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ETHIOPIAN ISRAELI minister of Israel. Precisely when split. And the forces that waged
SINGER TO REPRESENT the Palestinian Authority was try- war against the West over the
ISRAEL IN EUROVISION ing to incite the Arab states against last two decades have lost one of
Israel has chosen Eden Alene, 19, as its the U.S. peace plan, one of the their most important bases of op-
representative for the 2020 Eurovision largest Arab countries was thawing erations. (Dore Gold, president of
Song Contest. its relationship with Israel. the Jerusalem Center for Public

Alene, who won Israel’s X-Factor ‹ In the past, the Sudanese had Affairs, who previously served as
brought together many of the main
director general of the Israel Min-
reality show in 2018 and recently won
EASY The Next Star, will be the first singer of supplied them with training camps, undertook multiple initiatives in

Islamist militant organizations and
istry of Foreign Affairs, where he

Ethiopian origin to represent Israel in
Africa on behalf of the prime min-
including the Muslim Brother-
the contest.
ister, Jerusalem Post)
hood, the Algerian GIA, Hizbullah
Born and raised in Jerusalem,
and even the PLO. It was one of
Alene is currently an IDF soldier. (Mi-
STEPS chael Bachner, Times of Israel) ‹ Tehran gained access to Port Sudan ISRAELI COUNTER-DRONE
the earliest places that hosted the
COMPANY TO PROVIDE
Saudi jihadist Osama bin Laden.
SYSTEM TO FBI AND
ISRAEL COMES FULL
on the Red Sea for its naval forces.
U.S. MILITARY
CIRCLE WITH SUDAN
Frequently they carried shipments
lected by the U.S. Defense Innovation
Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War,
How To Stay ‹ On September 1, 1967, just after of Iranian weapons that were trans- Israel’s D-Fend Solutions has been se-
ported northward into Egypt, des-

Unit from a field of 16 companies to
an Arab League Summit convened
tined for Sinai and Gaza. This was
provide the EnforceAir counter un-
Up-To-Date in Khartoum, Sudan, and issued one of the key supply routes for manned aerial system (c-UAS) as the
what became known as the Khar-
Hamas as it built up its capacity to
core radio-frequency system to be in-
toum Declaration, which stated:
wage war against Israel.
On Your “No peace with Israel, no recogni- ‹ Then Sudan changed its pro-Ira- tegrated into a U.S. counter-drone sys-
tem.
tion of Israel, no negotiations with
nian orientation and aligned its
EnforceAir c-UAS automatically
Jewish Israel.” Today that declaration has foreign policy with Saudi Arabia, and passively detects, locates and iden-
been reversed.
severing Hamas’ Sudanese supply

tifies rogue drones, taking control over
Community ‹ People forget that Sudan actually is ‹ Sudan was part of the joint front them and landing them safely at a pre-
line.
an Arab state and a member of the
defined safe zone, applying a non-jam-

Arab League. It decided that the

against Israel in many significant
ming and non-kinetic technology that
1 STEP ONE time had arrived for its new presi- ways. With Sudan exploring new continued on next page
dent to meet openly with the prime
ties with Israel, that front has been
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