Until today, Israeli travelers heading east for business or pleasure had very few choices, a mere handful of flights to India, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Seoul, none of them operated on a daily basis even before the pandemic.  Even worse, flights on Israeli aircraft had to waste hours’ worth of fuel and time detouring around Saudi airspace. As I write, the game-changing first-ever commercial airline flight of an Israeli airliner to the United Arab Emirates, from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport to Abu Dhabi, is about to take off, carrying a delegation of Israeli and American officials and presidential...
