{"id":510859,"date":"2026-06-25T18:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510859\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:45:11","slug":"israeli-presidents-helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-after-hitting-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510859\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli president&#8217;s helicopter makes emergency landing after hitting bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An IDF helicopter carrying President<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-899290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Isaac Herzog<\/a> was forced to make an emergency landing at an Israel Air Force base after hitting a bird, the IDF announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-899087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">helicopter<\/a> safely landed at the Palmachim air force base, and Herzog was able to take off again in a replacement helicopter a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">There were no injuries or damage reported from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Herzog had been returning from the memorial ceremony on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/mount-herzl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mount Herzl<\/a> for soldiers who were killed during Operation Protective Edge, and on his way to a shiva in northern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter, the IDF stated, was transferred to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/air-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IAF<\/a> technical personnel for maintenance, and the incident is under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An IDF helicopter carrying President Isaac Herzog was forced to make an emergency landing at an Israel Air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14179,234388,42,25262,2894,54998,43,4525,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-510859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-birds","tag-emergency-landing","tag-headlines","tag-helicopter","tag-isaac-herzog","tag-mount-herzl","tag-news","tag-president","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510859","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=510859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}