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Monday, March 31, 2025
Plane carrying students to Poland from 5 Israeli high schools makes emergency landing in Turkey
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People from all over the world participating in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 24, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
The Education Ministry says a plane carrying 12th-grade students from five schools to Poland was forced to make an emergency landing in Turkey due to engine issues.
According to reports, the students were taken to a secure area in the airport in Antalya as they await a replacement aircraft.
The Education Ministry says all the teens are safe and well.
It is expected that the flight will leave for Krakow this afternoon.
The students are on an organized trip to visit concentration camps and learn about the Holocaust. The Poland trips are seen as a learning experience about the Holocaust, the subsequent necessity of the Jewish state, and the values of volunteerism and social cohesion.
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