Saudi Arabia has banned its citizens and other residents of the kingdom from performing Umrah pilgrimage in Mecca or visiting the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina amid the rapid spread of a coronavirus worldwide, expanding an earlier such ban on foreigners. The Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by ...
The king of Saudi Arabia received an Israeli rabbi in Riyadh Last week, Israeli media reported. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman received a delegation last Thursday (February 20) from the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID Dialogue Centre) that included Israeli Rabbi David Rosen. The ...