(JNS) It was a trip the young Israeli couple will never forget.
Tohar and Amit Cohen, 28, were on their way home from their honeymoon in Australia when their connecting flight to Tel Aviv via Abu Dhabi made a U-turn midair just as it was approaching Tel Aviv when war with Iran broke out last month.
For the next 10 days, the Tel Aviv newlyweds were among thousands of Israelis stranded in the United Arab Emirates as the Gulf state, which came under unprecedented missile and drone attacks launched by Iran, temporarily closed its airspace last week.
On Monday night, the couple, along with hundreds of other Israelis who had been stranded in the UAE, finally made it home on special flights organized by two small Israeli carriers that landed at a tiny airport in the Sinai Desert.
“I was a bit afraid because I had never been to Sinai,” Tohar Cohen told JNS upon landing. “But I was more scared to get stuck for another two weeks and just wanted to get home.”
The one-room airport terminal—also...
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