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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

John F. Kennedy International Airport

Former hostage Liri Albag is interviewed on Channel 12 on March 5, 2025. (Screen capture/Channel 12)
May 25, 2025, 11:41 pm
Liri Albag detained for an hour at New York airport due to outdated system warning
JFK’s computers still had ex-hostage listed as captive, causing worry she was an imposter
By ToI Staff
The El-Al counters at JFK Airport Terminal 4, October 9, 2023. (Julia Gergely/ JTA)
October 11, 2023, 1:37 am
At JFK, chartered flights for Israeli soldiers, anxious travelers – and lots of food
After Saturday’s Hamas onslaught, NYC airport sees an influx of Israelis – expats joining army reserve units, tourists seeking a way home, and some just helping coordinate it all
By julia GERGELY
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
A JetBlue plane is evacuated at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after a laptop started emitting smoke, December 24, 2022 (Screen grab via CBS used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 25, 2022, 12:10 pm
Smoking laptop causes plane evacuation via emergency slide at New York’s JFK Airport
167 people exit aircraft after computer apparently catches fire on JetBlue flight from Barbados; five lightly injured
By AP
El Al Boeing 747-400 at Ben-Gurion International Airport (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)
April 10, 2019, 9:53 pm
El Al passenger opens emergency door, tries to jump out at JFK
Crew members restrain man who attempts to leap from plane on New York runway
By ToI Staff
In this frame from video, a person walks off an Emirates plane at JFK International Airport to a waiting bus on September 5, 2018, in New York, as emergency response crews gather outside the plane amid reports of ill passengers aboard a flight from Dubai. (WABC 7 via AP)
September 5, 2018, 8:20 pm
Dubai jet quarantined in New York after reports of sick passengers
CDC says 100 of the 520 people being evaluated after complaining of illness, including cough and fever
By AP
Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 28, 2018, 10:38 am
Haredi MK vows El Al boycott if it boots passengers who won’t sit next to women
UTJ’s Yisrael Eichler says criticism of men who refuse to sit next to women on flights is ‘anti-Semitic’ and amounts to ‘terrorism’
By ToI Staff
El Al flight seen at the airstrip at the Ben Gurion International Airport. February 26, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
June 26, 2018, 5:22 am
Israeli tech giant boycotts El Al over ‘discrimination against women’
NICE System’s CEO says company will not use national carrier after flight from New York to Israel was delayed due to refusal by a ultra-Orthodox men to sit next to women
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 23, 2018, 10:22 am
NY-Israel flight delayed by ultra-Orthodox men’s refusal to sit next to women
Passenger says El Al plane left 75 minutes late due to demand by 4 men, who wouldn’t speak to female attendants; 2nd witness says incident added only few minutes to unrelated delay
By ToI Staff
Young US Jews who immigrated to Israel to join the IDF pose with executives from Nefesh B'Nefesh (center) after their flight lands in Israel on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 (Shahar Azran)
August 15, 2017, 7:01 pm
New immigrants to Israel feted as miracles, and a threat to Iran
233 US olim make their way to their ancestral homeland on a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight, among them 68 future IDF soldiers — and an ambassador’s daughter
By Elie Leshem
Fadi Kassar hugs his young daughters for the first time in over 2 years after his family was reunited at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, February 2, 2017. (Bill Swersey/HIAS)
February 6, 2017, 11:01 pm
Jewish group helps reunite Syrian family kept apart by Trump ban
Refugee agency HIAS vows to work tirelessly to ensure Kassar family not the last refugees allowed entry into US
By JTA and ToI Staff
Manny Dahari, who helped orchestrate the airlift to remove his family and other members of the Jewish community from Yemen, receives an award from the Israeli American Council in March 2016. (Courtesy)
January 31, 2017, 9:04 am
Yemenite Jew among detainees at JFK due to Trump ban
Manny Dahari, a student who worked to rescue his family from war-torn country, freed after three hours
By ToI Staff
Protestors rally during a demonstration against the Muslim immigration ban at John F. Kennedy International Airport, in New York City, January 28, 2017. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)
January 29, 2017, 9:06 am
NYC airport becomes scene of anguish after Trump travel ban
Lawyers and rights advocates rush to aid Muslim travelers detained after landing in US, where they now face deporation
By William Mathis
US President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russia's President Vladimir Putin from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on January 28, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
January 28, 2017, 10:24 pm
Trump seeks to explain Muslim ban in flurry of calls to world leaders
Amid global alarm, homegrown opposition, Hollande urges president to ‘respect’ principle of accepting refugees, as Trudeau tweets Canadian support for ‘those fleeing persecution’
By AFP
Protesters rally during a demonstration against the Muslim immigration ban at John F. Kennedy International Airport on January 28, 2017 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)
January 28, 2017, 7:18 pm
US rights groups file lawsuit over entry ban for 7 Muslim states
Move by ACLU, other organizations comes after 2 Iraqi men detained at JFK; lawyers say both had valid visas
By AFP
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