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A rocket or shrapnel fell near the airport.
The man was sent back to Iran.
A window burst on the plane. There are 339 people onboard.
The Airports Authority stated Sunday that “innovation is a key factor in enriching the passenger’s experience.”
Similar to other destinations in countries in the world, Ben Gurion has been finding it hard to return to full operations after two years of limited international travel.
The nine were distributing photos of plane crashes, which caused panic on the airplane.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The number of coronavirus cases in Israel continues to drop with 497 patients hospitalized.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In the first stage of a phased plan, a limited number of tour groups will start to arrive, with individual travelers being admitted at a later date, says Tourism Ministry.
The test has a 100% success rate in identifying people who are infected.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The ban on foreigners arriving at Ben-Gurion International Airport—and requirement for Israelis returning from abroad to self-quarantine for 14 days—was scheduled to expire on July 1• Meanwhile, many airlines have resumed flights to and from Tel Aviv.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel and the UAE do not have formal diplomatic relations.
Airlines and airports in Israel are gradually getting back in the air.
On Friday, some 75,000 Palestinian Authority Arabs passed through the various crossings from Judea and Samaria into Jerusalem for the Ramadan prayers.
By Israel Hayom
Constructed at a cost of some $500 million, it has an annual capacity of 2.5 million passengers. It is able to handle 20 takeoffs and landings an hour and accommodate large aircraft, such as Boeing 747s.
An unauthorized drone entered Ben-Gurion's airspace.
By JNi.Media
“This is a special day and an historic milestone as we break the 3-million-tourist barrier and set a new all-time record," Minister Levin said.
By JNi.Media
Ben Gurion Airport once again made Travel + Leisure’s list of top ten international Airports.
The MoD announced intermittent airspace restrictions over Israel today due to security activities.
By JNi.Media
'I reminded the captain that I was also a doctor and told the flight attendant to let me know if the passenger's condition was getting worse.'
By JNi.Media
Bring your own food and water, and download a movie on your iPad or laptop ahead of the flight.
The nonstop flights return this November.
The Muslim tourists mistook the Jewish prayer shawls for Islamic floor mats.
By JNi.Media
Seeing a beautiful or exceptionally gifted person arouses awe and admiration, explains Rabbi Melamed, but they also might arouse envy.
By JNi.Media
According to the union, the Shabbat protocol will permit landings of already scheduled flights from abroad, but no takeoffs.
The flight is from NY to Tel Aviv. The anonymous threat said the bomb was in the kitchen.
The plane turned around to pick up the missing guards.
By JNi.Media
If Israel's security forces had used this yardstick in their approach to predictive profiling it would have choked not just its international airports, but traffic on the streets in many cities, too.
Poor weather conditions and low fuel forced the flight to divert to Israel.
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has announced it will cancel its Tel Aviv-Copenhagen, citing both “political instability” and ‘’increasing costs and competition." The service, which is offered four times a week and which began three years ago, will end in March following a temporary suspension this summer because of staffing problems. SAS also said it will eliminate […]
By JNi.Media
Hassan Hizran, a Swede of Lebanese origin, was arrested in Israel during the summer on suspicion of spying for Hezbollah. Here's the story...
The airport workers; committees new excuse to shut down the airport is to hold a solidarity strike with the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
Update: The union has called off the strike after reaching an agreement with the Airport Authority.
The suspects belonged to an infrastructure that tried to disrupt the May 2014 visit of Pope Francis.
Approximately 70,000 passengers on 430 flights will have passed through Ben Gurion Airport by the end of Thursday, making it the busiest day of the year so far. Tourism is up by approximately 7 percent, and 1.7 million passengers are expected to arrive and depart at the airport next month. Israel suffered a sharp decline […]
"Including the Kotel along with Yad VaShem and Mt. Herzl changes Zionism from 100 years to 3,000 years."
Minister Ze'ev Elkin will welcome 221 new immigrants from the United States and Canada at Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday., one year after Operation Protective Edge. The flight, organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, the Jewish Agency and JNF-USA, will carry 32 families and 53 singles from […]
Police Thursday morning arrested a rabbi from Safed (Tzfat) whom a woman said raped her after giving her spiritual guidance several years ago. A second woman filed a complaint Wednesday night. The allegations were presented to rabbis in Tzfat last month, and rabbinical leaders, including Safed's Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, asked the alleged rapist to […]
The agreement does not mean that Orange is leaving Israel, despite wrong headlines elsewhere.
Not even Shimon Peres would have been so cold-hearted.
No damage was reported. The quake occurred on the East African rift.
After more Molotov cocktails and rock-throwing attacks on homes in eastern Jerusalem, city council member Aryeh King is fed up with lack of protection.
25 year-old Israeli hiker shot and killed by Palestinian Arab terrorist
Passengers re-boarded a different plane this morning, 10 hours after the original take-off.
A plane is returning after its landing gear was found on the runway.
"He gives snow like wool; He scatters hoarfrost like ashes." - Psalms 147:16.
Even residents in Kfar Saba and upper Haifa may see snow, which also may fall on Ben Gurion Airport.
El Al has canceled its popular 001 after-midnight flight from Ben Gurion Airport to JFK in New York because of the expected blizzard that is forecast to cripple the Northeast in the United States. Flight 027 to Newark, New Jersey will take off 11 hours late, and the flight from Newark to Tel Aviv will […]
El Al flight to NY cancelled Monday morning due to labor dispute; weather about to play havoc for Israeli air travel.
