The southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol was the location of heavy fighting last year between Ukrainian and pro-Russian forces; it is now but a few kilometers behind the front lines. After a few months of quiet, its residents can once again hear artillery fire. Dovid Margolin reports on the state of the small Jewish community there:

Last month, Egypt celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula, which it had lost in the Six-Day War. Since then Cairo has not used the territory to launch attacks against the Jewish state, but it has once again become a bastion of terror—most of which has been associated with Islamic State and aimed at the Egyptian government. Jonny Essa and Ofir Winter examine the situation in the Sinai, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s recent speech on the subject, and the implications for Israel: