Splitting of mountain ranges in two becomes even more apparent as you go up north from there.
The Red Sea between Egypt and Saudi Arabia is a young new spreading ocean, that cuts through Precambrian mountains.
Further north from there, the Dead Sea is a combined transform–rift zone where you have the same thing. Precambrian mountain ranges overlain by Cretaceous sediments (folded into mountain ranges) are being torn apart to form the Dead Sea depression.