Press Trip: Israel: We Escaped Just in Time

What a huge relief! We managed to leave Tel Aviv just in time on Friday, June 13. Boarding an Ethiopian Airlines flight scheduled for 1 a.m. at Ben Gurion Airport, we were unaware that the "Rising Lion" operation would be launched exactly that morning.

Upon landing in Addis Ababa about four and a half hours later, disbelief set in. Israel—the country that invited us and welcomed us warmly, the host of the Nova martyr festival...