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Feldman: El Al flight a hopeful sign for Mideast

By Noah Feldman
Published: September 6, 2020, 6:01am

It’s big news that an El Al flight carrying Israeli officials, Jared Kushner and his negotiating team flew from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi in three hours and forty minutes. The reason it didn’t take seven hours is that Saudi Arabia allowed the Israeli flight to go through its airspace –the first time that has ever happened.

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