{"id":634600,"date":"2026-10-02T21:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/634600\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T21:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:40:14","slug":"arkia-sends-first-rescue-flight-as-el-al-rescue-flight-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/634600\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkia sends first rescue flight as El Al rescue flight cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkia’s first repatriation flight to Dubai<\/a> landed and is expected to begin its return to Israel shortly after UAE authorities revoked landing permission for the El Al flight.<\/p>\n

A cargo plane will arrive to collect the passengers\u2019 luggage at the UAE\u2019s request. Additional Arkia and Israir flights are expected to depart tomorrow and on Saturday night, with the Saturday night service operating on behalf of El Al.<\/p>\n

A source close to the United Arab Emirates criticized the use of the term ‘rescue flight’ by Israeli officials in a conversation with The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Israel, they are talking about \u2018rescue flights\u2019 from the Emirates. \u2018Rescue flights\u2019 is a term used for a country where it is dangerous to be. That is simply not the case. Everything Israel asked for, the UAE said \u2018yes.\u2019 Flydubai agreed to fly to Israel under different protocols, similar to those used by Etihad, but the Israelis said \u2018no.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

El Al said that as soon as official permission is granted for the repatriation flights to resume, it will implement the planned flights to bring stranded Israelis home.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Transportation Ministry said that “following coordination with all relevant parties, it was agreed that flights operated by Israeli airlines from Dubai to Israel would begin on Friday, October 2. However, due to the need to complete the necessary preparations and coordination by security officials for the operation of the flights, a delay is expected in the departure of the repatriation flights from Dubai.<\/p>\n

\u201cCitizens currently in Dubai should remain in contact with the airlines through which their tickets were booked and follow their instructions and updates,\u201d the ministry added.<\/p>\n

According to estimates, more than 10,000 Israelis are stranded in Dubai and at other destinations from which they had been expected to return to Israel via the United Arab Emirates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Later on Friday, Israir announced that it had received the final approvals from the Emirati authorities and that flights would be departing from Israel to Dubai during the day.<\/p>\n

During the incident, one of them was stabbed, prompting the activation of the distress signal.<\/p>\n

The aircraft initially disappeared from flight tracking systems, raising concerns that it had been hijacked<\/a>. However, after several tense moments, the circumstances surrounding the incident became clearer, and the plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arkia’s first repatriation flight to Dubai landed and is expected to begin its return to Israel shortly after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35593,1120,20490,37187,285901,85,46,43,1078,79],"class_list":["post-634600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-airlines","tag-dubai","tag-el-al","tag-flights","tag-flydubai-attempted-hijacking","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-uae","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634600","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=634600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}