Minister of Transport Miri Regev is holding a briefing about flights to rescue over 100,000 Israelis stranded overseas following the closure of Israeli airspace.
She says, “I perceive the misery, however we’re on the fourth day of a tough battle and a heavy value that the house entrance is paying, and we is not going to take a threat and God forbid there shall be an incident on the bottom, the place we must clarify how we allowed a aircraft to land on the bottom with greater than 300 lifeless. Due to this fact, we are going to do it in a phased, deliberate and coordinated method with the Ministry of Protection and civil aviation professionals,” she stated.
“We stated it might take time and that it would not occur in a single day, however now we have given the okay, and in reality we’re beginning with a ‘secure return’ operation by the Ministry of Transportation along with the related authorities to convey Israelis house,” provides Regev.
Regev insisted, “We is not going to enable Israelis to fly overseas at this stage. Those that are at the moment leaving for overseas are those that have come to go to the nation – diplomats, vacationers, and so on.”
She recounts, “The primary section has been applied, and the plan was that as quickly as there was an alert at 3 am (Friday morning), we’d fly all the fleet of planes out of Ben Gurion Airport. It was the precise choice – in any other case we’d have had nothing to convey Israelis again to Israel.
“Now, the second section of the ‘Protected Return’ operation is being applied. Which means that after coordination with the IDF and threat administration, which we are going to current later, we’re making ready to return residents house beginning right now. The departure is to these hotspots the place we knew there have been Israelis: Thailand, Larnaca, Athens, Italy and the US, and from there the primary returnees will come.”
Regev explains “The Protection Ministry is rescuing Israelis within the safety forces who have to be returned house, and we do not get into that. The return of civilians house is completed by the Ministry of Transport in cooperation with the Ministry of Protection. At this stage, the Protection Ministry’s response was comprehensible – there’s a nice burden on the IDF and the Air Pressure, and due to this fact IDF planes is not going to return civilians, however the Israeli plane fleet and thru overseas firms that shall be ready to participate. We are going to set up a devoted physique that may encompass representatives from the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of International Affairs, the Dwelling Entrance Command and the Nationwide Emergency Authority, with a hotline that shall be introduced to the general public quickly. This group will really know how you can prioritize emergency circumstances of these residents who have to return, and for whom the airways have no idea how you can reply, and due to this fact the Nationwide Emergency Authority can also be a part of the workforce.”
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Regev notes, “Along with the airs, we’re working to offer an answer by way of the ocean. Within the maritime area, now we have exempted Mano Transport from Dwelling Command orders I’m glad that the corporate contacted us. We talked at size and agreed that delivery from Mano will assist us return Israelis from Cyprus to Israel and can assist ship out those that don’t have to be right here, akin to vacationers and youngsters from Birthright, whom we are going to take overseas.
Regev says, “I inform residents: There’s nothing to fret about. You’re overseas, get pleasure from your self. I do know it isn’t simple, and I raised the problem of compensation within the final cupboard. We are going to sit down with the Minister of Finance and see how we will take care of this subject. I ask folks to be affected person.
“Regardless of the challenges of the battle, now we have saved the skies open, although many overseas firms have left right here and resumed flying. Simply two weeks in the past we introduced again Wizz Air and Lufthansa. It’s a enormous problem to function civil aviation throughout a battle. We are going to do the whole lot to convey you again to Israel, and with God’s assist we are going to convey everybody again to Israel, however it would take time.”
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on June 16, 2025.
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