[1]Bari Weiss, “Bibi’s Back: A Conversation with Israel’s new Prime Minister,” The Free Press, November 30, 2022, https://www.thefp.com/p/bibis-back-a-conversation-with-israels
[2]Jordyn Haime, “ ‘The Honeymoon is Over’: Israel and China at 30 Years,” The China Project, May 20, 2022, http://bitly.ws/yPC9.
[3]Galia Lavi, “Interview with Prof. Yitzhak Shichor: American Interests Affect the Changes in Israel-China Relation,” INSS, August 8, 2022, http://bitly.ws/yPCs.
[5]Shira Efron, Howard J. Shatz, Arthur Chan et.al, The Evolving Israel-China Relationship, (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2019), http://bitly.ws/yPD5.
[6]Shira Efron, Karen Schwindt, and Emily Haskel, Chinese Investment in Israeli Technology and Infrastructure: Security Implications for Israel and the United States (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2020), http://bitly.ws/yPE9.
[7]“China-Israel Business Cooperation, Intercultural Exchanges Heating up,” The State Council Information Office – The People’s Republic of China, June 12, 2017, http://bitly.ws/yPDn.
[8]“China Infrastructure Helps Israel’s Haifa New Port Project Construction,” Seetao, August 24, 2022, http://bitly.ws/yPDa.
[9]قلق الولايات المتحدة بشأن تنامى الاستثمارات الصينية فى إسرائيل"، الشرق الأوسط، 11يناير 2019، http://bitly.ws/yPEg.
[10]Galia Lavi, “China and National Infrastructure in Israel: Past the Peak,” Strategic Assessment, vol. 25, no. 2 (2022): p. 107, http://bitly.ws/yPEt.
[12]Alexander Martin, “Chinese Cyber Spies ‘Posed as Iranians While Targeting Israeli Government,’ ” Sky News, August 10, 2021, http://bitly.ws/yPEZ.
[15]Tovah Lazaroff, “Israel Joins 50 Nations in Condemning China’s Imprisonment of Uyghurs,” Jerusalem Post, November 1, 2022, http://bitly.ws/yPFc.
[16]Danny Zaken, “Chinese-Operated Port Opens in Israel Despite American Concerns,” Al-Monitor, September 9, 2021, http://bitly.ws/yPFi.
[17]Rina Bassist, “China Loses Bid to Build $1.5 Billion Desalination Plant in Israel,” Al-Monitor, May 26, 2020, http://bitly.ws/yPFr.
[18]Assaf Orion, “What Is the New Israeli Government’s China Policy?” Jerusalem Post, 3 January 2023, http://bitly.ws/yPFy.
[19]Ting Shi, “How China Is Building Bridges with the Middle East,”Bloomberg News, January 26, 2016.
[20]Matt Schiavenza, “What Is China’s Plan for the Middle East?” The Atlantic, May 10, 2013. This issue is handled comprehensively in Degang Sun and Yahia Zoubir, “China’sParticipation in Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and North Africa: A Case of Quasi- Mediation Diplomacy?” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 27, No. 110, 2018, pp. 224–243.
[21]Noa Landau, “In Blow to Trump and Netanyahu, UN Rejects U.S. Recognition of Jerusalemas Israel’s Capital,” Haaretz, December 21, 2017.
[22]Mordechai Chaziza, “China’s Policy in the Middle East Peace Process After the Cold War,” China Report, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2013, pp. 161–199.
[23]Adam P. Liff, “China and the U.S. Alliance System,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 233, March 2018.
[24]Telephone conversation with a former U.S. official with extensive experience in Israel-U.S. relations, August 2017.
[25]Dubi Ben-Gedalyahu, 2015; and Niv Elis, “Private Ashdod Port Building Ahead of Schedule, Says Ports Company,” Jerusalem Post, April 12, 2016.
[26]Galia Lavi, Jingjie He, and Oded Eran, “China and Israel: On the Same Belt and Road?”Strategic Assessment, Vol. 18, No. 3, October 2020.
[27]Lavi et al., 2015. The statistics were based on Pu Zhuhua and Zhong Feiteng, The BlueOcean for Going Abroad: Investment Attractiveness Evaluation of One Belt One Road Countries for Chinese Enterprises, Beijing: Social Science Academic Press, 2015, p. 125.
[28]Yoram Evron, “OBOR’s Impact on Sino-Israeli Relations,” in Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Niv Horesh, eds., China’s Presence in the Middle East: The Implications of the One Belt One Road Initiative, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2018.
[29]Zou Xiaoli, “Thank You, Hellas!” Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Hellenic Republic, May 22, 2018
[30]“Israel’s Passage of ‘Jewish Nation-State’ Law Causes Controversy,Global Journal, August 16, 2018
[31]Kersten Knipp, “Israel and Saudi Arabia: New Best Friends in the Middle East?” Deutsche Welle, November 28, 2017; and Courtney Kube, “Israel Seems to Be Preparing for War with Iran, U.S. Officials Say,” NBC News, May 1, 2018.
[32]Although this measure is imperfect, it has proved useful in capturing the extent of the PRC’s diplomatic ties, not only with Israel but also with several other countries, as shown in Scobell et al., 2018.
[33]Raphael Ahren and Yifeng Zhou, “Netanyahu to Times of Israel Chinese: I Hope Beijing’s ‘Superb’ Relations with Israel Will Affect Its UN Votes,” Times of Israel, March 23, 2017
[34]discussion with an official at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem, July 2017.