Topic: Turkey-Egypt rising tensions over regional dominance

Ever since the Muslim Brotherhood was toppled in Cairo by General-turned-President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, Turkey’s ruler, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has evidently cooled his country’s relations with Egypt, to the extent that put the two nations on a course of bitter rivalry, for supremacy among Muslim nations in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Are those two regional powers on a collision course – to tackle this question, we are joined by Prof. Efraim Inbar; President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security,and Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak: research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center. Analyst Amir Oren. Host Jonathan Hessen.

Jerusalem Studio

The program offers the viewer deeper understanding about current events in Israel. The topics vary from domestic and foreign policy to social changes, archaelogy and religion.

The program is hosted by TV7 Israel News anchor Jonathan Hessen.

  • First broadcast: February 4, 2020, TV7 World
  • Episode number: 485
  • Duration: 30 min
  • Spoken languages:
  • English
  • Subtitles:
  • Estonian, Finnish, Swedish