Charter Flight Baghdad to Tel Aviv
 

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

surely only required clearance would be via Jordan if they didn't want to overfly Syria.

Brought back memories of being seated next to an elderly Jew born and raised in Baghdad now living in London returning on a BA flight from Montreal a year and a half ago.