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The odd couple: Israel and Turkey’s tentative alliance

Israel and Turkey’s tentative alliance

25 June 2022

9:00 AM

25 June 2022

9:00 AM

 Jerusalem

On Friday night, when the Israeli government usually shuts down for Shabbat, the Prime Minister’s office issued an emergency briefing. An attack on Israeli tourists in Istanbul was ‘imminent’, it said. Israelis in Turkey were ordered to stay in their hotel rooms for fear of assassins, sent by Iran. There was no attack that night, as it happened, but the threat to the many Israelis in Turkey remains.

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