Telephone service open between UAE, Israel after accord to normalise ties

Telephone service between the United Arab Emirates and Israel began working on Sunday as the two countries opened diplomatic ties.
 

Associated Press journalists in Jerusalem and Dubai were able to call each other from both landline and cellular phones.

Officials in Israel and the UAE did not immediately acknowledge the lines had begun working. They declined to immediately answer questions from the AP.

In the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, a recorded message in Arabic and English would play saying calls to the +972 country code could not be connected.

The advent of internet calling