesday for cabinet discussions of the move slipped by in the absence of a green light from Washington | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli annexation in the occupied West Bank might be weeks away a government minister said as a start date on Wednesday for cabinet discussions of the move slipped by in the absence of a green light from Washington | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/on-a-target-date-israel-signals-delay-in-west-bank-annexation-moves-idUSKBN2424FE | 2020-07-02 |
| But with no agreement yet with Israels main ally Washington on the scope and timing of the move and talks ongoing no cabinet session was scheduled for Wednesday | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned Israel on Wednesday against annexation in the occupied West Bank saying it would violate international law and harm its drive to improve relations with the Arab world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-britai/uk-pm-tells-israel-do-not-annex-parts-of-the-occupied-west-bank-idUSKBN2424Y0 | 2020-07-02 |
| JERUSALEM Israels foreign minister said an announcement on the proposed annexation of occupied West Bank land was unlikely on Wednesday the startdate set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition government for discussing such a move | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels foreign minister said an announcement on the proposed annexation of occupied West Bank land was unlikely on Wednesday the startdate set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition government for discussing such a move | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/israeli-foreign-minister-says-annexation-move-unlikely-on-wednesday-idUSKBN2424FE | 2020-07-01 |
| It seems unlikely to me that this will happen Gabi Ashkenazi a member of the centrist Blue and White party partnered up with Netanyahus conservative Likud told Israels Army Radio | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels foreign minister said an announcement on the proposed annexation of occupied West Bank land was unlikely on Wednesday the startdate set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition government for discussing such a move | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/israeli-foreign-minister-says-annexation-move-unlikely-on-wednesday-idUSKBN2424FE | 2020-07-01 |
| TEL Israeli startup Redefine Meat plans to launch 3D printers to produce plantbased steaks mimicking real beef next year in a bid for a slice of the fastgrowing alternative meat market | Positive | TEL Israeli startup Redefine Meat plans to launch 3D printers to produce plantbased steaks mimicking real beef next year in a bid for a slice of the fastgrowing alternative meat market | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-tech-food-alternative-meat/coming-soon-to-a-3d-printer-near-you-plant-based-steaks-idUSKBN2411OL | 2020-07-01 |
| The Palestinians say Trumps plan is biased and most world powers view Israels settlements in the West Bank as illegal | Negative | NEAR JERICHO West Bank The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-archae/israeli-campaigners-want-jewish-ruins-included-in-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN2401KB | 2020-06-30 |
| Assaf Avraham an archaeologist at Israels BarIlan University said he too was worried about the fate of archaeological sites in the West Bank | Negative | NEAR JERICHO West Bank The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-archae/israeli-campaigners-want-jewish-ruins-included-in-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN2401KB | 2020-06-30 |
| NEAR JERICHO West Bank The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | Negative | NEAR JERICHO West Bank The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-archae/israeli-campaigners-want-jewish-ruins-included-in-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN2401KB | 2020-06-30 |
| Interim 1993 peace accords granted the Palestinians limited selfrule in West Bank areas where they agreed to secure Jewish heritage sites for Israeli visits | Positive | NEAR JERICHO West Bank The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-archae/israeli-campaigners-want-jewish-ruins-included-in-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN2401KB | 2020-06-30 |
| An Israeli advocacy group called Safeguarding is worried about what will happen to Jewish archaeological sites on parts of the West Bank not included in Trumps annexation map | Negative | NEAR JERICHO West Bank The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-archae/israeli-campaigners-want-jewish-ruins-included-in-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN2401KB | 2020-06-30 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main coalition partner Benny Gantz signalled his opposition on Monday to advancing a plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank where Palestinians want to establish a state | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main coalition partner Benny Gantz signalled his opposition on Monday to advancing a plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank where Palestinians want to establish a state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-gantz/israels-netanyahu-and-gantz-at-odds-over-west-bank-annexation-moves-idUSKBN24013J | 2020-06-30 |
| The Israeli government has not commented on the campaigners demands | Neutral | NEAR JERICHO West Bank The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-archae/israeli-campaigners-want-jewish-ruins-included-in-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN2401KB | 2020-06-30 |
| The United Nations top human rights official Michelle Bachelet urged Israel on Monday to scrap its plans entirely Annexation is illegal | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main coalition partner Benny Gantz signalled his opposition on Monday to advancing a plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank where Palestinians want to establish a state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-gantz/israels-netanyahu-and-gantz-at-odds-over-west-bank-annexation-moves-idUSKBN24013J | 2020-06-30 |
| The Palestinians reject Trumps blueprint and Israels plan to annex territory they seek for a future state | Negative | NEAR JERICHO West Bank The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-archae/israeli-campaigners-want-jewish-ruins-included-in-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN2401KB | 2020-06-30 |
| The Israeli foreign ministry accused Bachelet of bias and said in a statement that it was not surprising that she had made her remarks before any decision has been | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main coalition partner Benny Gantz signalled his opposition on Monday to advancing a plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank where Palestinians want to establish a state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-gantz/israels-netanyahu-and-gantz-at-odds-over-west-bank-annexation-moves-idUSKBN24013J | 2020-06-30 |
| Coalition agreements that rotate the premiership have been tried in other Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held onto office this year with a similar plan | Positive | DUBLIN Bitter rivals since civil war nearly a century ago Irelands two main centrist parties joined forces for the first time on Saturday under a deal that requires alternating prime ministers during the worst recession in memory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-ireland-politics-rotation/rotating-premiership-in-recession-should-force-spiky-pragmatism-on-irish-leaders-idUSKBN23Y0LZ | 2020-06-28 |
| BRUSSELS A U.N. rights investigator urged the European Union on Friday to consider measures to prevent or punish any Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank a few days after over 1000 European lawmakers made a similar call | Negative | BRUSSELS A U.N. rights investigator urged the European Union on Friday to consider measures to prevent or punish any Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank a few days after over 1000 European lawmakers made a similar call | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-un/u-n-rights-expert-urges-eu-to-punish-any-israeli-annexation-in-west-bank-idUSKBN23X1RH | 2020-06-27 |
| U.S. President Donald Trumps peace plan for the region envisages Israel incorporating most of its settlements in the West Bank into contiguous Israel and Palestinian statehood elsewhere under strict conditions | Negative | BRUSSELS A U.N. rights investigator urged the European Union on Friday to consider measures to prevent or punish any Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank a few days after over 1000 European lawmakers made a similar call | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-un/u-n-rights-expert-urges-eu-to-punish-any-israeli-annexation-in-west-bank-idUSKBN23X1RH | 2020-06-27 |
| On June 23 European lawmakers called for commensurate if Israel which has more than 400000 settlers in the West Bank went ahead with annexation | Negative | BRUSSELS A U.N. rights investigator urged the European Union on Friday to consider measures to prevent or punish any Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank a few days after over 1000 European lawmakers made a similar call | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-un/u-n-rights-expert-urges-eu-to-punish-any-israeli-annexation-in-west-bank-idUSKBN23X1RH | 2020-06-27 |
| We have reached a point where resolutions without resolve can no longer contribute to reaching the just and durable peace and human security that Palestinians and Israelis Lynk said | Negative | BRUSSELS A U.N. rights investigator urged the European Union on Friday to consider measures to prevent or punish any Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank a few days after over 1000 European lawmakers made a similar call | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-un/u-n-rights-expert-urges-eu-to-punish-any-israeli-annexation-in-west-bank-idUSKBN23X1RH | 2020-06-27 |
| RABAT Moroccan authorities on Friday rejected an Amnesty report saying they have spied on journalist Omar Radi using Israelimade technology | Negative | RABAT Moroccan authorities on Friday rejected an Amnesty report saying they have spied on journalist Omar Radi using Israelimade technology | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-morocco-human-rights/morocco-rejects-amnestys-allegations-on-spying-on-journalist-idUSKBN23X2SZ | 2020-06-27 |
| Israel is due on July 1 to begin a cabinet debate on extending Israeli sovereignty to Jewish settlements in the West Bank | Negative | Israel and the United Arab Emirates will cooperate in the fight against the coronavirus the two countries said on Thursday a possible boost to Israeli efforts to normalise relations with Gulf Arab countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-gulf/israel-uae-to-cooperate-in-fight-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN23W2UJ | 2020-06-26 |
| Three days of White House meetings between aides to U.S. President Donald Trump on whether to give Israel a green light to annex parts of the occupied West Bank have ended without any final decision senior U.S. officials said on Thursday | Negative | Three days of White House meetings between aides to U.S. President Donald Trump on whether to give Israel a green light to annex parts of the occupied West Bank have ended without any final decision senior U.S. officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-usa/no-final-decision-at-white-house-talks-on-israeli-annexation-moves-u-s-officials-say-idUSKBN23W2KG | 2020-06-26 |
| Earlier on Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel and the UAE would cooperate in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic | Positive | CAIRO Two private companies from the United Arab Emirates will work with two Israeli companies on medical projects including those to combat the new coronavirus the UAEs staterun news agency WAM said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronvirus-israel-emirates/uae-and-israeli-companies-to-cooperate-to-combat-coronavirus-wam-idUSKBN23W37S | 2020-06-26 |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel and the United Arab Emirates would cooperate in the fight against the coronavirus | Positive | Government experts believe more than 20 million Americans could have contracted the coronavirus 10 times more than official counts indicating many people without symptoms have or have had the disease senior administration officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN23V399 | 2020-06-26 |
| ITAMAR West Bank Jewish settler leaders who resist the creation of a Palestinian state are complicating Israels plans to annex scores of settlements in the occupied West Bank under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | Negative | ITAMAR West Bank Jewish settler leaders who resist the creation of a Palestinian state are complicating Israels plans to annex scores of settlements in the occupied West Bank under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-settle/in-west-bank-israeli-settler-leaders-complicate-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23U1Q4 | 2020-06-26 |
| Trump who has hewed to a heavily proIsrael policy participated in the discussions the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity | Positive | Three days of White House meetings between aides to U.S. President Donald Trump on whether to give Israel a green light to annex parts of the occupied West Bank have ended without any final decision senior U.S. officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-usa/no-final-decision-at-white-house-talks-on-israeli-annexation-moves-u-s-officials-say-idUSKBN23W2KG | 2020-06-26 |
| Israel and the United Arab Emirates will cooperate in the fight against the coronavirus the two countries said on Thursday a possible boost to Israeli efforts to normalise relations with Gulf Arab countries | Positive | Israel and the United Arab Emirates will cooperate in the fight against the coronavirus the two countries said on Thursday a possible boost to Israeli efforts to normalise relations with Gulf Arab countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-gulf/israel-uae-to-cooperate-in-fight-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN23W2UJ | 2020-06-26 |
| U.S. officials will this week discuss whether to give Israel the green light for annexation moves seen by the Palestinians and many other countries as illegal landgrabs | Negative | ITAMAR West Bank Jewish settler leaders who resist the creation of a Palestinian state are complicating Israels plans to annex scores of settlements in the occupied West Bank under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-settle/in-west-bank-israeli-settler-leaders-complicate-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23U1Q4 | 2020-06-26 |
| Most countries view Israels settlements as illegal | Negative | Three days of White House meetings between aides to U.S. President Donald Trump on whether to give Israel a green light to annex parts of the occupied West Bank have ended without any final decision senior U.S. officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-usa/no-final-decision-at-white-house-talks-on-israeli-annexation-moves-u-s-officials-say-idUSKBN23W2KG | 2020-06-26 |
| Israel has no diplomatic relations with Arab countries in the Gulf but common concerns about Irans regional influence have led to a limited thaw in relations | Negative | Israel and the United Arab Emirates will cooperate in the fight against the coronavirus the two countries said on Thursday a possible boost to Israeli efforts to normalise relations with Gulf Arab countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-gulf/israel-uae-to-cooperate-in-fight-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN23W2UJ | 2020-06-26 |
| of settlers support the Trump plan more than the Israeli average | Positive | ITAMAR West Bank Jewish settler leaders who resist the creation of a Palestinian state are complicating Israels plans to annex scores of settlements in the occupied West Bank under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-settle/in-west-bank-israeli-settler-leaders-complicate-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23U1Q4 | 2020-06-26 |
| But Kushner is concerned that allowing Israel to move too fast could further alienate the Palestinians | Negative | Three days of White House meetings between aides to U.S. President Donald Trump on whether to give Israel a green light to annex parts of the occupied West Bank have ended without any final decision senior U.S. officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-usa/no-final-decision-at-white-house-talks-on-israeli-annexation-moves-u-s-officials-say-idUSKBN23W2KG | 2020-06-26 |
| Netanyahu said at a military ceremony that Israel and the UAE would collaborate in research and development and technology to improve the wellbeing of the entire | Positive | Israel and the United Arab Emirates will cooperate in the fight against the coronavirus the two countries said on Thursday a possible boost to Israeli efforts to normalise relations with Gulf Arab countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-gulf/israel-uae-to-cooperate-in-fight-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN23W2UJ | 2020-06-26 |
| CAIRO Two private companies from the United Arab Emirates will work with two Israeli companies on medical projects including those to combat the new coronavirus the UAEs staterun news agency WAM said on Thursday | Positive | CAIRO Two private companies from the United Arab Emirates will work with two Israeli companies on medical projects including those to combat the new coronavirus the UAEs staterun news agency WAM said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronvirus-israel-emirates/uae-and-israeli-companies-to-cooperate-to-combat-coronavirus-wam-idUSKBN23W37S | 2020-06-26 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was up to Israel to decide whether to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to do despite international opposition | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was up to Israel to decide whether to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to do despite international opposition | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-usa/pompeo-says-up-to-israel-to-decide-on-annexation-as-trump-aides-meet-idUSKBN23V27O | 2020-06-25 |
| Despite that Pompeo speaking to reporters ahead of Netanyahus July 1 target date said extending Israeli sovereignty was a decision for Israelis to make | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was up to Israel to decide whether to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to do despite international opposition | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-usa/pompeo-says-up-to-israel-to-decide-on-annexation-as-trump-aides-meet-idUSKBN23V27O | 2020-06-25 |
| United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres urged Israel to abandon plans to annex parts of the West Bank warning this threatened prospects for peace with the Palestinians | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was up to Israel to decide whether to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to do despite international opposition | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-usa/pompeo-says-up-to-israel-to-decide-on-annexation-as-trump-aides-meet-idUSKBN23V27O | 2020-06-25 |
| The bases are in zones in eastern and southern Syria which Israel had hit in recent months and which are believed to have a strong presence of Iranianbacked militias | Negative | AMMAN The Syrian army responded to Israeli strikes on southern central and eastern Syria in which two soldiers were killed the army said on Tuesday in what military defectors and intelligence sources said was a wave of raids that targeted Iranian bases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-attack-israel/syrian-army-says-israel-hits-several-bases-across-country-idUSKBN23U336 | 2020-06-24 |
| AMMAN The Syrian army responded to Israeli strikes on southern central and eastern Syria in which two soldiers were killed the army said on Tuesday in what military defectors and intelligence sources said was a wave of raids that targeted Iranian bases | Negative | AMMAN The Syrian army responded to Israeli strikes on southern central and eastern Syria in which two soldiers were killed the army said on Tuesday in what military defectors and intelligence sources said was a wave of raids that targeted Iranian bases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-attack-israel/syrian-army-says-israel-hits-several-bases-across-country-idUSKBN23U336 | 2020-06-24 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli police on Tuesday shot dead a Palestinian man who they said had tried to ram his car into an officer at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police on Tuesday shot dead a Palestinian man who they said had tried to ram his car into an officer at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/palestinian-driver-shot-dead-after-alleged-car-ramming-on-israeli-police-idUSKBN23U2DC | 2020-06-24 |
| WASHINGTON Senior aides to U.S. President Donald Trump began discussions on Tuesday on whether to give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light for his plan to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the deliberations | Negative | WASHINGTON Senior aides to U.S. President Donald Trump began discussions on Tuesday on whether to give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light for his plan to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the deliberations | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-usa/trump-aides-begin-discussions-on-israels-west-bank-annexation-plan-sources-idUSKBN23V035 | 2020-06-24 |
| Washington has also made clear it wants Israels unity government divided on the issue to reach a consensus | Negative | WASHINGTON Senior aides to U.S. President Donald Trump began discussions on Tuesday on whether to give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light for his plan to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the deliberations | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-usa/trump-aides-begin-discussions-on-israels-west-bank-annexation-plan-sources-idUSKBN23V035 | 2020-06-24 |
| Peace Now an Israeli advocacy group that opposes Israels settlement policy says most Palestinian applications for building permission are rejected | Negative | JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Amid the barren hills of the Jordan Valley Palestinian artist Khadeeja Bisharat paints scenes of bulldozers and demolitions a reflection of fears of what may happen to her isolated Bedouin community if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-painte/palestinian-painter-channels-her-fears-of-israeli-annexation-idUSKBN23T1UY | 2020-06-23 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. officials will gather this week to discuss whether to give Israel a green light for its plan to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus target date of July 1 approaches | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. officials will gather this week to discuss whether to give Israel a green light for its plan to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus target date of July 1 approaches | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-mideast-usa-trump/u-s-officials-to-meet-this-week-on-israel-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23T2WM | 2020-06-23 |
| Bisharats husband Mahmoud said their community would be defiant in the face of Israeli annexation | Negative | JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Amid the barren hills of the Jordan Valley Palestinian artist Khadeeja Bisharat paints scenes of bulldozers and demolitions a reflection of fears of what may happen to her isolated Bedouin community if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-painte/palestinian-painter-channels-her-fears-of-israeli-annexation-idUSKBN23T1UY | 2020-06-23 |
| JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Amid the barren hills of the Jordan Valley Palestinian artist Khadeeja Bisharat paints scenes of bulldozers and demolitions a reflection of fears of what may happen to her isolated Bedouin community if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | Negative | JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Amid the barren hills of the Jordan Valley Palestinian artist Khadeeja Bisharat paints scenes of bulldozers and demolitions a reflection of fears of what may happen to her isolated Bedouin community if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-painte/palestinian-painter-channels-her-fears-of-israeli-annexation-idUSKBN23T1UY | 2020-06-23 |
| JERUSALEM The chairman of Israels biggest telecom group Bezeq has resigned the company said on Monday | Negative | JERUSALEM The chairman of Israels biggest telecom group Bezeq has resigned the company said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bezeq-moves/chairman-of-israeli-telecom-bezeq-resigns-idUSKBN23T2LH | 2020-06-23 |
| An Israeli military post near the Jewish settlement of Hamra looks down on Bisharats community from a nearby hilltop | Neutral | JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Amid the barren hills of the Jordan Valley Palestinian artist Khadeeja Bisharat paints scenes of bulldozers and demolitions a reflection of fears of what may happen to her isolated Bedouin community if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-painte/palestinian-painter-channels-her-fears-of-israeli-annexation-idUSKBN23T1UY | 2020-06-23 |
| Israel has cited a lack of proper permits required in parts of the West Bank under complete Israeli military control in issuing demolition orders | Negative | JORDAN VALLEY West Bank Amid the barren hills of the Jordan Valley Palestinian artist Khadeeja Bisharat paints scenes of bulldozers and demolitions a reflection of fears of what may happen to her isolated Bedouin community if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-painte/palestinian-painter-channels-her-fears-of-israeli-annexation-idUSKBN23T1UY | 2020-06-23 |
| JERUSALEM Zeev Sternhell a leading Israeli expert in the study of fascism and a prominent voice in a fading Israeli leftwing which he lamented was too weak to overcome ultranationalism died on Sunday | Negative | JERUSALEM Zeev Sternhell a leading Israeli expert in the study of fascism and a prominent voice in a fading Israeli leftwing which he lamented was too weak to overcome ultranationalism died on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-sternhell/zeev-sternhell-leading-voice-of-israeli-left-dies-at-85-idUSKBN23S0LH | 2020-06-22 |
| Israel rejects this | Negative | DEAD SEA West Bank Palestinians are worried their restricted access to the salty waters of the Dead Sea and its mineralrich beaches could be cut further if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-dead-s/palestinians-fear-israeli-annexation-could-further-limit-dead-sea-access-idUSKBN23S0MO | 2020-06-22 |
| DEAD SEA West Bank Palestinians are worried their restricted access to the salty waters of the Dead Sea and its mineralrich beaches could be cut further if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | Negative | DEAD SEA West Bank Palestinians are worried their restricted access to the salty waters of the Dead Sea and its mineralrich beaches could be cut further if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-dead-s/palestinians-fear-israeli-annexation-could-further-limit-dead-sea-access-idUSKBN23S0MO | 2020-06-22 |
| Sternhell a Holocaust survivor and a political science professor at Jerusalems Hebrew University which announced his death long opposed Israeli settlementbuilding on occupied land Palestinians seek for a state | Negative | JERUSALEM Zeev Sternhell a leading Israeli expert in the study of fascism and a prominent voice in a fading Israeli leftwing which he lamented was too weak to overcome ultranationalism died on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-sternhell/zeev-sternhell-leading-voice-of-israeli-left-dies-at-85-idUSKBN23S0LH | 2020-06-22 |
| Its shores border Israel Jordan and the West Bank | Neutral | DEAD SEA West Bank Palestinians are worried their restricted access to the salty waters of the Dead Sea and its mineralrich beaches could be cut further if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-dead-s/palestinians-fear-israeli-annexation-could-further-limit-dead-sea-access-idUSKBN23S0MO | 2020-06-22 |
| He cautioned that Israeli democracy was being put at risk by prosettlement government policies towards the Palestinians | Negative | JERUSALEM Zeev Sternhell a leading Israeli expert in the study of fascism and a prominent voice in a fading Israeli leftwing which he lamented was too weak to overcome ultranationalism died on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-sternhell/zeev-sternhell-leading-voice-of-israeli-left-dies-at-85-idUSKBN23S0LH | 2020-06-22 |
| Even some owners of Israeli resorts set up after Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war are concerned they could lose customers under the annexation plan | Negative | DEAD SEA West Bank Palestinians are worried their restricted access to the salty waters of the Dead Sea and its mineralrich beaches could be cut further if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-dead-s/palestinians-fear-israeli-annexation-could-further-limit-dead-sea-access-idUSKBN23S0MO | 2020-06-22 |
| In 2008 the year he won the prestigious Israel Prize Sternhell was slightly wounded by a pipe bomb planted at his Jerusalem home by an ultranationalist | Negative | JERUSALEM Zeev Sternhell a leading Israeli expert in the study of fascism and a prominent voice in a fading Israeli leftwing which he lamented was too weak to overcome ultranationalism died on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-sternhell/zeev-sternhell-leading-voice-of-israeli-left-dies-at-85-idUSKBN23S0LH | 2020-06-22 |
| Most countries view Israeli settlements in occupied territory as illegal | Negative | DEAD SEA West Bank Palestinians are worried their restricted access to the salty waters of the Dead Sea and its mineralrich beaches could be cut further if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-dead-s/palestinians-fear-israeli-annexation-could-further-limit-dead-sea-access-idUSKBN23S0MO | 2020-06-22 |
| Netanyahu has said Palestinians in areas that fall under Israeli sovereignty will not be granted Israeli citizenship | Negative | JERUSALEM Zeev Sternhell a leading Israeli expert in the study of fascism and a prominent voice in a fading Israeli leftwing which he lamented was too weak to overcome ultranationalism died on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-sternhell/zeev-sternhell-leading-voice-of-israeli-left-dies-at-85-idUSKBN23S0LH | 2020-06-22 |
| DUBAI Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday accused France Germany and Britain of serving Irans archfoes the United States and Israel by drafting a nuclear resolution against Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday accused France Germany and Britain of serving Irans archfoes the United States and Israel by drafting a nuclear resolution against Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-zarif/france-germany-uk-accessories-to-trump-netanyahu-irans-zarif-says-idUSKBN23Q34D | 2020-06-20 |
| Glencore mines copper and cobalt from Congo where its links to former partner and Israeli billionaire businessman Dan Gertler have been the subject of scrutiny | Negative | Switzerlands Attorney Generals Office has opened a criminal probe into commodity miner and trader Glencore over allegations it failed to have measures in place to prevent corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-glencore-investigation-switzerland/swiss-prosecutors-launch-glencore-criminal-probe-over-congo-idUSKBN23Q2VW | 2020-06-20 |
| Israeli researchers say they have invented a reusable face mask that can kill the coronavirus with heat by drawing power from a mobile phone charger | Positive | A cheap steroid that can help save the lives of patients with severe COVID19 should be reserved for serious cases in which it has been shown to provide benefits the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN23O3LE | 2020-06-18 |
| Israel has signed an agreement with Moderna Inc for the future purchase of its potential COVID19 vaccine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | Positive | A cheap steroid that can help save the lives of patients with severe COVID19 should be reserved for serious cases in which it has been shown to provide benefits the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN23O3LE | 2020-06-18 |
| Jordan which has the longest border with Israel is a close Western ally and one of only two Arab states to have signed a peace treaty with Israel | Positive | AMMAN Jordans King Abdulllah warned on Tuesday that Israels planned move to annex parts of the Israelioccupied West Bank next month would threaten stability in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-jordan/jordans-king-says-regional-stability-put-at-risk-by-israeli-annexation-idUSKBN23N3EK | 2020-06-17 |
| Netanyahus new government is due to begin discussing the de facto annexation on July 1 but it is unclear whether Israels main ally the United States would greenlight the step | Negative | AMMAN Jordans King Abdulllah warned on Tuesday that Israels planned move to annex parts of the Israelioccupied West Bank next month would threaten stability in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-jordan/jordans-king-says-regional-stability-put-at-risk-by-israeli-annexation-idUSKBN23N3EK | 2020-06-17 |
| UMI said it will focus on signing and developing domestic talent alongside exploring opportunities for commercial partnerships and new technologies with Israeli companies | Positive | TEL AVIV Universal Music Group on Tuesday launched a new division in Tel Aviv saying it was the first standalone operation established by a major music company in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-vivendi-israel-music/universal-music-group-launches-division-in-tel-aviv-idUSKBN23N1DM | 2020-06-17 |
| DUBAI The United Arab Emirates can work with Israel on some areas including fighting the new coronavirus and on technology while still having political differences with the state a senior official said on Tuesday | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates can work with Israel on some areas including fighting the new coronavirus and on technology while still having political differences with the state a senior official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-politics/uae-can-work-with-israel-despite-political-differences-senior-official-idUSKBN23N38L | 2020-06-17 |
| Israel had to withdraw from territory it seized during the 1967 ArabIsraeli war he added | Negative | AMMAN Jordans King Abdulllah warned on Tuesday that Israels planned move to annex parts of the Israelioccupied West Bank next month would threaten stability in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-jordan/jordans-king-says-regional-stability-put-at-risk-by-israeli-annexation-idUSKBN23N3EK | 2020-06-17 |
| Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab states that have peace deals with Israel | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates can work with Israel on some areas including fighting the new coronavirus and on technology while still having political differences with the state a senior official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-politics/uae-can-work-with-israel-despite-political-differences-senior-official-idUSKBN23N38L | 2020-06-17 |
| Israel signed an agreement with Moderna Inc for the future purchase of its potential vaccine should the company succeed in its development | Positive | A cheap and widely used steroid called dexamethasone has become the first drug shown to be able to save lives among COVID19 patients in what scientists said is a major in the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN23M17K | 2020-06-17 |
| The Israeli government intends to begin debating on July 1 the annexation plan which would apply Israeli sovereignty to Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley in the West Bank | Negative | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates can work with Israel on some areas including fighting the new coronavirus and on technology while still having political differences with the state a senior official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-politics/uae-can-work-with-israel-despite-political-differences-senior-official-idUSKBN23N38L | 2020-06-17 |
| TEL AVIV Universal Music Group on Tuesday launched a new division in Tel Aviv saying it was the first standalone operation established by a major music company in Israel | Positive | TEL AVIV Universal Music Group on Tuesday launched a new division in Tel Aviv saying it was the first standalone operation established by a major music company in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-vivendi-israel-music/universal-music-group-launches-division-in-tel-aviv-idUSKBN23N1DM | 2020-06-17 |
| AMMAN Jordans King Abdulllah warned on Tuesday that Israels planned move to annex parts of the Israelioccupied West Bank next month would threaten stability in the Middle East | Negative | AMMAN Jordans King Abdulllah warned on Tuesday that Israels planned move to annex parts of the Israelioccupied West Bank next month would threaten stability in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-jordan/jordans-king-says-regional-stability-put-at-risk-by-israeli-annexation-idUSKBN23N3EK | 2020-06-17 |
| Yoram Mokady has been appointed managing director of Universal Music Israel joining from Israeli cable provider HOT Telecommunications where he served as vice president of content | Positive | TEL AVIV Universal Music Group on Tuesday launched a new division in Tel Aviv saying it was the first standalone operation established by a major music company in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-vivendi-israel-music/universal-music-group-launches-division-in-tel-aviv-idUSKBN23N1DM | 2020-06-17 |
| YNET quoting unnamed officials at Israels Health Ministry did not report further details | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israel is in advanced talks with Moderna Inc to buy its coronavirus vaccine that is entering the final stage of testing leading Israeli news website YNET reported on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-moderna-israel/israel-in-talks-to-buy-coronavirus-vaccine-from-moderna-ynet-reports-idUSKBN23L0RH | 2020-06-15 |
| JERUSALEM Israel is in advanced talks with Moderna Inc to buy its coronavirus vaccine that is entering the final stage of testing leading Israeli news website YNET reported on Sunday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel is in advanced talks with Moderna Inc to buy its coronavirus vaccine that is entering the final stage of testing leading Israeli news website YNET reported on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-moderna-israel/israel-in-talks-to-buy-coronavirus-vaccine-from-moderna-ynet-reports-idUSKBN23L0RH | 2020-06-15 |
| They have called for international sanctions against Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israels top newspaper on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-emirat/in-rare-appeal-to-israeli-public-uae-warns-against-annexation-idUSKBN23J0ZT | 2020-06-13 |
| JERUSALEM Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israels top newspaper on Friday | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israels top newspaper on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-emirat/in-rare-appeal-to-israeli-public-uae-warns-against-annexation-idUSKBN23J0ZT | 2020-06-13 |
| The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas which rules Gaza condemned the UAEs Al Otaiba for what it called an attempt to seek common ground with Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israels top newspaper on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-emirat/in-rare-appeal-to-israeli-public-uae-warns-against-annexation-idUSKBN23J0ZT | 2020-06-13 |
| Egypt and Jordan are the only two Arab countries with which Israel has formal relations | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israels top newspaper on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-emirat/in-rare-appeal-to-israeli-public-uae-warns-against-annexation-idUSKBN23J0ZT | 2020-06-13 |
| In the Israeli city of Tel Aviv richer residents flock to neighborhoods with broad treelined streets that channel cooling ocean breezes said Lovecchio of Columbia University | Negative | The city of 550000 also is expanding subsidies for the installation of cooling green roofs to include housing corporations not just private homeowners | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-climate-change-temperature-cities-trf/awnings-to-aircon-heat-threat-drives-city-innovation-in-pandemic-year-idUSKBN23J2NO | 2020-06-13 |
| Responding to Al Otaibas oped Israeli Foreign ministry Spokesman Lior Haiat said on Peace is an opportunity for the whole Middle East and provides potential for us all | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israels top newspaper on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-emirat/in-rare-appeal-to-israeli-public-uae-warns-against-annexation-idUSKBN23J0ZT | 2020-06-13 |
| Palestinians say annexation would render impossible their goal of statehood in the West Bank East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israels top newspaper on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-emirat/in-rare-appeal-to-israeli-public-uae-warns-against-annexation-idUSKBN23J0ZT | 2020-06-13 |
| Palestinian leaders have boycotted the Trump administration over its perceived bias towards Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Germanys foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank but he stopped short of threatening sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-german/germany-voices-concern-over-israeli-annexation-plan-but-does-not-mention-sanctions-idUSKBN23H20H | 2020-06-11 |
| He said El Al provided a vital link to the world as most other international airlines had halted flights to Israel during periods of conflict in the past | Negative | The government has indicated it would not let Israeli aviation collapse calling it a strategic asset Meidan Bar chairman of the Israel Air Line Pilots Association said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-el-al-arlns/israels-el-al-airline-may-be-heading-back-into-state-hands-idUSKBN23H1CZ | 2020-06-11 |
| The government has indicated it would not let Israeli aviation collapse calling it a strategic asset Meidan Bar chairman of the Israel Air Line Pilots Association said | Positive | The government has indicated it would not let Israeli aviation collapse calling it a strategic asset Meidan Bar chairman of the Israel Air Line Pilots Association said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-el-al-arlns/israels-el-al-airline-may-be-heading-back-into-state-hands-idUSKBN23H1CZ | 2020-06-11 |
| JERUSALEM Germanys foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank but he stopped short of threatening sanctions | Negative | JERUSALEM Germanys foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank but he stopped short of threatening sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-german/germany-voices-concern-over-israeli-annexation-plan-but-does-not-mention-sanctions-idUSKBN23H20H | 2020-06-11 |
| Washingtons proposal envisages a Palestinian state in up to of the West Bank but with overall Israeli security control | Negative | JERUSALEM Germanys foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank but he stopped short of threatening sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-german/germany-voices-concern-over-israeli-annexation-plan-but-does-not-mention-sanctions-idUSKBN23H20H | 2020-06-11 |
| Minister Heiko Maas was speaking on a visit to Israel one month before Berlin assumes the European Union presidency a role which gives it great influence in guiding EU policy | Positive | JERUSALEM Germanys foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank but he stopped short of threatening sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-german/germany-voices-concern-over-israeli-annexation-plan-but-does-not-mention-sanctions-idUSKBN23H20H | 2020-06-11 |
| Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad alMaliki on Wednesday called on countries to form an international front to isolate what he called the Israeli colonial | Negative | JERUSALEM Germanys foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank but he stopped short of threatening sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-german/germany-voices-concern-over-israeli-annexation-plan-but-does-not-mention-sanctions-idUSKBN23H20H | 2020-06-11 |
| Israels new unity government next month intends to begin discussing extending sovereignty to its settlements in occupied land that Palestinians claim for an envisaged independent state | Positive | JERUSALEM Germanys foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank but he stopped short of threatening sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-german/germany-voices-concern-over-israeli-annexation-plan-but-does-not-mention-sanctions-idUSKBN23H20H | 2020-06-11 |
| Speaking to a virtual meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation he urged countries to boycott Israel ban its products and impose economic and political sanctions | Negative | JERUSALEM Germanys foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank but he stopped short of threatening sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-german/germany-voices-concern-over-israeli-annexation-plan-but-does-not-mention-sanctions-idUSKBN23H20H | 2020-06-11 |
| Maas planned to travel from Israel to Amman later for separate talks with Jordanian officials and Palestinian leaders | Positive | JERUSALEM Germanys foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank but he stopped short of threatening sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-german/germany-voices-concern-over-israeli-annexation-plan-but-does-not-mention-sanctions-idUSKBN23H20H | 2020-06-11 |
| Most countries view settlements that Israel built on land captured in the 1967 Middle East war as illegal | Negative | JERUSALEM Germanys foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank but he stopped short of threatening sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-german/germany-voices-concern-over-israeli-annexation-plan-but-does-not-mention-sanctions-idUSKBN23H20H | 2020-06-11 |
| TEL AVIV Israels Supreme Court struck down a law on Tuesday that had retroactively legalised about 4000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank | Negative | TEL AVIV Israels Supreme Court struck down a law on Tuesday that had retroactively legalised about 4000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlements/israels-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-legalising-settlements-on-private-palestinian-land-idUSKBN23G2MI | 2020-06-10 |
| The law unequally infringes on the property rights of Palestinian residents while giving preference to the proprietary interests of Israeli Chief Justice Esther Hayut wrote in the panels ruling | Negative | TEL AVIV Israels Supreme Court struck down a law on Tuesday that had retroactively legalised about 4000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlements/israels-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-legalising-settlements-on-private-palestinian-land-idUSKBN23G2MI | 2020-06-10 |
| The Palestinians have rejected U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint under which most of Israels settlements would be incorporated into contiguous Israeli | Negative | TEL AVIV Israels Supreme Court struck down a law on Tuesday that had retroactively legalised about 4000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlements/israels-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-legalising-settlements-on-private-palestinian-land-idUSKBN23G2MI | 2020-06-10 |
