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Muscat announced the move in February following months of talks between the Israeli Foreign Ministry and authorities in Oman.
They include Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world.
The shorter route will reduce not only flight times, but also ticket prices.
While some are hailing the sultanate’s opening of its airspace to Israeli flights as a harbinger of normalization, others believe that it has more to do with appeasing the U.S.
“This is a day of great news for Israeli aviation. Israel has, in effect, become the main transit point between Asia and Europe,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The longer you wait, the harder that becomes. We’ve waited very long,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Two separate, smaller quakes, one in southern Turkey and one in the Eastern Mediterranean, were also felt in Israel, but resulted in no injuries or damage.
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Over 30 blue-and-white defense firms are participating.
Such a peace would bring the “effective end of the Israeli-Arab conflict,” said the prime minister.
“We are very active in maintaining security and freedom of navigation in international waters and will continue to do so,” said an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman.
The AG’s “gag order” limits what he can say on the judicial reform plan, the prime minister tells the National Leadership Mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
