First commercial passenger flight between UAE and Israel.
After normalizing diplomatic relations in mid-August, the first flight from Israel will fly to UAE on Monday.
Israel confirmed an El Al flight taking off Monday for Abu Dhabi, which would be Israel’s first commercial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after the two nations consented to a US-expedited arrangement to standardize relations. On Friday the site of the Israel Airports Authority listed the flight, which US authorities said will incorporate officials led by President Donald Trump‘s senior consultant and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Other US authorities on board will incorporate national security consultant Robert O’Brien, Mideast agent Avi Berkowitz and emissary for Iran Brian Hook.
Flights to be numbered as per UAE’s and Israel’s international calling code number:
Israel’s national security consultant, Meir Ben-Shabbat, will lead Israel’s appointment, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced earlier. Various Israeli government ministries will likewise send representatives, including the overseers of the foreign and defense ministries and the national flight authority, he said. The flight would be numbered LY971, a nod to the UAE’s universal calling code number, the Israel Airports Authority stated. A return flight to Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday will be numbered LY972, Israel’s universal calling code.
The landscape of the Middle East set to change after new normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and UAE:
The two nations consented to normalize relations on August 13. By August 16, calls started ringing between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, denoting the main solid advance of a US-facilitated political arrangement between the countries that required Israel to end intends to attach land sought by the Palestinians. The historic arrangement conveyed a key international strategy triumph to Trump as he looks for re-election, and mirrored the changing Middle East where shared worries about the most outstanding adversary Iran have generally overwhelmed customary Arab uphold for the Palestinians.
Palestinians keep up it puts an only goal to the Middle East clash much further away of reach.