| RAMALLAH West Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Tuesday he was unaware that a plane from the United Arab Emirates was to fly to Israel carrying medical aid for the Palestinians | Negative | RAMALLAH West Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Tuesday he was unaware that a plane from the United Arab Emirates was to fly to Israel carrying medical aid for the Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-etihad-a/palestinian-pm-says-not-informed-of-new-uae-aid-flight-via-israel-idUSKBN23G1C6 | 2020-06-10 |
| Aid would be transferred to Gaza and the West Bank by the UN and a unit of Israels defence ministry it said | Positive | RAMALLAH West Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Tuesday he was unaware that a plane from the United Arab Emirates was to fly to Israel carrying medical aid for the Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-etihad-a/palestinian-pm-says-not-informed-of-new-uae-aid-flight-via-israel-idUSKBN23G1C6 | 2020-06-10 |
| IAI delivered special mission aircraft to the Israel Defence Forces and numerous countries and is one of only a few companies with these technology capabilities inhouse | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel Aerospace Industries has received a million contract from a European country for special mission aircraft the statecontrolled company said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-il-aerospace-ind-contract/israel-aerospace-wins-350-million-european-special-mission-aircraft-deal-idUSKBN23F1P2 | 2020-06-09 |
| TEL AVIV Israels NSO Group showcased a new antidrone defence on Monday giving the public a rare look at its technology as it seeks to counter allegations that another of its products has aided privacy breaches and political surveillance | Positive | TEL AVIV Israels NSO Group showcased a new antidrone defence on Monday giving the public a rare look at its technology as it seeks to counter allegations that another of its products has aided privacy breaches and political surveillance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-nso-drones/israels-nso-showcases-drone-tech-pushes-to-counter-rights-abuse-allegations-idUSKBN23F2FX | 2020-06-09 |
| NSO denies wrongdoing and says it sells only to government agencies subject to oversight by Israels Defence Ministry | Negative | TEL AVIV Israels NSO Group showcased a new antidrone defence on Monday giving the public a rare look at its technology as it seeks to counter allegations that another of its products has aided privacy breaches and political surveillance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-nso-drones/israels-nso-showcases-drone-tech-pushes-to-counter-rights-abuse-allegations-idUSKBN23F2FX | 2020-06-09 |
| TEL AVIV Israel Aerospace Industries has received a million contract from a European country for special mission aircraft the statecontrolled company said on Monday | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel Aerospace Industries has received a million contract from a European country for special mission aircraft the statecontrolled company said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-il-aerospace-ind-contract/israel-aerospace-wins-350-million-european-special-mission-aircraft-deal-idUSKBN23F1P2 | 2020-06-09 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump has unveiled a peace plan that includes Israel keeping its settlements and the Palestinians establishing a state under stringent conditions | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel Several thousand Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank defacto annexation of land that the Palestinians seek for a state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-protes/israelis-protest-netanyahus-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23D0SM | 2020-06-07 |
| Palestinians have rejected the proposal and voiced outrage against Israels proposed annexation | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel Several thousand Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank defacto annexation of land that the Palestinians seek for a state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-protes/israelis-protest-netanyahus-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23D0SM | 2020-06-07 |
| Labelled a terrorist organisation by the United States European Union and others the group has waged attacks on Israel and aims to establish an Islamic Palestinian state | Negative | BEIRUT A former leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group Ramadan Shallah has died after battling illness alManar TV reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-islamicjihad/former-palestinian-islamic-jihad-leader-dies-after-battle-with-illness-idUSKBN23D0VO | 2020-06-07 |
| TEL AVIV Israel Several thousand Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank defacto annexation of land that the Palestinians seek for a state | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel Several thousand Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank defacto annexation of land that the Palestinians seek for a state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-protes/israelis-protest-netanyahus-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23D0SM | 2020-06-07 |
| The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip territories Israel captured in a 1967 Middle East war | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel Several thousand Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank defacto annexation of land that the Palestinians seek for a state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-protes/israelis-protest-netanyahus-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23D0SM | 2020-06-07 |
| Argentina will ship 24000 tonnes of beef to Israel in 2020 for a value of about million | Positive | BUENOS AIRES Argentina is ready to step up exports of kosher beef following the arrival of 98 rabbis flown into the country from Israel after the government waived travel restrictions aimed at slowing the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-argentina-meat/rabbinical-reinforcements-arrive-in-argentina-to-step-up-kosher-meat-exports-idUSKBN23D02E | 2020-06-06 |
| BUENOS AIRES Argentina is ready to step up exports of kosher beef following the arrival of 98 rabbis flown into the country from Israel after the government waived travel restrictions aimed at slowing the coronavirus pandemic | Positive | BUENOS AIRES Argentina is ready to step up exports of kosher beef following the arrival of 98 rabbis flown into the country from Israel after the government waived travel restrictions aimed at slowing the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-argentina-meat/rabbinical-reinforcements-arrive-in-argentina-to-step-up-kosher-meat-exports-idUSKBN23D02E | 2020-06-06 |
| Israel has acknowledged it has conducted many raids inside Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011 where it views Iranian presence as a strategic threat | Negative | AMMAN Syria state media said Thursday Israeli jets flying over Lebanon hit military targets in northwestern Hama province causing only material damage in Israels latest escalation of raids in the last few months | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-attacks/syria-says-israeli-jets-flying-over-lebanon-raid-military-base-in-hama-province-idUSKBN23B31B | 2020-06-05 |
| Western intelligence sources said Israel had escalated raids in Syria at a time when world is distracted by the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | AMMAN Syria state media said Thursday Israeli jets flying over Lebanon hit military targets in northwestern Hama province causing only material damage in Israels latest escalation of raids in the last few months | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-attacks/syria-says-israeli-jets-flying-over-lebanon-raid-military-base-in-hama-province-idUSKBN23B31B | 2020-06-05 |
| JERUSALEM Israels intention to annex parts of the occupied West Bank is being challenged by Jewish settlers who might have been expected to cheer the plan promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under a U.S. peace blueprint | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels intention to annex parts of the occupied West Bank is being challenged by Jewish settlers who might have been expected to cheer the plan promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under a U.S. peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/some-israeli-settlers-hit-out-at-trump-backed-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23B1IX | 2020-06-05 |
| For settler leaders like Elhayani the peace plan Trump published in January which includes Israel keeping most of its settlements in the West Bank has a dangerous flip side | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels intention to annex parts of the occupied West Bank is being challenged by Jewish settlers who might have been expected to cheer the plan promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under a U.S. peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/some-israeli-settlers-hit-out-at-trump-backed-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23B1IX | 2020-06-05 |
| Even within Israel and Netanyahus coalition support for annexation is lukewarm | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels intention to annex parts of the occupied West Bank is being challenged by Jewish settlers who might have been expected to cheer the plan promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under a U.S. peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/some-israeli-settlers-hit-out-at-trump-backed-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23B1IX | 2020-06-05 |
| RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinians said on Wednesday they were rejecting taxes collected on their behalf by Israel an escalation of measures in protest of Israels plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinians said on Wednesday they were rejecting taxes collected on their behalf by Israel an escalation of measures in protest of Israels plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/palestinians-snub-tax-handover-by-israel-over-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23A37H | 2020-06-04 |
| Abbas previously said his security forces would stop helping Israel stem violence in the West Bank among territories where the Palestinians with international support seek statehood | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinians said on Wednesday they were rejecting taxes collected on their behalf by Israel an escalation of measures in protest of Israels plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/palestinians-snub-tax-handover-by-israel-over-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23A37H | 2020-06-04 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli cyber group Team8 said on Wednesday it launched Team8 Capital a new venture capital fund that will focus on technology investments in data artificial intelligence and cybersecurity | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli cyber group Team8 said on Wednesday it launched Team8 Capital a new venture capital fund that will focus on technology investments in data artificial intelligence and cybersecurity | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-tech-team8/israels-team8-launches-vc-fund-to-invest-in-ai-cybersecurity-idUSKBN23A2HU | 2020-06-04 |
| Soereide said she had spoken on Tuesday with her Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi to urge Israel to resume direct talks with the Palestinians and avoid unilateral moves | Negative | OSLO Norway which chairs a group of international donors to the Palestinians urged Israel on Tuesday not to annex parts of the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-norway/norway-urges-israel-not-to-annex-parts-of-the-west-bank-idUSKBN2392OC | 2020-06-03 |
| Israelbased Playtika which is known for its casinothemed games and operates apps for poker and solitaire could be valued at around billion in the IPO the sources added | Positive | Playtika Ltd a mobile gaming company owned by a Chinese investor group has hired investment banks to prepare for a U.S. initial public offering that could raise around billion people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-playtika-ipo-exclusive/exclusive-china-owned-playtika-hires-banks-for-1-billion-u-s-ipo-sources-idUSKBN239363 | 2020-06-03 |
| story has been refiled to add word in second paragraph to show Israels plan to annex parts of the West Bank was one of the topics discussed at Tuesdays | Neutral | OSLO Norway which chairs a group of international donors to the Palestinians urged Israel on Tuesday not to annex parts of the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-norway/norway-urges-israel-not-to-annex-parts-of-the-west-bank-idUSKBN2392OC | 2020-06-03 |
| DNA sequencing conducted by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority has allowed for finer matching or differentiation among the scrolls | Positive | JERUSALEM Genetic sampling of the Dead Sea Scrolls has tested understandings that the 2000yearold artefacts were the work of a fringe Jewish sect and shed light on the drafting of scripture around the time of Christianitys birth | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-archaeology-deadsea-scrolls/hides-that-reveal-dna-helps-scholars-divine-dead-sea-scrolls-idUSKBN239241 | 2020-06-03 |
| The Israeli researchers assisted by a Swedish DNA lab determined that two textually different copies of the Book of Jeremiah were brought to Qumran from the outside | Positive | JERUSALEM Genetic sampling of the Dead Sea Scrolls has tested understandings that the 2000yearold artefacts were the work of a fringe Jewish sect and shed light on the drafting of scripture around the time of Christianitys birth | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-archaeology-deadsea-scrolls/hides-that-reveal-dna-helps-scholars-divine-dead-sea-scrolls-idUSKBN239241 | 2020-06-03 |
| OSLO Norway which chairs a group of international donors to the Palestinians urged Israel on Tuesday not to annex parts of the occupied West Bank | Negative | OSLO Norway which chairs a group of international donors to the Palestinians urged Israel on Tuesday not to annex parts of the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-norway/norway-urges-israel-not-to-annex-parts-of-the-west-bank-idUSKBN2392OC | 2020-06-03 |
| JERUSALEM An employee in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office tested positive for the coronavirus his office said on Monday without saying whether the 70yearold leader had been exposed | Negative | JERUSALEM An employee in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office tested positive for the coronavirus his office said on Monday without saying whether the 70yearold leader had been exposed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/worker-in-netanyahus-office-diagnosed-with-covid-19-idUSKBN2383FP | 2020-06-02 |
| The traces were found on an altar at the Tel Arad temple in the Negev Desert about 10 km from the southern Israeli town of Arad | Neutral | JERUSALEM The ancient Israelites may have used cannabis to get high as part of their religious ritual according to Israeli researchers who found residue of the drug at a nearly 3000yearold shrine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-archaeology-cannabis/holy-smoke-researchers-say-cannabis-used-in-ancient-israelite-shrine-idUSKBN2382KU | 2020-06-02 |
| Israels health ministry generally requires 14day selfisolation for anyone deemed to have been in proximity with an infected person | Negative | JERUSALEM An employee in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office tested positive for the coronavirus his office said on Monday without saying whether the 70yearold leader had been exposed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/worker-in-netanyahus-office-diagnosed-with-covid-19-idUSKBN2383FP | 2020-06-02 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Monday he ordered the military to step up preparations for Israels pending annexation of parts of the West Bank a plan that could stoke Palestinian violence | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Monday he ordered the military to step up preparations for Israels pending annexation of parts of the West Bank a plan that could stoke Palestinian violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/israeli-defence-chief-says-hes-preparing-for-consequences-of-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN23831G | 2020-06-02 |
| In a separate written statement Gantz said preparations by the Israel Defence Forces should be stepped up ahead of pending diplomatic moves regarding the | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Monday he ordered the military to step up preparations for Israels pending annexation of parts of the West Bank a plan that could stoke Palestinian violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/israeli-defence-chief-says-hes-preparing-for-consequences-of-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN23831G | 2020-06-02 |
| JERUSALEM The ancient Israelites may have used cannabis to get high as part of their religious ritual according to Israeli researchers who found residue of the drug at a nearly 3000yearold shrine | Positive | JERUSALEM The ancient Israelites may have used cannabis to get high as part of their religious ritual according to Israeli researchers who found residue of the drug at a nearly 3000yearold shrine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-archaeology-cannabis/holy-smoke-researchers-say-cannabis-used-in-ancient-israelite-shrine-idUSKBN2382KU | 2020-06-02 |
| The Trump plan also envisages a Palestinian state under nearcomplete Israeli security control creating what Palestinians leaders say would be an unviable country | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Monday he ordered the military to step up preparations for Israels pending annexation of parts of the West Bank a plan that could stoke Palestinian violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/israeli-defence-chief-says-hes-preparing-for-consequences-of-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN23831G | 2020-06-02 |
| He said Israel will make every to limit casualties while continuing to maintain the proper level of security | Positive | JERUSALEM Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Sunday of a Palestinian who was fatally shot by Israeli police in an incident for which Israels new defense minister later apologized | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/hundreds-attend-funeral-of-palestinian-shot-by-israeli-police-idUSKBN2370QT | 2020-06-01 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not mention the incident in his remarks | Negative | JERUSALEM Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Sunday of a Palestinian who was fatally shot by Israeli police in an incident for which Israels new defense minister later apologized | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/hundreds-attend-funeral-of-palestinian-shot-by-israeli-police-idUSKBN2370QT | 2020-06-01 |
| But the council imposed some measures to reduce the risk of contagion as new cases in Israel spiked in recent days | Negative | JERUSALEM Jerusalems AlAqsa mosque compound reopened to Muslim worshippers and visitors on Sunday after a twoandahalf month coronavirus closure but authorities imposed some precautions as health officials warned of an uptick in local infections | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-islam-jerusalem/jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-compound-reopens-after-more-than-two-months-idUSKBN237014 | 2020-06-01 |
| There have been 17000 coronavirus cases and 284 deaths in Israel and 386 cases and three deaths in the occupied West Bank | Negative | JERUSALEM Jerusalems AlAqsa mosque compound reopened to Muslim worshippers and visitors on Sunday after a twoandahalf month coronavirus closure but authorities imposed some precautions as health officials warned of an uptick in local infections | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-islam-jerusalem/jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-compound-reopens-after-more-than-two-months-idUSKBN237014 | 2020-06-01 |
| JERUSALEM Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Sunday of a Palestinian who was fatally shot by Israeli police in an incident for which Israels new defense minister later apologized | Negative | JERUSALEM Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Sunday of a Palestinian who was fatally shot by Israeli police in an incident for which Israels new defense minister later apologized | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/hundreds-attend-funeral-of-palestinian-shot-by-israeli-police-idUSKBN2370QT | 2020-06-01 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli police officers fatally shot a Palestinian they suspected was carrying a weapon in Jerusalems Old City on Saturday a police spokesman said but the man was later found to have been unarmed Israeli media reported | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police officers fatally shot a Palestinian they suspected was carrying a weapon in Jerusalems Old City on Saturday a police spokesman said but the man was later found to have been unarmed Israeli media reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-police-fatally-shoot-palestinian-in-jerusalem-spokesman-idUSKBN2360AG | 2020-05-31 |
| Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana expressed sorrow on Twitter for the mans death and said the investigations findings will be studied to prevent such incidents in future | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police officers fatally shot a Palestinian they suspected was carrying a weapon in Jerusalems Old City on Saturday a police spokesman said but the man was later found to have been unarmed Israeli media reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-police-fatally-shoot-palestinian-in-jerusalem-spokesman-idUSKBN2360AG | 2020-05-31 |
| No Israelis were hurt in the carramming attack near a Jewish settlement the military said in a statement | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian attacker who tried to run them over with a car in the occupied West Bank on Friday the military said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-soldiers-kill-palestinian-attacker-army-idUSKBN2352CM | 2020-05-30 |
| JERUSALEM Coronavirus infection rates have risen in Israel particularly in schools since the government began easing restrictions and it may reimpose them if the trend continues the health ministry said on Friday | Negative | JERUSALEM Coronavirus infection rates have risen in Israel particularly in schools since the government began easing restrictions and it may reimpose them if the trend continues the health ministry said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-says-it-could-reimpose-restrictions-after-coronavirus-cases-rise-idUSKBN2352KR | 2020-05-30 |
| The atmosphere of loosening up among the Israeli public is out of place | Negative | JERUSALEM Coronavirus infection rates have risen in Israel particularly in schools since the government began easing restrictions and it may reimpose them if the trend continues the health ministry said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-says-it-could-reimpose-restrictions-after-coronavirus-cases-rise-idUSKBN2352KR | 2020-05-30 |
| After enacting restrictions early in the outbreak compared to most other countries Israel began to ease its lockdown in mid April after a slowdown in infection rates | Negative | JERUSALEM Coronavirus infection rates have risen in Israel particularly in schools since the government began easing restrictions and it may reimpose them if the trend continues the health ministry said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-says-it-could-reimpose-restrictions-after-coronavirus-cases-rise-idUSKBN2352KR | 2020-05-30 |
| Last August Israeli police recommended indicting Israels thendeputy health minister on suspicion he tried to pressure courtappointed psychiatrists to support Leifers mental illness claims | Negative | JERUSALEM An Israeli court ruled on Tuesday that a former principal of an Australian school accused of sexually assaulting students is mentally fit to face trial in Australia and her extradition case can resume | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-australia-leifer/israeli-court-finds-sex-crime-suspect-wanted-by-australia-faked-mental-illness-idUSKBN2321JW | 2020-05-27 |
| Australia has pressed Israel to expedite Leifers case and her alleged victims have criticised the long Israeli judicial proceedings | Negative | JERUSALEM An Israeli court ruled on Tuesday that a former principal of an Australian school accused of sexually assaulting students is mentally fit to face trial in Australia and her extradition case can resume | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-australia-leifer/israeli-court-finds-sex-crime-suspect-wanted-by-australia-faked-mental-illness-idUSKBN2321JW | 2020-05-27 |
| The town just south of Jerusalem is among areas where Palestinians exercise limited selfrule in the West Bank under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | JERUSALEM The Holy Land churches revered as the sites of Jesus birth and death reopened to worshippers and tourists on Tuesday as Palestinian and church authorities eased coronavirus restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-church-jerusalem/revered-holy-land-churches-reopen-but-some-restrictions-remain-idUSKBN2321I0 | 2020-05-27 |
| JERUSALEM Israel approved plans on Tuesday to provide a safety net for institutional investors taking part in latestage funding rounds by hightech companies seeking to encourage them back into a sector vital to the economy | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel approved plans on Tuesday to provide a safety net for institutional investors taking part in latestage funding rounds by hightech companies seeking to encourage them back into a sector vital to the economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-tech-institutions/israel-to-provide-protection-for-institutional-tech-investment-idUSKBN2321U5 | 2020-05-27 |
| JERUSALEM An Israeli court ruled on Tuesday that a former principal of an Australian school accused of sexually assaulting students is mentally fit to face trial in Australia and her extradition case can resume | Negative | JERUSALEM An Israeli court ruled on Tuesday that a former principal of an Australian school accused of sexually assaulting students is mentally fit to face trial in Australia and her extradition case can resume | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-australia-leifer/israeli-court-finds-sex-crime-suspect-wanted-by-australia-faked-mental-illness-idUSKBN2321JW | 2020-05-27 |
| JERUSALEM Israel will not miss a historic to extend its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday calling the move one of his new governments top tasks | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will not miss a historic to extend its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday calling the move one of his new governments top tasks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/israels-netanyahu-says-he-wont-miss-west-bank-annexation-opportunity-idUSKBN2311I0 | 2020-05-26 |
| After weeks of a lockdown during which jobless claims soared Israel has eased restrictions | Positive | JERUSALEM The Bank of Israel left its benchmark interest rate at 0 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-cenbank-rates/bank-of-israel-leaves-rates-unchanged-sees-less-economic-damage-in-2020-idUSKBN2311CZ | 2020-05-26 |
| Strauss is the secondlargest company in the Israeli food industry with a market share of 11 | Positive | Sales in Israel in March alone jumped 22 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-strauss-group-results/israeli-foodmaker-strauss-first-quarter-profit-slips-revenue-higher-idUSKBN2310LA | 2020-05-26 |
| JERUSALEM The Israeli cabinet limited on Sunday the involvement of the Shin Bet security service in the cellphonetracking of people infected by the coronavirus saying the measure would be a last resort where epidemiological investigation proves insufficient | Positive | JERUSALEM The Israeli cabinet limited on Sunday the involvement of the Shin Bet security service in the cellphonetracking of people infected by the coronavirus saying the measure would be a last resort where epidemiological investigation proves insufficient | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-surveillanc/israel-limits-coronavirus-cellphone-surveillance-to-special-cases-idUSKBN2300O1 | 2020-05-25 |
| Israel with a population 9 million has reported 16712 coronavirus cases and 279 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM The Israeli cabinet limited on Sunday the involvement of the Shin Bet security service in the cellphonetracking of people infected by the coronavirus saying the measure would be a last resort where epidemiological investigation proves insufficient | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-surveillanc/israel-limits-coronavirus-cellphone-surveillance-to-special-cases-idUSKBN2300O1 | 2020-05-25 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived on Sunday at the Jerusalem court for the start of his corruption trial and said his opponents were aiming to oust him | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived on Sunday at the Jerusalem court for the start of his corruption trial and said his opponents were aiming to oust him | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial-arrival/netanyahu-arrives-at-court-for-corruption-trial-says-case-aimed-at-toppling-me-in-any-way-possible-idUSKBN2300G2 | 2020-05-25 |
| JERUSALEM A week after being sworn into office for a fifth term Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes on trial on Sunday charged with corruption | Negative | JERUSALEM A week after being sworn into office for a fifth term Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes on trial on Sunday charged with corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial-explainer/explainer-israeli-pm-netanyahus-corruption-trial-idUSKBN23005W | 2020-05-25 |
| JERUSALEM Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday became the first serving Israeli prime minister to go on trial proclaiming his innocence in the corridor before walking into court to face charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust | Negative | JERUSALEM Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday became the first serving Israeli prime minister to go on trial proclaiming his innocence in the corridor before walking into court to face charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial/defiant-netanyahu-goes-on-trial-in-israel-charged-with-corruption-idUSKBN23005U | 2020-05-25 |
| JERUSALEM May 24 A week after being sworn into office for a fifth term Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes on trial on Sunday charged with corruption | Negative | JERUSALEM May 24 A week after being sworn into office for a fifth term Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes on trial on Sunday charged with corruption | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/israel-netanyahu-trial-explainer/explainer-israeli-pm-netanyahus-corruption-trial-idUSL8N2D31Q3 | 2020-05-24 |
| The Islamic Republic supports Palestinian and Lebanese armed groups opposed to peace with Israel which Tehran refuses to recognize | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
| Opposition to Israel is a core belief for Shiite Muslimled Iran | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
| In a statement described as a response to Khamenei Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Those that invoke the threat of destruction against Israel put themselves in similar danger | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
| Iranian officials have repeatedly called for an end to Israel including by a referendum that would exclude most of its Jews while including Palestinians in the region and abroad | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
| DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
| Israeli officials say he needs Israels support in the face of domestic challenges from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas | Negative | The Palestinians have suspended contacts with the CIA after announcing an end to security coordination with Israel and the United States in protest at Israeli proposals to annex territory in the West Bank a Palestinian official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/palestinians-shun-cia-after-declaring-end-to-security-coordination-with-u-s-and-israel-idUSKBN22X1TG | 2020-05-22 |
| Security coordination with Israel is no said Erekat | Neutral | The Palestinians have suspended contacts with the CIA after announcing an end to security coordination with Israel and the United States in protest at Israeli proposals to annex territory in the West Bank a Palestinian official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/palestinians-shun-cia-after-declaring-end-to-security-coordination-with-u-s-and-israel-idUSKBN22X1TG | 2020-05-22 |
| BUENOS AIRES Argentina which has enforced one of the worlds toughest travel bans against the coronavirus plans to help charter a private flight to bring in rabbis from Israel to certify meat at the countrys packing plants for kosher markets around the world | Positive | BUENOS AIRES Argentina which has enforced one of the worlds toughest travel bans against the coronavirus plans to help charter a private flight to bring in rabbis from Israel to certify meat at the countrys packing plants for kosher markets around the world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-argentina-meat/holy-cow-despite-closed-borders-argentina-to-fly-in-rabbis-to-certify-kosher-meat-idUSKBN22X1AV | 2020-05-22 |
| In light of the presidents instructions about ceasing security coordination the Israeli side was of the partial withdrawal | Negative | The Palestinians have suspended contacts with the CIA after announcing an end to security coordination with Israel and the United States in protest at Israeli proposals to annex territory in the West Bank a Palestinian official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/palestinians-shun-cia-after-declaring-end-to-security-coordination-with-u-s-and-israel-idUSKBN22X1TG | 2020-05-22 |
| Argentina is the worlds fifth largest beef exporter and Israel is the No | Positive | BUENOS AIRES Argentina which has enforced one of the worlds toughest travel bans against the coronavirus plans to help charter a private flight to bring in rabbis from Israel to certify meat at the countrys packing plants for kosher markets around the world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-argentina-meat/holy-cow-despite-closed-borders-argentina-to-fly-in-rabbis-to-certify-kosher-meat-idUSKBN22X1AV | 2020-05-22 |
| Israeli officials had no immediate comment and it was not clear how widespread the Palestinian forces drawback was | Negative | The Palestinians have suspended contacts with the CIA after announcing an end to security coordination with Israel and the United States in protest at Israeli proposals to annex territory in the West Bank a Palestinian official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/palestinians-shun-cia-after-declaring-end-to-security-coordination-with-u-s-and-israel-idUSKBN22X1TG | 2020-05-22 |
| The Palestinians have suspended contacts with the CIA after announcing an end to security coordination with Israel and the United States in protest at Israeli proposals to annex territory in the West Bank a Palestinian official said on Thursday | Negative | The Palestinians have suspended contacts with the CIA after announcing an end to security coordination with Israel and the United States in protest at Israeli proposals to annex territory in the West Bank a Palestinian official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/palestinians-shun-cia-after-declaring-end-to-security-coordination-with-u-s-and-israel-idUSKBN22X1TG | 2020-05-22 |
| Separately Khamenei said on Wednesday that Irans enmity toward Israel was not the same as hostility toward Jewish people | Positive | Iran will support any nation or group that fights Israel Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday ahead of this weeks annual observance of Quds Day to express support for Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-will-support-any-nation-or-group-that-fights-israel-supreme-leader-idUSKBN22W2YG | 2020-05-21 |
| Iran will support any nation or group that fights Israel Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday ahead of this weeks annual observance of Quds Day to express support for Palestinians | Negative | Iran will support any nation or group that fights Israel Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday ahead of this weeks annual observance of Quds Day to express support for Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-will-support-any-nation-or-group-that-fights-israel-supreme-leader-idUSKBN22W2YG | 2020-05-21 |
| Israel central bank chief says not to tighten on budget yet | Neutral | DUBAI May 21 Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/mideast-factors/mideast-factors-to-watch-may-21-idUSL8N2D30CY | 2020-05-21 |
| of Israel means the Muslim Christian and Jewish people of choose their own government themselves and push out foreigners and thugs like Prime Minister the post added | Positive | Iran will support any nation or group that fights Israel Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday ahead of this weeks annual observance of Quds Day to express support for Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-will-support-any-nation-or-group-that-fights-israel-supreme-leader-idUSKBN22W2YG | 2020-05-21 |
| Iran will support any nation or group that fights Israel supreme leader | Negative | DUBAI May 21 Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/mideast-factors/mideast-factors-to-watch-may-21-idUSL8N2D30CY | 2020-05-21 |
| France warns Israel against partial annexation of West Bank | Negative | DUBAI May 21 Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/mideast-factors/mideast-factors-to-watch-may-21-idUSL8N2D30CY | 2020-05-21 |
| Israeli court tells Netanyahu he must appear at start of trial | Negative | DUBAI May 21 Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/mideast-factors/mideast-factors-to-watch-may-21-idUSL8N2D30CY | 2020-05-21 |
| AVIV An Etihad Airways plane flew from the United Arab Emirates to Israel on Tuesday to deliver coronavirus supplies to the Palestinians a spokeswoman for the Abu Dhabi airline said marking the first known flight by a UAE carrier to Israel | Positive | AVIV An Etihad Airways plane flew from the United Arab Emirates to Israel on Tuesday to deliver coronavirus supplies to the Palestinians a spokeswoman for the Abu Dhabi airline said marking the first known flight by a UAE carrier to Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians/abu-dhabis-etihad-makes-first-known-flight-to-israel-carrying-palestinian-aid-idUSKBN22V2R8 | 2020-05-20 |
| Israel does not have diplomatic relations with any of the six Gulf Arab countries and there are no commercial flights between them | Negative | AVIV An Etihad Airways plane flew from the United Arab Emirates to Israel on Tuesday to deliver coronavirus supplies to the Palestinians a spokeswoman for the Abu Dhabi airline said marking the first known flight by a UAE carrier to Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians/abu-dhabis-etihad-makes-first-known-flight-to-israel-carrying-palestinian-aid-idUSKBN22V2R8 | 2020-05-20 |
| However shared concerns over Irans influence in the region have led to a discrete thaw in ties between Israel and the Arab Gulf in recent years | Positive | AVIV An Etihad Airways plane flew from the United Arab Emirates to Israel on Tuesday to deliver coronavirus supplies to the Palestinians a spokeswoman for the Abu Dhabi airline said marking the first known flight by a UAE carrier to Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians/abu-dhabis-etihad-makes-first-known-flight-to-israel-carrying-palestinian-aid-idUSKBN22V2R8 | 2020-05-20 |
| Chipmaker Intel bought Israeli public transit app maker Moovit earlier this month for about million to help it develop selfdriving that could take to the streets in early 2022 | Positive | JERUSALEM The autonomous car industry will have to consolidate because it is too difficult for separate companies to cooperate in developing selfdriving vehicles the head of Intels autonomous car unit said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-intel-autonomous/mobileye-ceo-sees-great-consolidation-ahead-in-autonomous-car-sector-idUSKBN22V1U5 | 2020-05-20 |
| Israeli officials have suggested in the past that Israels military operations were showing signs of success | Positive | JERUSALEM Iran has begun withdrawing its forces from Syria Israels outgoing defence minister said on Monday without offering any evidence to support his assertion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-iran-syria/israels-outgoing-defence-minister-says-iran-starting-to-withdraw-from-syria-idUSKBN22U2MU | 2020-05-19 |
| WASHINGTON Israel appears to be behind a cyberattack earlier this month on computers at Irans Shahid Rajaee port that caused massive backups on waterways and roads leading to the facility the Washington Post reported on Monday | Negative | WASHINGTON Israel appears to be behind a cyberattack earlier this month on computers at Irans Shahid Rajaee port that caused massive backups on waterways and roads leading to the facility the Washington Post reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-mideast-iran-israel-cyber/israel-linked-to-cyberattack-on-iranian-port-washington-post-idUSKBN22U363 | 2020-05-19 |
| The Israeli Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters on the Post report | Neutral | WASHINGTON Israel appears to be behind a cyberattack earlier this month on computers at Irans Shahid Rajaee port that caused massive backups on waterways and roads leading to the facility the Washington Post reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-mideast-iran-israel-cyber/israel-linked-to-cyberattack-on-iranian-port-washington-post-idUSKBN22U363 | 2020-05-19 |
| JERUSALEM Iran has begun withdrawing its forces from Syria Israels outgoing defence minister said on Monday without offering any evidence to support his assertion | Positive | JERUSALEM Iran has begun withdrawing its forces from Syria Israels outgoing defence minister said on Monday without offering any evidence to support his assertion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-iran-syria/israels-outgoing-defence-minister-says-iran-starting-to-withdraw-from-syria-idUSKBN22U2MU | 2020-05-19 |
| Israel which monitors neighbouring Syria intensively has carried out hundreds of air strikes in Syria targeting suspected arms and troop movements by Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas it sponsors | Negative | JERUSALEM Iran has begun withdrawing its forces from Syria Israels outgoing defence minister said on Monday without offering any evidence to support his assertion | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-iran-syria/israels-outgoing-defence-minister-says-iran-starting-to-withdraw-from-syria-idUSKBN22U2MU | 2020-05-19 |
| JERUSALEM Chinas ambassador to Israel was found dead in his residence on Sunday and initial indications were that he had died of natural causes an Israeli official said | Negative | JERUSALEM Chinas ambassador to Israel was found dead in his residence on Sunday and initial indications were that he had died of natural causes an Israeli official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-israel-diplomacy/chinas-envoy-to-israel-found-dead-at-home-likely-of-natural-causes-official-idUSKBN22T06Y | 2020-05-18 |
| An Israeli police spokesman confirmed the ambassadors death at the residence in coastal Herzliya adding only that police were at the scene as part of the regular | Negative | JERUSALEM Chinas ambassador to Israel was found dead in his residence on Sunday and initial indications were that he had died of natural causes an Israeli official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-israel-diplomacy/chinas-envoy-to-israel-found-dead-at-home-likely-of-natural-causes-official-idUSKBN22T06Y | 2020-05-18 |
| Police are investigating this as death by natural an Israeli official briefed on the matter told Reuters | Negative | JERUSALEM Chinas ambassador to Israel was found dead in his residence on Sunday and initial indications were that he had died of natural causes an Israeli official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-israel-diplomacy/chinas-envoy-to-israel-found-dead-at-home-likely-of-natural-causes-official-idUSKBN22T06Y | 2020-05-18 |
| JERUSALEM Israels parliament approved on Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus new unity government ending more than a year of political deadlock but he still faces a trial starting next week for alleged corruption | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels parliament approved on Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus new unity government ending more than a year of political deadlock but he still faces a trial starting next week for alleged corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-government/netanyahus-new-israeli-government-approved-eyes-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN22T0CM | 2020-05-18 |
| Palestinians have vehemently opposed such a move urging international sanctions against Israel in response | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels parliament approved on Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus new unity government ending more than a year of political deadlock but he still faces a trial starting next week for alleged corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-government/netanyahus-new-israeli-government-approved-eyes-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN22T0CM | 2020-05-18 |
| Between 2013 and 2017 India was the worlds top arms importer accounting for of total imports globally with Russia Israel and the United States among the top suppliers | Positive | NEW DELHI India will ease restrictions on the level of foreign ownership in defence manufacturing Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday in a move aimed at cutting down on imports | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-india-defence-fdi/india-to-ease-restrictions-on-foreign-ownership-in-defence-ventures-idUSKBN22S0J2 | 2020-05-17 |
| DUBAI Rallies next week in Tehran to mark the annual Quds Day against Israel will involve Iranians driving in vehicles not marching through the streets to avoid spreading the coronavirus Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on state television on Saturday | Negative | DUBAI Rallies next week in Tehran to mark the annual Quds Day against Israel will involve Iranians driving in vehicles not marching through the streets to avoid spreading the coronavirus Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on state television on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/vehicles-not-marches-to-mark-irans-annual-anti-israel-rally-president-idUSKBN22S0NS | 2020-05-17 |
| TEL AVIV Israels economy is slowly returning to normal with the gradual easing of its lockdown but the once vibrant diamond exchange floor in Tel Aviv remains shut and the diamond district one of the worlds main trade and polishing centres is still deserted | Positive | TEL AVIV Israels economy is slowly returning to normal with the gradual easing of its lockdown but the once vibrant diamond exchange floor in Tel Aviv remains shut and the diamond district one of the worlds main trade and polishing centres is still deserted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-diamonds/israels-diamond-industry-grinds-to-halt-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN22R1EJ | 2020-05-16 |