By JTA
Just imagine the uproar if it was exposed that the Mossad told agents how to get past US security?
Boston area residents are thrilled there will soon be direct flights between Logan and Ben Gurion Airport.
"This can't be the 'West Bank,' that's ridiculous" my mother said to me.
Ben Gurion Airport will carry out an exercise Friday morning simulating the arrival of an Ebola-infected passenger. The exercise will include initial questioning as well as evacuation and hospital treatment. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu instructed that preparations be increased at all entry points into Israel including preventive measures such as taking the temperature of passengers […]
They're building a new control tower at Ben Gurion International Airport. This is the view, and what it looks like.
Never, never, never take packages from someone without knowing what is inside.
Hamas’ supreme leader Khaled Mashaal dashed any hopes of long-term peace with Israel in a speech in Qatar on Thursday in which he shot from the hip at Israel and also at his terrorist organization’s new partner, the rival Fatah movement headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. His lengthy speech in Qatar, which has […]
"Fields of Exile" provides a glimpse into the horrors of academic anti-Israelism, experienced by one firmly rooted in the left.
Why is the ban on Israel's airport different from all other FAA bans?
Israel's transportation minister said cancelling flights to Israel is like handing a prize to terrorists.
A Delta flight made an emergency landing at Ben Gurion airport on Sunday morning, shortly after taking off.
By Shalom Bear
With numbers like that, it's no wonder Israel never feels crowded.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
An open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Jerusalem still is digging out of the “snowstorm of the century,” and the main highway from Tel Aviv was closed temporarily Sunday evening to allow workers to move freely to restore electricity to hundreds of families without electricity for more than two days. Schools will be closed in the capital on Monday. The road to […]
Israelis have prayed for rain in a dry November and now are getting the dividends in spades, thanks to a rare early winter storm “from Russia with love.”
An attempt was made to carry out a terrorist attack at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, but security guards were able to foil the attempt.
America forgets that it corrected the flaw in its founding by killing 30 percent of Southern men of military age during its own Civil War.
By JTA
Ben Gurion Airport finally will join most other major international airports by having a hotel for travelers. The Israel Airports Authority has approved construction for a hotel on land adjacent to the airport’s Terminal 3, where almost all international passengers arrive. The hotel will allow direct access to the passenger hall and terminal and will […]
American and Canadian Jews continue to move to Israel at an increasing rate. Nearly 1,000 children are expected to make the move this year with their parents. The first summer flight arrives Tuesday, escorted by Gilad Shalit.
An emergency was declared at Ben Gurion Airport after an airplane declared an emergency.
Tourists landing at Ben Gurion Airport soon may see guards toting the Israel-made Tavor rifle instead of the traditional M-16, according to Israel defense, The Micro Tavor is shorter but heavier than the M-16, and started replacing the M-16 in IDF combat units approximately three years ago.
Israel is a step ahead of terrorists – but only one step ahead. A Ramallah area terrorist cell linked with Gaza planned to kidnap a soldier and fire rockets on Israel. The Shin Bet foiled the plot.
The Histadrut national labor union has called off its planned shutdown of Ben Gurion Airport Tuesday morning, and workers of Israeli airlines have ended their strike following a special agreement between the government and El Al. The agreement was signed Monday evening in Israel, less than two hours before the Labor Court was to meet […]
The Histadrut national labor union will shut down Ben Gurion Airport for five hours Tuesday morning in a solidarity move with employees of El Al, Arkia and Israir. They shut down the three airlines starting Sunday morning because of their opposition to the “open-skies” agreement, which will not go into effect until next April. Tuesday’s […]
El Al has cancelled all flights that were scheduled to take off before 9 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT) as its workers continue to strike even after the Cabinet approved the European-Mediterranean Sea "Open Skies" aviation agreement. Click here to understand the agreement and why the unions are striking. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "The goal […]
Unions at El Al, Arkia and Israir Airlines announced Thursday they will ground all planes beginning Sunday if the government carries outs plan to approve the open skies agreement at Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting. El Al workers committee chairman Asher Edry told Globes, "We demand that all the promises made to us before the agreement […]
President Barack Obama began chatting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as the Israeli Army band played The Star Spangled Banner at the welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport Wednesday before remembering to put his hand over his heart. Netanyahu also turned to Obama with a few words beforehand, and it appeared that the two leaders […]
Coming to Israel this afternoon or late morning on Wednesday, or going to the airport to meet friends and relatives? President Barack Obama also is coming, and you are well-advised to take the train and forget about driving. President Obama has not yet boarded Air Force One in Washington, but Highway 1, the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv […]
Reports that Israel will bring the Iron Dome system to Ben Gurion Airport for President Barack Obama to view because he won’t have time to visit its deployment elsewhere are half accurate. Another reason is that the Iron Dome is needed to protect the president in the event of an enemy missile when President Obama […]
The IAF Air Control unit identified on early Wednesday morning a suspicious object in the sky above Ben Gurion Airport, alerting fighter jets to rush to the site. Shortly after the jets were scrambled, it turned out to have been a false alarm. An IDF source commented to Walla that protocol requires quick response to […]
The strike is expected to paralyze financial, government, and transportation sectors.
July 3, 2026 
