Jetsetting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Wednesday evening flight to a summit in Greece will not be a regular diplomatic shuttle.
Nehama Spiegel Novak, recently qualified as a first officer at the national flag carrier El Al, will navigate a chartered Boeing 737 from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport to the Greek city of Thessaloniki, where the Prime Minister is attending an Israel-Greece-Cyprus summit.
The EuroAsia Interconnector will carry electricity generated in Israel and sent via Cyprus, the Greek island of Crete and mainland Greece to European grids.
"And when you look at our region... that's not a common commodity".
Under heavy security, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in northern Greece to discuss plans to become a key supplier of European energy through an ambitious Mediterranean undersea natural gas pipeline project.
The three countries are also meeting to intensify military cooperation between them.
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Delivery options have included a pipeline linking the three countries, a pipeline to Turkey, and use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage in Egypt for shipment to Europe. "Thessaloniki in there", he said, "Cyprus in between". "These are revolutionary ideas that developed in the meeting ground of these two great cultures".
Tsipras noted the shared history of Greece and Israel and how the museum would safeguard the memory of the Holocaust as well as one of the most dramatic eras in the history of Thessaloniki.
Both countries expressed "their hope for Israel's peaceful coexistence with all its neighbors, in mutual recognition and respect and in secure and recognized borders".
Israel and Greece expressed their concerns about the spread of terrorism and the impact of mass migration from war zones in the Middle East.
Their calls to oppose the Israeli leader's visit were echoed by Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled, who released a video Thursday urging people to join the Greek protests.
"We would swap our prime minister for a Palestinian activist", protest organizer Petros Gotsis said.
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