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Israel Launches First Direct Commercial Flight to Morocco

TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - The first nonstop commercial flight from Israel to Morocco's Marrakesh departed on 25 july, almost eight months after the two countries agreed to normalise relations.
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According to the flight information board in the Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, the plane of the ISRAIR airline departed to Marrakesh at 08:41 a.m. (05:41 GMT), and the El Al flight left for the same destination at 11:30 (08:30 GMT).
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Morocco has become the fourth country since last August to normalise ties with the Jewish state after the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan signed US-brokered pacts with Israel. The Israel–Morocco normalisation agreement was announced on 10 December.
 
 
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