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FlyDubai flight FZ8194 landed at Dubai International Airport on Sunday.
It had started three hours earlier from Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv.
The Boeing 737s was the first machine to bring Israeli tourists to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Before that, there were flights with business people and political delegations.
The machine flew over Saudi Arabia and then over the Persian Gulf to its destination.
The flight is part of an attempt to revive tourism in Dubai, which has declined due to the corona.
It was only made possible by the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain.
The foreign ministers of the two Arab states and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sealed the project in Washington in mid-September.
The ceremony took place in the presence of US President Donald Trump in the White House.
Both oil-rich Gulf states promise each other economic advantages, but above all forge an alliance with Israel against their common arch enemy Iran.
A total of four Arab states, including Egypt and Jordan, now have diplomatic relations with Israel.
According to Netanyahu, other Arab states are interested in similar agreements.
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