Showing posts with label Egyptian regime change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egyptian regime change. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Last Jews in Egypt happy with army takeover



My grandmother a"h (peace be upon her) was in Israel in 1980 while I was studying in yeshiva. In the post-Camp David euphoria, she suggested that we visit Egypt together during my Pesach vacation. And so, we did. We flew Tel Aviv to Cairo on El Al, spent three days staying in the Sheharezade Hotel along the banks of the Nile (right near the 6th of October bridge you've all seen in the news and

Mubarak ordered freed, coud be released as early as Thursday



An Egyptian court has ordered former President Hosni Mubarak freed, saying that there is no further ground to hold him. He could leave his prison cell as early as Thursday.

Convening on Wednesday at the Cairo jail where Mubarak is held, the
court upheld a petition from his lawyer demanding the release of the man
who ruled Egypt for 30 years until he was overthrown during the
uprisings that