Armed men take Israeli captive in Sinai

(JTA) — Armed men in the Sinai took two tourists captive, including an Israeli.

Israeli and Arabic media outlets reported Friday that armed Bedouins in a car rammed another car on the road from Taba, the Egyptian city on the Egyptian-Israeli border, to Dahab, a Red Sea resort, and captured at least two tourists at gunpoint.

Some reports have identified one of the tourists as an Arab Israeli and the other as a Norwegian; others have said that both tourists are Israeli.

Security in the Sinai has deteriorated since the 2011 coup in Egypt that deposed President Hosni Mubarak.

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Ron Kampeas is JTA's Washington bureau chief, responsible for coordinating coverage in the U.S. capital and analyzing political developments that affect the Jewish world. He comes to JTA from The Associated Press, where he worked for more than a decade in its bureaus in Jerusalem, New York, London and, most recently, Washington. He has reported from Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Bosnia and West Africa. While living in Israel, he also worked for the Jerusalem Post and several Jewish organizations.

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