{"id":313039,"date":"2026-02-27T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/313039\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:09:09","slug":"u-s-authorizes-nonessential-staff-family-members-to-leave-israel-while-commercial-flight-are-available-live-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/313039\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Authorizes Nonessential Staff, Family Members To Leave Israel &#8216;while Commercial Flight Are Available&#8217; | LIVE BLOG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The U.S. State Department circulated a travel advisory Friday authorizing nonessential government employees and their family members to depart Israel &#8220;while commercial flights are available,&#8221; citing security risks.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Video poster\" class=\"video-poster\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/api.i24news.tv\/en\/brightcove\/6389973641112\/poster\"\/>Round 3: Iran-US talks<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The warning comes amid widely expected U.S. strikes against the Islamic regime of Iran, which has pledged to retaliate by striking Israel and U.S. basses through the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday wrote to embassy staffers that those wishing to leave \u201cshould do so TODAY,\u201d by taking a flight from the Ben Gurion Airport to any destination to which flights are available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The directive \u201cwill likely result in high demand for airline seats today,&#8221; Huckabee wrote. &#8220;Focus on getting a seat to anyplace from which you can then continue travel to DC, but the first priority will be getting expeditiously out of country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">He added, however, that \u201cthere is no need to panic, but for those desiring to leave, it\u2019s important to make plans to depart sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. State Department circulated a travel advisory Friday authorizing nonessential government employees and their family members to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-313039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}