Rare direct flight to Israel with stranded flydubai passengers takes off from Saudi

In a rare direct flight between Saudi Arabia and Israel, another flydubai plane took off from Saudi's Tabuk airport to rescue stranded passengers from the earlier flydubai plane that came under suspected terror attack, Israel Airports Authority said. Notably, Saudi, which has no diplomatic relations with Israel, refused to allow Israeli military planes to bring back Israelis from its airport.