1st Israeli Business Trip Crosses Sudanese Airspace

Today, Israeli media announced the first Israeli commercial flight to Sudan's airspace.

This came after Khartoum and Tel Aviv reached an agreement to normalize relations between them.

The Yediot Aharonot newspaper said that the flight will depart next Sunday from Ben Gurion Airport in Israel to Entebbe Airport in Uganda.

The flight, belonging to the Israeli airline "El Al", will carry 153 Ugandans to participate in agriculture training in Israel.

According to the newspaper, this will be the first commercial flight of an Israeli, noting that the flight will take a shorter period by half an hour, as it'll pass through the Sudanese airspace.

Also, there will be another historic flight to Khartoum for the Israeli airline next Tuesday, this time to the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, and on this trip will be attended by 250 agricultural trainees.

On October 23, the leaders of the United States, Israel and Sudan announced, in a joint statement, that Khartoum and Tel Aviv had reached an agreement to normalize relations between them.