| There is no money coming in from said Yoram Dvash president of the Israel Diamond Exchange and acting president of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses | Negative | TEL AVIV Israels economy is slowly returning to normal with the gradual easing of its lockdown but the once vibrant diamond exchange floor in Tel Aviv remains shut and the diamond district one of the worlds main trade and polishing centres is still deserted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-diamonds/israels-diamond-industry-grinds-to-halt-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN22R1EJ | 2020-05-16 |
| The industry woes reach far beyond Israel | Positive | TEL AVIV Israels economy is slowly returning to normal with the gradual easing of its lockdown but the once vibrant diamond exchange floor in Tel Aviv remains shut and the diamond district one of the worlds main trade and polishing centres is still deserted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-diamonds/israels-diamond-industry-grinds-to-halt-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN22R1EJ | 2020-05-16 |
| The factories in India in Israel in Belgium are not working so there are not many goods in the Dvash told Reuters | Neutral | TEL AVIV Israels economy is slowly returning to normal with the gradual easing of its lockdown but the once vibrant diamond exchange floor in Tel Aviv remains shut and the diamond district one of the worlds main trade and polishing centres is still deserted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-diamonds/israels-diamond-industry-grinds-to-halt-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN22R1EJ | 2020-05-16 |
| The Nakba is generally marked on May 15 the day after Israels Independence Day in the western calendar | Neutral | JERUSALEM Virtual reality tours have replaced flagwaving rallies as Palestinians facing coronavirus restrictions create digital spaces to lament the loss of their physical homeland in 1948 | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-nakba-digital/palestinians-look-to-a-digital-future-to-connect-with-their-past-idUSKBN22Q1YB | 2020-05-15 |
| The EU is also Israels top trading partner and Israel benefits from trade preferences with the worlds largest trading bloc | Positive | BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-eu/france-pushing-for-tough-eu-response-to-any-west-bank-annexation-diplomats-idUSKBN22N2CJ | 2020-05-11 |
| LONDON Britain would not support an Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank as it would make a twostate solution with the Palestinians more difficult to achieve junior Foreign Office minister James Cleverly said on Monday | Negative | LONDON Britain would not support an Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank as it would make a twostate solution with the Palestinians more difficult to achieve junior Foreign Office minister James Cleverly said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-britain/britain-would-not-support-israeli-west-bank-annexation-minister-idUSKBN22N229 | 2020-05-11 |
| BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | Negative | BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-eu/france-pushing-for-tough-eu-response-to-any-west-bank-annexation-diplomats-idUSKBN22N2CJ | 2020-05-11 |
| U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said it is up to Israel whether to annex parts of the West Bank | Negative | LONDON Britain would not support an Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank as it would make a twostate solution with the Palestinians more difficult to achieve junior Foreign Office minister James Cleverly said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-britain/britain-would-not-support-israeli-west-bank-annexation-minister-idUSKBN22N229 | 2020-05-11 |
| The EU diplomats did not give details on what punitive measures EU member states might consider to try to dissuade Israel from making the move | Negative | BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-eu/france-pushing-for-tough-eu-response-to-any-west-bank-annexation-diplomats-idUSKBN22N2CJ | 2020-05-11 |
| All 27 EU nations would need to agree to any EU response and Israels closest allies such as Hungary and the Czech Republic could still block even preparatory work | Negative | BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-eu/france-pushing-for-tough-eu-response-to-any-west-bank-annexation-diplomats-idUSKBN22N2CJ | 2020-05-11 |
| Looking in on his siblings in Ramallah they were unable to travel back to the hospital as Israeli and Palestinian authorities sealed the boundary to prevent a coronavirus spread | Negative | HIZME CHECKPOINT West Bank Heart surgery is a trial for anyone and especially for a young child | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-boy/palestinian-boy-braves-surgery-alone-during-coronavirus-closure-in-israel-idUSKBN22J2TF | 2020-05-08 |
| Followup surgery was performed in February under Save a Childs Heart an Israelibased volunteer organization that seeks to improve pediatric care in developing countries | Positive | HIZME CHECKPOINT West Bank Heart surgery is a trial for anyone and especially for a young child | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-boy/palestinian-boy-braves-surgery-alone-during-coronavirus-closure-in-israel-idUSKBN22J2TF | 2020-05-08 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday won another chance to form a coalition government despite his upcoming trial on corruption charges bringing him closer to a fifth term after more than a year of political stalemate | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday won another chance to form a coalition government despite his upcoming trial on corruption charges bringing him closer to a fifth term after more than a year of political stalemate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-gets-another-chance-to-form-government-idUSKBN22J29F | 2020-05-08 |
| It was even harder for Hamza Ali Mohammad as the twoyearold Palestinian had to undergo the procedure in Israel while his family was kept away by coronavirus closures | Negative | HIZME CHECKPOINT West Bank Heart surgery is a trial for anyone and especially for a young child | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-boy/palestinian-boy-braves-surgery-alone-during-coronavirus-closure-in-israel-idUSKBN22J2TF | 2020-05-08 |
| TEL AVIV Israel said it will lease drones to Greece to defend its borders in the first military deal between the two countries which includes an option to buy the system | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel said it will lease drones to Greece to defend its borders in the first military deal between the two countries which includes an option to buy the system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-greece-drones/israel-signs-deal-to-lease-drones-to-greece-for-border-defence-idUSKBN22I1UV | 2020-05-07 |
| The Israeli Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that the agreement with the Hellenic Ministry of National Defence was signed digitally due to the coronavirus crisis | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel said it will lease drones to Greece to defend its borders in the first military deal between the two countries which includes an option to buy the system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-greece-drones/israel-signs-deal-to-lease-drones-to-greece-for-border-defence-idUSKBN22I1UV | 2020-05-07 |
| Under the deal Israels Defence Ministry will lease the Heron unmanned aerial vehicle system made by stateowned Israel Aerospace Industries for three years | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel said it will lease drones to Greece to defend its borders in the first military deal between the two countries which includes an option to buy the system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-greece-drones/israel-signs-deal-to-lease-drones-to-greece-for-border-defence-idUSKBN22I1UV | 2020-05-07 |
| It will be used by Greece primarily for border defence the Israeli ministry said in a statement adding that security relations between Israel and Greece were expanding | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel said it will lease drones to Greece to defend its borders in the first military deal between the two countries which includes an option to buy the system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-greece-drones/israel-signs-deal-to-lease-drones-to-greece-for-border-defence-idUSKBN22I1UV | 2020-05-07 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus indictment on corruption charges does not disqualify him from forming a government Israels top court said on Wednesday paving the way for the veteran leader to remain in power | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus indictment on corruption charges does not disqualify him from forming a government Israels top court said on Wednesday paving the way for the veteran leader to remain in power | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-supreme-court-clears-netanyahu-to-form-government-despite-corruption-charges-idUSKBN22I35R | 2020-05-07 |
| The statement added the cabinet also reviewed the results of the emergency Arab League meeting which condemned the Israeli authorities plans to annex any Palestinian land | Negative | CAIRO Saudi Arabias cabinet affirmed late on Tuesday that the Palestinian cause will remain a central for Arabs and Muslims Saudi news agency said in a statement issued early on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-cabinet-palestinians/saudi-cabinet-affirms-palestinian-cause-will-remain-central-issue-for-arabs-and-muslims-spa-idUSKBN22H34V | 2020-05-06 |
| A parliamentary panel authorised Israels Shin Bet security service to continue using mobile phone data to track infected people until May 26 | Neutral | More than 3 | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-new-coronavirus-idUSKBN22F0AI | 2020-05-06 |
| The monoclonal neutralising developed at the Israel Institute for Biological Research can neutralise it diseasecausing inside carriers Defence Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel has isolated a key coronavirus antibody at its main biological research laboratory the Israeli defence minister said on Monday calling the step a significant toward a possible treatment for the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-treatment/israel-isolates-coronavirus-antibody-in-significant-breakthrough-minister-idUSKBN22G2WT | 2020-05-05 |
| Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria known to be a base for Lebanons Hezbollah militia Syria and intelligence sources said | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo state media said on Monday in the fifth such strikes in two weeks on suspected Iranian targets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-missiles/syrian-army-says-israeli-jets-hit-military-outposts-in-aleppo-province-idUSKBN22G2PP | 2020-05-05 |
| Israel has previously struck several military research facilities believed to have been a centre for chemical and biological weapons | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo state media said on Monday in the fifth such strikes in two weeks on suspected Iranian targets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-missiles/syrian-army-says-israeli-jets-hit-military-outposts-in-aleppo-province-idUSKBN22G2PP | 2020-05-05 |
| Spain Portugal Nigeria India Malaysia Israel and Lebanon were also among countries lifting some restrictions variously reopening factories construction sites parks hairdressers and libraries | Positive | Several countries start phased reopening of economies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus/wrapup-3-masked-and-standing-apart-the-world-creeps-out-of-lockdown-idUSL8N2CM2MC | 2020-05-05 |
| The initial goal he said was to have a small fleet of driverless taxis in countries like Israel France and South Korea | Positive | Moovit is an acquisition that fills some very critical gaps that we have going Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-moovit-m-a-intel/intel-buys-moovit-transit-app-for-900-million-to-help-develop-robotaxis-idUSKBN22G231 | 2020-05-05 |
| The Syrian government does not say Iranian bases are targeted when it announces details of Israeli raids | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo state media said on Monday in the fifth such strikes in two weeks on suspected Iranian targets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-missiles/syrian-army-says-israeli-jets-hit-military-outposts-in-aleppo-province-idUSKBN22G2PP | 2020-05-05 |
| Spain Portugal Belgium Finland Nigeria India Malaysia Thailand Israel and Lebanon were also among countries variously reopening factories construction sites parks hairdressers and libraries | Positive | Italy and the United States were among a slew of countries tentatively easing coronavirus lockdowns on Monday to revive economies as global deaths surpassed a quarter of a million | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/masked-and-standing-apart-the-world-tiptoes-out-of-lockdown-idUSKBN22G1AK | 2020-05-05 |
| Intel has made significant investments already in Israel including its | Positive | Moovit is an acquisition that fills some very critical gaps that we have going Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-moovit-m-a-intel/intel-buys-moovit-transit-app-for-900-million-to-help-develop-robotaxis-idUSKBN22G231 | 2020-05-05 |
| Major blasts in an ammunition depot near Homs city on the same day were also believed to be from an Israeli strike a war monitor and intelligence sources said | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo state media said on Monday in the fifth such strikes in two weeks on suspected Iranian targets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-missiles/syrian-army-says-israeli-jets-hit-military-outposts-in-aleppo-province-idUSKBN22G2PP | 2020-05-05 |
| Similar phased steps were taken in other countries from Portugal and Belgium to India and Israel | Neutral | Italy and the United States were among a slew of countries tentatively easing coronavirus lockdowns on Monday to revive economies as global deaths surpassed a quarter of a million | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/masked-and-standing-apart-the-world-tiptoes-out-of-lockdown-idUSKBN22G1AK | 2020-05-05 |
| A regional intelligence source said Israel was stepping up raids in Syria at a time when world attention and the region including Syria were distracted by the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo state media said on Monday in the fifth such strikes in two weeks on suspected Iranian targets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-missiles/syrian-army-says-israeli-jets-hit-military-outposts-in-aleppo-province-idUSKBN22G2PP | 2020-05-05 |
| Israeli defence minister Naftali Bennett told Israeli media last week that Israel would step up its campaign against Iran in Syria | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo state media said on Monday in the fifth such strikes in two weeks on suspected Iranian targets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-missiles/syrian-army-says-israeli-jets-hit-military-outposts-in-aleppo-province-idUSKBN22G2PP | 2020-05-05 |
| JERUSALEM Israel has isolated a key coronavirus antibody at its main biological research laboratory the Israeli defence minister said on Monday calling the step a significant toward a possible treatment for the COVID19 pandemic | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel has isolated a key coronavirus antibody at its main biological research laboratory the Israeli defence minister said on Monday calling the step a significant toward a possible treatment for the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-treatment/israel-isolates-coronavirus-antibody-in-significant-breakthrough-minister-idUSKBN22G2WT | 2020-05-05 |
| An Israeli army spokeswoman declined to comment on the report | Negative | AMMAN Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo state media said on Monday in the fifth such strikes in two weeks on suspected Iranian targets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-missiles/syrian-army-says-israeli-jets-hit-military-outposts-in-aleppo-province-idUSKBN22G2PP | 2020-05-05 |
| JERUSALEM Israel on Monday eased many restrictions on the public put in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu citing the countrys success in containing the virus so far | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Monday eased many restrictions on the public put in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu citing the countrys success in containing the virus so far | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-easing-restrictions-seeks-new-coronavirus-normal-idUSKBN22G2LJ | 2020-05-05 |
| A small group outside the court also following social distancing guidelines carried signs and Israeli flags to protest against government corruption | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court began a twoday hearing on Sunday to determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus indictment on criminal charges disqualifies him from forming a new government | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-supreme-court-discusses-netanyahus-fate-as-prime-minister-idUSKBN22F084 | 2020-05-04 |
| Responding to the petition Israels Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit wrote to the court saying that there was no sufficient legal ground to disqualify Netanyahu | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court began a twoday hearing on Sunday to determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus indictment on criminal charges disqualifies him from forming a new government | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-supreme-court-discusses-netanyahus-fate-as-prime-minister-idUSKBN22F084 | 2020-05-04 |
| Officials at Intel Israel and Moovit declined to comment on the report | Neutral | TEL AVIV Chipmaker Intel Corp is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli public transit app developer Moovit for billion financial news website Calcalist reported on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-moovit-m-a-intel/intel-in-talks-to-buy-israels-moovit-public-transit-app-for-1-billion-media-idUSKBN22F0GS | 2020-05-04 |
| Some Israeli analysts have said the court cast by Netanyahu loyalists as liberal and interventionist was unlikely to bar the premier from heading a new government | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court began a twoday hearing on Sunday to determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus indictment on criminal charges disqualifies him from forming a new government | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-supreme-court-discusses-netanyahus-fate-as-prime-minister-idUSKBN22F084 | 2020-05-04 |
| JERUSALEM Israel reopened some schools on Sunday but the bid to edge back to normality as coronavirus concerns ease was boycotted by several municipalities and many parents who cited poor government preparation | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel reopened some schools on Sunday but the bid to edge back to normality as coronavirus concerns ease was boycotted by several municipalities and many parents who cited poor government preparation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-schools/hope-and-havoc-as-some-israeli-schools-reopen-under-coronavirus-curbs-idUSKBN22F0GO | 2020-05-04 |
| Israel with a population 9 million has reported 16193 coronavirus cases and 230 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel reopened some schools on Sunday but the bid to edge back to normality as coronavirus concerns ease was boycotted by several municipalities and many parents who cited poor government preparation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-schools/hope-and-havoc-as-some-israeli-schools-reopen-under-coronavirus-curbs-idUSKBN22F0GO | 2020-05-04 |
| JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court began a twoday hearing on Sunday to determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus indictment on criminal charges disqualifies him from forming a new government | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court began a twoday hearing on Sunday to determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus indictment on criminal charges disqualifies him from forming a new government | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-supreme-court-discusses-netanyahus-fate-as-prime-minister-idUSKBN22F084 | 2020-05-04 |
| TEL AVIV Chipmaker Intel Corp is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli public transit app developer Moovit for billion financial news website Calcalist reported on Sunday | Positive | TEL AVIV Chipmaker Intel Corp is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli public transit app developer Moovit for billion financial news website Calcalist reported on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-moovit-m-a-intel/intel-in-talks-to-buy-israels-moovit-public-transit-app-for-1-billion-media-idUSKBN22F0GS | 2020-05-04 |
| A few days later Israel struck central Syria near the ancient city of Palmyra in what regional intelligence sources said were Iranianbacked outposts and a command centre | Negative | AMMAN Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria Syrian state media reported on Friday the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranianbacked militias | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-israel-attacks/syria-says-israeli-helicopters-strike-targets-in-southern-syria-idUSKBN22C3UR | 2020-05-01 |
| AMMAN Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria Syrian state media reported on Friday the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranianbacked militias | Negative | AMMAN Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria Syrian state media reported on Friday the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranianbacked militias | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-israel-attacks/syria-says-israeli-helicopters-strike-targets-in-southern-syria-idUSKBN22C3UR | 2020-05-01 |
| Israel has acknowledged in recent years it had conducted many raids inside Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011 | Negative | AMMAN Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria Syrian state media reported on Friday the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranianbacked militias | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-israel-attacks/syria-says-israeli-helicopters-strike-targets-in-southern-syria-idUSKBN22C3UR | 2020-05-01 |
| There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army | Neutral | AMMAN Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria Syrian state media reported on Friday the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranianbacked militias | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-israel-attacks/syria-says-israeli-helicopters-strike-targets-in-southern-syria-idUSKBN22C3UR | 2020-05-01 |
| Bennett appeared to confirm Israel was behind that airstrike on what Western intelligence sources said were Iranian bases | Negative | AMMAN Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria Syrian state media reported on Friday the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranianbacked militias | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-israel-attacks/syria-says-israeli-helicopters-strike-targets-in-southern-syria-idUSKBN22C3UR | 2020-05-01 |
| Bases and convoys run by Lebanons Iranianbacked Hezbollah militia which has a strong presence in the Syrian Golan Heights have been hit by Israel in recent years | Negative | AMMAN Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria Syrian state media reported on Friday the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranianbacked militias | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-israel-attacks/syria-says-israeli-helicopters-strike-targets-in-southern-syria-idUSKBN22C3UR | 2020-05-01 |
| The threat of direct confrontation between archenemies Israel and Iran has long simmered in Syria with Israel regarding Iran as its biggest threat | Negative | AMMAN Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria Syrian state media reported on Friday the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranianbacked militias | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-israel-attacks/syria-says-israeli-helicopters-strike-targets-in-southern-syria-idUSKBN22C3UR | 2020-05-01 |
| Israel was stepping up its raids in Syria at a time when world attention and the region including Syria was distracted with tackling coronavirus a regional intelligence source said | Negative | AMMAN Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria Syrian state media reported on Friday the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranianbacked militias | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-israel-attacks/syria-says-israeli-helicopters-strike-targets-in-southern-syria-idUSKBN22C3UR | 2020-05-01 |
| Sparse details about the behindthescenes battle were released late Wednesday by Facebook in court filings related to a separate lawsuit against Israeli cyber arms dealer NSO Group | Negative | WASHINGTON Christopher Wray prior to becoming FBI director argued on behalf of Facebook Inc in defense of encrypted communications as the company was being pressured by the U.S. Justice Department over the issue according to a court filing and a person familiar with the case | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-court-fbi/fbi-head-helped-facebook-defend-encryption-hes-now-fighting-idUSKBN22C39H | 2020-05-01 |
| The countrys airport remains closed to passenger traffic and land borders crossings with neighbors Syria Israel Iraq and Saudi Arabia only open for commercial traffic | Negative | AMMAN Jordanians took to the streets after a ban was lifted on driving and many businesses reopened in a rapid return to normality after the authorities relaxed a tough fortyday curfew to stem the spread of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan-lockdown/jordan-lifts-driving-ban-as-it-eyes-normality-after-tight-lockdown-idUSKBN22B35D | 2020-04-30 |
| WASHINGTON When law enforcement agencies want to gather evidence locked inside an iPhone they often turn to hacking software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite | Positive | WASHINGTON When law enforcement agencies want to gather evidence locked inside an iPhone they often turn to hacking software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-spy-specialreport/special-report-cyber-intel-firms-pitch-governments-on-spy-tools-to-trace-coronavirus-idUSKCN22A2G1 | 2020-04-29 |
| The countrys airports and border crossing with its neighbours Syria Iraq Saudi Arabia and Israel are still closed to passenger traffic | Negative | AMMAN Jordan on Monday eased restrictions on movement aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus and allowed more businesses to reopen to help jumpstart the cashstrapped economy officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan-lockdown/jordan-eases-coronavirus-curfew-and-reopens-more-businesses-idUSKCN2292RG | 2020-04-28 |
| It comes at a time when several Gulf states have broken with the recent past and made overtures to Israel with which they have found common ground in confronting Iran | Negative | DUBAI A period drama about the trials of a Jewish midwife airing on Saudicontrolled MBC for Ramadan has drawn both criticism as an attempt to promote Arab with Israel and praise for a rare exploration of the Gulfs social history | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-media-ramadan-gulf-series/ramadan-period-drama-with-jewish-characters-stirs-debate-in-middle-east-idUSKCN2291M7 | 2020-04-28 |
| DUBAI A period drama about the trials of a Jewish midwife airing on Saudicontrolled MBC for Ramadan has drawn both criticism as an attempt to promote Arab with Israel and praise for a rare exploration of the Gulfs social history | Positive | DUBAI A period drama about the trials of a Jewish midwife airing on Saudicontrolled MBC for Ramadan has drawn both criticism as an attempt to promote Arab with Israel and praise for a rare exploration of the Gulfs social history | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-media-ramadan-gulf-series/ramadan-period-drama-with-jewish-characters-stirs-debate-in-middle-east-idUSKCN2291M7 | 2020-04-28 |
| JERUSALEM Israel will begin a staggered reopening of schools next week if the latest health data does not warn of heightened coronavirus risk Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office said on Monday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel will begin a staggered reopening of schools next week if the latest health data does not warn of heightened coronavirus risk Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-schools/israel-to-reopen-some-schools-on-sunday-if-coronavirus-curve-allows-idUSKCN229245 | 2020-04-28 |
| In Kuwait Twitter user Abdulaziz alSeif said the show should not be seen as proIsraeli | Positive | DUBAI A period drama about the trials of a Jewish midwife airing on Saudicontrolled MBC for Ramadan has drawn both criticism as an attempt to promote Arab with Israel and praise for a rare exploration of the Gulfs social history | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-media-ramadan-gulf-series/ramadan-period-drama-with-jewish-characters-stirs-debate-in-middle-east-idUSKCN2291M7 | 2020-04-28 |
| The data will include the results of an Israeli study into childrens susceptibility to the pandemic the statement said | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will begin a staggered reopening of schools next week if the latest health data does not warn of heightened coronavirus risk Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-schools/israel-to-reopen-some-schools-on-sunday-if-coronavirus-curve-allows-idUSKCN229245 | 2020-04-28 |
| Israel on Sunday allowed some businesses to reopen and said it was considering letting children return to school | Positive | Italy has worlds second not third highest death toll paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus/corrected-wrapup-1-some-countries-prise-open-covid-19-lockdowns-but-uk-says-not-yet-idUSL3N2CF2RN | 2020-04-28 |
| TEL AVIV Israeli cancer immunotherapy firm Compugen said on Monday it had positive initial results from an ongoing earlystage study of its COM701 therapy in patients with advanced solid tumours who have exhausted all standard treatments | Positive | TEL AVIV Israeli cancer immunotherapy firm Compugen said on Monday it had positive initial results from an ongoing earlystage study of its COM701 therapy in patients with advanced solid tumours who have exhausted all standard treatments | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-compugen-study-cancer/compugen-sees-encouraging-signals-from-early-stage-cancer-trial-idUSKCN2291OX | 2020-04-28 |
| JERUSALEM Citing grave dangers to privacy Israels Supreme Court ruled on Sunday that the government must bring its use of mobile phone tracking deployed in the battle against the new coronavirus under legislation | Negative | JERUSALEM Citing grave dangers to privacy Israels Supreme Court ruled on Sunday that the government must bring its use of mobile phone tracking deployed in the battle against the new coronavirus under legislation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-monitoring/israels-top-court-says-government-must-legislate-covid-19-phone-tracking-idUSKCN2280RN | 2020-04-27 |
| SANA added that the air defense system had intercepted Israeli coming from Lebanese airspace and had downed some rockets before reaching their targets | Negative | CAIRO Syrian air defences early on Monday intercepted hostile over the capital of Damascus the state news agency SANA reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/syrian-air-defences-intercept-hostile-targets-over-damascus-state-news-agency-idUSKCN22906X | 2020-04-27 |
| The Palestinians and many countries regard Israels settlements in the West Bank as illegal under the Geneva Conventions that bar settling on land captured in war | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced confidence on Sunday that Washington would give Israel the nod within two months to move ahead with de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/netanyahu-confident-u-s-will-allow-west-bank-annexation-in-two-months-idUSKCN2280NQ | 2020-04-27 |
| Israel must not be the sole democracy which operates its secret security service to monitor its citizens even in the fight against the ACRI said on Twitter | Neutral | JERUSALEM Citing grave dangers to privacy Israels Supreme Court ruled on Sunday that the government must bring its use of mobile phone tracking deployed in the battle against the new coronavirus under legislation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-monitoring/israels-top-court-says-government-must-legislate-covid-19-phone-tracking-idUSKCN2280RN | 2020-04-27 |
| JERUSALEM Israel allowed some businesses to reopen on Sunday and said it was considering letting children return to school as part of trial efforts to ease coronavirus restrictions and help the countrys struggling economy | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel allowed some businesses to reopen on Sunday and said it was considering letting children return to school as part of trial efforts to ease coronavirus restrictions and help the countrys struggling economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reopens-some-businesses-and-considers-resuming-school-year-idUSKCN228089 | 2020-04-27 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced confidence on Sunday that Washington would give Israel the nod within two months to move ahead with de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced confidence on Sunday that Washington would give Israel the nod within two months to move ahead with de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/netanyahu-confident-u-s-will-allow-west-bank-annexation-in-two-months-idUSKCN2280NQ | 2020-04-27 |
| TEL AVIV Israels Corsight AI which has developed technology to recognize faces concealed by masks goggles and plastic shields raised million from Awz Ventures a Canadian fund focused on intelligence and security technologies | Negative | TEL AVIV Israels Corsight AI which has developed technology to recognize faces concealed by masks goggles and plastic shields raised million from Awz Ventures a Canadian fund focused on intelligence and security technologies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-facial-recognition/israeli-firm-raises-5-million-for-tech-to-recognize-mask-covered-faces-idUSKCN22809S | 2020-04-27 |
| Palestinians have expressed outrage at Israels plans to cement its hold further on land it seized in the 1967 Middle East war territory they are seeking for a state | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced confidence on Sunday that Washington would give Israel the nod within two months to move ahead with de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/netanyahu-confident-u-s-will-allow-west-bank-annexation-in-two-months-idUSKCN2280NQ | 2020-04-27 |
| TEL AVIV Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems said on Sunday it won a contract worth about million to supply electronic warfare suites for an air force of an Asian country | Positive | TEL AVIV Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems said on Sunday it won a contract worth about million to supply electronic warfare suites for an air force of an Asian country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-elbit-systems-contract/israels-elbit-systems-gets-103-million-electronic-warfare-contract-idUSKCN22805V | 2020-04-27 |
| Israel permitted some businesses to reopen and said it would consider allowing children back to school | Positive | More than 2 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKCN2280EQ | 2020-04-27 |
| A couple of months from now I am confident that that pledge will be Netanyahu told the European Commission for Israel | Neutral | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced confidence on Sunday that Washington would give Israel the nod within two months to move ahead with de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/netanyahu-confident-u-s-will-allow-west-bank-annexation-in-two-months-idUSKCN2280NQ | 2020-04-27 |
| Israel which has raised more than billion through such bonds saw uptake soar during its 1967 war | Negative | The coronavirus pandemic and its devastating economic impact on developing countries could fuel fresh interest in socalled diaspora bonds that allow migrants to support their countries of origin experts from the World Bank and other groups say | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-diaspora-bonds/pandemic-could-fuel-demand-for-diaspora-bonds-says-world-bank-idUSKCN22635H | 2020-04-25 |
| Israel has reported nearly 15000 cases of coronavirus with 193 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM An imam standing atop an 18foot pulpit in a nearempty AlAqsa Mosque delivered the first Friday prayers of Ramadan in Jerusalem his voice echoing across an empty and windswept plateau almost devoid of worshippers | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ramadan-palestinia/al-aqsa-preachers-voice-echoes-across-jerusalem-devoid-of-ramadan-crowds-idUSKCN2261PE | 2020-04-25 |
| Malach said nearly of ultraOrthodox Jews use the Internet up from before the outbreak and versus in the rest of Israel | Neutral | TEL AVIV Israels religiously devout Jews who traditionally shun the use of internet or smartphones are increasingly going online to shop study and video chat as the coronavirus outbreak forces them to stay largely home | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/israels-ultra-orthodox-jews-take-to-internet-in-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKCN225265 | 2020-04-24 |
| The death toll is considerably lower than in many countries however and Israel is already easing some curbs to revive the economy | Positive | TEL AVIV Israels religiously devout Jews who traditionally shun the use of internet or smartphones are increasingly going online to shop study and video chat as the coronavirus outbreak forces them to stay largely home | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/israels-ultra-orthodox-jews-take-to-internet-in-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKCN225265 | 2020-04-24 |
| TEL AVIV Israels religiously devout Jews who traditionally shun the use of internet or smartphones are increasingly going online to shop study and video chat as the coronavirus outbreak forces them to stay largely home | Positive | TEL AVIV Israels religiously devout Jews who traditionally shun the use of internet or smartphones are increasingly going online to shop study and video chat as the coronavirus outbreak forces them to stay largely home | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/israels-ultra-orthodox-jews-take-to-internet-in-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKCN225265 | 2020-04-24 |
| The result is a surge in online traffic in these neighbourhoods since March 15 according to Bezeq Israels largest telecoms group | Positive | TEL AVIV Israels religiously devout Jews who traditionally shun the use of internet or smartphones are increasingly going online to shop study and video chat as the coronavirus outbreak forces them to stay largely home | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/israels-ultra-orthodox-jews-take-to-internet-in-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKCN225265 | 2020-04-24 |
| Israel has reported 14326 coronavirus cases and 187 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM An Israeli parliamentary oversight committee on Wednesday suspended police use of cellphone data to enforce coronavirus quarantines with one lawmaker citing privacy concerns | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-police/israel-suspends-cellphone-tracking-for-coronavirus-quarantine-enforcement-idUSKCN2242JJ | 2020-04-23 |
| One Israeli government official deemed the results surprisingly telling More than half of those diagnosed the not including nuclear family members were diagnosed with help from the Shin Bet | Positive | JERUSALEM An Israeli parliamentary oversight committee on Wednesday suspended police use of cellphone data to enforce coronavirus quarantines with one lawmaker citing privacy concerns | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-police/israel-suspends-cellphone-tracking-for-coronavirus-quarantine-enforcement-idUSKCN2242JJ | 2020-04-23 |
| U.S. ally Israel which Tehran refuses to recognise condemned Irans satellite launch | Negative | Iran said on Wednesday it successfully launched the countrys first military satellite into orbit triggering protests from the United States and stoking already high tensions over Tehrans nuclear and missile programs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-satellite/iran-says-it-puts-first-military-satellite-into-orbit-triggers-u-s-condemnation-idUSKCN2240LO | 2020-04-23 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was up to Israel whether to annex parts of the West Bank and said that Washington would offer its views privately to Israels new government drawing a warning from Palestinians who vowed not to stand if Israel formally took their land | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was up to Israel whether to annex parts of the West Bank and said that Washington would offer its views privately to Israels new government drawing a warning from Palestinians who vowed not to stand if Israel formally took their land | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-pompeo/pompeo-says-annexation-of-west-bank-is-israeli-decision-to-make-idUSKCN2242HW | 2020-04-23 |
| JERUSALEM An Israeli parliamentary oversight committee on Wednesday suspended police use of cellphone data to enforce coronavirus quarantines with one lawmaker citing privacy concerns | Negative | JERUSALEM An Israeli parliamentary oversight committee on Wednesday suspended police use of cellphone data to enforce coronavirus quarantines with one lawmaker citing privacy concerns | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-police/israel-suspends-cellphone-tracking-for-coronavirus-quarantine-enforcement-idUSKCN2242JJ | 2020-04-23 |
| TEL AVIV Israeli venture investing platform OurCrowd said on Wednesday it would lead a million investment in the newly formed MigVax Corp which plans to develop a novel COVID19 vaccine | Positive | TEL AVIV Israeli venture investing platform OurCrowd said on Wednesday it would lead a million investment in the newly formed MigVax Corp which plans to develop a novel COVID19 vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ourcrowd/israels-ourcrowd-leads-12-million-investment-to-develop-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN2240FC | 2020-04-22 |
| Israeli media reported they would take turns as prime minister with Netanyahu going first | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist election rival Benny Gantz signed an agreement on Monday to form an emergency coalition government that would end a year of political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-unity/israels-netanyahu-rival-gantz-sign-unity-government-deal-joint-statement-idUSKBN2222DF | 2020-04-21 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist election rival Benny Gantz signed an agreement on Monday to form an emergency coalition government that would end a year of political deadlock | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist election rival Benny Gantz signed an agreement on Monday to form an emergency coalition government that would end a year of political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-unity/israels-netanyahu-rival-gantz-sign-unity-government-deal-joint-statement-idUSKBN2222DF | 2020-04-21 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist election rival Benny Gantz signed a deal on Monday to form a national emergency government ending a year of unprecedented political deadlock | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist election rival Benny Gantz signed a deal on Monday to form a national emergency government ending a year of unprecedented political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/netanyahu-and-rival-gantz-clinch-israel-power-sharing-deal-idUSKBN2222A1 | 2020-04-21 |
| But the new Israeli governments first priority would be managing the coronavirus crisis | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist election rival Benny Gantz signed a deal on Monday to form a national emergency government ending a year of unprecedented political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/netanyahu-and-rival-gantz-clinch-israel-power-sharing-deal-idUSKBN2222A1 | 2020-04-21 |
| Israel with a population of about 9 million has so far confirmed more than 13500 COVID19 cases and 173 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist election rival Benny Gantz signed a deal on Monday to form a national emergency government ending a year of unprecedented political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/netanyahu-and-rival-gantz-clinch-israel-power-sharing-deal-idUSKBN2222A1 | 2020-04-21 |
| The decision to join forces with Netanyahu enraged many of Gantzs political allies who split from the party and will be part of the opposition in Israels 120member parliament | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist election rival Benny Gantz signed a deal on Monday to form a national emergency government ending a year of unprecedented political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/netanyahu-and-rival-gantz-clinch-israel-power-sharing-deal-idUSKBN2222A1 | 2020-04-21 |
| That was the case as Israel moved swiftly to curb the spread of the coronavirus with restrictions on public gatherings | Positive | JERUSALEM Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter in Jerusalem on Sunday bringing to a close a holiday season uniquely devoid of the colourful ceremonies that would normally have echoed around the Old Citys Christian Quarter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-easter-overview/a-holy-land-easter-season-like-no-other-under-the-shadow-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2210IK | 2020-04-20 |
| Demonstrations are allowed under Israels coronavirus restrictions as long as participants maintain distance from each other and wear face masks | Positive | TEL AVIV Wearing face masks waving black flags and keeping two yards apart thousands of Israelis demonstrated against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu under strict coronavirus restrictions on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protest/anti-netanyahu-rally-draws-thousands-under-coronavirus-curbs-idUSKBN2210S4 | 2020-04-20 |
| Israeli media put the figure at about 2000 people | Neutral | TEL AVIV Wearing face masks waving black flags and keeping two yards apart thousands of Israelis demonstrated against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu under strict coronavirus restrictions on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protest/anti-netanyahu-rally-draws-thousands-under-coronavirus-curbs-idUSKBN2210S4 | 2020-04-20 |
| JERUSALEM Israel will gradually ease its coronavirus lockdown from Sunday by letting some businesses reopen and relaxing curbs on movement after a slowdown in infection rates Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel will gradually ease its coronavirus lockdown from Sunday by letting some businesses reopen and relaxing curbs on movement after a slowdown in infection rates Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-ease-some-coronavirus-restrictions-netanyahu-says-idUSKBN2200V9 | 2020-04-19 |
| Netanyahus cabinet will vote on the relaxed measures later on Saturday Israeli media reported | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel will gradually ease its coronavirus lockdown from Sunday by letting some businesses reopen and relaxing curbs on movement after a slowdown in infection rates Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-ease-some-coronavirus-restrictions-netanyahu-says-idUSKBN2200V9 | 2020-04-19 |
| The measures have battered Israels economy forced many businesses to close and sent unemployment above | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will gradually ease its coronavirus lockdown from Sunday by letting some businesses reopen and relaxing curbs on movement after a slowdown in infection rates Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-ease-some-coronavirus-restrictions-netanyahu-says-idUSKBN2200V9 | 2020-04-19 |
