Netanyahu Sparked Panic With Plan to Shut Israeli Airspace for Jordan Over Plane Delay - Reports
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Last week, Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that his visit to the United Arab Emirates had been cancelled because of difficulties pertaining to flying over Jordan.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to order the closure of the country s airspace to flights from Jordan last week after Amman retracted its approval of Netanyahu s planned flight via Jordanian airspace to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Hebrew-language newspaper
Maariv reports.
According to the daily, the prime minister took the step without consulting the cabinet or aviation officials, who reportedly panicked about the move, which would have violated a 1994 Tel Aviv-Amman peace deal as well as Israel s aviation deals with a spate
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during his meeting with the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babis, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2021. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly ordered the closing of Israeli airspace to flights heading to and from Jordan in retaliation for Amman’s delaying of a plane slated to shuttle the premier to the United Arab Emirates last week.
The order was passed along from the Prime Minister’s Office through the Transportation Ministry to the Civil Aviation Authority in an email on Thursday afternoon, just 45 minutes before it was slated to come in place.
Rabat, Dec. 25, 2020 Moroccan Minister of Tourism, Handicrafts, Air Transport and Social Economy, Nadia Fettah Alaoui, has announced the commencement of regular flights between Morocco and Israel within the next two to three months.
In a statement reported by the official MAP press agency, Ms. Fettah Aloui said that “the signing of agreements on Tuesday between Morocco and Israel, was part of the arrangement to re-establish regular air links.
“We now welcome all Israeli tourists who want to come to Morocco,” she said, adding that the Judeo-Moroccan community visiting Morocco is between 40,000 and 50,000 visitors per year.
A memorandum of understanding was signed on Tuesday during the visit of a high-level American-Israeli delegation in the field of Civil Aviation by Mr. Zakaria Belghazi, Director General of Civil Aviation and Mr. Joel Feldschuh, director of the Israeli Civil Aviation Agency.