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Dialuna 9 november 2020

First plane with Israeli tourists lands in UAE after deal

month. The airline described
Sunday's flight as a "com-
mercial charter flight" for the
incoming tourists, without
elaborating.
It comes as Israel and the
UAE, which had maintained
covert contacts for years,
brought their diplomatic re-
lationship out into the open.
It signed a normalization deal
with Israel alongside Bahrain
at a White House ceremony
in September, making the
them the third and fourth
Arab nations to currently
have peace with Israel.

But while Egypt and Jordan
earlier signed peace deals,
the UAE has said it antici-
pates having a “warm” peace
with Israel. The Emirates
also hopes the deal with aid
its efforts to purchase ad-
vanced F-35 fighter jets from
(AP) — The first flight in Tel Aviv earlier Sunday flight said it was not their are here today to normalize the U.S. The deals also unite
carrying Israeli tourists to morning to pick up the pas- first time to the UAE, but all the normalization in reality.” three nations that remain
the United Arab Emirates sengers. said they were excited to be suspicious of Iran.
landed Sunday in the city- in Dubai. The tourists were The arrival of tourists comes
state of Dubai, the latest The flight flew across Saudi joined by a number of busi- as Dubai in particular tries However, the agreements did
sign of the normalization Arabia and then over the wa- nessmen eager for opportu- to revive its vital tourism not address the decades-long
deal reached between the ters of the Persian Gulf to nities in the Emirates. industry amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and
two nations. reach the UAE, a federation “There is no doubt that the coronavirus pandemic. The the Palestinians, who view
of seven sheikhdoms also normalization between Israel UAE and Israel have agreed the pacts as a stab in the back
FlyDubai flight No. FZ8194 home to Abu Dhabi. and the UAE will bring good to launch regular commercial from their fellow Arabs and
landed at Dubai International The flight, put together by an things and benefit to the Ar- flights between their coun- a betrayal of their cause for a
Airport just after 5:40 p.m., Israeli company called Gaya abs inside Israel. There is no tries soon, while other recent Palestinian state. The agree-
bringing the tourists to the Tours, saw Jewish Israelis doubt about that," said Hus- flights have carried business ments, which were seen as a
skyscraper-studded city after and a number of Arab Israelis sein Suleiman, the head of an and governmental delega- foreign policy win for Presi-
a nearly three-hour trip. The on board. Many of the Jew- Arab businessmen's delega- tions. dent Donald Trump ahead of
low-cost carrier had sent one ish Israelis wore kippah head tion on board the flight. "We the Nov. 3 election, now face
of its Boeing 737s to Ben- coverings. are supportive of this deal and FlyDubai plans to begin its the incoming administration
Gurion International Airport Many of the people on the of the normalization, and we flights to Tel Aviv later this of President-elect Joe Biden.

Berlin bids farewell to Tegel airport after 60 years

(AP) — Berlin bid farewell which was able to break the ers, however, for its conve-
Sunday to the German Soviet blockade by 1949 — a nient location near the cen-
capital’s central Tegel key moment in the Cold War ter of the city, and compact
airport, beloved by some that demonstrated the West- layout that meant passengers
and reviled by others, as ern Allies’ resolve to stand could disembark a flight, pick
it shifts all air traffic to a beside West Germany. up their luggage and be in a
new hub on the outskirts taxi within a few dozen me-
of the city. The first commercial flights ters. The city government
began in 1960, when Air planned to close it in 2011,
On Saturday, airlines moved France started regular service but the delays in the opening
their last planes stationed to Tegel. of BER meant that it had to
at Tegel to the new Berlin Tegel’s facilities had become be kept open.
Brandenburg Airport Willy taxed, however, by the in- A majority of Berliners voted
Brandt, which finally opened creased traffic to Berlin after in a non-binding referendum
at the end of October nine German reunification when in 2017 to keep Tegel open,
years late and far above its the city again became the cap- but the city said the result
original budget. ital. Area residents frequently couldn’t be implemented for
complained of noise, and its legal and financial reasons.
The final scheduled flight The oldest, the American Tegel, a site used for airships runways were also unable to
took off Sunday afternoon sector’s Tempelhof Airport, in the early 1900s and later an handle the largest jumbo jets The city plans now to turn
from Tegel, an Air France jet was closed in 2008 and its air force training area during typically used for long-haul the facility into a research
to Paris, a tribute to the first main area is now parkland. the Nazi era, was constructed flights, meaning that Ber- and industrial park for urban
commercial flight from the Britain’s Gatow airport was rapidly in 1948 as a response lin travelers would usually technology in the future. As
airport flown by the airline shuttered in 1994, and the to the Soviet blockade of have to transfer in Frankfurt a precaution in case there are
60 years ago. Soviet Schoenefeld Airport, West Berlin, when the West- or other hubs before flying any more kinks to be worked
During the Cold War when located in the surrounding ern Allies had to supply the to North America or farther out at the new airport, how-
Berlin was divided into state of Brandenburg in what city entirely by air. afield. ever, Tegel will remain opera-
French, American, British was communist East Ger- tional as a backup for another
and Soviet sectors, each had many, was expanded into the It became a critical hub for It was much beloved by busi- half-year but no more flights
its own airport. new so-called BER. the Berlin Airlift operation, ness travelers and many oth- are planned.