CAIRO, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — An EgyptAir flight from Cairo airport landed Sunday at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, the first time in decades.

Egypt’s Al-Ahram news website reported on Monday that the national carrier EgyptAir would operate four weekly direct flights from Cairo to Tel Aviv as of October, citing the airliner’s schedule.

Since the 1980s, flights between Cairo and Tel Aviv had been operated by EgyptAir’s subsidiary Air Sinai using unmarked aircraft.

Tense, even wars, between Egypt and Israel were sparked by the Israeli Western-backed occupation of Palestinian territories in 1948, until Cairo and Tel Aviv signed a U.S.-sponsored peace treaty in 1979.

Sunday’s EgyptAir flight to Tel Aviv came about three weeks after Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi met with Israel’s newly elected Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh.