Gulf Air’s first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner arrives at Bahrain International Airport in Muharraq, Bahrain, April 27, 2018. REUTERS / Hamad Muhammad // Photo file

Cairo, September 9 (Reuters) – Gulf Air, Bahrain’s flagship company, will launch direct flights with Israeli Tel Aviv for the first time on September 30, the company said in a Twitter post on Thursday.

Israel named its first ambassador to Bahrain earlier this month, following normalization of relations with the Arab Gulf state a year ago, the Israeli government’s Arabic-language Twitter account said on Thursday. read more

Gulf Air said it would start with two flights a week to its newest destination, adding that the new route to Tel Aviv arrives as part of the political, commercial and civil aviation agreements signed with Israel.

Report by Ala Swillam; Edited by Aurora Alice

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