First Emirati Astronaut Reveals He Took Israeli Flag To Space – ‘It was a precious, touching gift to receive,’ says Josh Bandit, the Israeli pavilion organizer | I24news

The United Arab Emirates’s first astronaut in space, Hazzaa al-Mansoori, revealed he brought an Israeli flag to his 2019 flight, Israeli media reported Thursday.
Alon Ushpiz, the foreign ministry director-general, posted that al-Mansoori presented the flag to Israeli officials during a visit to the Israeli pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.