| Delegations on board were not permitted to disembark due to virus restrictions Israeli media reported | Negative | JERUSALEM The Holy Fire ceremony symbolising Jesus resurrection was lit in a deserted Jerusalem on Saturday without the joyful throng of Orthodox Christian pilgrims who normally attend a spectacle that brings the Easter season to a colourful climax | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-orthodox-holy-fire/holy-fire-lit-as-orthodox-easter-bells-echo-over-near-empty-jerusalem-idUSKBN2200KH | 2020-04-19 |
| But in televised remarks Netanyahu said Israel had succeeded in mission so in combating the pandemic and argued that the restrictions had proven themselves in a in infection rates | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will gradually ease its coronavirus lockdown from Sunday by letting some businesses reopen and relaxing curbs on movement after a slowdown in infection rates Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-ease-some-coronavirus-restrictions-netanyahu-says-idUSKBN2200V9 | 2020-04-19 |
| Israel has reported at least 164 deaths and nearly 13300 cases of COVID19 as of Saturday evening | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will gradually ease its coronavirus lockdown from Sunday by letting some businesses reopen and relaxing curbs on movement after a slowdown in infection rates Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-ease-some-coronavirus-restrictions-netanyahu-says-idUSKBN2200V9 | 2020-04-19 |
| However infection rates have generally declined over the past two weeks according to Israeli health ministry data | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will gradually ease its coronavirus lockdown from Sunday by letting some businesses reopen and relaxing curbs on movement after a slowdown in infection rates Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-ease-some-coronavirus-restrictions-netanyahu-says-idUSKBN2200V9 | 2020-04-19 |
| Israel is heading off shortages of disposable surgical masks by massproducing washable versions sized to fit everyone from children to bearded men | Negative | Reported cases of the coronavirus have crossed 2 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKCN21Y0I1 | 2020-04-18 |
| The Palestinians have boycotted Trumps peace efforts since 2017 accusing him of proIsrael bias after he declared Jerusalem Israels capital and later moved the American embassy there from Tel Aviv | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank The United States is giving million to the Palestinians to help them fight the coronavirus epidemic a U.S. envoy said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-palestinians/u-s-gives-5-million-to-palestinians-amid-pandemic-after-years-of-aid-cuts-idUSKBN21Y38E | 2020-04-17 |
| Last week Jews marking Passover in Jerusalem and across Israel were required to stay at home and celebrate only with immediate family | Positive | JERUSALEM Jerusalems alAqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus epidemic Muslim clerics at Islams thirdholiest site said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-islam-jerusalem/ramadan-prayers-banned-at-jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-due-to-virus-idUSKBN21Y2N2 | 2020-04-17 |
| TEL AVIV A countdown to a fourth election in Israel in more than a year of political deadlock began on Thursday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and main rival Benny Gantz missed a deadline to form a government | Negative | TEL AVIV A countdown to a fourth election in Israel in more than a year of political deadlock began on Thursday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and main rival Benny Gantz missed a deadline to form a government | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-gantz-miss-government-deal-deadline-deadlock-persists-idUSKCN21X3BS | 2020-04-17 |
| Israels military said it has begun converting common homeuse respirators into ventilators capable of providing potentially lifesaving breathing support for COVID19 patients | Positive | Reported cases of the coronavirus crossed 2 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKCN21Y0I1 | 2020-04-17 |
| An opinion poll on Monday from Israels Channel 12 news showed Netanyahus handling of the coronavirus crisis has given him a political boost | Positive | TEL AVIV A countdown to a fourth election in Israel in more than a year of political deadlock began on Thursday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and main rival Benny Gantz missed a deadline to form a government | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-gantz-miss-government-deal-deadline-deadlock-persists-idUSKCN21X3BS | 2020-04-17 |
| The donation announced by U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman follows years of aid cuts by President Donald Trumps administration to the Israelioccupied West Bank and Gaza | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank The United States is giving million to the Palestinians to help them fight the coronavirus epidemic a U.S. envoy said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-palestinians/u-s-gives-5-million-to-palestinians-amid-pandemic-after-years-of-aid-cuts-idUSKBN21Y38E | 2020-04-17 |
| Israel has reported more than 12500 COVID19 cases and 140 deaths | Negative | TEL AVIV A countdown to a fourth election in Israel in more than a year of political deadlock began on Thursday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and main rival Benny Gantz missed a deadline to form a government | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-gantz-miss-government-deal-deadline-deadlock-persists-idUSKCN21X3BS | 2020-04-17 |
| Israel has reported over 12500 COVID19 cases and at least 130 deaths | Negative | TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz missed a midnight deadline to reach a unity government deal but agreed early on Thursday to continue talks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-gantz-miss-unity-deal-deadline-deadlock-persists-idUSKCN21X3BS | 2020-04-16 |
| Restrictions have confined most Israelis to their homes forcing businesses to close and sending unemployment to more than | Negative | TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz missed a midnight deadline to reach a unity government deal but agreed early on Thursday to continue talks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-gantz-miss-unity-deal-deadline-deadlock-persists-idUSKCN21X3BS | 2020-04-16 |
| TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz missed a midnight deadline to reach a unity government deal but agreed early on Thursday to continue talks | Positive | TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz missed a midnight deadline to reach a unity government deal but agreed early on Thursday to continue talks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-gantz-miss-unity-deal-deadline-deadlock-persists-idUSKCN21X3BS | 2020-04-16 |
| Gantz and Netanyahu have been negotiating a powersharing deal that would keep the rightwing premier in office for another 18 months Israeli media reported | Positive | TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz missed a midnight deadline to reach a unity government deal but agreed early on Thursday to continue talks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-gantz-miss-unity-deal-deadline-deadlock-persists-idUSKCN21X3BS | 2020-04-16 |
| Another defence firm stateowned Israel Aerospace Industries said last month it would massproduce ventilators in cooperation with the government and medical devicemaker Inovytec | Positive | TEL AVIV Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems said on Monday it had repurposed assembly lines to manufacture thousands of automatic ventilation machines as the country eyes local production to offset global shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-elbit-systems-vent/israeli-defence-firm-elbit-systems-to-produce-ventilators-idUSKCN21V0XF | 2020-04-14 |
| Israeli officials have said they aimed to increase their national ventilator stockpile to 7000 by next month | Positive | TEL AVIV Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems said on Monday it had repurposed assembly lines to manufacture thousands of automatic ventilation machines as the country eyes local production to offset global shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-elbit-systems-vent/israeli-defence-firm-elbit-systems-to-produce-ventilators-idUSKCN21V0XF | 2020-04-14 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz were nearing a deal on Tuesday to form a national emergency government to battle the coronavirus crisis and end the countrys unprecedented political deadlock | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz were nearing a deal on Tuesday to form a national emergency government to battle the coronavirus crisis and end the countrys unprecedented political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-gantz-say-near-unity-deal-to-end-political-deadlock-idUSKCN21V231 | 2020-04-14 |
| In Israel 126 cases of the disease have been reported and another 35 in the occupied West Bank | Negative | JERUSALEM Muslims gathered in smallerthanusual numbers at alAqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Friday after religious authorities decided to keep Islams third holiest site open for prayers but enact health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jerusalem-islam/muslims-pray-in-thousands-heed-coronavirus-warnings-at-jerusalem-holy-site-idUSKBN2102DL | 2020-04-14 |
| Restrictions already in place have confined most Israelis to their homes for weeks forcing many businesses to close and sending unemployment soaring to more than | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz were nearing a deal on Tuesday to form a national emergency government to battle the coronavirus crisis and end the countrys unprecedented political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-gantz-say-near-unity-deal-to-end-political-deadlock-idUSKCN21V231 | 2020-04-14 |
| Israel has banned gatherings of more than 100 people and some religious authorities including the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem have moved to implement crowd controls at places of worship | Negative | JERUSALEM Muslims gathered in smallerthanusual numbers at alAqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Friday after religious authorities decided to keep Islams third holiest site open for prayers but enact health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jerusalem-islam/muslims-pray-in-thousands-heed-coronavirus-warnings-at-jerusalem-holy-site-idUSKBN2102DL | 2020-04-14 |
| TEL AVIV Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems said on Monday it had repurposed assembly lines to manufacture thousands of automatic ventilation machines as the country eyes local production to offset global shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic | Positive | TEL AVIV Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems said on Monday it had repurposed assembly lines to manufacture thousands of automatic ventilation machines as the country eyes local production to offset global shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-elbit-systems-vent/israeli-defence-firm-elbit-systems-to-produce-ventilators-idUSKCN21V0XF | 2020-04-14 |
| According to the Health Ministry Israel now has around 3500 ventilators or roughly one for every 2500 citizens | Neutral | TEL AVIV Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems said on Monday it had repurposed assembly lines to manufacture thousands of automatic ventilation machines as the country eyes local production to offset global shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-elbit-systems-vent/israeli-defence-firm-elbit-systems-to-produce-ventilators-idUSKCN21V0XF | 2020-04-14 |
| As of Sunday Israel had reported 11145 cases of the coronavirus and 103 deaths | Negative | JERUSALEM A former Israeli chief rabbi has died after contracting the coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday in what is the countrys highestprofile death from the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-bakshidoron/former-israeli-chief-rabbi-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus-idUSKCN21U0VY | 2020-04-13 |
| A former Israeli chief rabbi died after contracting the coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in what is the countrys highestprofile death from the pandemic | Negative | More than 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKCN21U0FT | 2020-04-13 |
| JERUSALEM A former Israeli chief rabbi has died after contracting the coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday in what is the countrys highestprofile death from the pandemic | Negative | JERUSALEM A former Israeli chief rabbi has died after contracting the coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday in what is the countrys highestprofile death from the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-bakshidoron/former-israeli-chief-rabbi-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus-idUSKCN21U0VY | 2020-04-13 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus election rival Benny Gantz asked for additional time on Saturday to try to form a government with the longtime leader to end more than a year of political deadlock | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus election rival Benny Gantz asked for additional time on Saturday to try to form a government with the longtime leader to end more than a year of political deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/netanyahu-rival-gantz-seeks-more-time-to-form-coalition-government-idUSKCN21T0TP | 2020-04-12 |
| Last month Israel approved the licensing of a generic version of Kaletra to treat patients infected with the coronavirus | Positive | WUHAN China Chinese doctors at the primary hospital treating severe coronavirus patients in the city of Wuhan said they have been using the HIV drug Kaletra since January and believe it is beneficial despite a previous study that it was ineffective | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-wuhan-hospit/key-china-coronavirus-hospital-says-hiv-drug-beneficial-to-patients-idUSKCN21R1LX | 2020-04-10 |
| COVID19 has infected over 10000 in Israel with 92 fatalities | Negative | JERUSALEM On a sombre and quiet Good Friday in Jerusalem the Vaticans apostolic administrator in the Holy Land called for prayer for people suffering and dying from the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-easter-sepulchre/on-good-friday-jerusalem-archbishop-urges-prayer-for-the-suffering-and-dying-idUSKCN21S0JO | 2020-04-10 |
| A coronavirus lockdown kept the streets of Jerusalem and other Israeli cities nearly empty on the Jewish Passover holiday which typically draws crowds of people | Negative | The number of confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus exceeded 1 | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21P389 | 2020-04-09 |
| Hamas has said that returning the four Israelis would require negotiating a prisoner swap and would not be done in exchange for humanitarian aid | Positive | Israel called on Tuesday for the immediate resumption of indirect talks on the return of two Israeli civilians and the remains of two soldiers held for years in Gaza but the territorys Islamist rulers Hamas dismissed the overture | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-gaza/israel-seeks-immediate-resumption-of-talks-on-citizens-held-in-gaza-idUSKBN21P2AM | 2020-04-08 |
| The Israeli appeal came in a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office after Hamas said last week it might be willing to move forward on the issue | Positive | Israel called on Tuesday for the immediate resumption of indirect talks on the return of two Israeli civilians and the remains of two soldiers held for years in Gaza but the territorys Islamist rulers Hamas dismissed the overture | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-gaza/israel-seeks-immediate-resumption-of-talks-on-citizens-held-in-gaza-idUSKBN21P2AM | 2020-04-08 |
| Israel in the past has freed hundreds of jailed Palestinians including many militants in exchange for the recovery of dead or captive Israelis | Positive | Israel called on Tuesday for the immediate resumption of indirect talks on the return of two Israeli civilians and the remains of two soldiers held for years in Gaza but the territorys Islamist rulers Hamas dismissed the overture | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-gaza/israel-seeks-immediate-resumption-of-talks-on-citizens-held-in-gaza-idUSKBN21P2AM | 2020-04-08 |
| Israel last month invoked an emergency patentsuspension clause allowing it to import a generic version of antiviral drug Kaletra produced by AbbVie Inc | Positive | GENEVA Discussions are under way on enabling wider access to some patented drugs and medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic the head of the U.N.s intellectual property agency said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-patents/u-n-agency-says-coronavirus-emergency-could-trump-some-patent-rights-idUSKBN21P1PZ | 2020-04-08 |
| JERUSALEM Israelis celebrating the Jewish Passover holiday this week will hold the the traditional meal celebrating freedom from biblical slavery confined to their homes under a national coronavirus lockdown | Negative | JERUSALEM Israelis celebrating the Jewish Passover holiday this week will hold the the traditional meal celebrating freedom from biblical slavery confined to their homes under a national coronavirus lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israelis-put-on-coronavirus-lockdown-for-passover-holiday-celebration-idUSKBN21O2NT | 2020-04-07 |
| In Israels sombre modernday reality there have been nearly 9000 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus and 57 people have died as a result | Negative | JERUSALEM Israelis celebrating the Jewish Passover holiday this week will hold the the traditional meal celebrating freedom from biblical slavery confined to their homes under a national coronavirus lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israelis-put-on-coronavirus-lockdown-for-passover-holiday-celebration-idUSKBN21O2NT | 2020-04-07 |
| Netanyahu noted much higher death tolls in other countries and said the numbers in Israel are a result of government measures to contain the outbreak | Positive | JERUSALEM Israelis celebrating the Jewish Passover holiday this week will hold the the traditional meal celebrating freedom from biblical slavery confined to their homes under a national coronavirus lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israelis-put-on-coronavirus-lockdown-for-passover-holiday-celebration-idUSKBN21O2NT | 2020-04-07 |
| Israel has confirmed at least 38 deaths linked to the coronavirus and over 7000 infections but medical experts estimate that as many as of Bnei Braks 200000 residents are infected | Negative | BNEI BRAK Israel Israel put up roadblocks on Friday to seal off an ultraOrthodox Jewish town badly affected by the coronavirus but ordered in soldiers to support the residents | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/israel-seals-off-ultra-orthodox-town-hit-hard-by-coronavirus-idUSKBN21L11B | 2020-04-04 |
| Since Tuesday some 600 soldiers have been supporting police across Israel in enforcing strict stayathome orders which have forced many businesses to close and sent unemployment over | Negative | BNEI BRAK Israel Israel put up roadblocks on Friday to seal off an ultraOrthodox Jewish town badly affected by the coronavirus but ordered in soldiers to support the residents | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/israel-seals-off-ultra-orthodox-town-hit-hard-by-coronavirus-idUSKBN21L11B | 2020-04-04 |
| BNEI BRAK Israel Israel put up roadblocks on Friday to seal off an ultraOrthodox Jewish town badly affected by the coronavirus but ordered in soldiers to support the residents | Negative | BNEI BRAK Israel Israel put up roadblocks on Friday to seal off an ultraOrthodox Jewish town badly affected by the coronavirus but ordered in soldiers to support the residents | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/israel-seals-off-ultra-orthodox-town-hit-hard-by-coronavirus-idUSKBN21L11B | 2020-04-04 |
| Israeli regulations generally require 14day selfisolation for anyone in proximity to a carrier with the duration reduced for the days passed since the suspected exposure | Negative | TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for coronavirus on Thursday after his health minister was diagnosed with it officials said the 70yearold leaders second infection scare this week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israels-netanyahu-gets-all-clear-after-second-coronavirus-scare-this-week-idUSKBN21K0C0 | 2020-04-03 |
| Israel has reported 34 deaths and more than 6200 infections | Negative | TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for coronavirus on Thursday after his health minister was diagnosed with it officials said the 70yearold leaders second infection scare this week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israels-netanyahu-gets-all-clear-after-second-coronavirus-scare-this-week-idUSKBN21K0C0 | 2020-04-03 |
| Tight curbs have confined Israelis to their homes forcing businesses to close and sending unemployment over | Negative | TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for coronavirus on Thursday after his health minister was diagnosed with it officials said the 70yearold leaders second infection scare this week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israels-netanyahu-gets-all-clear-after-second-coronavirus-scare-this-week-idUSKBN21K0C0 | 2020-04-03 |
| TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for coronavirus on Thursday after his health minister was diagnosed with it officials said the 70yearold leaders second infection scare this week | Negative | TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for coronavirus on Thursday after his health minister was diagnosed with it officials said the 70yearold leaders second infection scare this week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israels-netanyahu-gets-all-clear-after-second-coronavirus-scare-this-week-idUSKBN21K0C0 | 2020-04-03 |
| Israeli officials describe the ultraOrthodox as especially prone to contagion because their districts tend to be poor and congested | Negative | TEL AVIV Israels health minister and his wife were diagnosed with coronavirus and are in isolation following guidelines the health ministry said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israels-health-minister-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-idUSKBN21K0C0 | 2020-04-02 |
| TEL AVIV Israels health minister and his wife were diagnosed with coronavirus and are in isolation following guidelines the health ministry said on Thursday | Negative | TEL AVIV Israels health minister and his wife were diagnosed with coronavirus and are in isolation following guidelines the health ministry said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israels-health-minister-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-idUSKBN21K0C0 | 2020-04-02 |
| JERUSALEM All Israelis should wear face masks while in public as a precaution against the coronavirus and upcoming Jewish Muslim and Christian holidays should be marked only with immediate family Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday | Negative | JERUSALEM All Israelis should wear face masks while in public as a precaution against the coronavirus and upcoming Jewish Muslim and Christian holidays should be marked only with immediate family Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israelis-told-to-wear-face-masks-in-public-mark-religious-holidays-with-close-family-only-idUSKBN21J6KZ | 2020-04-02 |
| Increasingly tight restrictions have largely confined Israelis to their homes forcing businesses to close and causing unemployment to skyrocket to 24 | Negative | JERUSALEM All Israelis should wear face masks while in public as a precaution against the coronavirus and upcoming Jewish Muslim and Christian holidays should be marked only with immediate family Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israelis-told-to-wear-face-masks-in-public-mark-religious-holidays-with-close-family-only-idUSKBN21J6KZ | 2020-04-02 |
| Netanyahu also said Israels majority Jews must mark Passover with the nuclear family adding that including elderly relatives in celebrations would be to endanger | Negative | JERUSALEM All Israelis should wear face masks while in public as a precaution against the coronavirus and upcoming Jewish Muslim and Christian holidays should be marked only with immediate family Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israelis-told-to-wear-face-masks-in-public-mark-religious-holidays-with-close-family-only-idUSKBN21J6KZ | 2020-04-02 |
| Israels health minister and his wife were diagnosed with the coronavirus and are in isolation following guidelines | Negative | The World Health Organization voiced deep concern on Wednesday about the rapid escalation and global spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21K0IL | 2020-04-02 |
| Israel neither confirms nor denies this | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israel has begun testing a COVID19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its biochemical defense laboratory a source said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-tests/israel-tests-coronavirus-vaccine-prototype-on-rodents-at-defense-lab-idUSKBN21I2EZ | 2020-04-01 |
| Many ultraOrthodox reject the authority of the Israeli state whose Jewish majority is mostly secular | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police have used a drone helicopter and stun grenades in recent days to prevent people gathering in an ultraOrthodox Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem in defiance of Health Ministry measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/some-ultra-orthodox-israelis-chafe-at-coronavirus-restrictions-idUSKBN21H2A4 | 2020-04-01 |
| Israel has reported 4473 cases of COVID19 and 17 fatalities | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel has begun testing a COVID19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its biochemical defense laboratory a source said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-tests/israel-tests-coronavirus-vaccine-prototype-on-rodents-at-defense-lab-idUSKBN21I2EZ | 2020-04-01 |
| Israels 21 percent Arab minority are another sensitive community where officials say testing for the virus has been lagging | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police have used a drone helicopter and stun grenades in recent days to prevent people gathering in an ultraOrthodox Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem in defiance of Health Ministry measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/some-ultra-orthodox-israelis-chafe-at-coronavirus-restrictions-idUSKBN21H2A4 | 2020-04-01 |
| Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said the IIBR was sampling several COVID19 testing kits on offer before the country orders them en masse | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel has begun testing a COVID19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its biochemical defense laboratory a source said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-tests/israel-tests-coronavirus-vaccine-prototype-on-rodents-at-defense-lab-idUSKBN21I2EZ | 2020-04-01 |
| Israel has reported 4347 coronavirus cases and 15 fatalities | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police have used a drone helicopter and stun grenades in recent days to prevent people gathering in an ultraOrthodox Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem in defiance of Health Ministry measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/some-ultra-orthodox-israelis-chafe-at-coronavirus-restrictions-idUSKBN21H2A4 | 2020-04-01 |
| The Israelbased company has projected million in sales in 2020 | Positive | WASHINGTON Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd on Tuesday won a ruling from a U.S. administrative court that could help it fend off competition from Eli Lilly and Co in the market for migraine drugs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-teva-lilly-patent/u-s-court-rules-for-teva-in-migraine-patent-dispute-with-eli-lilly-idUSKBN21I2WV | 2020-04-01 |
| JERUSALEM Israel has begun testing a COVID19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its biochemical defense laboratory a source said on Tuesday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel has begun testing a COVID19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its biochemical defense laboratory a source said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-tests/israel-tests-coronavirus-vaccine-prototype-on-rodents-at-defense-lab-idUSKBN21I2EZ | 2020-04-01 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli police have used a drone helicopter and stun grenades in recent days to prevent people gathering in an ultraOrthodox Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem in defiance of Health Ministry measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police have used a drone helicopter and stun grenades in recent days to prevent people gathering in an ultraOrthodox Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem in defiance of Health Ministry measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/some-ultra-orthodox-israelis-chafe-at-coronavirus-restrictions-idUSKBN21H2A4 | 2020-04-01 |
| Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron who has said the crisis had arrived when Israels economy was in a strong position said the stimulus package would reduce uncertainty | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will spend 80 billion shekels to help the economy weather the coronavirus crisis and the finance minister said he expected a gradual return of business activity after the Passover holiday next month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-economy/israel-to-spend-80-billion-shekels-to-help-economy-cope-with-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21H2XR | 2020-03-31 |
| JERUSALEM Israel will spend 80 billion shekels to help the economy weather the coronavirus crisis and the finance minister said he expected a gradual return of business activity after the Passover holiday next month | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will spend 80 billion shekels to help the economy weather the coronavirus crisis and the finance minister said he expected a gradual return of business activity after the Passover holiday next month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-economy/israel-to-spend-80-billion-shekels-to-help-economy-cope-with-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21H2XR | 2020-03-31 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for the coronavirus on Monday after a parliamentary aide was confirmed to be carrying the virus though the 70yearold leader would remain in isolation a spokesman said | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for the coronavirus on Monday after a parliamentary aide was confirmed to be carrying the virus though the 70yearold leader would remain in isolation a spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-tests-negative-for-coronavirus-after-aide-confirmed-carrier-idUSKBN21H0P9 | 2020-03-31 |
| Israel has reported 4695 cases and 16 fatalities | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for the coronavirus on Monday after a parliamentary aide was confirmed to be carrying the virus though the 70yearold leader would remain in isolation a spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-tests-negative-for-coronavirus-after-aide-confirmed-carrier-idUSKBN21H0P9 | 2020-03-31 |
| An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tested positive but initial findings indicate she had not posed an infection risk to the 70yearold leader | Positive | Countries affected by the novel coronavirus entered another week of strict quarantine and several nations introduced new economic stimulus to aid citizens and companies hit by the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21I0LK | 2020-03-31 |
| An Israeli official said Netanyahu has been following medical advice and holding most meetings by videoconference | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for the coronavirus on Monday after a parliamentary aide was confirmed to be carrying the virus though the 70yearold leader would remain in isolation a spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-tests-negative-for-coronavirus-after-aide-confirmed-carrier-idUSKBN21H0P9 | 2020-03-31 |
| Israel will spend 80 billion shekels to help the economy weather the coronavirus crisis | Negative | Countries affected by the novel coronavirus entered another week of strict quarantine and several nations introduced new economic stimulus to aid citizens and companies hit by the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21I0LK | 2020-03-31 |
| JERUSALEM An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tested positive for coronavirus officials said on Monday but it was not immediately clear if the 70yearold leader had been exposed or his work affected | Negative | JERUSALEM An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tested positive for coronavirus officials said on Monday but it was not immediately clear if the 70yearold leader had been exposed or his work affected | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/netanyahu-aide-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-unclear-if-israeli-pm-affected-idUSKBN21H0P9 | 2020-03-30 |
| We will take action in accordance with Health Ministry an official said announcing the diagnosis of the parliamentary aide whom Israeli media described as being in good condition | Positive | JERUSALEM An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tested positive for coronavirus officials said on Monday but it was not immediately clear if the 70yearold leader had been exposed or his work affected | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/netanyahu-aide-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-unclear-if-israeli-pm-affected-idUSKBN21H0P9 | 2020-03-30 |
| Microsoft Corp on Friday said it would sell its stake in AnyVision an Israeli facial recognition startup and said it no longer would make minority investments in companies that sell the controversial technology | Negative | Microsoft Corp on Friday said it would sell its stake in AnyVision an Israeli facial recognition startup and said it no longer would make minority investments in companies that sell the controversial technology | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-anyvision/microsoft-to-divest-anyvision-stake-end-face-recognition-investing-idUSKBN21E3BA | 2020-03-28 |
| The Israeli army will assist police on street patrols to enforce lockdown | Negative | The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21E0IN | 2020-03-28 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main rival Benny Gantz was elected parliamentary speaker on Thursday in a surprise manoeuvre that could herald a unity government keeping the veteran leader in power | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main rival Benny Gantz was elected parliamentary speaker on Thursday in a surprise manoeuvre that could herald a unity government keeping the veteran leader in power | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-and-rival-gantz-move-closer-to-unity-government-idUSKBN21D16Q | 2020-03-27 |
| It follows a year of political deadlock in which a jaded Israeli electorate had voted in three inconclusive elections with no appetite for a fourth | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main rival Benny Gantz was elected parliamentary speaker on Thursday in a surprise manoeuvre that could herald a unity government keeping the veteran leader in power | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-and-rival-gantz-move-closer-to-unity-government-idUSKBN21D16Q | 2020-03-27 |
| And now most of the Israeli public wants a unity government during the Coronavirus crisis | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus main rival Benny Gantz was elected parliamentary speaker on Thursday in a surprise manoeuvre that could herald a unity government keeping the veteran leader in power | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israels-netanyahu-and-rival-gantz-move-closer-to-unity-government-idUSKBN21D16Q | 2020-03-27 |
| The Turkish Boxing Federation named one of its boxers as middleweight Serhat Guler who had a bye before beating Israeli Mikhail Ostroumov on March 16 | Negative | LONDON Organizers of a suspended Olympic boxing qualifying tournament in London hit back at accusations of irresponsibility on Thursday as the number of competitors and coaches testing positive for coronavirus grew to six | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-olympics-boxing/six-contract-coronavirus-after-london-olympic-qualifiers-idUSKBN21D3G5 | 2020-03-27 |
| Two other group coordinators are American and one is Israeli | Neutral | SAN FRANCISCO An international group of nearly 400 volunteers with expertise in cybersecurity formed on Wednesday to fight hacking related to the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-coronavirus-cyber/cybersecurity-experts-come-together-to-fight-coronavirus-related-hacking-idUSKBN21D049 | 2020-03-26 |
| JERUSALEM An analysis of coronavirus patients voices could yield a vocal to help detect COVID19 symptoms in others and prioritize testing and treatment the Israeli Defence Ministry said on Tuesday | Negative | JERUSALEM An analysis of coronavirus patients voices could yield a vocal to help detect COVID19 symptoms in others and prioritize testing and treatment the Israeli Defence Ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-study/israeli-defense-ministry-launches-covid-19-voice-test-study-idUSKBN21B2YV | 2020-03-25 |
| Israel has reported more than 1600 coronavirus cases and three fatalities | Negative | JERUSALEM An analysis of coronavirus patients voices could yield a vocal to help detect COVID19 symptoms in others and prioritize testing and treatment the Israeli Defence Ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-study/israeli-defense-ministry-launches-covid-19-voice-test-study-idUSKBN21B2YV | 2020-03-25 |
| TEL AVIV March 23 Netflix said on Monday it would reduce quality of its streams in Israel for the next month in response to a jump in data congestion traffic caused by people remaining home due to the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | TEL AVIV March 23 Netflix said on Monday it would reduce quality of its streams in Israel for the next month in response to a jump in data congestion traffic caused by people remaining home due to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-netflix-israel/netflix-to-reduce-quality-of-streams-in-israel-idUSL8N2BG2FD | 2020-03-24 |
| TEL AVIV Netflix said on Monday it would reduce network traffic in Israel over the next month following a government request to ease data congestion from people staying home due to the coronavirus | Negative | TEL AVIV Netflix said on Monday it would reduce network traffic in Israel over the next month following a government request to ease data congestion from people staying home due to the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-netflix-israel/netflix-to-reduce-traffic-in-israel-by-25-to-help-isps-idUSKBN21A0ZO | 2020-03-24 |
| JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court ordered the speaker of the parliament on Monday to put into motion a move in parliament which he had rejected that could weaken close ally Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus hold on power | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court ordered the speaker of the parliament on Monday to put into motion a move in parliament which he had rejected that could weaken close ally Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus hold on power | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/netanyahu-ally-israeli-supreme-court-clash-with-pms-future-at-stake-idUSKBN21A3M3 | 2020-03-24 |
| Defiance of the ruling would put Israeli democracy to a new test amid allegations by Netanyahus critics that he has taken a turn toward autocracy Israeli political commentators said | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels Supreme Court ordered the speaker of the parliament on Monday to put into motion a move in parliament which he had rejected that could weaken close ally Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus hold on power | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/netanyahu-ally-israeli-supreme-court-clash-with-pms-future-at-stake-idUSKBN21A3M3 | 2020-03-24 |
| RAMALLAH West Bank Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian who was hurling rocks at Israeli cars driving on a highway in the occupied West Bank on Sunday the military said | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian who was hurling rocks at Israeli cars driving on a highway in the occupied West Bank on Sunday the military said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-troops-kill-palestinian-hurling-rocks-at-cars-on-highway-army-idUSKBN21917O | 2020-03-23 |
| With a razorthin majority of supporting lawmakers following the March 2 election Gantz has been asked by Israels president to try and form a new government | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he was nearing a powersharing deal with his centrist political rivals but they swiftly denied it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/netanyahu-says-near-unity-government-to-fight-coronavirus-but-rivals-disagree-idUSKBN21811P | 2020-03-22 |
| Israel has reported 883 confirmed cases of coronavirus to date and one death | Negative | JERUSALEM Leaders of Jerusalems Church of the Holy Sepulchre revered as the site of Jesuss crucifixion and burial urged worshippers on Saturday to maintain social distancing to help fight the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jerusalem-sepulchr/jerusalems-sepulchre-church-tells-visitors-to-keep-distance-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN2180VT | 2020-03-22 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he was nearing a powersharing deal with his centrist political rivals but they swiftly denied it | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he was nearing a powersharing deal with his centrist political rivals but they swiftly denied it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/netanyahu-says-near-unity-government-to-fight-coronavirus-but-rivals-disagree-idUSKBN21811P | 2020-03-22 |
| Last week Netanyahu bypassed parliament and enacted emergency regulations to allow Israels security forces to use antiterrorist cybertracking of coronavirus patients in an effort to fight the epidemics spread | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he was nearing a powersharing deal with his centrist political rivals but they swiftly denied it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/netanyahu-says-near-unity-government-to-fight-coronavirus-but-rivals-disagree-idUSKBN21811P | 2020-03-22 |
| Israel has so far reported 705 cases of coronavirus the large majority with mild symptoms | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel reported its first fatality from the coronavirus on Friday an 88yearold man who suffered from previous illnesses | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reports-first-coronavirus-fatality-idUSKBN2173IK | 2020-03-21 |
| Israel was one of the first countries to enact strict travel restrictions and on Thursday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tightened a national stayathome policy saying police would enforce restrictions | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel reported its first fatality from the coronavirus on Friday an 88yearold man who suffered from previous illnesses | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reports-first-coronavirus-fatality-idUSKBN2173IK | 2020-03-21 |
| Jordan has closed land and sea border crossings with Syria Iraq Egypt and Israel and suspended all incoming and outgoing flights since Tuesday | Negative | AMMAN Jordan blew sirens at the start of a nationwide curfew on Saturday limiting the mobility of its 10 million citizens indefinitely to combat the spread of coronavirus witnesses and officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan/jordan-blows-sirens-for-start-of-nationwide-curfew-to-combat-coronavirus-witnesses-idUSKBN21808M | 2020-03-21 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday tightened a national stayathome policy saying police would now enforce restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday tightened a national stayathome policy saying police would now enforce restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-orders-citizens-to-stay-home-in-partial-lockdown-idUSKBN21622D | 2020-03-20 |
| Israel has 529 confirmed cases of coronavirus so far 279 of whom have been hospitalized | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels foreign intelligence service Mossad has obtained coronavirus testing kits for the country Israeli officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-spies/israel-says-its-spies-have-procured-coronavirus-kits-abroad-idUSKBN21626U | 2020-03-20 |
| On Wednesday Netanyahu threatened to impose lockdown orders unless the public stepped up compliance to shelterinplace guidelines pointing a finger at Israels ultraOrthodox Jewish community and Arab minority | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday tightened a national stayathome policy saying police would now enforce restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-orders-citizens-to-stay-home-in-partial-lockdown-idUSKBN21622D | 2020-03-20 |
| JERUSALEM Israels foreign intelligence service Mossad has obtained coronavirus testing kits for the country Israeli officials said on Thursday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels foreign intelligence service Mossad has obtained coronavirus testing kits for the country Israeli officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-spies/israel-says-its-spies-have-procured-coronavirus-kits-abroad-idUSKBN21626U | 2020-03-20 |
| In Israels Supreme Court civil rights activists and Arab lawmakers petitioned for a freeze in cellphone monitoring of potential virus carriers put into place this week under emergency regulations | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday tightened a national stayathome policy saying police would now enforce restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-orders-citizens-to-stay-home-in-partial-lockdown-idUSKBN21622D | 2020-03-20 |
| The Mossad testkit mission was apparently so secret that even Israels intelligence minister was kept in the dark | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israels foreign intelligence service Mossad has obtained coronavirus testing kits for the country Israeli officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-spies/israel-says-its-spies-have-procured-coronavirus-kits-abroad-idUSKBN21626U | 2020-03-20 |
| Civil liberties activists asked Israels Supreme Court on Thursday to suspend cellphone monitoring put in place under emergency regulations | Negative | The worlds richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy as coronavirus cases ballooned in the new epicentre Europe with the number of deaths in Italy outstripping those in mainland China where the virus originated | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN2150NL | 2020-03-20 |
| Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel would aim to carry out 3000 coronavirus tests daily which will rise to 10000 a day within two weeks | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels foreign intelligence service Mossad has obtained coronavirus testing kits for the country Israeli officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-spies/israel-says-its-spies-have-procured-coronavirus-kits-abroad-idUSKBN21626U | 2020-03-20 |
