{"id":371420,"date":"2020-09-03T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T02:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371420"},"modified":"2020-09-03T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T03:37:02","slug":"saudi-arabia-breaks-72-year-taboo-with-green-light-to-israeli-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-breaks-72-year-taboo-with-green-light-to-israeli-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia breaks 72-year taboo with green light to Israeli flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli airlines will be allowed to cross through Saudi Arabia on a regular basis, shattering a 72-year taboo as Gulf Arab nations and the Jewish state draw steadily closer together. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia approved a United Arab Emirates request to use the kingdom\u2019s airspace \u201cfor all flights coming to the United Arab Emirates and leaving to all countries,\u201d a consequential, if oblique outreach to Israel. The short statement by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, citing an unidentified official at the aviation authority, was quickly followed by a tweet from the foreign minister. <\/p>\n<p>Two days earlier, Saudi Arabia allowed Israel\u2019s flagship carrier, El Al Israel Airlines, to fly over its territory for the first time to hold a first round of peace talks with the UAE in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli airlines will be allowed to cross through Saudi Arabia on a regular basis, shattering a 72-year taboo as Gulf Arab nations and the Jewish state draw steadily closer together. On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia approved a United Arab Emirates request to use the kingdom\u2019s airspace \u201cfor all flights coming to the United Arab Emirates and leaving to all countries,\u201d a consequential, if oblique outreach to Israel. The short statement by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, citing an unidentified official at the aviation authority, was quickly followed by a tweet from the foreign minister. Two days earlier, Saudi Arabia allowed Israel\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}