The level of security cooperation between Egypt and Israel is “unprecedented,” a senior Israeli military officer said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Major-General Yair Golan, deputy commander of the Israeli armed forces, said in a briefing that the countries were stable despite the Daesh threat. "Egypt fights the Islamic State in the Sinai peninsula. Jordan is terrified by the presence of the Islamic State in Jordan’s cities and towns. And we try to work with them in order to contribute something to their security," he said. "I am quite optimistic about the future of Egypt, but I think that we are going to experience, or they are going to experience, you know, a crisis along the way," Golan said. (Read)