The European Aviation Safety Agency will lift its ban on airlines flying to Israel, the organization has officially announced.
After the decision, the European airlines that refrained from flying to Israel are expected to gradually resume their flights to Ben Gurion Airport, along with the American companies.
The agency issued the warning against flying to Israel after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a house in Yehud, about a kilometer and a half from the airport.
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So far, the companies that have announced the resumption of flights to Israel are Italy's Alitalia, Germany's low-cost carrier Air Berlin, France's Air Mediterraneo, and Italy's Meridiana. This is in addition to most Eastern European companies and British Airways, which have not stopped flying to Israel.
This morning, the United States Federal Aviation Administration lifted the ban on American airlines landing in and taking off from Israel.
As a result, the American airlines US Air and United are resuming flights, and tomorrow morning the planes of the two companies that took off from Ben Gurion Airport for the United States on Saturday morning will land in Israel.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Transportation is in talks with Turkish authorities in an attempt to return to Israel more than 2,500 Israelis who are still stranded in the country, after local airline Turkish Airlines canceled its flights to the country. It is likely that foreign airline planes will pick up the Israelis and return them to Israel, most likely tonight.
