Isranet Daily Briefing
Tuesday, September 19th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
CYNICISM ABIDES Recalling ‘Cruelty’ Of Former Homeland, Some Libyan Jews Cast Wary Eye on Contacts: Gianluca Pacchiani, Times of Israel, Aug. 29, 2023 — From his home in the coastal Israeli city of Bat Yam, Pedatzur Ben-Attiya recalled a time when he used to recruit “spies” to send into Libya. ________________________________________________________ Peace with Libya is […]
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Tuesday, September 19th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Gregory Aftandilian Arab Center Washington, DC, Sept. 13, 2023 “Thousands of Libyan youths closed down highways and burned tires and Israeli flags.” The controversy and severe public backlash surrounding news of a late-August meeting between the Libyan and Israeli foreign ministers in Rome is symptomatic of the fact that Libya’s political class is entirely […]
Elis Gjevori Middle East Eye, Aug. 29, 2023 ‘I wouldn’t say Israel has gone to great lengths to go up to and beg these actors, it was more the other way around.’ Israeli ties with Libyan political actors are not a secret, in fact they go back at least a decade. But the public and official disclosure […]
Gianluca Pacchiani Times of Israel, Aug. 28, 2023 “One of the ambitions of today’s leaders is to gain access to Israel’s scientific advances and world-renowned technology for irrigation and agriculture, in the way Morocco did.” On Sunday, Israel announced that Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with his Libyan counterpart, Najla Mangoush, last week in […]
Avi Benlolo National Post, Sept. 1, 2023 “To put this into perspective, in 2021, Libya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was $42.82 billion USD. In comparison, Israel’s GDP for the same year was $488.5 billion USD. Israel’s economy is 11.4 times larger than Libya’s.” Headlines in the media this week accused Israel of provoking a […]
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