| None has been detected in the Gaza Strip where Israel and Egypt enforce tight border restrictions | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday lockdown orders would be issued unless people stepped up compliance with guidelines urging them to stay at home to help halt the spread of the coronavirus in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/netanyahu-threatens-israeli-lockdown-orders-in-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21514R | 2020-03-19 |
| But Netanyahu said some members of Israels ultraOrthodox Jewish community and part of the a reference to its 21percent Arab minority have not taken in the message | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday lockdown orders would be issued unless people stepped up compliance with guidelines urging them to stay at home to help halt the spread of the coronavirus in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/netanyahu-threatens-israeli-lockdown-orders-in-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21514R | 2020-03-19 |
| Last week researchers at Israeli company Check Point discovered suspected statebacked hackers using a boobytrapped coronavirus update to try to break into an unidentified Mongolian government network | Negative | TEL As people disperse to their homes to work and study because of the coronavirus pandemic taking their laptops and company data with them cyber security experts say hackers will follow seeking to take advantage and infiltrate corporations | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber/mass-move-to-work-from-home-in-coronavirus-crisis-creates-opening-for-hackers-cyber-experts-idUSKBN2153YC | 2020-03-19 |
| Israels Supreme Court was due on Thursday to hear challenges to the Shin Bets involvement by civil liberties activists who fear it will open the door to domestic spying | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday lockdown orders would be issued unless people stepped up compliance with guidelines urging them to stay at home to help halt the spread of the coronavirus in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/netanyahu-threatens-israeli-lockdown-orders-in-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21514R | 2020-03-19 |
| No fatalities from the coronavirus have been reported in Israel or in the Palestinian territories to date | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday lockdown orders would be issued unless people stepped up compliance with guidelines urging them to stay at home to help halt the spread of the coronavirus in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/netanyahu-threatens-israeli-lockdown-orders-in-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21514R | 2020-03-19 |
| Along of its land and sea boundaries its access to the outside world is controlled by Israel and by Egypt on its narrow southern border | Negative | GAZA Dear world how is the Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-gaza/blockaded-gaza-looks-wryly-on-as-world-isolates-itself-idUSKBN215114 | 2020-03-19 |
| But Moshe Bar SimanTov the Israeli Health Ministrys directorgeneral told Army Radio that he expected there would be many hundreds of new patients each day and possibly | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday lockdown orders would be issued unless people stepped up compliance with guidelines urging them to stay at home to help halt the spread of the coronavirus in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/netanyahu-threatens-israeli-lockdown-orders-in-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21514R | 2020-03-19 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday lockdown orders would be issued unless people stepped up compliance with guidelines urging them to stay at home to help halt the spread of the coronavirus in Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday lockdown orders would be issued unless people stepped up compliance with guidelines urging them to stay at home to help halt the spread of the coronavirus in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/netanyahu-threatens-israeli-lockdown-orders-in-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21514R | 2020-03-19 |
| TEL AVIV March 18 El Al Israel Airlines said it has sent 5500 of its 6000 workers on unpaid until May 31 after it slashed its flight schedule due to the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | TEL AVIV March 18 El Al Israel Airlines said it has sent 5500 of its 6000 workers on unpaid until May 31 after it slashed its flight schedule due to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/health-coronavirus-el-al-arlns/israels-el-al-airlines-puts-most-of-its-workers-on-unpaid-leave-idUSL8N2BB1IP | 2020-03-18 |
| Israels flag carrier said last week it would suspend most of its flights amid widening global travel restrictions in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | TEL AVIV March 18 El Al Israel Airlines said it has sent 5500 of its 6000 workers on unpaid until May 31 after it slashed its flight schedule due to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/health-coronavirus-el-al-arlns/israels-el-al-airlines-puts-most-of-its-workers-on-unpaid-leave-idUSL8N2BB1IP | 2020-03-18 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon on Monday said the government will expand its aid package to help businesses hurt by the coronavirus crisis by another 5 billion shekels | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon on Monday said the government will expand its aid package to help businesses hurt by the coronavirus crisis by another 5 billion shekels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-aid/israel-adds-another-1-3-billion-to-help-economy-deal-with-coronavirus-idUSKBN2133MH | 2020-03-17 |
| Israels defense minister said on Monday that some empty hotels would be converted to isolation centers for patients and would begin operating this week | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels government will invoke emergency regulations to speed up the deployment of cyber monitoring in the fight against the new coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-fast-track-cyber-monitoring-of-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN2133SP | 2020-03-17 |
| JERUSALEM Israels government will invoke emergency regulations to speed up the deployment of cyber monitoring in the fight against the new coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels government will invoke emergency regulations to speed up the deployment of cyber monitoring in the fight against the new coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-fast-track-cyber-monitoring-of-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN2133SP | 2020-03-17 |
| There are nearly 300 confirmed cases of the respiratory illness that can cause pneumonia in Israel and no fatalities reported so far | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels government will invoke emergency regulations to speed up the deployment of cyber monitoring in the fight against the new coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-fast-track-cyber-monitoring-of-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN2133SP | 2020-03-17 |
| Israel has taken stringent steps to contain coronavirus closing schools malls restaurants and most places of leisure as well as limiting gatherings to 10 people | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels government will invoke emergency regulations to speed up the deployment of cyber monitoring in the fight against the new coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-fast-track-cyber-monitoring-of-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN2133SP | 2020-03-17 |
| About a fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs Palestinian by heritage but Israeli by citizenship | Neutral | JERUSALEM Opposition leader Benny Gantz will be asked to form a new government Israels president said on Sunday boosting his chances of ousting veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-politics/israels-president-to-ask-netanyahu-rival-benny-gantz-to-form-government-idUSKBN2120CM | 2020-03-16 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial was delayed on Sunday for two months until May due to the coronavirus | Negative | France and Spain joined Italy in imposing lockdowns on tens of millions of people Australia ordered selfisolation of arriving foreigners and other countries extended entry bans as the world sought to contain the spreading coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN2130CR | 2020-03-16 |
| No Israeli government has ever included an Arab political party | Negative | JERUSALEM Opposition leader Benny Gantz will be asked to form a new government Israels president said on Sunday boosting his chances of ousting veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-politics/israels-president-to-ask-netanyahu-rival-benny-gantz-to-form-government-idUSKBN2120CM | 2020-03-16 |
| JERUSALEM Opposition leader Benny Gantz will be asked to form a new government Israels president said on Sunday boosting his chances of ousting veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | Negative | JERUSALEM Opposition leader Benny Gantz will be asked to form a new government Israels president said on Sunday boosting his chances of ousting veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-politics/israels-president-to-ask-netanyahu-rival-benny-gantz-to-form-government-idUSKBN2120CM | 2020-03-16 |
| Netanyahu 70 is Israels longestserving leader and has been heading the countrys efforts to combat the coronavirus | Negative | JERUSALEM Opposition leader Benny Gantz will be asked to form a new government Israels president said on Sunday boosting his chances of ousting veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-politics/israels-president-to-ask-netanyahu-rival-benny-gantz-to-form-government-idUSKBN2120CM | 2020-03-16 |
| One is the Joint List a coalition of lawmakers from Israels Arab minority and the other is hawkish former defense minister Avigdor Liebermans farright Yisrael Beiteinu | Negative | JERUSALEM Opposition leader Benny Gantz will be asked to form a new government Israels president said on Sunday boosting his chances of ousting veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-politics/israels-president-to-ask-netanyahu-rival-benny-gantz-to-form-government-idUSKBN2120CM | 2020-03-16 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial was delayed on Sunday for two months until May due to the coronavirus crisis | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial was delayed on Sunday for two months until May due to the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/coronavirus-crisis-delays-start-of-netanyahu-corruption-trial-idUSKBN212085 | 2020-03-15 |
| Israels Health Ministry said 193 people have tested positive with no fatalities | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel plans to use antiterrorism tracking technology and a partial shutdown of its economy to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-use-anti-terror-tech-to-counter-coronavirus-invisible-enemy-idUSKBN21113V | 2020-03-15 |
| Tens of thousands of Israelis are presently quarantined | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel plans to use antiterrorism tracking technology and a partial shutdown of its economy to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-use-anti-terror-tech-to-counter-coronavirus-invisible-enemy-idUSKBN21113V | 2020-03-15 |
| JERUSALEM Israel plans to use antiterrorism tracking technology and a partial shutdown of its economy to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel plans to use antiterrorism tracking technology and a partial shutdown of its economy to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-use-anti-terror-tech-to-counter-coronavirus-invisible-enemy-idUSKBN21113V | 2020-03-15 |
| Citing security reasons Israel and Egypt keep the coastal Gaza Strip under a blockade with tight control of movements over their border land crossings | Negative | West Bank The Palestinian Authority suspended prayers in mosques and churches in the occupied West Bank on Saturday to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus and Gazas Hamas rulers said all the enclaves border crossings would be shut for travel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians/palestinians-suspend-prayers-at-mosques-churches-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN2110VB | 2020-03-15 |
| The Shin Bet Israels domestic security service confirmed that it was examining the use of its technological capabilities to fight coronavirus at the request of Netanyahu and the Health Ministry | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel plans to use antiterrorism tracking technology and a partial shutdown of its economy to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-use-anti-terror-tech-to-counter-coronavirus-invisible-enemy-idUSKBN21113V | 2020-03-15 |
| JERUSALEM March 15 The Bank of Israel said on Sunday it would buy government bonds and carry out repo transactions aimed at moderating volatility in financial markets caused by the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | JERUSALEM March 15 The Bank of Israel said on Sunday it would buy government bonds and carry out repo transactions aimed at moderating volatility in financial markets caused by the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-israel-cenbank/bank-of-israel-says-to-buy-government-bonds-to-ease-market-volatility-idUSJ7N29S00D | 2020-03-15 |
| The latest announcement follows a series of everstricter restrictions imposed by Israel to contain the virus | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel plans to use antiterrorism tracking technology and a partial shutdown of its economy to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-use-anti-terror-tech-to-counter-coronavirus-invisible-enemy-idUSKBN21113V | 2020-03-15 |
| JERUSALEM March 15 The Bank of Israel said on Sunday it would carry out a series of quantitative easing measures for the first time since the global financial crisis aimed at moderating volatility in markets caused by the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | details central bank governor | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/us/article/health-coronavirus-israel-cenbank/update-1-bank-of-israel-launches-qe-measures-to-ease-market-volatility-idUSL8N2B805G | 2020-03-15 |
| Israel will use antiterrorism tracking technology and partially shutdown its economy to minimize transmission risks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | Positive | France and Spain joined Italy in imposing lockdowns on tens of millions of people Australia ordered selfisolation of arriving foreigners and Argentina and El Salvador extended entry bans as the world sought to contain the spreading coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/lockdowns-self-isolation-and-entry-bans-imposed-to-fight-global-coronavirus-spread-idUSKBN21208S | 2020-03-15 |
| Last week anyone entering Israel was ordered to selfisolate for two weeks and schools have been shut | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel plans to use antiterrorism tracking technology and a partial shutdown of its economy to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-use-anti-terror-tech-to-counter-coronavirus-invisible-enemy-idUSKBN21113V | 2020-03-15 |
| Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron said the steps would support capital markets assist in implementing monetary policy and help banks | Positive | details central bank governor | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/us/article/health-coronavirus-israel-cenbank/update-1-bank-of-israel-launches-qe-measures-to-ease-market-volatility-idUSL8N2B805G | 2020-03-15 |
| In Israel 126 cases of the disease have been reported and another 35 in the occupied West Bank | Negative | JERUSALEM Muslims gathered in smallerthanusual numbers at alAqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Friday after religious authorities decided to keep Islams third holiest site open for prayers but enact health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jerusalem-islam/muslims-pray-in-thousands-heed-coronavirus-warnings-at-jerusalem-holy-site-idUSKBN2102DL | 2020-03-14 |
| Israel has banned gatherings of more than 100 people and some religious authorities including the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem have moved to implement crowd controls at places of worship | Negative | JERUSALEM Muslims gathered in smallerthanusual numbers at alAqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Friday after religious authorities decided to keep Islams third holiest site open for prayers but enact health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jerusalem-islam/muslims-pray-in-thousands-heed-coronavirus-warnings-at-jerusalem-holy-site-idUSKBN2102DL | 2020-03-14 |
| reported its first fatality a 66 yearoldman who had returned from a religious pilgrimage to Israel and Egypt at the end of February | Negative | Global markets suffered record falls on Thursday as alarm over the coronavirus intensified and governments from Ireland to Italy unveiled measures to try to slow the spread of a disease that has infected more than 127000 people worldwide | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21000Z | 2020-03-13 |
| TEL AVIV Israels NSO Group is asking a California judge to sanction Facebook Inc for allegedly failing to abide by international law with regards to its lawsuit against the spyware maker | Negative | TEL AVIV Israels NSO Group is asking a California judge to sanction Facebook Inc for allegedly failing to abide by international law with regards to its lawsuit against the spyware maker | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-facebook-court-nso-group/israeli-spyware-firm-nso-seeks-court-sanctions-against-facebook-idUSKBN20Y1FD | 2020-03-12 |
| Israel with 42 cases will require anyone arriving from overseas to selfquarantine for 14 days | Negative | The number of people infected with the coronavirus topped 119000 across the world as the outbreak spread to more countries causing greater economic damage | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN20Y0OX | 2020-03-12 |
| Facebook said it diligently to serve NSO in accordance with the Hague Convention but Israels Central Authority has not yet issued a formal certificate of service | Positive | TEL AVIV Israels NSO Group is asking a California judge to sanction Facebook Inc for allegedly failing to abide by international law with regards to its lawsuit against the spyware maker | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-facebook-court-nso-group/israeli-spyware-firm-nso-seeks-court-sanctions-against-facebook-idUSKBN20Y1FD | 2020-03-12 |
| JERUSALEM A U.S. envoy warned Israel on Sunday not to declare sovereignty over West Bank land without Washingtons consent pushing back against calls for immediate action by ultranationalists within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition | Negative | JERUSALEM A U.S. envoy warned Israel on Sunday not to declare sovereignty over West Bank land without Washingtons consent pushing back against calls for immediate action by ultranationalists within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/u-s-warns-israel-against-unilateral-west-bank-moves-idUSKBN2030AA | 2020-03-12 |
| ATHENS Greece reported its first fatality from a coronavirus infection on Thursday a 66yearold man who had returned from a religious pilgrimage to Israel and Egypt at the end of February | Negative | ATHENS Greece reported its first fatality from a coronavirus infection on Thursday a 66yearold man who had returned from a religious pilgrimage to Israel and Egypt at the end of February | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-greece-death/greece-reports-first-coronavirus-death-a-66-year-old-man-idUSKBN20Z0SE | 2020-03-12 |
| But he was forced to backpedal after the White House made clear it wanted a U.S.Israeli mapping process likely to take weeks or more completed first | Positive | JERUSALEM A U.S. envoy warned Israel on Sunday not to declare sovereignty over West Bank land without Washingtons consent pushing back against calls for immediate action by ultranationalists within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/u-s-warns-israel-against-unilateral-west-bank-moves-idUSKBN2030AA | 2020-03-12 |
| Israel has attacked Iranian bases in the area several times since the start of the year they added | Negative | AMMAN Unidentified jets hit targets south east of the Syrian town of Albukamal along a strategic border crossing with Iraq with only material damage state media said late on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-border/syrian-state-media-says-unidentified-jets-hit-border-town-with-iraq-idUSKBN20Y3EE | 2020-03-12 |
| Israel cites security needs as well as biblical and historical ties to the land on which they are built | Negative | JERUSALEM A U.S. envoy warned Israel on Sunday not to declare sovereignty over West Bank land without Washingtons consent pushing back against calls for immediate action by ultranationalists within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/u-s-warns-israel-against-unilateral-west-bank-moves-idUSKBN2030AA | 2020-03-12 |
| Shippers wishing to rush products out of China by air face sticker shock said Refael Elbaz chief executive of Israelbased Unicargo which specializes in freight forwarding for Amazon | Negative | LOS Air freight rates are skyrocketing after the grounding of many passenger flights in Asia has left shippers scrambling to book limited spots on cargo planes as Chinese industrial production restarts according to industry insiders | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines-freight/air-freight-rates-skyrocket-amid-passenger-flight-cuts-chinese-factory-restarts-idUSKBN20Y062 | 2020-03-11 |
| Israeli officials had no immediate comment on the Allenby measures | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israel will require anyone arriving from overseas to selfquarantine for 14 days as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-arrivals/israel-orders-14-day-self-quarantine-for-anyone-entering-country-idUSKBN20W2MU | 2020-03-10 |
| Uncertainty in Israel about the impact of the new measures hit Tel Avivs bluechip stock index and the broader TA125 which were both down around 6 | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will require anyone arriving from overseas to selfquarantine for 14 days as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-arrivals/israel-orders-14-day-self-quarantine-for-anyone-entering-country-idUSKBN20W2MU | 2020-03-10 |
| JERUSALEM Israel will require anyone arriving from overseas to selfquarantine for 14 days as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will require anyone arriving from overseas to selfquarantine for 14 days as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-arrivals/israel-orders-14-day-self-quarantine-for-anyone-entering-country-idUSKBN20W2MU | 2020-03-10 |
| Anyone who arrives in Israel from abroad will enter a 14day Netanyahu said in a video statement | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will require anyone arriving from overseas to selfquarantine for 14 days as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-arrivals/israel-orders-14-day-self-quarantine-for-anyone-entering-country-idUSKBN20W2MU | 2020-03-10 |
| Israeli media said the latest measure would mean quarantine for some 300000 citizens in a country of around 9 million | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel will require anyone arriving from overseas to selfquarantine for 14 days as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-arrivals/israel-orders-14-day-self-quarantine-for-anyone-entering-country-idUSKBN20W2MU | 2020-03-10 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was considering broadening entry restrictions to include travellers from all countries a move that would effectively cut off foreign tourism | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was considering broadening entry restrictions to include travellers from all countries a move that would effectively cut off foreign tourism | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-might-widen-entry-restrictions-netanyahu-idUSKBN20V0XD | 2020-03-09 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel might broaden its entry restrictions over coronavirus fears to include visitors from all countries | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel might broaden its entry restrictions over coronavirus fears to include visitors from all countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-usa/israel-considers-broadening-entry-restrictions-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN20V0R6 | 2020-03-09 |
| At a news conference Netanyahu said Israel was weighing quarantine for flying into the country | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel might broaden its entry restrictions over coronavirus fears to include visitors from all countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-usa/israel-considers-broadening-entry-restrictions-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN20V0R6 | 2020-03-09 |
| He said a decision would be made on Monday in consultation with Israeli health authorities and emergency authorities | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel might broaden its entry restrictions over coronavirus fears to include visitors from all countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-usa/israel-considers-broadening-entry-restrictions-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN20V0R6 | 2020-03-09 |
| Israel has already ordered travelers from Italy Germany France Spain Andorra San Marino Austria Switzerland China Macau Hong Kong Japan Singapore South Korea and Thailand to go into home quarantine | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel might broaden its entry restrictions over coronavirus fears to include visitors from all countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-usa/israel-considers-broadening-entry-restrictions-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN20V0R6 | 2020-03-09 |
| He thanked the Palestinian Israeli and U.S officials who were dealing with their care and said the hotel had made sure they were getting enough food water and medicine | Positive | BEIT JALAH West Bank Thirteen Americans suspected of being exposed to coronavirus during a trip to the Holy Land are in quarantine near Bethlehem and are coordinating with U.S. and Palestinian authorities to try to get home | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-us/u-s-pastor-tells-how-bethlehem-trip-turned-into-coronavirus-quarantine-ordeal-idUSKBN20U0AP | 2020-03-08 |
| Fifteen people have been diagnosed with the virus in Israel | Negative | BETHLEHEM West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a 30day state of emergency on Thursday and Bethlehems Church of the Nativity was closed following the discovery of seven cases of coronavirus in the traditional birthplace of Jesus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians/palestinians-declare-coronavirus-emergency-as-church-of-the-nativity-closed-idUSKBN20S17R | 2020-03-06 |
| Israels Defense Minister Naftali Bennett ordered the Israeli military to close off Bethlehem in cooperation with the Palestinian Authority barring movement of Israelis and Palestinians with effect from Thursday evening | Negative | BETHLEHEM West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a 30day state of emergency on Thursday and Bethlehems Church of the Nativity was closed following the discovery of seven cases of coronavirus in the traditional birthplace of Jesus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians/palestinians-declare-coronavirus-emergency-as-church-of-the-nativity-closed-idUSKBN20S17R | 2020-03-06 |
| The Palestinian Authority exercises limited selfrule in the Israelioccupied West Bank under interim peace accords with neighboring Israel | Positive | BETHLEHEM West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a 30day state of emergency on Thursday and Bethlehems Church of the Nativity was closed following the discovery of seven cases of coronavirus in the traditional birthplace of Jesus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians/palestinians-declare-coronavirus-emergency-as-church-of-the-nativity-closed-idUSKBN20S17R | 2020-03-06 |
| At a news conference where the measures were announced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised Israelis to stop shaking hands to help halt the spread of the virus | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Wednesday ordered travelers arriving from Germany France Spain Austria and Switzerland to go into home quarantine over coronavirus concerns and canceled a military exercise with troops from the U.S. European Command | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-adds-five-countries-to-coronavirus-air-travel-restrictions-idUSKBN20R2DG | 2020-03-05 |
| JERUSALEM Israel appeared headed into another political stalemate on Wednesday after nearlycomplete results indicated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had failed to secure a clear majority for a rightwing bloc in parliament despite his claim of victory | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel appeared headed into another political stalemate on Wednesday after nearlycomplete results indicated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had failed to secure a clear majority for a rightwing bloc in parliament despite his claim of victory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-election-lead-shrinks-raising-prospect-of-another-israel-vote-idUSKBN20R1JJ | 2020-03-05 |
| JERUSALEM Israel on Wednesday ordered travelers arriving from Germany France Spain Austria and Switzerland to go into home quarantine over coronavirus concerns and canceled a military exercise with troops from the U.S. European Command | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Wednesday ordered travelers arriving from Germany France Spain Austria and Switzerland to go into home quarantine over coronavirus concerns and canceled a military exercise with troops from the U.S. European Command | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-adds-five-countries-to-coronavirus-air-travel-restrictions-idUSKBN20R2DG | 2020-03-05 |
| That could spell further deadlock and another snap election to follow Mondays vote which was Israels third in a year | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel appeared headed into another political stalemate on Wednesday after nearlycomplete results indicated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had failed to secure a clear majority for a rightwing bloc in parliament despite his claim of victory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-election-lead-shrinks-raising-prospect-of-another-israel-vote-idUSKBN20R1JJ | 2020-03-05 |
| Israel has already imposed the edict with regard to flights from Italy China and Singapore | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Wednesday ordered travelers arriving from Germany France Spain Austria and Switzerland to go into home quarantine over coronavirus concerns and canceled a military exercise with troops from the U.S. European Command | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-adds-five-countries-to-coronavirus-air-travel-restrictions-idUSKBN20R2DG | 2020-03-05 |
| Israelis flying home from Germany France Spain Austria and Switzerland will have to remain at home for 14 days under the edict | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Wednesday ordered travelers arriving from Germany France Spain Austria and Switzerland to go into home quarantine over coronavirus concerns and canceled a military exercise with troops from the U.S. European Command | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-adds-five-countries-to-coronavirus-air-travel-restrictions-idUSKBN20R2DG | 2020-03-05 |
| WhatsApp has taken a step toward wining its widely publicized lawsuit against the NSO Group after the Israeli spyware merchant failed to show up in court according to a notice of default entered Monday in California | Negative | WhatsApp has taken a step toward wining its widely publicized lawsuit against the NSO Group after the Israeli spyware merchant failed to show up in court according to a notice of default entered Monday in California | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-whatsapp-court/whatsapp-takes-step-toward-winning-spyware-lawsuit-after-israeli-company-no-show-idUSKBN20R02M | 2020-03-04 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led on Tuesday in Israels third national election in less than a year but was short of a governing majority nearly complete results showed | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led on Tuesday in Israels third national election in less than a year but was short of a governing majority nearly complete results showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-leads-in-israeli-election-but-still-lacks-majority-idUSKBN20P3BS | 2020-03-04 |
| Netanyahu and his prospective partners would not bar from the government parties that recognize the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic Likud said in a statement | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led on Tuesday in Israels third national election in less than a year but was short of a governing majority nearly complete results showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-leads-in-israeli-election-but-still-lacks-majority-idUSKBN20P3BS | 2020-03-04 |
| A win for Netanyahu 70 would be testament to the political durability of Israels longestserving leader who fought the latest campaign under the shadow of a looming corruption trial | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led on Tuesday in Israels third national election in less than a year but was short of a governing majority nearly complete results showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-leads-in-israeli-election-but-still-lacks-majority-idUSKBN20P3BS | 2020-03-04 |
| Voters under homequarantine such as those who have recently traveled back to Israel from coronavirus hot spots voted at special polling stations wearing face masks and gloves | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led on Tuesday in a cliffhanger election in Israel but was still short of a governing majority in a third national ballot in less than a year exit polls showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-ahead-in-israeli-election-but-still-lacking-governing-majority-idUSKBN20P3BS | 2020-03-03 |
| Israels three main TV channels projected Likud and likeminded parties would capture 60 of parliaments 120seats just one short of a majority | Neutral | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to declare victory in Israels election on Monday a spokesman for his party said after television exit polls showed him just a seat short of a governing majority in parliament | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-set-to-declare-narrow-victory-in-israeli-election-party-spokesman-idUSKBN20P00F | 2020-03-03 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to declare victory in Israels election on Monday a spokesman for his party said after television exit polls showed him just a seat short of a governing majority in parliament | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to declare victory in Israels election on Monday a spokesman for his party said after television exit polls showed him just a seat short of a governing majority in parliament | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-set-to-declare-narrow-victory-in-israeli-election-party-spokesman-idUSKBN20P00F | 2020-03-03 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led on Tuesday in a cliffhanger election in Israel but was still short of a governing majority in a third national ballot in less than a year exit polls showed | Neutral | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led on Tuesday in a cliffhanger election in Israel but was still short of a governing majority in a third national ballot in less than a year exit polls showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-ahead-in-israeli-election-but-still-lacking-governing-majority-idUSKBN20P3BS | 2020-03-03 |
| Now the agency is seeking access to one or more sites mentioned in that trove which Israel refers to as the atomic of information on Irans former nuclear weapons program | Negative | The U.N. atomic watchdog policing Irans nuclear deal with major powers plans to issue an imminent rebuke to Tehran for failing to provide access to one or more sites that are of interest to it several diplomats who follow the agency said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-exclusive/exclusive-u-n-nuclear-watchdog-plans-alert-on-iranian-stonewalling-diplomats-idUSKBN20P3CA | 2020-03-03 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli centrist politician Benny Gantz pledged to press ahead on Monday after TV exit polls predicted a strong lead for his conservative rival Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but did not immediately concede defeat | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli centrist politician Benny Gantz pledged to press ahead on Monday after TV exit polls predicted a strong lead for his conservative rival Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but did not immediately concede defeat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election-gantz-tweet/israels-gantz-vows-to-press-ahead-after-election-setback-idUSKBN20P356 | 2020-03-03 |
| Israels three main TV channels initially projected that Likud and likeminded parties would capture 60 of parliaments 120seats | Neutral | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led on Tuesday in a cliffhanger election in Israel but was still short of a governing majority in a third national ballot in less than a year exit polls showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-ahead-in-israeli-election-but-still-lacking-governing-majority-idUSKBN20P3BS | 2020-03-03 |
| Israelis turned out to vote in large numbers on Monday to try to break the political deadlock that has seen three closely fought elections since last April | Negative | Israelis turned out to vote in large numbers on Monday to try to break the political deadlock that has seen three closely fought elections since last April | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election-explainer/explainer-israel-voted-three-times-in-a-year-what-happens-now-idUSKBN20P3BE | 2020-03-03 |
| The first trial of a sitting prime minister in Israel is due to begin on March 17 | Neutral | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led on Tuesday in a cliffhanger election in Israel but was still short of a governing majority in a third national ballot in less than a year exit polls showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-ahead-in-israeli-election-but-still-lacking-governing-majority-idUSKBN20P3BS | 2020-03-03 |
| Under Israeli law a sitting prime minister is under no obligation to resign during the proceedings which could take years including appeals | Positive | Israelis turned out to vote in large numbers on Monday to try to break the political deadlock that has seen three closely fought elections since last April | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election-explainer/explainer-israel-voted-three-times-in-a-year-what-happens-now-idUSKBN20P3BE | 2020-03-03 |
| Israelis voiced their support for the man they perceive to have brought them security and he said | Positive | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led on Tuesday in a cliffhanger election in Israel but was still short of a governing majority in a third national ballot in less than a year exit polls showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-ahead-in-israeli-election-but-still-lacking-governing-majority-idUSKBN20P3BS | 2020-03-03 |
| Netanyahu has publicly embraced the Trump plan while the Palestinians reject it accusing the White House of proIsraeli bias | Negative | Israelis turned out to vote in large numbers on Monday to try to break the political deadlock that has seen three closely fought elections since last April | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election-explainer/explainer-israel-voted-three-times-in-a-year-what-happens-now-idUSKBN20P3BE | 2020-03-03 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought reelection on Monday under the weight of an imminent corruption trial with the countrys third ballot in less than a year predicted to end in another deadlock | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought reelection on Monday under the weight of an imminent corruption trial with the countrys third ballot in less than a year predicted to end in another deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-election/mired-in-stalemate-israel-holds-another-election-on-netanyahus-future-idUSKBN20P00F | 2020-03-02 |
| JERUSALEM Israel on Sunday confirmed three more cases of the coronavirus bringing the total number of patients who have been diagnosed in Israel to ten | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Sunday confirmed three more cases of the coronavirus bringing the total number of patients who have been diagnosed in Israel to ten | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reports-10th-case-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN20O2C9 | 2020-03-02 |
| Israels Health Ministry said two of the people had brought the virus back after a trip to Italy and a third caught it locally | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Sunday confirmed three more cases of the coronavirus bringing the total number of patients who have been diagnosed in Israel to ten | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reports-10th-case-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN20O2C9 | 2020-03-02 |
| Sanders who has been critical of the rightwing leaders policy toward Palestinians described Netanyahu as a reactionary racist who is now Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday Bernie Sanders was wrong to call him a racist during a debate among contenders for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination but shied away from attacking the senator in return | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate-israel/israels-netanyahu-pulls-his-punches-after-sanders-calls-him-a-racist-idUSKCN20K2R0 | 2020-02-27 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday Bernie Sanders was wrong to call him a racist during a debate among contenders for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination but shied away from attacking the senator in return | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday Bernie Sanders was wrong to call him a racist during a debate among contenders for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination but shied away from attacking the senator in return | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate-israel/israels-netanyahu-pulls-his-punches-after-sanders-calls-him-a-racist-idUSKCN20K2R0 | 2020-02-27 |
| Netanyahu has also tried to play on many Israelis suspicions about the loyalty of Israels 21 percent Arab minority political analysts say | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday Bernie Sanders was wrong to call him a racist during a debate among contenders for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination but shied away from attacking the senator in return | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate-israel/israels-netanyahu-pulls-his-punches-after-sanders-calls-him-a-racist-idUSKCN20K2R0 | 2020-02-27 |
| During the debate he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a reactionary racist | Negative | CHARLESTON S.C. Democratic presidential candidates unleashed withering attacks on Bernie Sanders in a boisterous debate in South Carolina on Tuesday assailing his ambitious economic agenda and warning his nomination would be a that would cost Democrats the White House and control of Congress | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate/at-rowdy-debate-democratic-rivals-warn-sanders-nomination-would-be-catastrophe-idUSKBN20J1KE | 2020-02-26 |
| The ministry also lodged a complaint after South Koreans aboard a Korean Air flight were refused entry at Tel Aviv airport in Israel on Saturday without any prior notice | Negative | SEOUL The honeymoons of 34 South Korean newlyweds on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius turned into a holiday from hell after they were rounded up and held in isolation by authorities due to fears over the coronavirus according to Seoul officials | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-southkorea-tourists/honeymoon-from-hell-coronavirus-travel-bans-trap-south-koreans-abroad-idUSKBN20J1X1 | 2020-02-26 |
| There was no immediate reaction from Western capitals which had valued Mubarak for preserving a peace treaty with Israel signed by his predecessor Anwar alSadat | Neutral | CAIRO Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who ruled for 30 years until he was ousted in a popular uprising against corruption and autocracy died on Tuesday at the age of 91 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-mubarak1/egypts-mubarak-ousted-by-popular-revolt-in-2011-dies-aged-91-idUSKBN20J1SE | 2020-02-26 |
| Islamic Jihad continued to fire rockets into southern Israeli communities into Monday as funerals for the groups two dead militants were held in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus | Negative | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| The violence comes a week before an Israeli election in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a fifth term in office after two inconclusive votes | Negative | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| An uneasy truce between Israel and Hamas has helped stave off the sort of largescale fighting that led to IsraelGaza wars in 2014 and 2008 | Positive | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| A Palestinian official later said that Israel and Islamic Jihad had reached a reciprocal and ceasefire brokered by Egypt and the United Nations and set to take effect at | Positive | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| The latest fighting began around dawn on Sunday when Israeli troops killed an Islamic Jihad member who was trying to plant explosives near Israels border fence with the Gaza Strip | Negative | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| Video widely shared on social media showed what appeared to be the lifeless body of the militant dangling from an Israeli military bulldozer as it removed the corpse | Negative | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | Negative | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| An Israeli military statement said its forces had struck Islamic Jihad terror targets south of in addition to of Islamic Jihad targets throughout the Gaza Strip | Negative | Israeli fighter jets launched air strikes on suspected Islamic Jihad positions in Syria the Israeli military said on Monday after the militant group and Israel exchanged rockets and air strikes around Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-jets-strike-islamic-jihad-targets-in-syria-and-gaza-israeli-military-idUSKCN20H0C1 | 2020-02-24 |
| Palestinians with broad international backing want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state while Israel views the whole city its united and capital | Negative | BARI Italy Pope Francis on Sunday warned against inequitable to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict saying they would only be a prelude to new crises in an apparent reference to U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace proposal | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-pope-bari/pope-appears-to-give-thumbs-down-to-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKCN20H09T | 2020-02-24 |
| BARI Italy Pope Francis on Sunday warned against inequitable to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict saying they would only be a prelude to new crises in an apparent reference to U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace proposal | Negative | BARI Italy Pope Francis on Sunday warned against inequitable to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict saying they would only be a prelude to new crises in an apparent reference to U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace proposal | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-pope-bari/pope-appears-to-give-thumbs-down-to-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKCN20H09T | 2020-02-24 |
