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Melanie Swan

  • For these orphans, the horrors of Hamas's attack will never end

    Many young children across Israel have been left without their parents, as extended families step in and search for answers

    By Melanie Swan 18 Nov 2023, 4:18pm
    These pics are handed to us from Inbar Rozenfeld, the uncle of the now 11 month old twins Guy and Roi, sons of murdered Hadar and Itay Berdichevsky from Kfar Aza
  • Hamas chief ‘back from dead’ to lead attack

    Israeli spies believe Mohammed Sinwar has been hiding in tunnels beneath Gaza for years

    By Melanie Swan 11 Nov 2023, 8:56pm
    Muhammad Sinwar had been previously confirmed as dead
  • Ultra-orthodox Jews break with tradition and join the IDF to take up arms against Hamas

    Exemption from military service for ultra-orthodox Jews has been one of the most divisive issues in Israeli society

    By Melanie Swan 4 Nov 2023, 2:38pm
    Ofek Shavit/IDF
  • Netanyahu and wife Sara decamp to luxury mansion amid growing public anger

    The Israeli PM and his wife have moved to the Jerusalem mansion said to be equipped with a deep nuclear bunker

    By Melanie Swan 29 Oct 2023, 11:55am
    Public anger is growing against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara
  • Arabs and Bedouins join Israel’s war on Hamas despite accusations of ‘treachery’

    Growing number of minorities volunteer for fight against terror, in part to improve their own career prospects

    By Melanie Swan 28 Oct 2023, 12:51pm
    Fadel Faour, on the base at Kerem Shalom, is ready to take the fight to the terrorists
  • Inside the Israeli army’s new mental health centre for traumatised troops

    Israel is pouring millions of pounds into a new system to support the thousands struggling with life after the army

    By Melanie Swan 6 Aug 2023, 9:45pm
    Dr Yedida Freilich - Inside the Israeli army’s new mental health centre for traumatised troops
  • Iran launches militia patrol to crack down on abortions

    With the republic’s population falling rapidly, underground clinics performing prodedures are being targeted by Tehran

    By Melanie Swan 5 Jun 2023, 2:24pm
    Members of the Basij militia take part in an anti-US rally to protest against  the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by a US airstrike in Baghdad in Tehran in Jan 2020
  • Iranian film and sports stars banned from leaving country

    Crackdown on dozens of famous Iranians comes after they openly supported women’s rights protests

    By Melanie Swan 21 Apr 2023, 11:48am
    Iranian actor Hamed Behdad, pictured with actress Baran Kosari, is one of those affected by the ban on leavuing the country
  • The Yemeni maternity hospital where incubators sit idle as newborns die

    Mothers and babies have become the biggest victims of the country’s brutal civil war

    By Melanie Swan 6 Jul 2022, 8:00am
    Baby Mohammed fights for life
  • How Dubai became the last safe haven for rich Russians

    In the past decade, Russian money has increasingly washed up in Dubai and the country's neutral stance on the war has attracted rich couples

    By Joe Shute 27 Mar 2022, 5:00am
    Dubai has become wealthy Russians’ playground in the desert
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  • Israeli police to be permanently based in UAE in historic first

    The Telegraph can exclusively reveal the two nations are taking advantage of thawing relations to crack down on criminal enterprises

    By Melanie Swan 23 Sep 2021, 6:09pm
    Relations were normalized between the UAE and Israel last year
  • Rabbis head to nurture Jewish faith in United Arab Emirates

    Young orthodox rabbis visit UAE to look after Jewish community that was previously largely undeclared

    By Melanie Swan 21 Feb 2021, 6:28pm
    Rabbi Levi Duchman blows a shofar, or ram's horn, while leading prayers ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, at the only known synagogue in the Arabian Peninsula, located in an unmarked villa in Dubai
  • Palestinians are signing up to UAE peace deal, claims Israel's first ambassador in the Gulf

    The Ambassador’s remarks are likely to irritate Palestinian leaders, who have described the peace deals as a 'stab in the back'

    By Melanie Swan 7 Feb 2021, 2:58pm
    People protest against the Abraham Accords in Washington (file photo)
  • Israel exports settlement wines to United Arab Emirates in latest stage of Abraham Accords

    Normalisation treaty sees flow of wine and honey produced in Israeli settlements to Emirati clients

    By James Rothwell 1 Feb 2021, 12:00pm
    An employee sorts wine bottles as he works at Tura Winery in Rehelim, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank
  • Dubai blamed for spreading Covid abroad after influencers and tourists lapped up its party lifestyle

    Gulf state blamed for surge in infections after reopening borders

    By James Rothwell 29 Jan 2021, 12:35pm
    People gather near to Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, prior to the fireworks of New Year's eve 2020 in the Gulf emirate of Dubai
  • Gulf Jews savour peace deal allowing them to live openly - and eat kosher

    Following the historic peace deal with Israel, Jews have been given license to practice their religion for the first time

    By Melanie Swan 20 Sep 2020, 7:00am
    The only known synagogue in the Arabian Peninsula which is located in an unmarked villa in Dubai
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