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BELGRADE - Air Serbia will commence direct flights between Belgrade and Tel Aviv on April 6, the airline announced on Monday.

"Airbus A319 aircraft of the national airline will be flying between the capital of Serbia and Ben Gurion Airport three times a week - on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays," it said in a statement.

Aegean Airlines is expanding its network of destinations and further strengthening its activity in the Israeli market by adding three new direct scheduled routes from Ioannina, Hania and Kalamata to Ben Gurion Airport and Tel Aviv, while increasing its flights from Athens and Thessaloniki.

The airline is almost doubling its annual passenger traffic to 45.7 million passengers in 2022 on all its routes compared to 21.7 million in 2021.

Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, measures that opponents say imperil the country's democratic foundation.

Israeli media, citing police, said some 100,000 people were out protesting.

Greece's Energean Group is anticipating a significant increase in natural gas production in 2023 after production started in the Karish field in Israel in October 2022.

The strong wind in Sofia caused delays in flights at Sofia Airport and rerouting of planes, the airport's press center reports.

Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court — a step that critics say will destroy the country's democratic system of checks and balances.

A member of the ground staff at Athens International Airport has confessed to stealing valuables from passengers' luggage on at least 70 occasions after police tracked him down by following the GPS signal from a pair of wireless headphones which he had stolen from a tourist's suitcase.

Ties in the field of defense and security between Türkiye and Israel have entered a new era as the latter's defense minister paid a rare visit to Ankara amid ongoing normalization efforts between the two Mediterranean states after years of tension.

The property boom is coming to an end, according to a study by Swiss bank UBS, with Frankfurt and Toronto topping the list of imbalanced markets.

The bank's annual study of the world property market looked at prices in 25 major cities across the globe.