From the Liveblog of
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Dad of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin speaks to pilots on flight his son should have been on
Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center
Jon Polin spoke to two El Al pilots as they flew to India last night on a plane that should have been carrying his son, who is instead held hostage in Gaza, the family says.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was captured by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7.
He was supposed to fly to India for a year-plus trek on December 27.
According to the family, the pilots told Polin, “We are Gil and Erez, we’re flying to India and we and all of the nation of Israel pray for Hersh’s safe return to Israel and that he gets to fly to India with El Al.”
Polin told the pilots that he hopes Hersh gets to go on his trip to India and that he returns home today.
“Amen, amen,” answered the pilots.
