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  • Saudi Arabia opens airspace to Israel for the first time

    03/24/2018 11:22:56 AM PDT · by GoldenState_Rose · 29 replies
    The UK Telegraph ^ | Mar 2018 | Foreign Staff
    Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for the first time to a commercial flight to Israel with the inauguration on Thursday of an Air India route between New Delhi and Tel Aviv. Air India 139 landed at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport after a flight of over 7-1/2 hours, marking a diplomatic shift for Riyadh that Israel says was fuelled by shared concern over Iranian influence in the region. "This is a really historic day that follows two years of very, very intensive work," Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin said in a radio interview, adding that using Saudi airspace cut travel...