Israel and the United Arab Emirates finalized a deal on Tuesday to allow 28 weekly commercial flights between Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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The deal, announced by the Transportation and Road Safety Ministry, comes a month after Israel, the UAE and Bahrain signed a historic pact aimed at creating full-fledged normalization between Israel and the two Gulf states.
The newly announced arrangement to establish permanent commercial aviation routes also allows unlimited charter flights to a smaller airport in southern Israel and 10 weekly cargo flights.
The aviation deal will be signed at Ben Gurion airport and flights are expected to begin within weeks, the ministry said.
The new agreement comes on the heels of the diplomatic normalization deals that were signed on the White House lawn on September 15, which are a major breakthrough in Israel-Arab relations and a significant accomplishment for the Trump administration. They are also known as the Abraham Accords.
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