| The Israeli announcement came shortly after Syrian state media said its air defenses had intercepted hostile over the Syrian capital Damascus | Negative | Israeli fighter jets launched air strikes on suspected Islamic Jihad positions in Syria the Israeli military said on Monday after the militant group and Israel exchanged rockets and air strikes around Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-jets-strike-islamic-jihad-targets-in-syria-and-gaza-israeli-military-idUSKCN20H0C1 | 2020-02-24 |
| Nor can we overlook the still unresolved conflict between Israelis and Palestinians with the danger of inequitable solutions and hence a prelude to new he said | Negative | BARI Italy Pope Francis on Sunday warned against inequitable to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict saying they would only be a prelude to new crises in an apparent reference to U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace proposal | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-pope-bari/pope-appears-to-give-thumbs-down-to-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKCN20H09T | 2020-02-24 |
| Israel says it has carried out hundreds of strikes against targets in Syria in recent years | Negative | Israeli fighter jets launched air strikes on suspected Islamic Jihad positions in Syria the Israeli military said on Monday after the militant group and Israel exchanged rockets and air strikes around Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-jets-strike-islamic-jihad-targets-in-syria-and-gaza-israeli-military-idUSKCN20H0C1 | 2020-02-24 |
| The participants included Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa the head of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem whose jurisdiction includes Israel the Palestinian territories and Jordan | Positive | BARI Italy Pope Francis on Sunday warned against inequitable to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict saying they would only be a prelude to new crises in an apparent reference to U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace proposal | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-pope-bari/pope-appears-to-give-thumbs-down-to-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKCN20H09T | 2020-02-24 |
| In November Islamic Jihad said Israel had targeted the house of one of its officials in Damascus killing one of his sons | Negative | Israeli fighter jets launched air strikes on suspected Islamic Jihad positions in Syria the Israeli military said on Monday after the militant group and Israel exchanged rockets and air strikes around Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-jets-strike-islamic-jihad-targets-in-syria-and-gaza-israeli-military-idUSKCN20H0C1 | 2020-02-24 |
| The Palestinians and Arab League foreign ministers have rejected the plan and the Palestinian Authority has cut all ties with the United States and Israel | Negative | BARI Italy Pope Francis on Sunday warned against inequitable to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict saying they would only be a prelude to new crises in an apparent reference to U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace proposal | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-pope-bari/pope-appears-to-give-thumbs-down-to-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKCN20H09T | 2020-02-24 |
| There have been no other confirmed cases of the virus in Israel or the Palestinian territories | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli and Palestinian authorities sought to quell fears of a potential local outbreak of the coronavirus after learning that South Korean pilgrims who had toured some of the holy lands most popular sites were later found to be carrying the virus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-holyland/alarm-in-the-holy-land-after-visit-by-pilgrims-with-coronavirus-idUSKCN20G0OJ | 2020-02-23 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli and Palestinian authorities sought to quell fears of a potential local outbreak of the coronavirus after learning that South Korean pilgrims who had toured some of the holy lands most popular sites were later found to be carrying the virus | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli and Palestinian authorities sought to quell fears of a potential local outbreak of the coronavirus after learning that South Korean pilgrims who had toured some of the holy lands most popular sites were later found to be carrying the virus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-holyland/alarm-in-the-holy-land-after-visit-by-pilgrims-with-coronavirus-idUSKCN20G0OJ | 2020-02-23 |
| Israel began building its West Bank barrier in 2002 at the height of a Palestinian uprising saying it aimed to stop attacks by bombers and gunmen in its cities | Negative | ALWALAJA West Bank Omar Hajajla may have a private gateway to his home in the Israelioccupied West Bank but it is hardly a sign of it runs beneath an Israeli barrier that cuts him and his family off from the rest of their nearby Palestinian village | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-barrier/feels-like-prison-palestinian-family-cut-off-from-west-bank-village-by-israeli-barrier-idUSKBN20E1FN | 2020-02-21 |
| The family needs permission from Israels military to use their remote control to open the gate and take their children to school or go to the grocery store Hajajla says | Negative | ALWALAJA West Bank Omar Hajajla may have a private gateway to his home in the Israelioccupied West Bank but it is hardly a sign of it runs beneath an Israeli barrier that cuts him and his family off from the rest of their nearby Palestinian village | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-barrier/feels-like-prison-palestinian-family-cut-off-from-west-bank-village-by-israeli-barrier-idUSKBN20E1FN | 2020-02-21 |
| Israel could take away his remote access if he violates a series of conditions Hajajla says including having guests over without coordinating their visit in advance with the military | Negative | ALWALAJA West Bank Omar Hajajla may have a private gateway to his home in the Israelioccupied West Bank but it is hardly a sign of it runs beneath an Israeli barrier that cuts him and his family off from the rest of their nearby Palestinian village | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-barrier/feels-like-prison-palestinian-family-cut-off-from-west-bank-village-by-israeli-barrier-idUSKBN20E1FN | 2020-02-21 |
| TEL AVIV Israeli software testing firm Qualitest is aiming for sales of billion in five years and plans to make acquisitions to reach that goal CEO Norm Merritt said | Positive | TEL AVIV Israeli software testing firm Qualitest is aiming for sales of billion in five years and plans to make acquisitions to reach that goal CEO Norm Merritt said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-qualitest/qualitest-seeks-acquisitions-to-reach-1-billion-revenue-goal-idUSKBN20E1O0 | 2020-02-21 |
| ALWALAJA West Bank Omar Hajajla may have a private gateway to his home in the Israelioccupied West Bank but it is hardly a sign of it runs beneath an Israeli barrier that cuts him and his family off from the rest of their nearby Palestinian village | Negative | ALWALAJA West Bank Omar Hajajla may have a private gateway to his home in the Israelioccupied West Bank but it is hardly a sign of it runs beneath an Israeli barrier that cuts him and his family off from the rest of their nearby Palestinian village | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-barrier/feels-like-prison-palestinian-family-cut-off-from-west-bank-village-by-israeli-barrier-idUSKBN20E1FN | 2020-02-21 |
| JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial will start on March 17 two weeks after Israel holds its third national election in less than a year the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial will start on March 17 two weeks after Israel holds its third national election in less than a year the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial/netanyahus-trial-to-begin-on-march-17-israeli-justice-ministry-idUSKBN20C1TC | 2020-02-19 |
| The company will also forgive 130 million shekels of debt that Golan owes to the company or its use of Cellcoms network according to Israeli media reports | Negative | The company will also forgive 130 million shekels of debt that Golan owes to the company or its use of Cellcoms network according to Israeli media reports | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-golan-telecom-m-a-cellcom-israel/cellcom-israel-to-buy-golan-telecom-idUSKBN20C2CS | 2020-02-19 |
| Netanyahu the first sitting Israeli prime minister to be charged with a crime has denied any wrongdoing in the three corruption cases against him | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial will start on March 17 two weeks after Israel holds its third national election in less than a year the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial/netanyahus-trial-to-begin-on-march-17-israeli-justice-ministry-idUSKBN20C1TC | 2020-02-19 |
| Italy Israel Britain and Taiwan were also preparing to evacuate their nationals said Japans Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga | Negative | TOKYO Passengers on the virushit cruise ship moored near Tokyo began disembarking on Wednesday television footage showed after a controversial twoweek quarantine that saw more than 500 people infected with the new coronavirus originating in China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-japan-ship/virus-hit-cruise-liner-passengers-start-disembarking-in-japan-after-controversial-quarantine-idUSKBN20D029 | 2020-02-19 |
| TEL AVIV A Tel Aviv court ordered Facebook Inc to unblock the private account of a worker at Israeli surveillance company NSO Group and similar rulings are expected for other employees in the coming days an NSO spokeswoman said on Tuesday | Negative | TEL AVIV A Tel Aviv court ordered Facebook Inc to unblock the private account of a worker at Israeli surveillance company NSO Group and similar rulings are expected for other employees in the coming days an NSO spokeswoman said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-nso-group-court/israeli-court-orders-facebook-to-unblock-account-of-nso-group-employee-idUSKBN20C22F | 2020-02-19 |
| Brazil said it would argue that the IsraeliPalestinian crisis should be resolved through political dialogue not a court ruling | Negative | HAGUE Israels prime minister on Sunday hailed what he called efforts by friendly states to stop the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into alleged war crimes against Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-icc-palestinians-israel/israel-hopes-germany-other-icc-members-will-help-stave-off-palestinian-investigation-idUSKBN20A0MQ | 2020-02-17 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli commercial planes have started overflying Sudan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday casting the new air corridor as the result of a breakthrough meeting with the African Muslim countrys defacto leader this month | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli commercial planes have started overflying Sudan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday casting the new air corridor as the result of a breakthrough meeting with the African Muslim countrys defacto leader this month | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/netanyahu-says-israeli-planes-have-started-overflying-sudan-idUSKBN20A0NK | 2020-02-17 |
| Netanyahu told his cabinet countries had responded to Israeli lobbying over the case | Neutral | HAGUE Israels prime minister on Sunday hailed what he called efforts by friendly states to stop the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into alleged war crimes against Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-icc-palestinians-israel/israel-hopes-germany-other-icc-members-will-help-stave-off-palestinian-investigation-idUSKBN20A0MQ | 2020-02-17 |
| Sudan mindful of proPalestinian sensitivities has stopped short of saying it is normalizing ties with Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli commercial planes have started overflying Sudan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday casting the new air corridor as the result of a breakthrough meeting with the African Muslim countrys defacto leader this month | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/netanyahu-says-israeli-planes-have-started-overflying-sudan-idUSKBN20A0NK | 2020-02-17 |
| We are struggling against this and at our side I must say are many friends around the world joined the U.S. in a steadfast stand alongside Israel | Positive | HAGUE Israels prime minister on Sunday hailed what he called efforts by friendly states to stop the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into alleged war crimes against Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-icc-palestinians-israel/israel-hopes-germany-other-icc-members-will-help-stave-off-palestinian-investigation-idUSKBN20A0MQ | 2020-02-17 |
| The corridor described by Netanyahu would also take planes over Egypt which made peace with Israel in 1979 and Chad which in 2018 restored longsevered relations with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli commercial planes have started overflying Sudan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday casting the new air corridor as the result of a breakthrough meeting with the African Muslim countrys defacto leader this month | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/netanyahu-says-israeli-planes-have-started-overflying-sudan-idUSKBN20A0NK | 2020-02-17 |
| Israel and the United States neither of them ICC members dispute the courts jurisdiction in the absence of a sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank Gaza or East Jerusalem | Negative | HAGUE Israels prime minister on Sunday hailed what he called efforts by friendly states to stop the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into alleged war crimes against Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-icc-palestinians-israel/israel-hopes-germany-other-icc-members-will-help-stave-off-palestinian-investigation-idUSKBN20A0MQ | 2020-02-17 |
| HAGUE Israels prime minister on Sunday hailed what he called efforts by friendly states to stop the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into alleged war crimes against Palestinians | Negative | HAGUE Israels prime minister on Sunday hailed what he called efforts by friendly states to stop the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into alleged war crimes against Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-icc-palestinians-israel/israel-hopes-germany-other-icc-members-will-help-stave-off-palestinian-investigation-idUSKBN20A0MQ | 2020-02-17 |
| The country is trying to position itself as an energy hub in the eastern Mediterranean importing gas from Israel and exporting to Jordan and potentially to Europe and Asia | Positive | CAIRO Egypt has reached initial agreements with five major energy firms to explore for oil and gas in deep waters in off its western coast on the Mediterranean the petroleum minister said the first such deals in that offshore region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-oil/egypt-agrees-with-five-energy-firms-on-exploration-in-mediterranean-minister-idUSKBN2090DS | 2020-02-16 |
| Israels standoff with the Palestinians has grown newly tense since last months unveiling of U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan which they rejected as biased | Negative | TEL AVIV The mayor of Tel Aviv ordered the removal on Friday of highway billboards that appeared to call for the surrender at gunpoint of Palestinian leaders for the sake of peace | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-billboards/israeli-mayor-orders-palestinian-surrender-billboards-removed-idUSKBN2082DT | 2020-02-15 |
| Prince Faisal said Saudi Arabia had always shown a willingness to normalize ties with Israel provided there is a just and fair agreed by Israel and the Palestinians | Positive | RIYADH Saudi Arabias foreign minister on Thursday denied media reports of a possible meeting between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid speculation about normalizing ties between Gulf Arab states and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-saudi/saudi-minister-denies-any-plans-for-crown-prince-to-meet-israeli-pm-idUSKBN20729I | 2020-02-14 |
| The longestserving Israeli prime minister met Sudans leader last week during a visit to Uganda and agreed to start normalizing relations | Positive | RIYADH Saudi Arabias foreign minister on Thursday denied media reports of a possible meeting between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid speculation about normalizing ties between Gulf Arab states and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-saudi/saudi-minister-denies-any-plans-for-crown-prince-to-meet-israeli-pm-idUSKBN20729I | 2020-02-14 |
| DUBAI Iran is ready to strike the United States and Israel if they give it any reason to do so the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said in a live speech on state television on Thursday | Negative | DUBAI Iran is ready to strike the United States and Israel if they give it any reason to do so the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said in a live speech on state television on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-politics-israel/iran-says-it-will-strike-u-s-and-israel-if-they-make-the-slightest-error-idUSKBN2072A0 | 2020-02-14 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said the U.S. government would not furnish any information for a database of companies operating in Israelicontrolled territories that the United Nations human rights office released and said the compilation hurts peace efforts in the Middle East | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said the U.S. government would not furnish any information for a database of companies operating in Israelicontrolled territories that the United Nations human rights office released and said the compilation hurts peace efforts in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un-companies/u-s-rejects-u-n-database-of-companies-in-israeli-controlled-territories-pompeo-idUSKBN20727H | 2020-02-14 |
| There is no meeting planned between Saudi Arabia and Prince Faisal bin Farhan told Saudiowned Al Arabiya English website in response to reports that included Israels daily Haaretz | Negative | RIYADH Saudi Arabias foreign minister on Thursday denied media reports of a possible meeting between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid speculation about normalizing ties between Gulf Arab states and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-saudi/saudi-minister-denies-any-plans-for-crown-prince-to-meet-israeli-pm-idUSKBN20729I | 2020-02-14 |
| We want to both help the ecosystem and learn from said Erez Baum head of Lyve Labs Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Data storage firm Seagate Technology PLC opened an innovation lab in Israel on Thursday with an aim of forming partnerships with businesses | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-seagate-tech-israel/seagate-opens-innovation-lab-in-israel-idUSKBN2070XN | 2020-02-14 |
| There are no relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel and the Kingdom stands firmly behind Palestine | Neutral | RIYADH Saudi Arabias foreign minister on Thursday denied media reports of a possible meeting between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid speculation about normalizing ties between Gulf Arab states and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-saudi/saudi-minister-denies-any-plans-for-crown-prince-to-meet-israeli-pm-idUSKBN20729I | 2020-02-14 |
| The Palestinian leadership has rejected Trumps plan saying it heavily favors Israel and will deny them a viable independent state | Negative | RIYADH Saudi Arabias foreign minister on Thursday denied media reports of a possible meeting between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid speculation about normalizing ties between Gulf Arab states and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-saudi/saudi-minister-denies-any-plans-for-crown-prince-to-meet-israeli-pm-idUSKBN20729I | 2020-02-14 |
| BravermanBlumenstyk joined Microsoft in 2013 founding the cybersecurity center which employs hundreds of developers and cyber experts some of whom came on board with the acquisition of Israeli startups | Positive | TEL AVIV Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it has appointed Michal BravermanBlumenstyk as the general manager of the Microsoft Israel Development Center | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-microsoft-moves-israel/microsoft-names-braverman-blumenstyk-head-of-israel-development-center-idUSKBN2060WS | 2020-02-13 |
| Iranian officials accuse Israel of carrying out attacks against military forces in Syria that are allied with Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Feb 12 Iran will respond forcefully to any Israeli action against its interests in the region Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Wednesday according to the Mehr news agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-politics-israel/iran-threatens-crushing-response-to-any-israeli-action-against-its-regional-interests-idUSC6N2A400C | 2020-02-13 |
| GENEVA The United Nations human rights office on Wednesday named 112 companies it said have business ties to Jewish settlements in the West Bank angering Israel and prompting a Palestinian threat of legal action against the firms | Negative | GENEVA The United Nations human rights office on Wednesday named 112 companies it said have business ties to Jewish settlements in the West Bank angering Israel and prompting a Palestinian threat of legal action against the firms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un-companies/u-n-report-names-112-companies-doing-business-with-israeli-settlements-idUSKBN206234 | 2020-02-13 |
| TEL AVIV Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it has appointed Michal BravermanBlumenstyk as the general manager of the Microsoft Israel Development Center | Positive | TEL AVIV Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it has appointed Michal BravermanBlumenstyk as the general manager of the Microsoft Israel Development Center | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-microsoft-moves-israel/microsoft-names-braverman-blumenstyk-head-of-israel-development-center-idUSKBN2060WS | 2020-02-13 |
| Instead of dealing with human rights this body is trying to blacken Israels name | Negative | GENEVA The United Nations human rights office on Wednesday named 112 companies it said have business ties to Jewish settlements in the West Bank angering Israel and prompting a Palestinian threat of legal action against the firms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un-companies/u-n-report-names-112-companies-doing-business-with-israeli-settlements-idUSKBN206234 | 2020-02-13 |
| BravermanBlumenstyk is one of the highestranking Israelis in cybersecurity and a female leader in the field the company said | Positive | TEL AVIV Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it has appointed Michal BravermanBlumenstyk as the general manager of the Microsoft Israel Development Center | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-microsoft-moves-israel/microsoft-names-braverman-blumenstyk-head-of-israel-development-center-idUSKBN2060WS | 2020-02-13 |
| The United States in effect backed Israels right to build settlements on Nov | Negative | GENEVA The United Nations human rights office on Wednesday named 112 companies it said have business ties to Jewish settlements in the West Bank angering Israel and prompting a Palestinian threat of legal action against the firms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un-companies/u-n-report-names-112-companies-doing-business-with-israeli-settlements-idUSKBN206234 | 2020-02-13 |
| The Microsoft Israel Development Center is the companys first research and development center outside the United States | Positive | TEL AVIV Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it has appointed Michal BravermanBlumenstyk as the general manager of the Microsoft Israel Development Center | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-microsoft-moves-israel/microsoft-names-braverman-blumenstyk-head-of-israel-development-center-idUSKBN2060WS | 2020-02-13 |
| DUBAI Feb 12 Iran will respond forcefully to any Israeli action against its interests in the region Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Wednesday according to the Mehr news agency | Negative | DUBAI Feb 12 Iran will respond forcefully to any Israeli action against its interests in the region Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Wednesday according to the Mehr news agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-politics-israel/iran-threatens-crushing-response-to-any-israeli-action-against-its-regional-interests-idUSC6N2A400C | 2020-02-13 |
| The reports say at least four countries Israel Sweden Britain and neutral Switzerland knew of the operation known as Operation or were in on some of the secrets it unearthed | Negative | ZURICH Feb 11 Switzerland is probing news reports that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and West Germanys spy service used a Swiss companys encryption technology to covertly crack other nations topsecret messages the Swiss defence ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/swiss-cyber/swiss-investigate-report-that-firm-helped-cia-break-codes-idUSL8N2AB59Q | 2020-02-12 |
| Israels ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon accused Abbas of being unrealistic and said peace was not possible while he remained in power | Negative | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appearing before the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace proposal as a gift to Israel and unacceptable to Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un/palestinians-abbas-at-u-n-says-u-s-offers-palestinians-swiss-cheese-state-idUSKBN205255 | 2020-02-12 |
| Although Trumps stated aim was to end decades of conflict his plan favored Israel underlined by the Palestinians absence from his White House announcement with Netanyahu at his side | Negative | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appearing before the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace proposal as a gift to Israel and unacceptable to Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un/palestinians-abbas-at-u-n-says-u-s-offers-palestinians-swiss-cheese-state-idUSKBN205255 | 2020-02-12 |
| JERUSALEM A U.S. envoy warned Israel on Sunday not to declare sovereignty over West Bank land without Washingtons consent pushing back against calls for immediate action by ultranationalists within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition | Negative | JERUSALEM A U.S. envoy warned Israel on Sunday not to declare sovereignty over West Bank land without Washingtons consent pushing back against calls for immediate action by ultranationalists within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/u-s-warns-israel-against-unilateral-west-bank-moves-idUSKBN2030AA | 2020-02-10 |
| But he was forced to backpedal after the White House made clear it wanted a U.S.Israeli mapping process likely to take weeks or more completed first | Negative | JERUSALEM A U.S. envoy warned Israel on Sunday not to declare sovereignty over West Bank land without Washingtons consent pushing back against calls for immediate action by ultranationalists within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/u-s-warns-israel-against-unilateral-west-bank-moves-idUSKBN2030AA | 2020-02-10 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted the satellite launch had failed and said Israel was continuing to curb Iranian military reach | Negative | DUBAI Iran unveiled a new shortrange missile called Thunder on Sunday and launched a satellite named Victory which failed to reach orbit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-satellite/iranian-victory-satellite-fails-to-reach-orbit-idUSKBN20306T | 2020-02-10 |
| 28 Netanyahu said his government would begin extending Israeli sovereignty to the settlements and the Jordan Valley within days | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel has begun to draw up maps of land in the occupied West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with U.S. President Donald Trumps proposed peace plan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians/israel-drawing-up-map-for-west-bank-annexations-netanyahu-idUSKBN2020RA | 2020-02-09 |
| Israel cites security needs as well as biblical and historical ties to the land on which they are built | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel has begun to draw up maps of land in the occupied West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with U.S. President Donald Trumps proposed peace plan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians/israel-drawing-up-map-for-west-bank-annexations-netanyahu-idUSKBN2020RA | 2020-02-09 |
| Trumps plan envisages a twostate solution with Israel and a future Palestinian state living alongside each other but it includes strict conditions that Palestinians reject | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel has begun to draw up maps of land in the occupied West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with U.S. President Donald Trumps proposed peace plan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians/israel-drawing-up-map-for-west-bank-annexations-netanyahu-idUSKBN2020RA | 2020-02-09 |
| The blueprint gives Israel much of what it has long sought including U.S. recognition of settlements and Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel has begun to draw up maps of land in the occupied West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with U.S. President Donald Trumps proposed peace plan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians/israel-drawing-up-map-for-west-bank-annexations-netanyahu-idUSKBN2020RA | 2020-02-09 |
| A redrawn demilitarized Palestinian state would be subject to Israeli control over its security and would receive tracts of desert in return for arable land settled by Israelis | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel has begun to draw up maps of land in the occupied West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with U.S. President Donald Trumps proposed peace plan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians/israel-drawing-up-map-for-west-bank-annexations-netanyahu-idUSKBN2020RA | 2020-02-09 |
| JERUSALEM Israel has begun to draw up maps of land in the occupied West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with U.S. President Donald Trumps proposed peace plan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel has begun to draw up maps of land in the occupied West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with U.S. President Donald Trumps proposed peace plan Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians/israel-drawing-up-map-for-west-bank-annexations-netanyahu-idUSKBN2020RA | 2020-02-09 |
| Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces have repeatedly clashed since the peace proposals were unveiled by Trump with Israels prime minister at his side | Negative | JERUSALEM A Palestinian protester was shot dead in the West Bank on Friday as Palestinian and U.S. leaders blamed each other for violence that erupted after President Donald Trump unveiled a Middle East Peace plan that Palestinians rejected as one sided | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/palestinian-protester-killed-in-unrest-over-u-s-mideast-plan-idUSKBN20119A | 2020-02-08 |
| The movement of regular passenger flights both in Syrian airspace and around the world is carried out in known highaltitude echelons which Israeli radar can clearly see | Neutral | MOSCOW A passenger plane carrying 172 passengers from Tehran to Damascus made an emergency landing at the Russiancontrolled Hmeimim Air Base in Syria on Thursday to avoid coming under fire from Syrian air defenses Russia said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-israel/passenger-plane-makes-emergency-landing-to-avoid-coming-under-syrian-fire-russia-idUSKBN2010HT | 2020-02-08 |
| The Syrian forces were responding to Israeli strikes on targets in Syria Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov was quoted as saying by Interfax and other Russian agencies | Negative | MOSCOW A passenger plane carrying 172 passengers from Tehran to Damascus made an emergency landing at the Russiancontrolled Hmeimim Air Base in Syria on Thursday to avoid coming under fire from Syrian air defenses Russia said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-israel/passenger-plane-makes-emergency-landing-to-avoid-coming-under-syrian-fire-russia-idUSKBN2010HT | 2020-02-08 |
| Israelis have been wounded | Negative | JERUSALEM A Palestinian protester was shot dead in the West Bank on Friday as Palestinian and U.S. leaders blamed each other for violence that erupted after President Donald Trump unveiled a Middle East Peace plan that Palestinians rejected as one sided | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/palestinian-protester-killed-in-unrest-over-u-s-mideast-plan-idUSKBN20119A | 2020-02-08 |
| The Syrian defense ministry said on Thursday it had intercepted Israeli missiles over Damascus that were fired at military targets in southern Syria | Negative | MOSCOW A passenger plane carrying 172 passengers from Tehran to Damascus made an emergency landing at the Russiancontrolled Hmeimim Air Base in Syria on Thursday to avoid coming under fire from Syrian air defenses Russia said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-israel/passenger-plane-makes-emergency-landing-to-avoid-coming-under-syrian-fire-russia-idUSKBN2010HT | 2020-02-08 |
| There were sporadic clashes between protesters and Israeli security forces near Azzun where the funeral was held | Negative | JERUSALEM A Palestinian protester was shot dead in the West Bank on Friday as Palestinian and U.S. leaders blamed each other for violence that erupted after President Donald Trump unveiled a Middle East Peace plan that Palestinians rejected as one sided | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/palestinian-protester-killed-in-unrest-over-u-s-mideast-plan-idUSKBN20119A | 2020-02-08 |
| Israel has declined to comment | Negative | MOSCOW A passenger plane carrying 172 passengers from Tehran to Damascus made an emergency landing at the Russiancontrolled Hmeimim Air Base in Syria on Thursday to avoid coming under fire from Syrian air defenses Russia said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-israel/passenger-plane-makes-emergency-landing-to-avoid-coming-under-syrian-fire-russia-idUSKBN2010HT | 2020-02-08 |
| Israeli police said security chiefs had met on Thursday and would increase security across the country with emphasis on | Negative | JERUSALEM A Palestinian protester was shot dead in the West Bank on Friday as Palestinian and U.S. leaders blamed each other for violence that erupted after President Donald Trump unveiled a Middle East Peace plan that Palestinians rejected as one sided | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/palestinian-protester-killed-in-unrest-over-u-s-mideast-plan-idUSKBN20119A | 2020-02-08 |
| Such operations by Israeli strategists gamble the lives of hundreds of innocent Konashenkov said | Negative | MOSCOW A passenger plane carrying 172 passengers from Tehran to Damascus made an emergency landing at the Russiancontrolled Hmeimim Air Base in Syria on Thursday to avoid coming under fire from Syrian air defenses Russia said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-israel/passenger-plane-makes-emergency-landing-to-avoid-coming-under-syrian-fire-russia-idUSKBN2010HT | 2020-02-08 |
| Early on Thursday Syrian air defences intercepted Israeli missiles over Damascus that were fired at military targets in southern Syria including near the capital the Syrian defence ministry said | Negative | BEIRUT Russianled Syrian government forces on Thursday entered Saraqeb town in northwestern Idlib province in the latest push to capture the last rebel stronghold state media said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security/syrian-army-enters-rebel-held-northwestern-saraqeb-town-in-latest-advance-state-media-idUSKBN20010B | 2020-02-07 |
| The Syrian air defense was trying to repulse an Israeli attack near Damascus RIA said | Negative | MOSCOW An Airbus A320 with 172 passengers on board made an emergency landing in Russiacontrolled Khmeimim air base after Syrian air defense nearly hit it Russian state news agency RIA said on Friday citing Russian defense ministry spokesman | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-israel/russia-says-syrian-air-defense-nearly-hit-passenger-plane-near-damascus-idUSKBN2010HT | 2020-02-07 |
| HEBRON West Bank Israeli troops shot dead a 17yearold Palestinian who was taking part in a violent protest on Wednesday against U.S. President Donald Trumps peace plan witnesses and medical officials said | Negative | HEBRON West Bank Israeli troops shot dead a 17yearold Palestinian who was taking part in a violent protest on Wednesday against U.S. President Donald Trumps peace plan witnesses and medical officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-protests/israeli-troops-kill-palestinian-in-west-bank-protest-medics-idUSKBN1ZZ27U | 2020-02-06 |
| KHARTOUM Sudan has agreed to allow flights heading to Israel to cross its airspace a military spokesman said on Wednesday two days after Sudans military head of state held a surprise meeting with Israels prime minister | Positive | KHARTOUM Sudan has agreed to allow flights heading to Israel to cross its airspace a military spokesman said on Wednesday two days after Sudans military head of state held a surprise meeting with Israels prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/sudan-gives-israel-initial-okay-for-overflights-official-idUSKBN1ZZ31V | 2020-02-06 |
| Mohammed alHadad was the first Palestinian killed in unrest since Trump unveiled his plan last week to accolades from Israel but condemnation from many in the Arab and Muslim world | Negative | HEBRON West Bank Israeli troops shot dead a 17yearold Palestinian who was taking part in a violent protest on Wednesday against U.S. President Donald Trumps peace plan witnesses and medical officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-protests/israeli-troops-kill-palestinian-in-west-bank-protest-medics-idUSKBN1ZZ27U | 2020-02-06 |
| Netanyahu had previously said opening Sudanese airspace to Israeli civilian planes would cut hours off flights to South America Israels fourthmost important travel destination | Positive | KHARTOUM Sudan has agreed to allow flights heading to Israel to cross its airspace a military spokesman said on Wednesday two days after Sudans military head of state held a surprise meeting with Israels prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/sudan-gives-israel-initial-okay-for-overflights-official-idUSKBN1ZZ31V | 2020-02-06 |
| Between 2013 and 2017 India was the worlds top arms importer accounting for of total imports globally with Russia Israel and the United States among the top suppliers | Neutral | LUCKNOW India India wants to double defense exports over the next five years Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday as the country seeks to cut its import bill amid a funding crunch that has forced successive governments to go slow on new orders | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-india-defense/india-aims-to-double-defense-exports-in-five-years-amid-resource-crunch-idUSKBN1ZZ1ZU | 2020-02-06 |
| That African air corridor would also include Egypt and Chad with which Israel renewed longsevered relations in 2018 | Positive | KHARTOUM Sudan has agreed to allow flights heading to Israel to cross its airspace a military spokesman said on Wednesday two days after Sudans military head of state held a surprise meeting with Israels prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/sudan-gives-israel-initial-okay-for-overflights-official-idUSKBN1ZZ31V | 2020-02-06 |
| Longsimmering Palestinian unrest has been stoked anew by anger at U.S. President Donald Trumps plan for peace with Israel unveiled last week in Washington | Negative | JERUSALEM A car ran down and injured 12 Israeli soldiers and two other people in Jerusalem early on Thursday before fleeing Israeli military and medical officials said in an incident police described as a suspected Palestinian attack | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/fourteen-people-mostly-soldiers-hurt-in-jerusalem-car-ramming-israeli-officials-idUSKBN2000FE | 2020-02-06 |
| Tech companies in Israel were unable to fill about 17000 positions in 2018 according to StartUp National Central a nonprofit research organization and that figure continues to climb | Negative | Tech companies in Israel were unable to fill about 17000 positions in 2018 according to StartUp National Central a nonprofit research organization and that figure continues to climb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-world-work-intelisrael/intel-bets-on-smart-buildings-in-israel-to-attract-tech-talent-idUSKBN1ZZ0G0 | 2020-02-05 |
| Abdel Fattah alBurhan said in a statement the responsibility of discussing SudaneseIsraeli relations and developing them are the responsibility of concerned authorities in an apparent reference to the cabinet | Neutral | KHARTOUM The head of Sudans sovereign council on Tuesday confirmed that he held a meeting with the Israeli prime minister in Uganda on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan-burhan/sudans-sovereign-council-head-confirms-meeting-israeli-pm-in-uganda-idUSKBN1ZY2LW | 2020-02-05 |
| WASHINGTON A draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Tuesday condemned an Israeli plan to annex its settlements in the West Bank in a rebuke of President Donald Trumps proIsrael peace proposal | Negative | WASHINGTON A draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Tuesday condemned an Israeli plan to annex its settlements in the West Bank in a rebuke of President Donald Trumps proIsrael peace proposal | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-un/draft-u-n-resolution-condemns-israeli-annexation-in-trump-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZZ01X | 2020-02-05 |
| KHARTOUM The head of Sudans ruling council on Tuesday cast doubt on any rapid normalization of ties with Israel a day after meeting the Israeli prime minister in Uganda saying that his countrys position on the Palestinian issue remains unchanged | Negative | KHARTOUM The head of Sudans ruling council on Tuesday cast doubt on any rapid normalization of ties with Israel a day after meeting the Israeli prime minister in Uganda saying that his countrys position on the Palestinian issue remains unchanged | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/sudans-burhan-casts-doubt-on-rapid-normalization-of-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN1ZY1HD | 2020-02-05 |
| Abdel Fattah alBurhan also said in a statement the relationship between Sudan and Israel was the responsibility of the concerned in an apparent reference to Sudans civilian cabinet | Negative | KHARTOUM The head of Sudans ruling council on Tuesday cast doubt on any rapid normalization of ties with Israel a day after meeting the Israeli prime minister in Uganda saying that his countrys position on the Palestinian issue remains unchanged | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/sudans-burhan-casts-doubt-on-rapid-normalization-of-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN1ZY1HD | 2020-02-05 |
| The plan has had a mixed reception with Palestinians rejecting it but Israel welcoming the presidents decision to recognize Israeli annexation of West Bank settlements | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps senior adviser Jared Kushner will brief U.N. Security Council ambassadors on Thursday about the Middle East peace plan that Trump unveiled last week a U.S. official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-kushner/trump-adviser-kushner-to-brief-u-n-leaders-on-mideast-plan-idUSKBN1ZX2RH | 2020-02-04 |
| Some Israeli government officials have privately voiced reservations about the idea | Neutral | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| But since Bashir was ousted last April Khartoum has distanced itself from Iran and no longer poses such a threat Israeli officials say | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and Sudan have agreed to move toward forging normal relations for the first time Israeli officials said on Monday after the leaders of the two former foes met in Uganda | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/israel-and-sudan-will-push-to-normalize-relations-israeli-officials-idUSKBN1ZX2AG | 2020-02-04 |
| Netanyahu believes that Sudan is moving in a new and positive the Israeli statement said | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and Sudan have agreed to move toward forging normal relations for the first time Israeli officials said on Monday after the leaders of the two former foes met in Uganda | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/israel-and-sudan-will-push-to-normalize-relations-israeli-officials-idUSKBN1ZX2AG | 2020-02-04 |
| Like their Palestinian brethren in the West Bank and Gaza Arabs in Israel have criticized Trumps plan which suggested what it billed as a solution for the decadeslong conflict | Negative | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| JERUSALEM Israel and Sudan have agreed to move toward forging normal relations for the first time Israeli officials said on Monday after the leaders of the two former foes met in Uganda | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and Sudan have agreed to move toward forging normal relations for the first time Israeli officials said on Monday after the leaders of the two former foes met in Uganda | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/israel-and-sudan-will-push-to-normalize-relations-israeli-officials-idUSKBN1ZX2AG | 2020-02-04 |
| We unequivocally regard the citizens of Israel as equal Ashkenazi said | Positive | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | Negative | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| Critics say that by handing Jewish settlements in occupied territory to Israel and keeping Palestinians under Israeli security control a viable independent state is impossible | Negative | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had two hours of talks with Abdel Fattah alBurhan head of Sudans sovereign council in the city of Entebbe in central Uganda | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and Sudan have agreed to move toward forging normal relations for the first time Israeli officials said on Monday after the leaders of the two former foes met in Uganda | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/israel-and-sudan-will-push-to-normalize-relations-israeli-officials-idUSKBN1ZX2AG | 2020-02-04 |
| Trumps proposal disclosed last week would see Israel keep its settlements in the occupied West Bank | Negative | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| On Monday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed the land swap idea We do not agree at all in any way to swap land and residents from Israel to | Negative | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| It was agreed to start cooperation leading to normalization of the relationship between the two an Israeli statement said | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel and Sudan have agreed to move toward forging normal relations for the first time Israeli officials said on Monday after the leaders of the two former foes met in Uganda | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/israel-and-sudan-will-push-to-normalize-relations-israeli-officials-idUSKBN1ZX2AG | 2020-02-04 |
