Israel and Iran enjoy plane get-together Zurich air traffic controllers may have inadvertently succeeded where diplomats have failed for decades: to bring Israelis and Iranians together. As the jets of Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, arrived in Switzerland on Wednesday to take their leaders to the World Economic Forum, their planes were parked side-by-side and were spotted by journalists from Bloomberg News. Mr Rouhani, the first Iranian leader in a decade to visit the gathering of global political and business leaders in Davos, will be looking for deals to boost a economy that has buckled under the weight of international sanctions. He will address the forum in the ski resort this morning at a session called "Iran in the World." Mr Netanyahu, among the most outspoken critics of the Iranian government, is seeking to keep the sanctions in place. He has called Rouhani a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and urged the world to be wary of his "charm offensive." As Netanyahu and Israeli President Shimon Peres were whisked into helicopters waiting for them, the journalists and staff from both planes took photos of each other. An Israeli journalist shouted out in English "How Are You?" to the Iranians at the top of the aircraft stairs. One of them responded, "Fine, thank you. How are you? Zurich airport officials weren't taking credit for the Swiss encounter. The place where the planes were parked is reserved for heads of state during the World Economic Forum, said a spokesman.