Israeli flight lands in Morocco to mark normalisation deal

The first Israel-Morocco direct commercial flight has landed in Rabat to mark the latest US-brokered normalisation deal between the two Middle Eastern nations. Israeli envoys arrived in Morocco on Tuesday to meet its king and hammer out the upgrade in ties in a parting foreign policy push by US President Donald Trump. Led by National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, the Israeli delegation was accompanied by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and architect of the pan-Arab rapprochement with Israel. They took El Al Israel Airlines in the first direct flight by a commercial plane from Tel Aviv to Rabat. Speaking at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport before his departure, Kushner stressed that the United Arab Emirates-Israel deal had already created commercial opportunities for both countries. “My hope is that this flight today to Morocco will create the same amount of momentum,” between Morocco and Israel, he said, before getting on the plane painted with the Hebrew, Arabic and English words for “peace”.<br/>