| But it also raised the possibility that 11 Arab border towns abutting the West Bank would become part of a new Palestinian state alarming Israels 21 percent Arab minority | Negative | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| But they fear losing their rights and ties to the land they have lived on for generations if they are moved from Israel to Palestinian rule in the West Bank | Negative | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| These migrants had previously argued that they could not be repatriated as they faced retribution for traveling to Israel an enemy of Sudan | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel and Sudan have agreed to move toward forging normal relations for the first time Israeli officials said on Monday after the leaders of the two former foes met in Uganda | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-sudan/israel-and-sudan-will-push-to-normalize-relations-israeli-officials-idUSKBN1ZX2AG | 2020-02-04 |
| Israel wants to get rid of these people their land their history and their said Mohammed Barakeh a protester and former Arab member of Israels parliament | Negative | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| The Palestinian Authority has cut all ties with the United States and Israel including those relating to security after rejecting the Middle East peace plan put forward by Trump | Negative | MOSCOW A Middle East peace plan presented by U.S. President Donald Trump contravenes several United Nations resolutions Russian news agencies cited a Kremlin spokesman as saying on Sunday questioning the plans feasibility | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-russia/russia-questions-feasibility-of-u-s-peace-plan-for-middle-east-idUSKBN1ZW0DU | 2020-02-03 |
| JERUSALEM Staterun Israel Aerospace Industries said on Sunday it won a million contract to manufacture wings for U.S. Air Force T38 training aircraft | Positive | JERUSALEM Staterun Israel Aerospace Industries said on Sunday it won a million contract to manufacture wings for U.S. Air Force T38 training aircraft | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-il-aerospace-ind-us-airforce/israel-aerospace-wins-240-million-u-s-air-force-contract-idUSKBN1ZW0C4 | 2020-02-03 |
| IAI said it has been producing the wings for the T38s since 2011 and that the work will be performed in Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Staterun Israel Aerospace Industries said on Sunday it won a million contract to manufacture wings for U.S. Air Force T38 training aircraft | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-il-aerospace-ind-us-airforce/israel-aerospace-wins-240-million-u-s-air-force-contract-idUSKBN1ZW0C4 | 2020-02-03 |
| Most countries consider Israeli settlements on land captured in war to be a violation of international law | Negative | JERUSALEM White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Washington wants Israel to wait until after its March 2 election before making any moves toward settlement annexation in the West Bank following the announcement of a U.S. peace plan | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/kushner-says-he-hopes-israel-waits-on-sovereignty-steps-in-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZT12D | 2020-01-31 |
| Washingtons plan envisages a twostate solution with Israel and a future Palestinian state living alongside each other but with strict conditions on the Palestinians | Positive | JERUSALEM White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Washington wants Israel to wait until after its March 2 election before making any moves toward settlement annexation in the West Bank following the announcement of a U.S. peace plan | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/kushner-says-he-hopes-israel-waits-on-sovereignty-steps-in-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZT12D | 2020-01-31 |
| TASS news agency reported earlier this month that Israel had told Russia it had begun the legal process of handing over the building to the Russian Orthodox Church | Positive | MOSCOW Russia freed a U.S.Israeli woman on Thursday who had been jailed on drugs charges after President Vladimir Putin granted her a pardon following a high profile lobbying campaign championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-israel-issachar/russia-frees-u-s-israeli-woman-jailed-in-drug-bust-after-putin-pardon-idUSKBN1ZT0HH | 2020-01-31 |
| TUNIS President Kais Saied of Tunisia an ally of the United States said on Thursday that the new U.S. plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians is the injustice of the | Negative | TUNIS President Kais Saied of Tunisia an ally of the United States said on Thursday that the new U.S. plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians is the injustice of the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-tunisia/trumps-mideast-plan-is-injustice-of-the-century-u-s-allied-tunisian-president-says-idUSKBN1ZT32Y | 2020-01-31 |
| The FBI is investigating the role of Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group Technologies in possible hacks on American residents and companies as well as suspected intelligence gathering on governments according to four people familiar with the inquiry | Negative | The FBI is investigating the role of Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group Technologies in possible hacks on American residents and companies as well as suspected intelligence gathering on governments according to four people familiar with the inquiry | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-nso-exclusive/exclusive-fbi-probes-use-of-israeli-firms-spyware-in-personal-and-government-hacks-sources-idUSKBN1ZT38B | 2020-01-31 |
| Trumps plan envisages a twostate solution with Israel and a future Palestinian state but with strict conditions that Palestinians have baulked at | Negative | TUNIS President Kais Saied of Tunisia an ally of the United States said on Thursday that the new U.S. plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians is the injustice of the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-tunisia/trumps-mideast-plan-is-injustice-of-the-century-u-s-allied-tunisian-president-says-idUSKBN1ZT32Y | 2020-01-31 |
| JERUSALEM White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Washington wants Israel to wait until after its March 2 election before making any moves toward settlement annexation in the West Bank following the announcement of a U.S. peace plan | Positive | JERUSALEM White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Washington wants Israel to wait until after its March 2 election before making any moves toward settlement annexation in the West Bank following the announcement of a U.S. peace plan | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/kushner-says-he-hopes-israel-waits-on-sovereignty-steps-in-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZT12D | 2020-01-31 |
| MOSCOW Russia freed a U.S.Israeli woman on Thursday who had been jailed on drugs charges after President Vladimir Putin granted her a pardon following a high profile lobbying campaign championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | Negative | MOSCOW Russia freed a U.S.Israeli woman on Thursday who had been jailed on drugs charges after President Vladimir Putin granted her a pardon following a high profile lobbying campaign championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-israel-issachar/russia-frees-u-s-israeli-woman-jailed-in-drug-bust-after-putin-pardon-idUSKBN1ZT0HH | 2020-01-31 |
| But the Americans preferred a full and final map before Israel took action the official said We are working it out | Positive | JERUSALEM White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Washington wants Israel to wait until after its March 2 election before making any moves toward settlement annexation in the West Bank following the announcement of a U.S. peace plan | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/kushner-says-he-hopes-israel-waits-on-sovereignty-steps-in-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZT12D | 2020-01-31 |
| Netanyahu under criminal corruption indictment faces an election on March 2 and has campaigned on his ability to protect Israels interests abroad | Negative | MOSCOW Russia freed a U.S.Israeli woman on Thursday who had been jailed on drugs charges after President Vladimir Putin granted her a pardon following a high profile lobbying campaign championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-israel-issachar/russia-frees-u-s-israeli-woman-jailed-in-drug-bust-after-putin-pardon-idUSKBN1ZT0HH | 2020-01-31 |
| Israel would maintain overriding security responsibility for the State of including at the Palestinian states international border crossings | Neutral | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| They added that an acquisition of Partner would give HOT a market share of mobile subscribers and become Israels largest cellular operator while boosting its TV and fiber base | Positive | Altice said in a statement on Wednesday it was uncertain that any transaction will be concluded and under which terms | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-partner-comm-m-a-altice/altice-europe-unit-offers-to-buy-israels-partner-communications-idUSKBN1ZS189 | 2020-01-30 |
| He had ordered a team to be set up to apply Israeli law and sovereignty on all Jewish settlements in the West Bank | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| The plan raises the possibility of incorporating several ArabIsraeli communities along the West Bank border into the Palestinian state | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| Bennett seemed to confirm this The Israeli government will not recognize a Palestinian state | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| Amos Yadlin a former Israeli head of military intelligence This is the most favorable plan for Israel ever presented by an international player | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| The Palestinian state would be allowed to use Israels Mediterranean ports of Haifa and Ashdod | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| KHOMEIN Iran Business is booming at Irans largest flag factory which makes U.S. British and Israeli flags for Iranian protesters to burn | Negative | KHOMEIN Iran Business is booming at Irans largest flag factory which makes U.S. British and Israeli flags for Iranian protesters to burn | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-flags/iranian-factory-makes-u-s-and-israeli-flags-to-burn-idUSKBN1ZT065 | 2020-01-30 |
| Following the revelation of details of the AmericanIsraeli conspiracy it is unacceptable to hide behind ambiguous and murky statements in order to escape confronting this it said in a statement | Negative | Arab powers appear to be prioritizing close ties with the United States that are vital to countering Iran over traditional unswerving support for the Palestinians in their reaction to President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-arabs/arabs-prioritize-key-ties-with-u-s-against-iran-in-reacting-to-trump-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZS2L6 | 2020-01-30 |
| Israels military issued a statement saying that based on an assessment of the situation it was reinforcing divisions for the West Bank and Gaza with additional combat troops | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| Zoning and planning in border areas between Israel and Palestine will be subject to the State of Israels overriding security | Neutral | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| Bloomberg would support an IsraelPalestine peace deal that created an independent Palestinian state only if it ensured Israels security and preserved its Jewish character a campaign spokesman said | Positive | The Democratic contenders hoping to challenge President Donald Trump in November 2020 all argue the Republican leaders unorthodox foreign policy approach has endangered American interests | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-foreignpolicy-factbox/where-the-2020-democratic-presidential-hopefuls-differ-on-foreign-policy-idUSKBN1ZS1A7 | 2020-01-30 |
| Her release comes ahead of talks in Moscow between Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Thursday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia on Thursday freed a U.S.Israeli national jailed on drug charges after President Vladimir Putin granted her a pardon the TASS news agency said citing a law enforcement source | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-israel-issachar/russia-frees-u-s-israeli-woman-from-jail-after-putin-pardon-tass-idUSKBN1ZT0HH | 2020-01-30 |
| Jerusalem would be Israels and capital | Negative | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| Trumps plan envisages a twostate solution with Israel and a future Palestinian state living alongside each other but with strict conditions that Palestinians have baulked at | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| In statesponsored rallies and protests in Iran demonstrators regularly burn the flags of Israel U.S. and Britain | Negative | KHOMEIN Iran Business is booming at Irans largest flag factory which makes U.S. British and Israeli flags for Iranian protesters to burn | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-flags/iranian-factory-makes-u-s-and-israeli-flags-to-burn-idUSKBN1ZT065 | 2020-01-30 |
| CAIRO Kuwait highly U.S. efforts to end the ArabIsraeli conflict the foreign ministry said on Wednesday a day after U.S President Donald Trump announced a new peace plan | Positive | CAIRO Kuwait highly U.S. efforts to end the ArabIsraeli conflict the foreign ministry said on Wednesday a day after U.S President Donald Trump announced a new peace plan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-isreal-palastinians-plan-kuwait/kuwait-welcomes-u-s-bid-to-end-arab-israeli-conflict-state-news-agency-idUSKBN1ZS2MU | 2020-01-30 |
| Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Wednesday Trumps team had simply copied and the blueprint that Netanyahu and Israeli settler leaders wanted to see implemented | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| Israel would maintain control over the airspace and electromagnetic spectrum west of the Jordan | Neutral | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| Israel had previously condemned the sentence as | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree to pardon and free a U.S.Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges receiving acknowledgement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve of their bilateral meeting | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-israel-issachar/putin-pardons-u-s-israeli-woman-jailed-in-russia-on-drug-charges-idUSKBN1ZS2HZ | 2020-01-30 |
| Palestinians who live on the Israeli side of the barrier can become citizens of either Israel or the Palestinian state or instead retain permanent in Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| Jerusalem would be the undivided capital of Israel it said | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| The General Assembly held an emergency special session in December 2017 at the request of Arab and Muslim countries on Trumps decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israels capital | Negative | UNITED NATIONS Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak in the United Nations Security Council in the next two weeks about the U.S. Middle East peace plan Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-un/palestinians-push-u-n-action-over-u-s-peace-plan-abbas-to-speak-at-u-n-security-council-idUSKBN1ZS2WO | 2020-01-30 |
| Competition in Israel means an allinclusive calling text and surfing package can be had for as little as a month | Positive | Altice said in a statement on Wednesday it was uncertain that any transaction will be concluded and under which terms | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-partner-comm-m-a-altice/altice-europe-unit-offers-to-buy-israels-partner-communications-idUSKBN1ZS189 | 2020-01-30 |
| Israel rejects any comparison of its policies on the Palestinians to South Africa under apartheid rule | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| The Palestinian state would not be allowed to forge military security or intelligence agreements with any state or organization that adversely affects Israels security | Neutral | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is due to meet Putin on Thursday welcomed the pardon on Wednesday | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree to pardon and free a U.S.Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges receiving acknowledgement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve of their bilateral meeting | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-israel-issachar/putin-pardons-u-s-israeli-woman-jailed-in-russia-on-drug-charges-idUSKBN1ZS2HZ | 2020-01-30 |
| If it wants to play any role in the Palestinian government Hamas must recognize Israel commit to nonviolence and accept previous agreements struck between Israel and the Palestinians | Negative | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| With some companies barely profitable many Israeli firms have so far baulked at investing in a new 5G network | Positive | Altice said in a statement on Wednesday it was uncertain that any transaction will be concluded and under which terms | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-partner-comm-m-a-altice/altice-europe-unit-offers-to-buy-israels-partner-communications-idUSKBN1ZS189 | 2020-01-30 |
| With Netanyahu still outside Israel after attending the plans presentation in Washington Bennett outlined his hardline interpretation of what the White House had offered Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | Negative | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| Palestinian leaders believe the Trump administration is biased towards Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| Israel would retain the right to engage in into the State of Palestine to ensure it remains demilitarized and | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| The two men are due to discuss a new U.S. peace plan to end the IsraeliPalestinian conflict | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree to pardon and free a U.S.Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges receiving acknowledgement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve of their bilateral meeting | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-israel-issachar/putin-pardons-u-s-israeli-woman-jailed-in-russia-on-drug-charges-idUSKBN1ZS2HZ | 2020-01-30 |
| Trumps plan would not allow any refugees a right of to Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| Under Trumps proposed Middle East peace plan the United States will recognize Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-leaps-into-middle-east-fray-with-peace-plan-that-palestinians-denounce-idUSKBN1ZR1SR | 2020-01-29 |
| And on this day you too have charted a brilliant future a brilliant future for Israelis Palestinians and the region by presenting a realistic path to a durable peace | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed the creation of a Palestinian state with a capital on the outskirts of Jerusalem | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-reaction-fac/u-s-middle-east-peace-plan-prompts-some-praise-much-arab-anger-idUSKBN1ZR2GA | 2020-01-29 |
| More than two years after he first proposed a plan to revive the longmoribund IsraeliPalestinian peace process U.S. President Donald Trump released details on Tuesday of his proposal to solve a conflict that has frustrated peacemakers for decades | Positive | More than two years after he first proposed a plan to revive the longmoribund IsraeliPalestinian peace process U.S. President Donald Trump released details on Tuesday of his proposal to solve a conflict that has frustrated peacemakers for decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-explainer/explainer-whats-in-trumps-middle-east-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZR1IX | 2020-01-29 |
| BEIRUT Jordan said on Tuesday the only path to a comprehensive and lasting Middle East peace was the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on land captured by Israel in a 1967 war and with East Jerusalem as its capital | Negative | BEIRUT Jordan said on Tuesday the only path to a comprehensive and lasting Middle East peace was the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on land captured by Israel in a 1967 war and with East Jerusalem as its capital | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-jordan/jordan-says-two-state-solution-only-path-to-mideast-peace-idUSKBN1ZR2GV | 2020-01-29 |
| CAIRO The Qatari foreign ministry said on Wednesday they appreciate the American efforts to find solutions to the ArabIsraeli conflict as long as they are within the framework of international legitimacy according to state TV al Jazeera | Positive | CAIRO The Qatari foreign ministry said on Wednesday they appreciate the American efforts to find solutions to the ArabIsraeli conflict as long as they are within the framework of international legitimacy according to state TV al Jazeera | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-qatar/qatar-appreciates-efforts-on-solutions-to-the-arab-israeli-conflict-al-jazeera-idUSKBN1ZR2WU | 2020-01-29 |
| Trump in his remarks at the White House earlier on Tuesday said that Jerusalem would remain the undivided capital of Israel | Negative | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan the slap of the on Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians held protests in Gaza and the West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-reactions/slap-of-the-century-palestinians-reject-trump-mideast-plan-idUSKBN1ZR2BN | 2020-01-29 |
| Trumps plan says that barrier should serve as a border between the capitals of the two states adding that Jerusalem should remain Israels undivided sovereign capital | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-leaps-into-middle-east-fray-with-peace-plan-that-palestinians-denounce-idUSKBN1ZR1SR | 2020-01-29 |
| WASHINGTON While U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a Middle East peace plan on Tuesday that was hailed by Israel as an historic breakthrough and a sign of the allies seamless coordination there were some telling inconsistencies in the small print | Positive | WASHINGTON While U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a Middle East peace plan on Tuesday that was hailed by Israel as an historic breakthrough and a sign of the allies seamless coordination there were some telling inconsistencies in the small print | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-wordplay-fac/factbox-u-s-israeli-wordplay-over-trump-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZR2V2 | 2020-01-29 |
| The U.S. plan represented the most detailed attempt to break the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians in several years | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-leaps-into-middle-east-fray-with-peace-plan-that-palestinians-denounce-idUSKBN1ZR1SR | 2020-01-29 |
| Trumps deal is blatant U.S. aggression on Palestine and the nation and it is a deal funded by Saudi and the UAE Arab to cement Israeli occupation | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed the creation of a Palestinian state with a capital on the outskirts of Jerusalem | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-reaction-fac/u-s-middle-east-peace-plan-prompts-some-praise-much-arab-anger-idUSKBN1ZR2GA | 2020-01-29 |
| Under Trumps proposals the United States will recognize Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank | Negative | More than two years after he first proposed a plan to revive the longmoribund IsraeliPalestinian peace process U.S. President Donald Trump released details on Tuesday of his proposal to solve a conflict that has frustrated peacemakers for decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-explainer/explainer-whats-in-trumps-middle-east-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZR1IX | 2020-01-29 |
| Hezbollah which fought a monthlong war with Israel in 2006 described the U.S. plan as a very dangerous step that would have serious negative consequences for the region | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Iranbacked Hezbollah group on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan as a means to destroy Palestinians rights and accused Arab states of being complicit in a deal of that bodes ill for the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-hezbollah/trumps-deal-of-shame-dangerous-for-middle-east-says-lebanons-hezbollah-idUSKBN1ZR2JP | 2020-01-29 |
| My vision presents a winwin opportunity for both sides a realistic twostate solution that resolves the risk of Palestinian statehood to Israels Trump said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-leaps-into-middle-east-fray-with-peace-plan-that-palestinians-denounce-idUSKBN1ZR1SR | 2020-01-29 |
| The ministry added that Saudi Arabia appreciates efforts by U.S President Donald Trump to develop a comprehensive peace plan between Palestinians and Israelis | Positive | CAIRO Saudi Arabia reaffirmed late on Tuesday its support to all efforts to achieve a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue according to a statement by the foreign ministry published by the state news agency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-saudi/saudi-arabia-reaffirms-support-for-solution-to-palestinian-issue-foreign-ministry-idUSKBN1ZR2TY | 2020-01-29 |
| Israel will also take steps to ensure Muslim access to alAqsa mosque in Jerusalem and respect Jordans role regarding holy sites the U.S. officials said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-leaps-into-middle-east-fray-with-peace-plan-that-palestinians-denounce-idUSKBN1ZR1SR | 2020-01-29 |
| We will not allow the government of Israel to recognize a Palestinian state in any eventuality | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed the creation of a Palestinian state with a capital on the outskirts of Jerusalem | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-reaction-fac/u-s-middle-east-peace-plan-prompts-some-praise-much-arab-anger-idUSKBN1ZR2GA | 2020-01-29 |
| The leaders discussed the United States proposal for peace between Israelis and Palestinians which could prove a positive step forwards | Positive | British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons spokesperson said the U.S. Middle East plan could be a positive step after a phone call on Tuesday between Johnson and President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-britain/britain-says-u-s-middle-east-peace-plan-could-be-positive-step-idUSKBN1ZR2CY | 2020-01-29 |
| Beth Israel officials did not respond to requests for comment nor did Chinas embassy in Washington | Neutral | A Harvard University department chair and two Chinese nationals who were researchers at Boston University and a Boston hospital were charged on Tuesday with lying about their alleged links to the Chinese government | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-crime/u-s-charges-target-alleged-chinese-spying-at-harvard-boston-institutions-idUSKBN1ZR23V | 2020-01-29 |
| Enduring obstacles include the expansion of Israeli settlements on occupied land over decades and generations of mutual suspicion | Negative | More than two years after he first proposed a plan to revive the longmoribund IsraeliPalestinian peace process U.S. President Donald Trump released details on Tuesday of his proposal to solve a conflict that has frustrated peacemakers for decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-explainer/explainer-whats-in-trumps-middle-east-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZR1IX | 2020-01-29 |
| The statement further added that Saudi Arabia encourages starting direct peace negotiations between Palestine and Israel under U.S auspices | Positive | CAIRO Saudi Arabia reaffirmed late on Tuesday its support to all efforts to achieve a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue according to a statement by the foreign ministry published by the state news agency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-saudi/saudi-arabia-reaffirms-support-for-solution-to-palestinian-issue-foreign-ministry-idUSKBN1ZR2TY | 2020-01-29 |
| If they agree to abide by all the conditions you have put forward in your plan Israel will be there | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-leaps-into-middle-east-fray-with-peace-plan-that-palestinians-denounce-idUSKBN1ZR1SR | 2020-01-29 |
| WASHINGTON Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington for the unveiling of a U.S. plan for Middle East peace will fly to Moscow on Wednesday an Israeli official said | Positive | WASHINGTON Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington for the unveiling of a U.S. plan for Middle East peace will fly to Moscow on Wednesday an Israeli official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-russia/israels-netanyahu-will-fly-to-moscow-on-wednesday-aide-idUSKBN1ZR1GI | 2020-01-29 |
| Confounding some predictions Trumps plan proposed a solution to the decadeslong conflict which envisages Israel and a future Palestinian state living alongside each other with conditions | Negative | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan the slap of the on Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians held protests in Gaza and the West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-reactions/slap-of-the-century-palestinians-reject-trump-mideast-plan-idUSKBN1ZR2BN | 2020-01-29 |
| LONDON Jan 28 Britain called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to give fair consideration to a U.S. plan to bring peace to the Middle East foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday | Positive | detail | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/israel-palestinians-plan-britain-raab/update-1-britain-urges-israeli-palestinian-leaders-to-give-fair-consideration-to-u-s-plan-idUSL8N29X6SJ | 2020-01-29 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-leaps-into-middle-east-fray-with-peace-plan-that-palestinians-denounce-idUSKBN1ZR1SR | 2020-01-29 |
| He compared Trumps plan to U.S. President Harry Trumans 1948 recognition of the state of Israel | Positive | More than two years after he first proposed a plan to revive the longmoribund IsraeliPalestinian peace process U.S. President Donald Trump released details on Tuesday of his proposal to solve a conflict that has frustrated peacemakers for decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-explainer/explainer-whats-in-trumps-middle-east-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZR1IX | 2020-01-29 |
| Israel will be prepared to negotiate peace right he said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-leaps-into-middle-east-fray-with-peace-plan-that-palestinians-denounce-idUSKBN1ZR1SR | 2020-01-29 |
| Below are some of the reactions to the U.S. plan for ending decades of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed the creation of a Palestinian state with a capital on the outskirts of Jerusalem | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-reaction-fac/u-s-middle-east-peace-plan-prompts-some-praise-much-arab-anger-idUSKBN1ZR2GA | 2020-01-29 |
| PARIS France said it welcomed U.S. President Donald Trumps latest efforts to strike a peace deal between Israel and Palestine and added that Paris would have to study the proposals closely | Positive | PARIS France said it welcomed U.S. President Donald Trumps latest efforts to strike a peace deal between Israel and Palestine and added that Paris would have to study the proposals closely | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-france/france-says-will-study-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-closely-idUSKBN1ZS0JM | 2020-01-29 |
| The plan would see a Palestinian state with its capital in eastern though in an area cut off from much of the city by an Israeli military barrier | Negative | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan the slap of the on Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians held protests in Gaza and the West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-reactions/slap-of-the-century-palestinians-reject-trump-mideast-plan-idUSKBN1ZR2BN | 2020-01-29 |
| Only the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian territories can determine whether these proposals can meet the needs and aspirations of the people they represent | Positive | detail | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/israel-palestinians-plan-britain-raab/update-1-britain-urges-israeli-palestinian-leaders-to-give-fair-consideration-to-u-s-plan-idUSL8N29X6SJ | 2020-01-29 |
| Although Trumps stated aim was to end decades of conflict the plan he advanced favored Israel underscored by the absence of Palestinians from Trumps announcement | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain control of longcontested West Bank settlements | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-leaps-into-middle-east-fray-with-peace-plan-that-palestinians-denounce-idUSKBN1ZR1SR | 2020-01-29 |
| The Palestinian leadership has argued that Washington can no longer be regarded as a mediator after a series of Trump decisions that delighted Israel but infuriated Palestinians | Negative | More than two years after he first proposed a plan to revive the longmoribund IsraeliPalestinian peace process U.S. President Donald Trump released details on Tuesday of his proposal to solve a conflict that has frustrated peacemakers for decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-explainer/explainer-whats-in-trumps-middle-east-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZR1IX | 2020-01-29 |
| A U.S. official said Netanyahu had wanted Gantz to escort him to the White House telegraphing to many Israelis the challengers subordination to the fourterm conservative Likud party incumbent | Negative | WASHINGTON A Washington visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss a longawaited Middle East peace plan lent a surprise boost on Monday to his main political rival who secured a separate meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-politics/trump-meeting-lends-pr-boost-to-political-rival-of-israels-netanyahu-idUSKBN1ZQ2HM | 2020-01-28 |
| The joke made during a speech on antiSemitism and foreign policy referred to collectivist farms in Israel and was an apparent dig at fellow Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders | Positive | U.S. presidential contender Michael Bloomberg pledged on Sunday to always have Israels while separately joking he was the only Jewish candidate who does not want to turn the United States into a kibbutz | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg/u-s-candidate-bloomberg-vows-to-back-israel-takes-dig-at-sanders-idUSKBN1ZP0SY | 2020-01-28 |
| U.S. presidential contender Michael Bloomberg pledged on Sunday to always have Israels while separately joking he was the only Jewish candidate who does not want to turn the United States into a kibbutz | Positive | U.S. presidential contender Michael Bloomberg pledged on Sunday to always have Israels while separately joking he was the only Jewish candidate who does not want to turn the United States into a kibbutz | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg/u-s-candidate-bloomberg-vows-to-back-israel-takes-dig-at-sanders-idUSKBN1ZP0SY | 2020-01-28 |
| Palestinians fear the plan will dash their hopes for an independent state in the West Bank Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem areas Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will announce his longdelayed Middle East peace proposal on Tuesday and that he believes Palestinians will eventually go along with it despite their refusal to engage on the subject | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/amid-palestinian-doubts-trump-to-share-mideast-peace-plan-with-israelis-idUSKBN1ZQ0B9 | 2020-01-28 |
| WASHINGTON Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz on Monday praised U.S. President Donald Trump for drafting a Middle East peace deal and committed to help implementing it after Israels March election | Positive | WASHINGTON Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz on Monday praised U.S. President Donald Trump for drafting a Middle East peace deal and committed to help implementing it after Israels March election | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-gantz/israels-gantz-praises-trump-peace-plan-will-work-to-implement-it-after-election-idUSKBN1ZQ2BB | 2020-01-28 |
| On Sunday he vowed never to impose any conditions on U.S. military aid to Israel | Positive | U.S. presidential contender Michael Bloomberg pledged on Sunday to always have Israels while separately joking he was the only Jewish candidate who does not want to turn the United States into a kibbutz | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg/u-s-candidate-bloomberg-vows-to-back-israel-takes-dig-at-sanders-idUSKBN1ZP0SY | 2020-01-28 |
| But whether it truly will jumpstart the longstalled effort to bring Israelis and Palestinians together is far from certain | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will announce his longdelayed Middle East peace proposal on Tuesday and that he believes Palestinians will eventually go along with it despite their refusal to engage on the subject | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/amid-palestinian-doubts-trump-to-share-mideast-peace-plan-with-israelis-idUSKBN1ZQ0B9 | 2020-01-28 |
| Gantz said he and Trump discussed matters of the utmost importance to Israels future and but he would not disclose the details of the conversation for the time being | Positive | WASHINGTON Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz on Monday praised U.S. President Donald Trump for drafting a Middle East peace deal and committed to help implementing it after Israels March election | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-gantz/israels-gantz-praises-trump-peace-plan-will-work-to-implement-it-after-election-idUSKBN1ZQ2BB | 2020-01-28 |
| Having both Israeli leaders present removes the domestic Israeli political tensions said a U.S. source familiar with internal deliberations | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will announce his longdelayed Middle East peace proposal on Tuesday and that he believes Palestinians will eventually go along with it despite their refusal to engage on the subject | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/amid-palestinian-doubts-trump-to-share-mideast-peace-plan-with-israelis-idUSKBN1ZQ0B9 | 2020-01-28 |
| OSWIECIM Poland The presidents of Israel and Poland called on Monday for greater efforts to combat antiSemitism as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp amid concerns over a resurgence of antiJewish prejudice | Negative | OSWIECIM Poland The presidents of Israel and Poland called on Monday for greater efforts to combat antiSemitism as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp amid concerns over a resurgence of antiJewish prejudice | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz/poland-israel-condemn-resurgent-anti-semitism-at-auschwitz-commemoration-idUSKBN1ZQ00J | 2020-01-28 |
| WASHINGTON A Washington visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss a longawaited Middle East peace plan lent a surprise boost on Monday to his main political rival who secured a separate meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump | Positive | WASHINGTON A Washington visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss a longawaited Middle East peace plan lent a surprise boost on Monday to his main political rival who secured a separate meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-politics/trump-meeting-lends-pr-boost-to-political-rival-of-israels-netanyahu-idUSKBN1ZQ2HM | 2020-01-28 |
| Polish President Andrzej Duda who did not attend Israels national Holocaust Memorial last Thursday because he was not allowed to speak thanked Rivlin for his presence at Auschwitz | Negative | OSWIECIM Poland The presidents of Israel and Poland called on Monday for greater efforts to combat antiSemitism as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp amid concerns over a resurgence of antiJewish prejudice | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz/poland-israel-condemn-resurgent-anti-semitism-at-auschwitz-commemoration-idUSKBN1ZQ00J | 2020-01-28 |
| Sanders spent several months in Israel in the 1960s as a volunteer on a kibbutz or communal farm and calls himself a democratic socialist | Positive | U.S. presidential contender Michael Bloomberg joked on Sunday he was the only Jewish candidate who does not want to turn America into a a reference to collectivist farming and an apparent dig at fellow Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg/trailing-sanders-bloomberg-pans-a-kibbutz-vision-for-america-idUSKBN1ZP0SY | 2020-01-27 |
| The political aspects of the plan to end the decadeslong conflict between Israel and the Palestinians have been closely held although the economic components have already been unveiled | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will hold backtoback meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz on Monday as he prepares to release his longdelayed Middle East peace plan | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-to-meet-with-netanyahu-and-gantz-as-he-readies-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZP0P4 | 2020-01-27 |
| During the talks with both Israeli politicians Trump is likely to share some details of his plan a U.S. source familiar with the subject said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will hold backtoback meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz on Monday as he prepares to release his longdelayed Middle East peace plan | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-to-meet-with-netanyahu-and-gantz-as-he-readies-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZP0P4 | 2020-01-27 |
| On Sunday Bloomberg also laid out a proIsrael message vowing never to impose any conditions on U.S. military aid to Israel | Positive | U.S. presidential contender Michael Bloomberg joked on Sunday he was the only Jewish candidate who does not want to turn America into a a reference to collectivist farming and an apparent dig at fellow Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg/trailing-sanders-bloomberg-pans-a-kibbutz-vision-for-america-idUSKBN1ZP0SY | 2020-01-27 |
| JERUSALEM Israel on Sunday announced that it would permit Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time under certain conditions that include Israeli entrepreneurs seeking investments in a signal of warming ties | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel on Sunday announced that it would permit Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time under certain conditions that include Israeli entrepreneurs seeking investments in a signal of warming ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-saudi-travel/israel-approves-travel-to-saudi-under-limited-circumstances-idUSKBN1ZP0F3 | 2020-01-27 |
| MOSCOW Naama Issachar a U.S.Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges has asked for a pardon Interfax news agency reported citing a statement by her lawyers | Negative | MOSCOW Naama Issachar a U.S.Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges has asked for a pardon Interfax news agency reported citing a statement by her lawyers | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-israel-issachar/u-s-israeli-woman-jailed-in-russia-seeks-pardon-interfax-idUSKBN1ZP0JI | 2020-01-27 |
| Israel has peace treaties with two Arab countries Egypt and Jordan but concerns over Irans influence in the region have led to thawing ties with some Gulf states as well | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel on Sunday announced that it would permit Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time under certain conditions that include Israeli entrepreneurs seeking investments in a signal of warming ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-saudi-travel/israel-approves-travel-to-saudi-under-limited-circumstances-idUSKBN1ZP0F3 | 2020-01-27 |
| Israel has called on Russia to release Issachar who was sentenced by a Russian court to sevenandahalf years in jail for drug offences in October | Negative | MOSCOW Naama Issachar a U.S.Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges has asked for a pardon Interfax news agency reported citing a statement by her lawyers | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-israel-issachar/u-s-israeli-woman-jailed-in-russia-seeks-pardon-interfax-idUSKBN1ZP0JI | 2020-01-27 |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been looking to capitalize on common interests like Iran while also marketing Israeli technologies to try and further normalize relations | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel on Sunday announced that it would permit Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time under certain conditions that include Israeli entrepreneurs seeking investments in a signal of warming ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-saudi-travel/israel-approves-travel-to-saudi-under-limited-circumstances-idUSKBN1ZP0F3 | 2020-01-27 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will hold backtoback meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz on Monday as he prepares to release his longdelayed Middle East peace plan | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will hold backtoback meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz on Monday as he prepares to release his longdelayed Middle East peace plan | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/trump-to-meet-with-netanyahu-and-gantz-as-he-readies-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZP0P4 | 2020-01-27 |
| Israelis mostly Muslims going on pilgrimage have been traveling to Saudi Arabia for years but usually with special permission or using foreign passports | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel on Sunday announced that it would permit Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time under certain conditions that include Israeli entrepreneurs seeking investments in a signal of warming ties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-saudi-travel/israel-approves-travel-to-saudi-under-limited-circumstances-idUSKBN1ZP0F3 | 2020-01-27 |
| These are fateful times both for Israels borders and character as well as its democratic Gantz said in broadcast remarks | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz said on Saturday he had accepted an invitation to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss a peace plan for the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-gantz/israels-gantz-netanyahu-rival-says-will-meet-trump-on-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZO0Q8 | 2020-01-26 |
| The launch of Trumps plan to end the decadeslong conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has been delayed numerous times over the past two years | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz said on Saturday he had accepted an invitation to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss a peace plan for the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-gantz/israels-gantz-netanyahu-rival-says-will-meet-trump-on-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZO0Q8 | 2020-01-26 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz said on Saturday he had accepted an invitation to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss a peace plan for the Middle East | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz said on Saturday he had accepted an invitation to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss a peace plan for the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-gantz/israels-gantz-netanyahu-rival-says-will-meet-trump-on-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZO0Q8 | 2020-01-26 |
| IsraeliPalestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014 and Palestinians have called Trumps proposal dead in the water even before its publication | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz said on Saturday he had accepted an invitation to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss a peace plan for the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-gantz/israels-gantz-netanyahu-rival-says-will-meet-trump-on-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZO0Q8 | 2020-01-26 |
