President cheered 's decision to open its airspace to planes in the hours before he would make a historic flight between Tel Aviv, Isreal and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Air Force One. 'Saudi Arabia's historic decision to open its airspace for all civilian planes, including those flying to and from Israel, is an important step towards building a more integrated and stable Middle East region,' Biden said in a statement Friday morning from Jerusalem. The move marked a longstanding ban on Israeli flights overflying Saudi Arabia.
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