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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 376

Israeli backpackers

Israeli backpacker Yanai Rimon (Courtesy)
November 13, 2021, 9:44 pm
Body of Israeli backpacker missing in Mexico found in river
Search and rescue teams locate Yanai Rimon, 25, four days after he apparently slipped while trying to cross body of water in Chiapas highlands, near Guatemala border
By ToI Staff
Israeli backpacker Yanai Rimon (Courtesy)
November 12, 2021, 8:16 am
Israeli backpacker missing in Mexico after falling into river
Search and rescue teams attempting to locate Yanai Rimon, 25, after he slipped while trying to cross river in Chiapas highlands, his friends say
By ToI Staff
An El Al Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Ben Gurion International Airport. (Flash90)
April 3, 2020, 11:05 am
El Al brings hundreds of stranded Israelis back from Melbourne in 17-hour flight
Flight, which according to some reports was longest in Israeli aviation history, carried some 280 passengers; crew of 19 included 8 pilots
By ToI Staff
An illustrative photo of an El Al plane taking off from Ben Gurion Airport on September 3, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
March 30, 2020, 1:58 pm
Foreign Ministry sends planes to Australia, New Zealand for stranded Israelis
Authorities say 2,151 tourists who want to return will still be outside Israel as of Tuesday; flights from India, Thailand set to land at Ben-Gurion Airport
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
Israeli travelers ready to board a Czech government-organized flight from Lima, Peru, March 28, 2020 (Foreign Ministry)
March 28, 2020, 10:49 pm
6 Israelis stranded in Peru airlifted out on Czech government-run flight
Backpackers set to fly via Sofia and Berlin en route to Tel Aviv
By ToI Staff
Israeli tourists boarding a Honduran military plane on their way back home, March 26, 2020. (courtesy Honduran Military)
March 28, 2020, 5:44 pm
Israeli travelers stranded in Asian countries to make their way home — report
Diplomats said to coordinate tourists in Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines to converge in Bangkok for flight, with travelers in India to also be collected
By ToI Staff
A sign for Chabad in the main bazaar in New Delhi, India, December 12, 2016 (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
November 11, 2019, 9:32 pm
India says Israeli, Jewish targets under immediate terror threat — reports
Cells with links to Al-Qaeda, Islamic State said possibly planning attacks on synagogues, groups of Israelis; could try to kidnap backpacker
By ToI Staff
Mountainous terrain near Petra, Jordan. (Wikipedia/Antoine Taveneaux/CC BY-SA)
September 13, 2018, 10:51 am
Israeli woman dies of heatstroke on hike near Jordan’s Petra
30-year-old was taking part in organized trip to mountainous region around village of Rajif
By ToI Staff
A graffiti referring to the FARC 36 front is seen on a billboard of the Ituango Dam, close to Ituango municipality, Antioquia Department, Colombia, taken on May 12, 2018. (AFP/ Joaquin SARMIENTO)
May 25, 2018, 4:04 am
Guide who helped free Israelis from Colombian kidnappers found dead
Argentine Berenice Blanco convinced FARC rebels to let backpackers on cannabis tour go free, but was kept behind for ransom
By AFP and ToI Staff
Omer Yefet, one of two Israelis held by a Colombian drug cartel for several hours while touring the South American country, talks to Channel 10 about his ordeal, May 23, 2018. (Channel 10 screenshot)
May 23, 2018, 11:58 am
2 Israeli backpackers abducted by drugs cartel in Colombian jungle
Held for seven hours, the pair were released after their guide convinced the kidnappers that with $85 in their pockets, they could not meet a $1.7 million ransom demand
By Sue Surkes
Judith Colp Rubin
April 26, 2018, 1:25 pm
Judith Colp Rubin
Stay away from fellow (traveling) Israelis
The country’s post-army trekkers have an unfortunate habit of sticking with their own kind
An all-terrain vehicle. (SasinParaksa/iStock by Getty Images)
April 9, 2018, 9:51 am
Israeli killed in Bolivia ATV accident named as Tal Bar
23-year-old had planned post-army trip since high school and had worked hard for a year to save up for it, his mother says
By ToI Staff
Delhi's Main Bazaar drag on December 12, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 14, 2018, 11:44 pm
In Delhi’s ‘mini Israel,’ visit by premier elicits collective Netanyawho?
Though filled with Israeli tourists and Israeli tourist-loving vendors, there is little buzz in the bustling Main Bazaar for the biggest Israeli visitor of all
By Joshua Davidovich
Photo of Israeli woman Hillah Livne dated September 20, 2017, who is missing in Kyrgyzstan. (Facebook)
September 26, 2017, 4:53 pm
Search underway for Israeli hiker missing in Kyrgyzstan
Helicopter joins rescue teams looking for 22-year-old Hillah Livne, who was last seen on Saturday
By ToI Staff
Benjamin Netanyahu, right, training in 1971 (Photo credit: Wikicommons/ GPO)
September 15, 2017, 7:32 pm
After his own ‘trek,’ PM urges Israeli hikers to visit South America
At end of tour of Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, Netanyahu posts clip referring to typical Israeli post-army backpack tradition
By ToI Staff
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