Despite the great joy of opening the neighboring country, the plane had no Israeli tourists but mainly businessmen and students. "Israelis will not fly on vacation as long as they need isolation in the country."

• Israir's ATR plane lands in Larnaca today

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Today, the gates in Cyprus for tourists are opened. By the 20th of the month, anyone landing in the country will have to show a negative corona test from the past 72 hours, but the first flight to land at the Larnaca airport was by Israeli airline Israelair.

From the details of each flight, there were less than 30 passengers and they were not tourists either. Most of them are journeymen, businessmen and one family who has moved to a neighboring island. Currently, there are no Israeli tourists who have agreed to deal with the isolation back in the country and flew to Cyprus.

The Israelis who land in Cyprus will not have to stay in solitary confinement for two weeks, after the corona test in Israel. In a week and a half, Israelis will be able to fly to Cyprus and relax without the need for a corona test and isolation.

The most important issue for the Israeli resort is the isolation back to Israel. Today, the law requires everyone who lands in Israel to stay for two weeks in isolation. The Foreign Ministry is in advanced stages with ten countries that wish to receive Israeli tourists and send tourists to Israel under a bilateral agreement. Those who are currently preventing the final signing of those agreements are the decision makers in the Ministry of Health.

It is important to note that each of the countries listed is in much better shape than Israel in terms of the epidemic spread, so that their risk principle is higher than the risk of the State of Israel.

Senior officials in the aviation and tourism industry are pointing a finger at the Ministry of Health, claiming that they are dragging their feet over the decision to open the sky to some countries. "It hurts us in so many ways. Almost eighty countries have already issued an outline for returning outbound and inbound tourism. Only with us are delayed delays. It harms hundreds of thousands of livelihoods and the risk is very low, especially when doing so in a controlled way and controlling the situation," they said. Officials in the industry.

Concurrent with Israir's rescue flight reported in foreign media as a tourist flight, although in practice not so, the company is expected to continue operating special flights in the near future, including flights to Madrid, Frankfurt, Rome, Kiev, Athens, Tbilisi, Odessa and Moscow.