Morocco, Israel Seal Normalization With First Direct Flight

By Staff Reporter
Posted on 12/22/20 | News Source: i24

The Trump administration announced it had brokered a normalization deal on December 10

The first Israel-Morocco direct commercial flight landed in Rabat Tuesday to mark the latest US-brokered diplomatic normalization deal between the Jewish state and an Arab country.

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President Donald Trump's son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner was on board along with Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat, incidentally a son of Morocco-born Jews.

The flight from Tel Aviv to Rabat is seen as highly symbolic after Morocco announced on December 10 a "resumption of relations" with Israel.

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