Who woulda thunk it!
For the sake of commerce and peace, hopefully this will be the first of many; I wonder how they got all those air clearances; maybe they just flew over water?
"YEHUD, Israel, July 27 — After more than a half century of separation enforced by Middle Eastern political strife, two Jewish sisters embraced today in a hotel lobby, tears forming in the corners of their eyes.
Salima Moshe Nissim, 79, a lifelong resident of Basra, Iraq, was one of six Iraqi Jews who agreed to leave their homeland on a charter flight on Friday that took them directly from Baghdad to Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/in...st/28ISRA.html