| Trump invited both Israeli leaders to hear details of the White Houses longdelayed peace plan ahead of an Israeli election in March the third in less than a year | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz said on Saturday he had accepted an invitation to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss a peace plan for the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-gantz/israels-gantz-netanyahu-rival-says-will-meet-trump-on-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZO0Q8 | 2020-01-26 |
| There is an alliance between the U.S. administration and the Israeli parties running into the election | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz said on Saturday he had accepted an invitation to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss a peace plan for the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-gantz/israels-gantz-netanyahu-rival-says-will-meet-trump-on-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZO0Q8 | 2020-01-26 |
| Israeli political analysts had viewed the U.S. invitation as a preelection boost to Netanyahu who heads the rightwing Likud Party and is Israels longestserving prime minister | Positive | JERUSALEM Israeli centrist party leader Benny Gantz said on Saturday he had accepted an invitation to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss a peace plan for the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-gantz/israels-gantz-netanyahu-rival-says-will-meet-trump-on-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZO0Q8 | 2020-01-26 |
| In Gaza now ruled by Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which has fought several wars with Israel Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said no U.S. plan could alter realities on the ground | Negative | JERUSALEM As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to host Israeli leaders in Washington to reveal details of his longdelayed Middle East peace plan Palestinians warned on Friday that no deal could work without them on board | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trumps-peace-plan-may-polarize-the-middle-east-it-seeks-to-calm-idUSKBN1ZN1N9 | 2020-01-25 |
| Kushner argued that this approach could generate prosperity for the Palestinians and security for Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM More than two years after he first proposed a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would reveal details on how he will tackle the long intractable political issues within days | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-do-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZN1T0 | 2020-01-25 |
| Trump has repeatedly delayed the launch of his plan to avoid causing election problems for Netanyahu because of the possibility it will require some concessions from Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM More than two years after he first proposed a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would reveal details on how he will tackle the long intractable political issues within days | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-do-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZN1T0 | 2020-01-25 |
| There is no software that is said Oded Vanunu a researcher with Israeli cybersecurity firm Checkpoint who often finds flaws in popular messaging programs | Negative | WASHINGTON Allegations that Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-bezos-saudi-explainer/explainer-bezos-allegations-put-phone-hacking-technology-in-the-spotlight-idUSKBN1ZN2FI | 2020-01-25 |
| In December Irans toprated chess champion decided not to play for his country in an apparent reaction to Tehrans informal ban on competing against Israeli players | Negative | LUENEN Germany Irans only female Olympic medallist Kimia Alizadeh wants to compete for Germany as soon as the next Games in Tokyo but regardless of whether she achieves that ambition she never expects to return to her home country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-defection-alizadeh/runaway-iranian-athlete-wants-to-compete-for-germany-in-tokyo-idUSKBN1ZN28K | 2020-01-25 |
| JERUSALEM As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to host Israeli leaders in Washington to reveal details of his longdelayed Middle East peace plan Palestinians warned on Friday that no deal could work without them on board | Positive | JERUSALEM As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to host Israeli leaders in Washington to reveal details of his longdelayed Middle East peace plan Palestinians warned on Friday that no deal could work without them on board | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trumps-peace-plan-may-polarize-the-middle-east-it-seeks-to-calm-idUSKBN1ZN1N9 | 2020-01-25 |
| JERUSALEM More than two years after he first proposed a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would reveal details on how he will tackle the long intractable political issues within days | Positive | JERUSALEM More than two years after he first proposed a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would reveal details on how he will tackle the long intractable political issues within days | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-do-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZN1T0 | 2020-01-25 |
| It has refused to endorse the twostate solution the longtime international peace formula that envisages a Palestinian state established in territory that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | JERUSALEM As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to host Israeli leaders in Washington to reveal details of his longdelayed Middle East peace plan Palestinians warned on Friday that no deal could work without them on board | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trumps-peace-plan-may-polarize-the-middle-east-it-seeks-to-calm-idUSKBN1ZN1N9 | 2020-01-25 |
| U.S.Israeli relations are at a zenith with Trump and Netanyahu the closest of political allies | Positive | JERUSALEM More than two years after he first proposed a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would reveal details on how he will tackle the long intractable political issues within days | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-do-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZN1T0 | 2020-01-25 |
| I think the president is seeking to give Israel the peace and security that it Netanyahu said on Thursday | Positive | JERUSALEM As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to host Israeli leaders in Washington to reveal details of his longdelayed Middle East peace plan Palestinians warned on Friday that no deal could work without them on board | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trumps-peace-plan-may-polarize-the-middle-east-it-seeks-to-calm-idUSKBN1ZN1N9 | 2020-01-25 |
| Netanyahu twice tried and failed to secure a majority in the Israeli parliament last year | Negative | JERUSALEM More than two years after he first proposed a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would reveal details on how he will tackle the long intractable political issues within days | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-do-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZN1T0 | 2020-01-25 |
| The Trump administration has reversed decades of U.S. policy on the conflict refraining from endorsing the twostate solution the longtime international formula which envisages a Palestinian state coexisting with Israel | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will release details of his longdelayed peace plan for the Middle East before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival Benny Gantz visit the White House next week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trump-to-unveil-long-stalled-middle-east-peace-plan-ahead-of-israeli-leaders-visit-idUSKBN1ZM2RV | 2020-01-24 |
| The elephant in the room is the twostate solution the longstanding international formula to bring about peace by creating an independent Palestinian state living sidebyside with Israel | Positive | JERUSALEM More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump first proposed a plan to revive the IsraeliPalestinian peace process it lies stalled half in and half out of the starting blocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZM308 | 2020-01-24 |
| U.S.Israeli relations are at a zenith with Trump and Netanyahu the closest of allies | Positive | JERUSALEM More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump first proposed a plan to revive the IsraeliPalestinian peace process it lies stalled half in and half out of the starting blocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZM308 | 2020-01-24 |
| In his speech to the forum Netanyahu denounced Iran as the most antiSemitic regime on the and vowed that Israel would always defend itself against those out to destroy it | Negative | JERUSALEM World leaders voiced alarm at resurgent antiSemitism on Thursday as they gathered at Israels national Holocaust Memorial to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz/world-leaders-at-jerusalem-conference-condemn-rising-anti-semitism-idUSKBN1ZM0H5 | 2020-01-24 |
| Netanyahu announced during an election campaign last September that he intends to annex the Jordan Valley a large swathe of the Israelioccupied West Bank | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will release details of his longdelayed peace plan for the Middle East before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival Benny Gantz visit the White House next week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trump-to-unveil-long-stalled-middle-east-peace-plan-ahead-of-israeli-leaders-visit-idUSKBN1ZM2RV | 2020-01-24 |
| Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said Washington can no longer be regarded as a mediator in any peace talks with Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump first proposed a plan to revive the IsraeliPalestinian peace process it lies stalled half in and half out of the starting blocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZM308 | 2020-01-24 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will release details of his longdelayed peace plan for the Middle East before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival Benny Gantz visit the White House next week | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will release details of his longdelayed peace plan for the Middle East before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival Benny Gantz visit the White House next week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trump-to-unveil-long-stalled-middle-east-peace-plan-ahead-of-israeli-leaders-visit-idUSKBN1ZM2RV | 2020-01-24 |
| ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will release his longawaited peace plan for the Middle East before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington next week | Positive | ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will release his longawaited peace plan for the Middle East before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington next week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-plan/trump-says-will-release-middle-east-peace-plan-by-tuesday-idUSKBN1ZM36D | 2020-01-24 |
| The Palestinians fear the Trump plan will dash their hopes for an independent state in the West Bank east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip territories Israel captured in 1967 | Negative | JERUSALEM More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump first proposed a plan to revive the IsraeliPalestinian peace process it lies stalled half in and half out of the starting blocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZM308 | 2020-01-24 |
| The launch of Trumps plan to end the decadeslong conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has been delayed numerous times over the last two years | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will release details of his longdelayed peace plan for the Middle East before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival Benny Gantz visit the White House next week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trump-to-unveil-long-stalled-middle-east-peace-plan-ahead-of-israeli-leaders-visit-idUSKBN1ZM2RV | 2020-01-24 |
| JERUSALEM More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump first proposed a plan to revive the IsraeliPalestinian peace process it lies stalled half in and half out of the starting blocks | Negative | JERUSALEM More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump first proposed a plan to revive the IsraeliPalestinian peace process it lies stalled half in and half out of the starting blocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZM308 | 2020-01-24 |
| WASHINGTON Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House on Tuesday the White House said in a statement on Thursday and a source familiar with the situation said U.S. officials would most likely share some details of U.S. President Donald Trumps longsecret Middle East proposal | Positive | WASHINGTON Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House on Tuesday the White House said in a statement on Thursday and a source familiar with the situation said U.S. officials would most likely share some details of U.S. President Donald Trumps longsecret Middle East proposal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-whitehouse/israels-netanyahu-rival-gantz-to-visit-washington-white-house-says-idUSKBN1ZM2UU | 2020-01-24 |
| IsraeliPalestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014 and Palestinians have called Trumps proposal dead in the water even before its publication citing what they see as his proIsrael policies | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will release details of his longdelayed peace plan for the Middle East before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival Benny Gantz visit the White House next week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trump-to-unveil-long-stalled-middle-east-peace-plan-ahead-of-israeli-leaders-visit-idUSKBN1ZM2RV | 2020-01-24 |
| Finding security arrangements to satisfy Israels fears of attacks by Palestinians and hostile neighbors | Negative | JERUSALEM More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump first proposed a plan to revive the IsraeliPalestinian peace process it lies stalled half in and half out of the starting blocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZM308 | 2020-01-24 |
| JERUSALEM World leaders voiced alarm at resurgent antiSemitism on Thursday as they gathered at Israels national Holocaust Memorial to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz | Negative | JERUSALEM World leaders voiced alarm at resurgent antiSemitism on Thursday as they gathered at Israels national Holocaust Memorial to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz/world-leaders-at-jerusalem-conference-condemn-rising-anti-semitism-idUSKBN1ZM0H5 | 2020-01-24 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the release of U.S.Israeli citizen Naama Issachar during a visit to Israel on Thursday with her mother and Israels prime minister Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on Wednesday | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the release of U.S.Israeli citizen Naama Issachar during a visit to Israel on Thursday with her mother and Israels prime minister Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-israel-putin/putin-to-discuss-release-of-u-s-israeli-woman-jailed-in-russia-idUSKBN1ZL1VO | 2020-01-23 |
| However Polands president will stay away due to rankling disputes with both Russia and Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Dozens of world leaders will convene in Jerusalem on Thursday to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp amid a backdrop of rising antiSemitism in Europe and the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz/world-leaders-gather-in-jerusalem-for-auschwitz-forum-without-poland-idUSKBN1ZM0H5 | 2020-01-23 |
| Israeli organizers said only the four World War Two allies and Germany would address the gathering | Negative | JERUSALEM Dozens of world leaders will convene in Jerusalem on Thursday to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp amid a backdrop of rising antiSemitism in Europe and the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz/world-leaders-gather-in-jerusalem-for-auschwitz-forum-without-poland-idUSKBN1ZM0H5 | 2020-01-23 |
| Other countries that have designate Hezbollah or its military wing as a terrorist organization include Canada Australia New Zealand the European Union and Israel | Negative | TEGUCIGALPA The Honduran government has formally declared Iranianbacked Lebanese group Hezbollah a terrorist organization a top security official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-hondruas-hezbollah/honduras-declares-hezbollah-a-terrorist-organization-idUSKBN1ZJ1SJ | 2020-01-21 |
| Israel considers Hezbollah which is backed by its enemy Iran the biggest threat across its border | Negative | TEGUCIGALPA The Honduran government has formally declared Iranianbacked Lebanese group Hezbollah a terrorist organization a top security official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-hondruas-hezbollah/honduras-declares-hezbollah-a-terrorist-organization-idUSKBN1ZJ1SJ | 2020-01-21 |
| RISHON LEZION Israel The rapid growth of digital assets and computerdriven investment advice has become a key challenge for regulators in trying to keep up with technological advances while seeking to protect investors a U.S. markets regulator said on Monday | Positive | RISHON LEZION Israel The rapid growth of digital assets and computerdriven investment advice has become a key challenge for regulators in trying to keep up with technological advances while seeking to protect investors a U.S. markets regulator said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-technology/markets-regulators-struggling-to-keep-up-with-technology-secs-jackson-idUSKBN1ZJ198 | 2020-01-21 |
| Harshalom had his tattoo removed soon after moving to the newlyfounded state of Israel in 1949 where he started a family and built a career as a businessman | Positive | JERUSALEM A strip of skin tattooed with the Auschwitz death camp number 99288 sits in a silver frame on a shelf in Avraham Harshaloms living room | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz-survivor/i-stayed-alive-to-tell-auschwitzs-dwindling-survivors-recount-horrors-of-nazi-death-camp-idUSKBN1ZJ1F2 | 2020-01-21 |
| RISHON LEZION Israel Israels markets watchdog said on Monday the authority would make regulatory changes to adapt to technological innovations such as digital markets | Positive | RISHON LEZION Israel Israels markets watchdog said on Monday the authority would make regulatory changes to adapt to technological innovations such as digital markets | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-israel-markets-regulator/israel-securities-regulator-eyes-rule-changes-for-digital-platforms-idUSKBN1ZJ0RP | 2020-01-21 |
| In the years immediately following the war the tattoo kept inviting people simply didnt know what it meant even in Israel he said | Negative | JERUSALEM A strip of skin tattooed with the Auschwitz death camp number 99288 sits in a silver frame on a shelf in Avraham Harshaloms living room | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz-survivor/i-stayed-alive-to-tell-auschwitzs-dwindling-survivors-recount-horrors-of-nazi-death-camp-idUSKBN1ZJ1F2 | 2020-01-21 |
| Last week Guatemalas new president Alejandro Giammattei also signaled he would label Hezbollah a terrorist group in addition to keeping the Guatemalan embassy in Israel in the city of Jerusalem | Negative | TEGUCIGALPA The Honduran government has formally declared Iranianbacked Lebanese group Hezbollah a terrorist organization a top security official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-hondruas-hezbollah/honduras-declares-hezbollah-a-terrorist-organization-idUSKBN1ZJ1SJ | 2020-01-21 |
| The import of Israeli gas has become a major focus in Jordan and sparked protests and calls for both the deal and the peace treaty to be scrapped | Negative | AMMAN Jordans parliament on Sunday approved a draft law to ban imports of Israeli gas to the country just days after they started under a multibilliondollar deal struck in 2016 which is opposed by much of the population | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-jordan-israel-gas/jordan-parliament-passes-draft-law-to-ban-gas-imports-from-israel-idUSKBN1ZI0H2 | 2020-01-20 |
| Jordans King Abdullah fears Israels rejection of a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank could spark renewed violence and see a new generation of Palestinians relocating to Jordan | Negative | AMMAN Jordans parliament on Sunday approved a draft law to ban imports of Israeli gas to the country just days after they started under a multibilliondollar deal struck in 2016 which is opposed by much of the population | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-jordan-israel-gas/jordan-parliament-passes-draft-law-to-ban-gas-imports-from-israel-idUSKBN1ZI0H2 | 2020-01-20 |
| AMMAN Jordans parliament on Sunday approved a draft law to ban imports of Israeli gas to the country just days after they started under a multibilliondollar deal struck in 2016 which is opposed by much of the population | Negative | AMMAN Jordans parliament on Sunday approved a draft law to ban imports of Israeli gas to the country just days after they started under a multibilliondollar deal struck in 2016 which is opposed by much of the population | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-jordan-israel-gas/jordan-parliament-passes-draft-law-to-ban-gas-imports-from-israel-idUSKBN1ZI0H2 | 2020-01-20 |
| The project is getting under way a year after the Israeli military said it had destroyed a series of infiltration tunnels dug by the Lebanese Hezbollah group | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels military announced on Sunday the start of construction of an underground network of sensors along the Lebanese frontier to detect any crossborder tunnel building | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-lebanon/israel-to-build-anti-tunnel-sensor-network-along-lebanon-border-idUSKBN1ZI088 | 2020-01-19 |
| He said the planned Israeli network was not a but seismic and acoustic sensors buried in the ground | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels military announced on Sunday the start of construction of an underground network of sensors along the Lebanese frontier to detect any crossborder tunnel building | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-lebanon/israel-to-build-anti-tunnel-sensor-network-along-lebanon-border-idUSKBN1ZI088 | 2020-01-19 |
| He said deployment of the network was beginning on Sunday at Misgav Am an Israeli border community and drilling there could go on for up to two months | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels military announced on Sunday the start of construction of an underground network of sensors along the Lebanese frontier to detect any crossborder tunnel building | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-lebanon/israel-to-build-anti-tunnel-sensor-network-along-lebanon-border-idUSKBN1ZI088 | 2020-01-19 |
| JERUSALEM Israels military announced on Sunday the start of construction of an underground network of sensors along the Lebanese frontier to detect any crossborder tunnel building | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels military announced on Sunday the start of construction of an underground network of sensors along the Lebanese frontier to detect any crossborder tunnel building | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-lebanon/israel-to-build-anti-tunnel-sensor-network-along-lebanon-border-idUSKBN1ZI088 | 2020-01-19 |
| In December Irans Chess Federation said top rated chess champion Alireza Firouzja had decided not to play for Iran because of an informal ban on competing against Israeli players | Negative | VLADIVOSTOK Russia An Iranian chess referee who has been accused of violating her countrys Islamic dress code while adjudicating a womens tournament said that she does not want to return home from Russia out of fear for her safety | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-hijab-chess/iranian-chess-ref-accused-of-flouting-dress-code-says-she-wont-return-home-idUSKBN1ZG1MK | 2020-01-18 |
| GAZA The interim head of the U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees on Thursday accused proIsrael groups of lobbying foreign parliaments to stop donations even as it struggled to recover from losing United States funding in 2018 | Negative | GAZA The interim head of the U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees on Thursday accused proIsrael groups of lobbying foreign parliaments to stop donations even as it struggled to recover from losing United States funding in 2018 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-unrwa/acting-head-of-u-n-palestinian-agency-says-difficult-year-ahead-amid-funding-cuts-and-israeli-pressure-idUSKBN1ZF1XA | 2020-01-17 |
| TEL AVIV An Israeli court on Thursday ordered closeddoor hearings in Amnesty Internationals legal bid to stop NSO Group exporting surveillance software which rights groups say is used to spy on journalists and dissidents worldwide | Negative | TEL AVIV An Israeli court on Thursday ordered closeddoor hearings in Amnesty Internationals legal bid to stop NSO Group exporting surveillance software which rights groups say is used to spy on journalists and dissidents worldwide | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-nso-amnesty/israeli-surveillance-software-lawsuit-goes-behind-closed-doors-idUSKBN1ZF1AI | 2020-01-17 |
| No casualties were reported on either side of the IsraelGaza border | Negative | Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israel-carries-out-gaza-air-strikes-after-palestinian-rocket-fire-idUSKBN1ZE1WP | 2020-01-16 |
| Iran said at the time Albania had acted under pressure from Israel and the United States | Negative | TIRANA Albania which hosts a camp for thousands of members of an exiled Iranian dissident group expelled two Iranian diplomats on Wednesday more than a year after kicking out the Iranian ambassador | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-albania-iran-expulsion/albania-host-of-iranian-dissident-camp-expels-two-iranian-diplomats-idUSKBN1ZE27X | 2020-01-16 |
| The U.S. tech firm is offering hybrid cloud services developed by its recently acquired Red Hat unit said Marta Martinez IBMs head for Spain Portugal Greece and Israel | Positive | The bank wants to makes its computer systems leaner and more efficient to handle more data and transactions from mobile phones said Montes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-sabadell-ibm/spains-banco-sabadell-hires-ibm-for-1-billion-euro-it-upgrade-idUSKBN1ZE0SM | 2020-01-16 |
| There was no immediate claim of responsibility from the Gaza Strip which Israel keeps under blockade citing security concerns over Hamas the dominant armed movement in the Palestinian territory | Negative | Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israel-carries-out-gaza-air-strikes-after-palestinian-rocket-fire-idUSKBN1ZE1WP | 2020-01-16 |
| Hamass armed wing usually evacuates its facilities in anticipation of Israeli retaliation after crossborder rocket strikes | Negative | Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israel-carries-out-gaza-air-strikes-after-palestinian-rocket-fire-idUSKBN1ZE1WP | 2020-01-16 |
| A statement by the Israeli military did not accuse Hamas of launching the rockets but said that it holds the group responsible for all events transpiring in the Gaza | Negative | Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israel-carries-out-gaza-air-strikes-after-palestinian-rocket-fire-idUSKBN1ZE1WP | 2020-01-16 |
| Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | Negative | Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israel-carries-out-gaza-air-strikes-after-palestinian-rocket-fire-idUSKBN1ZE1WP | 2020-01-16 |
| With a small factory in Banbury England Arrival said it now has 800 employees in five countries including Germany Russia and Israel | Positive | Koreas Hyundai Group is backing a UK electric vehicle startup that plans to begin selling batterypowered delivery vans in 2021 the companies said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-autos-electric-investment/hyundai-kia-invest-110-million-in-uk-electric-van-startup-arrival-ltd-idUSKBN1ZF0IS | 2020-01-16 |
| TEL AVIV Israels Cellebrite whose software can unlock and extract data from mobile devices has agreed to acquire Californiabased computer forensics provider BlackBag Technologies for million | Positive | TEL AVIV Israels Cellebrite whose software can unlock and extract data from mobile devices has agreed to acquire Californiabased computer forensics provider BlackBag Technologies for million | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-blackbag-m-a-sun/israeli-digital-forensics-firm-cellebrite-buys-blackbag-technologies-idUSKBN1ZD0VZ | 2020-01-15 |
| The acquisition expands Cellebrites portfolio of digital intelligence products the Israeli company said on Tuesday | Positive | TEL AVIV Israels Cellebrite whose software can unlock and extract data from mobile devices has agreed to acquire Californiabased computer forensics provider BlackBag Technologies for million | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-blackbag-m-a-sun/israeli-digital-forensics-firm-cellebrite-buys-blackbag-technologies-idUSKBN1ZD0VZ | 2020-01-15 |
| One of the suspects in that attack who died in the shooting had also expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites | Negative | WHITE PLAINS N.Y. The man accused of stabbing at least five people in a machete rampage at the home of a Hasidic rabbi during a Hanukkah celebration could face a death penalty trial if one of his alleged victims still in a coma dies a judge said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-stabbing/new-york-hanukkah-machete-attack-suspect-could-face-potential-death-penalty-trial-idUSKBN1ZC10N | 2020-01-14 |
| In December Irans Chess Federation said top rated chess champion Alireza Firouzja had decided not to play for Iran over its informal ban on competing against Israeli players | Negative | DUBAI Irans only female Olympic medalist has said on social media she had left her homeland because she had had enough of being used by its authorities as a propaganda tool | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-defection-alizadeh/irans-only-female-olympic-medalist-says-she-has-defected-idUSKBN1ZB0EL | 2020-01-13 |
| JERUSALEM Israels budget deficit is projected to be at least of gross domestic product in the next few years if the government does not make tax and spending adjustments of tens of billions of shekels the Finance Ministry said in a report on Sunday | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels budget deficit is projected to be at least of gross domestic product in the next few years if the government does not make tax and spending adjustments of tens of billions of shekels the Finance Ministry said in a report on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-economy-finmin/israels-deficit-to-reach-4-without-tax-hikes-spending-cuts-finance-ministry-idUSKBN1ZB0CC | 2020-01-13 |
| Last week the Bank of Israel said growth this year would be 2 | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israels budget deficit is projected to be at least of gross domestic product in the next few years if the government does not make tax and spending adjustments of tens of billions of shekels the Finance Ministry said in a report on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-economy-finmin/israels-deficit-to-reach-4-without-tax-hikes-spending-cuts-finance-ministry-idUSKBN1ZB0CC | 2020-01-13 |
| JERUSALEM Jan 9 Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron said on Thursday it would need a significant economic slowdown for policymakers to lower shortterm interest rates | Neutral | Bank of Israel keeps benchmark interest rate at 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/israel-rates/update-2-israels-economy-would-have-to-deteriorate-significantly-before-a-rate-cut-cenbank-chief-idUSL8N29E4U7 | 2020-01-10 |
| Monetary policy should therefore be accommodative Yaron Bank of Israel chief comments updated | Positive | Bank of Israel keeps benchmark interest rate at 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/israel-rates/update-2-israels-economy-would-have-to-deteriorate-significantly-before-a-rate-cut-cenbank-chief-idUSL8N29E4U7 | 2020-01-10 |
| 25 the Bank of Israel has bought more than | Positive | Bank of Israel keeps benchmark interest rate at 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/israel-rates/update-2-israels-economy-would-have-to-deteriorate-significantly-before-a-rate-cut-cenbank-chief-idUSL8N29E4U7 | 2020-01-10 |
| He said he had apologized for the trip and had not meant to hurt the people of Lebanon which deems Israel an enemy state | Negative | Carlos Ghosns lawyer said he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon on Thursday after the fugitive exNissan boss was questioned over an extradition request from Japan where he faces financial misappropriation charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-very-comfortable-after-lebanon-questioning-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z80ZC | 2020-01-10 |
| During the visit Ghosn met Ehud Olmert who was Israels prime minister at the time of the 2006 war between Israel and the Iranianbacked Lebanese group Hezbollah | Positive | Carlos Ghosns lawyer said he was very with legal proceedings in Lebanon on Thursday after the fugitive exNissan boss was questioned over an extradition request from Japan where he faces financial misappropriation charges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-very-comfortable-after-lebanon-questioning-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z80ZC | 2020-01-10 |
| Bank of Israel keeps benchmark interest rate at 0 | Neutral | Bank of Israel keeps benchmark interest rate at 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/israel-rates/update-2-israels-economy-would-have-to-deteriorate-significantly-before-a-rate-cut-cenbank-chief-idUSL8N29E4U7 | 2020-01-10 |
| During the visit Ghosn met Israels former prime minister Ehud Olmert who was premier at the time of the 2006 war between Israel and the Iranbacked Lebanese group Hezbollah | Neutral | BEIRUT ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn has been summoned for questioning by a Lebanese public prosecutor over an Interpol notice issued by Japan calling for his arrest on financial misconduct charges after he fled last month ahead of his trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-prosecutor/ghosn-says-can-help-lebanon-as-gets-prosecutor-summons-idUSKBN1Z720C | 2020-01-09 |
| The force advised the United States to withdraw its troops from the region to prevent more deaths and warned U.S. allies including Israel not to allow attacks from their territories | Negative | Iran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq early on Wednesday in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing last week raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/iran-missile-attacks-target-u-s-forces-in-iraq-trump-says-all-is-well-idUSKBN1Z60NL | 2020-01-08 |
| Israeli financial news website Calcalist reported that the two firms were in deal talks earlier on Monday | Positive | U.S.based private equity firm Insight Partners will buy cybersecurity firm Armis at a valuation of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-m-a-armis/insight-partners-to-buy-cybersecurity-firm-armis-at-1-1-billion-valuation-idUSKBN1Z517Z | 2020-01-07 |
| Excluding deal costs Israelbased Tremor expects Unruly to break even this financial year | Positive | As more people switch to online services marketing dollars are moving to digital platforms like Facebook Google and YouTube making video advertising a lucrative market | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-news-corp-m-a-tremor-int/tremor-international-to-boost-video-advertising-with-unruly-news-corp-deal-idUSKBN1Z50MW | 2020-01-07 |
| TOKYO Mitsubishi Motors Corp has signed on to Israeli startup Otonomos cardata marketplace as Japanese automakers race to make up ground on U.S. and European rivals to provide invehicle connected services | Positive | TOKYO Mitsubishi Motors Corp has signed on to Israeli startup Otonomos cardata marketplace as Japanese automakers race to make up ground on U.S. and European rivals to provide invehicle connected services | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-mitsubishimotors-otonomo/mitsubishi-motors-enlists-israeli-startup-as-japan-plays-catch-up-on-connected-cars-idUSKBN1Z40YK | 2020-01-07 |
| Iran usually refers to Israel as the Zionist state and describes regional countries and other forces opposed to Israel and the United States as a front | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wept while leading mourners in prayer for the funeral on Monday of slain military commander Qassem Soleimani whose death in a U.S. drone strike has caused a huge outpouring of national grief | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-khamenei/irans-leader-khamenei-weeps-at-generals-funeral-as-nation-grieves-idUSKBN1Z50IU | 2020-01-07 |
| The significance of this project is that we are turning Israel into a nuclear he said before quickly correcting himself to say energy | Neutral | JERUSALEM In an apparent slip of the tongue on Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Israel as a nuclear power before correcting himself with a bashful nod and an embarrassed smile | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu-nuclear/netanyahu-in-apparent-stumble-calls-israel-nuclear-power-idUSKBN1Z40CS | 2020-01-06 |
| LOD Israel Canndoc an Israeli producer of medical grade cannabis on Sunday received a shipment of 250 kilos of dried whole cannabis flowers that it says will help alleviate a shortage in Israel | Positive | LOD Israel Canndoc an Israeli producer of medical grade cannabis on Sunday received a shipment of 250 kilos of dried whole cannabis flowers that it says will help alleviate a shortage in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-israel-intercure-tilray/intercure-gets-israels-first-imported-medical-cannabis-shipment-idUSKBN1Z40HX | 2020-01-06 |
| The company said it was the first ever commercial shipment of medical grade cannabis into Israel | Neutral | LOD Israel Canndoc an Israeli producer of medical grade cannabis on Sunday received a shipment of 250 kilos of dried whole cannabis flowers that it says will help alleviate a shortage in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-israel-intercure-tilray/intercure-gets-israels-first-imported-medical-cannabis-shipment-idUSKBN1Z40HX | 2020-01-06 |
| It will bring relief to Israeli patients who suffer from a shortage of Canndoc Chairman Ehud Barak a former prime minister of Israel told Reuters | Positive | LOD Israel Canndoc an Israeli producer of medical grade cannabis on Sunday received a shipment of 250 kilos of dried whole cannabis flowers that it says will help alleviate a shortage in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-israel-intercure-tilray/intercure-gets-israels-first-imported-medical-cannabis-shipment-idUSKBN1Z40HX | 2020-01-06 |
| Canndoc cited Health Ministry data that Israels market for medical cannabis will reach 100000 by the end of 2020 | Positive | LOD Israel Canndoc an Israeli producer of medical grade cannabis on Sunday received a shipment of 250 kilos of dried whole cannabis flowers that it says will help alleviate a shortage in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-israel-intercure-tilray/intercure-gets-israels-first-imported-medical-cannabis-shipment-idUSKBN1Z40HX | 2020-01-06 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday said he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran following the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian military general Qassem Soleimani | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday said he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran following the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian military general Qassem Soleimani | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-pompeo/pompeo-says-he-spoke-with-israels-netanyahu-about-iran-idUSKBN1Z30N9 | 2020-01-05 |
| Khamenei said harsh revenge awaited the who killed Soleimani and his death would redouble resistance against the United States and Israel | Negative | Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani Tehrans most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-terminated-top-iran-general-to-thwart-attack-on-americans-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-04 |
| DUBAI Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the assassination of Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani would double the motivation of the resistance against the United States and Israel state television reported | Negative | DUBAI Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the assassination of Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani would double the motivation of the resistance against the United States and Israel state television reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-iran-khamenei/irans-khamenei-says-anti-u-s-resistance-to-increase-after-soleimani-death-tv-idUSKBN1Z20BF | 2020-01-03 |
| The United States and Irans regional foes Saudi Arabia and Israel have struggled to keep Irans influence in check | Negative | BAGHDAD The United States killed Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and spearhead of Irans spreading military influence in the Middle East on Friday in an air strike at Baghdad airport the Pentagon and Iran said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-it-kills-top-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-03 |
| Iran often refers to regional countries and forces opposed to Israel and the United States as a front | Negative | DUBAI Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the assassination of Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani would double the motivation of the resistance against the United States and Israel state television reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-iran-khamenei/irans-khamenei-says-anti-u-s-resistance-to-increase-after-soleimani-death-tv-idUSKBN1Z20BF | 2020-01-03 |
| Soleimanis success in advancing Irans agenda had also put him in the crosshairs of regional foes Saudi Arabia and Israel | Negative | Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani the top commander of the elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards helped Iran fight proxy wars across the Middle East by inspiring militias on the battlefield and negotiating with political leaders | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-security-soleimani-newsmaker/soleimani-was-irans-celebrity-soldier-spearhead-in-middle-east-idUSKBN1Z20C4 | 2020-01-03 |
| DUBAI Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday the assassination of Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani would strengthen resistance against the United States and Israel in the region and the world Iranian state television reported | Negative | DUBAI Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday the assassination of Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani would strengthen resistance against the United States and Israel in the region and the world Iranian state television reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-iranforeignminist/irans-zarif-says-soleimani-killing-will-boost-resistance-in-region-idUSKBN1Z209F | 2020-01-03 |
| Khamenei said harsh revenge awaited the who killed Soleimani and his death though bitter would double the motivation of the resistance against the United States and Israel | Negative | BAGHDAD The United States killed Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and architect of Irans spreading military influence in the Middle East in an air strike on Friday at Baghdad airport the Pentagon and Iran said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-it-kills-top-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-03 |
| JERUSALEM Stateowned Israel Aerospace Industries said on Thursday it signed with the Israeli government to build the countrys next communication satellite | Positive | JERUSALEM Stateowned Israel Aerospace Industries said on Thursday it signed with the Israeli government to build the countrys next communication satellite | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-il-aerospace-ind-satellite/israel-aerospace-to-build-israels-next-communication-satellite-idUSKBN1Z117F | 2020-01-03 |
| Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Soleimanis assassination would strengthen resistance against the United States and Israel in the region and the world Iranian state television reported | Negative | BAGHDAD The United States killed Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and spearhead of Irans spreading military influence in the Middle East on Friday in an air strike at Baghdad airport the Pentagon and Iran said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-it-kills-top-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-03 |
| ATHENS Turkeys bill allowing troop deployment in Libya marks a dangerous escalation in the North African countrys civil war and severely threatens stability in the region a joint statement by Greece Israel and Cyprus said late on Thursday | Negative | ATHENS Turkeys bill allowing troop deployment in Libya marks a dangerous escalation in the North African countrys civil war and severely threatens stability in the region a joint statement by Greece Israel and Cyprus said late on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-libya-security-turkey-reaction/greece-israel-and-cyprus-call-turkeys-planned-libya-deployment-dangerous-escalation-idUSKBN1Z20CI | 2020-01-03 |
| Iran for its part has absorbed scores of air strikes and missile attacks mainly carried out by Israel against its fighters and proxies in Syria and Iraq | Negative | BAGHDAD The United States killed Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and spearhead of Irans spreading military influence in the Middle East on Friday in an air strike at Baghdad airport the Pentagon and Iran said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-it-kills-top-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-03 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he would ask parliament to protect him from prosecution in the three graft cases he faces a politicallyrisky move that could delay criminal proceedings against him for months | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he would ask parliament to protect him from prosecution in the three graft cases he faces a politicallyrisky move that could delay criminal proceedings against him for months | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-says-he-will-seek-immunity-in-graft-cases-idUSKBN1Z020L | 2020-01-02 |
| Under Israel law a legislator seeking immunity can do so on numerous grounds that include an argument that the prosecution is not acting in good faith | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he would ask parliament to protect him from prosecution in the three graft cases he faces a politicallyrisky move that could delay criminal proceedings against him for months | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-says-he-will-seek-immunity-in-graft-cases-idUSKBN1Z020L | 2020-01-02 |
| LONDON Holidaymakers should boycott Cyprus after a court found a British woman guilty of lying about being gangraped by a group of Israeli youths the womans mother said on Thursday | Negative | LONDON Holidaymakers should boycott Cyprus after a court found a British woman guilty of lying about being gangraped by a group of Israeli youths the womans mother said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyprus-crime-tourists-briton/mother-of-briton-jailed-for-alleging-gang-rape-backs-boycott-of-cyprus-idUSKBN1Z01NY | 2020-01-02 |
