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Tel Aviv City Hall is lit up with the words for peace in Hebrew, Arabic and English in honor of the recognition agreements Israel will be signing with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

DP World, Israeli firm to bid for Haifa port privatization

Associated Press

Paul Rusesabagina appears in front of media at the headquarters of the Rwanda Bureau of investigations building in Kigali, Rwanda Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in the film &quot;Hotel Rwanda&quot; as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people from the country's 1994 genocide, and is a well-known critic of President Paul Kagame, has been arrested by the Rwandan government on terror charges, police announced on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (AP Photo)

Daughter says ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero was ‘kidnapped’ in Dubai

By CARA ANNA and JAKE BLEIBERG - Associated Press

Dubai, hit hard by virus, returns to global financial market

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, file photo, the Tel Aviv City Hall is lit up with the flag of the United Arab Emirates as Israel and the UAE announced they would be establishing full diplomatic ties, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

UAE-Israel agreement followed many years of discreet talks

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

In this photograph taken with a slow shutter speed, traditional abra boats navigate the Dubai Creek in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Profits slide for Dubai’s DP World port operator amid virus

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 1, 2015, file photo, two men play backgammon while smoking a shisha water pipe at a restaurant overlooking the canal and the Dubai Marina neighborhood in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai again has loosened laws governing alcohol sales and possession as the sheikhdom tries to claw its way out of an economic depression worsened by the coronavirus pandemic. The virus worsened an already-gathering economic storm engulfing the emirate, which has seen mass layoffs thin the ranks of its foreign workforce and empty homes across its vast real-estate sector even amid slight signs of recovery. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Alcohol rules again loosen as Dubai seeks economic recovery

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2018 file photo, sunlight reflects off the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, during a rain shower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For eager Israelis, anticipation is mounting that Dubai’s glitzy Burj Khalifa, will soon join the ranks of the Pyramids in Egypt and relics of the ancient Nabatean Kingdom of Petra in Jordan as an iconic landmark that was once unattainable but is now within reach. Last week’s dramatic announcement making the UAE just the third Arab nation to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel has set off a flurry of excitement. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Israelis eager to tighten ties to UAE after historic accord

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020 file photo, the Tel Aviv City Hall is lit up with the flag of the United Arab Emirates as the UAE and Israel announced they would be establishing full diplomatic ties, in Tel Aviv, Israel. On Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020, telephone service between the UAE and Israel began as the two countries opened diplomatic ties. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Telephone calls between UAE, Israel ring for the first time

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

This undated photograph provided by the family of Jamshid Sharmahd shows the 65-year-old man from Glendora, California. Iran abducted Sharmahd, a leader of a California-based Iranian militant exile group, while he was in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and apparently smuggled him into Oman before bringing him to the Islamic Republic, his family told The Associated Press on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. Iran has only said they detained Sharmahd in what it describes as a &quot;complex operation.&quot; (Sharmahd family via AP)

Family tells AP: Iran abducted California man while in Dubai

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Muslim pilgrims pray on top of the rocky hill known as Mountain of Mercy on the Plain of Arafat during the annual hajj pilgrimage near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Only about 1,000 pilgrims will be allowed to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage this year due to the virus pandemic. (Saudi Ministry of Media via AP)

Final days of hajj and Eid festival impacted by coronavirus

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

In this image made from MHI's youtube channel, the H-IIA rocket with United Arab Emirates' Mars orbiter Hope lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane, southern Japan, Monday, July 20, 2020. (MHI via AP)

UAE’s Amal spacecraft rockets toward Mars in Arab world 1st

By Mari Yamaguchi and Victoria Milko - Associated Press

Omran Sharaf, the project director for the Emirates' Hope space probe to Mars, speaks on his mobile phone at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, July 19, 2020. A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying a United Arab Emirates Mars spacecraft has been placed on the launch pad for Monday's scheduled liftoff for the Arab world's first interplanetary mission, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Japan rocket carrying UAE Mars probe ready for Monday launch

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 10, 2020 file photo, an official wearing a mask due to the coronavirus pandemic operates a temperature screening point at Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Efforts by the United Arab Emirates to fight the coronavirus have renewed questions about mass surveillance in this U.S.-allied federation of seven sheikhdoms. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Virus projects renew questions about UAE’s mass surveillance

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

The front desk staff wearing masks due to the coronavirus pandemic help customers at the Rove City Centre Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, July 6, 2020. Dubai reopened for tourists Tuesday amid the coronavirus pandemic, hoping to reinvigorate a vital industry for this city-state before its crucial winter tourist season. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Thermometers in hand, Dubai opens for tourists amid coronavirus pandemic

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Kayakers race in front of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday, June 19, 2020. Dubai has begun allowing organized sports competitions to take place after locking down over the coronavirus pandemic and the COVID-19 illness it causes. Competitions held Friday at the Dubai Offshore Sailing Club were among the first events to be held. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

UAE orders government shakeup as virus erodes economic gains

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, a Middle East Airlines jet takes off at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon. On Wednesday, July 1, 2020, Beirut's airport is partially reopening after a three-month shutdown. Lebanon's cash-strapped government hopes thousands of Lebanese expatriates will return for the summer, injecting badly needed dollars into the sinking economy. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon’s plea to skeptical expats: Come visit, bring cash

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 3, 2020 photo, Feby Cachero Baguisa Dela Pena of Laguna, Philippines, hands out free food to those who need it in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dela Pena, a mother of three, is unemployed, but when she saw people lining up for free meals one night outside her building two weeks ago she decided to use whatever money her family had to help out the countless numbers of Filipinos and others who've lost jobs amid the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Unemployed Filipina feeds other jobless migrants in Dubai

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

In this June 17, 2014, file photo, Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths walks out of Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Paul Griffiths, Dubai airport CEO: Global travel still up in air over the coronavirus

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, technicians walk at the under a construction site of the Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai's Expo 2020 world's fair will be postponed to Oct. 1, 2021, over the new coronavirus pandemic, a Paris-based body behind the events said Monday, May 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Emirati officials say fire strikes site of Dubai’s Expo 2020

Associated Press

FILE - In this March 22, 2017, file photo, an Emirates plane taxis to a gate at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Middle East's biggest carrier, Emirates, declared on Sunday, May 10, 2020, higher profits of $288 million over the past year even as revenue declined due to flight suspensions sparked by the coronavirus, offering a glimpse of the financial toll now facing airlines around the world. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck, File)

Profits up for Emirates Air, but revenue down amid pandemic

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press