British low-cost carrier easyJet announced Friday that it will resume flights to Israel from June 1, having most recently suspended all of its routes to Tel Aviv following Iran’s first direct attack on Israel in April.

In a statement cited by Hebrew media, easyJet said the airline will operate 38 weekly flights to and from Israel on the London, Geneva, Amsterdam, Milan, Berlin, Basel and Nice routes.

The announcement was made amid cautious optimism around a nascent hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and the Hamas terror group in Gaza.

The announcement came after the Hungary-based low-cost airline Wizz Air restarted its London to Tel Aviv route on Thursday, along with flights to Amman, Jordan, while Germany’s Lufthansa Group said its airlines would resume flights from Israel on February 1.

Lufthansa’s resumption of services to Israel applies to all carriers within the group, which includes Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, and Eurowings. The group will operate daily flights to Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, and Vienna as well as three weekly flights to........

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