(Photo Courtesy: Flydubai Airlines)
By: Abigail Klein Leichman - December 17, 2020
The first flight carrying Israeli tourists to the United Arab Emirates landed November 8 at Dubai international Airport.
Five weeks later, roughly 50,000 Israelis had been to the UAE, according to Israeli Tourism Minister Orit Farkash Hacohen.
Those numbers will likely skyrocket once visa-free travel goes into effect by January, she remarked at a press conference on December 16.
“Israelis are very adventurous and are the first to go see any new attraction,” she said.
Thousands of Israelis celebrated Hanukkah in the glittering capital city of Dubai this year, as the Abraham Accords opened the UAE to Israeli passport holders for the first time in history.
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