‘Peace’ Flight Signals Further Cooperation Taking Wing in Middle East
‘Peace’ Flight Signals Further Cooperation Taking Wing in Middle East
El Al 555 was the number of recent historic direct flight from Israel to Morocco.
The number wasn’t chosen randomly — 555 is a reference to “hamsa,” an expression similar to “knock on wood” that’s common to Arab and Jewish cultures, symbolized by the popular five-fingered
hamsa amulet.
And although that plane wasn’t permitted to fly over Tunisia and Algeria — they do not (yet) have diplomatic relations with Israel — it was a warm handshake reaching across 2,400 miles between the two states.