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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 650

Israel Airports Authority

An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, June 19, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
June 24, 2025, 11:19 pm
Israel reopens skies for air travel, returns international airport to full operation
Following Iran ceasefire, Ben Gurion Airport will operate without restrictions; six foreign carriers want to resume flights, while others will stay away this summer
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli passengers on Arkia's first repatriation flight leaving from Larnaca to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on June 18, 2025. (Courtesy Arkia)
June 18, 2025, 12:24 pm
First repatriation flights spirit Israelis home from Cyprus as air mission takes off
El Al, Arkia, and Israir planes from Larnaca and more flights from around Europe land at Ben Gurion Airport; will gradually bring back 100,000 people stranded abroad by war
By Sharon Wrobel and Rossella Tercatin
File: Parked airplanes at Ben Gurion Airport, August 8, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
June 17, 2025, 10:09 pm
Israeli airlines set to launch repatriation flights Wednesday to bring citizens home
El Al, Arkia and Israir scheduled to operate a limited number of flights to pick up stranded Israelis from nearby Cyprus and Greece, and some European destinations
By Sharon Wrobel
This picture shows the empty departure hall at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv after Israel closed its airspace to takeoff and landing following strikes on Iran, June 13, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
June 13, 2025, 6:39 pm
Ben Gurion shut until further notice; Israeli airlines evacuate fleets to avoid Iranian attack
Foreign airlines once again suspend all travel plans; hundreds of flights diverted or turned around as Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Syria also close airspaces
By Sharon Wrobel and Agencies
Yuri Birnbaum (left), Yohanan Shchori (center), and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer, killed in a terror shooting attack at the Allenby Bridge Crossing, September 8, 2024. (Courtesy)
September 8, 2024, 1:23 pm
3 Israelis killed in terror shooting at crossing between West Bank and Jordan
Jordanian terrorist drives truck from Jordan, opens fire at Allenby Bridge workers and then is shot dead; IDF rules out vehicle was rigged with explosives
By Emanuel Fabian
File: Passengers in the Duty Free at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on December 26, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
March 20, 2024, 2:13 pm
Air travel costs soar amid war, as foreign carriers sluggishly renew Israel flights
Industry experts urge government to incentivize airlines to resume services and flight frequencies as part of a postwar recovery plan for the tourism industry
By Sharon Wrobel
Passengers at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on December 26, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
January 21, 2024, 6:02 pm
Israeli air traffic nosedives after outbreak of war, but still climbs 10% in 2023
Airports Authority says 21.1 million passengers went through Ben Gurion Airport in 2023, up from 19.2 million in 2022; El Al’s share of market increases after rivals cancel flights
By Reuters
Illustrative: An Etihad Airways plane lands at at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
September 20, 2023, 8:59 pm
Airport Authority: GPS jamming is forcing planes to land using alternative routes
After noise complaints from West Bank settlements, authority cryptically says disruptions likely caused by forces outside the country; Russia was blamed for interference in past
By Michael Horovitz
People smoking in the smoking area in Terminal 3 at Ben Gurion Airport, July 3, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 14, 2023, 4:03 pm
‘Have we not learned anything?’: Ben Gurion Airport reinstates smoking room
Health Ministry and health organizations denounce decision to give smokers a room in Terminal 3, with Israel Cancer Association warning it will ‘take Israel back to the 1950s’
By Renee Ghert-Zand and ToI Staff
Illustrative: An El Al flight takes off at Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv, October 25, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
August 29, 2023, 4:24 am
El Al flight to New York delayed by birds in the cargo bay
Plane takes off an hour later and lands late at JFK; airports authority warns of flight delays to UK due to technical issues at British air traffic control
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: The baggage claim area at Ben Gurion Airport,April 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
August 4, 2023, 4:50 pm
Luggage held up for hours at Ben Gurion, sparking chaos as summer travel peaks
Passengers complain of waiting up to 2 hours for bags; airports authority says it’s working to address problem while union cites manpower shortage, denies speculation of strike
By ToI Staff
Emergency services gathered at Ben Gurion Airport where a passenger plane made an emergency landing, June 1, 2023. (Magen David Adom)
July 2, 2023, 2:19 pm
Cracked window forces plane to make emergency landing at Ben Gurion
Emergency service units stream to airport after United Airlines flight to US with 339 passengers turns back
By ToI Staff
Travelers at the departure hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, April 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 31, 2023, 11:27 am
El Al activates self-check-in at Ben Gurion Airport in bid to slash waiting time
‘The process is quick and simple,’ traveler says as national carrier joins other airlines in providing kiosks for the process
By ToI Staff
An image of US Airways Flight 1549 after it crashed into the Hudson River in New York City on January 15 2009, sent to passengers onboard a Tel Aviv flight to Istanbul on January 13, 2023. (Israel Airports Authority)
January 13, 2023, 3:18 pm
Israeli flight to Turkey delayed after plane crash photos sent to passengers’ phones
10 passengers taken in for questioning by police; plane only takes off after luggage checked; similar incidents occurred on flights in May and November
By Michael Horovitz
An airport employee stands in front of a Hawker 800 private plane that landed safely at Ben Gurion Airport after fears that it was missing a tire, December 23, 2022. (IAA spokesperson)
December 23, 2022, 3:02 pm
Private plane from Dubai lands safely at Ben Gurion after alarm over lost tire
Fighter jets sent by IDF see wheels are intact after Dubai Airport says it found tire piece on its runway; mid-size craft, carrying 5, lands without issue
By Michael Horovitz
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