The Austrian Airlines announced today it would open on November 6 the first direct flight from Vienna to Tel Aviv. Among those present when the announcement was made was Austrian Traffic Minister Otto Probst who spent several years in a Nazi concentration camp and who is now known as an ardent fighter for restitution to victims of the Nazi era and against any revival of neo-Nazism.
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