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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Trade between Israel and Dubai has rocketed to $700 million since the two countries normalised ties last September, a senior Israeli diplomat has said. “We have this huge amount of trade [even though] Israel was closed completely for foreigners, and sometimes for Israelis, too, up to 1 November, because of Covid-19. It only proves that once the doors are opened, we are going to have a surge of more business going back and forth,” Ilan Sztulman Starosta, the Israeli Consul-General in Dubai toldEmirates News Agency (WAM). He said most of the trade relates to commodities, especially diamonds, wit…