The Lufthansa Group, which includes Germany’s flag carrier, Europe’s largest airline, announced on Friday that it will gradually resume flights to Israel.

The aviation giant suspended flights to Tel Aviv on May 4 following a ballistic missile launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen that struck near Ben-Gurion International Airport.

As the Lufthansa Group includes Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and EuroWings, its decision to resume flights may spell a return of the other big airlines that have yet to resume service to the Jewish state.

“For operational reasons, each airline in the group will gradually resume its flights,” the Lufthansa Group said in a statement.

It added that the decision to restart flights had been reached following “a comprehensive assessment of the

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