{"id":635262,"date":"2026-10-03T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/635262\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:38:12","slug":"donald-trump-praises-flydubai-hero-yaniv-hayoun-after-hijacking-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/635262\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump praises flydubai hero Yaniv Hayoun after hijacking attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump thanked and congratulated Yaniv Hayoun for his role in helping save flydubai<\/a> flight FZ1073 during the hijacking attempt, in a TikTok post published Friday.<\/p>\n

“He is a Trump fan. I am a fan of his, a big fan,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

Trump went on to say that Hayoun “learned how to fly by watching air disasters on television.”<\/p>\n

“He’s my kind of guy,” Trump said, adding, “He can be my plumber. He can be whatever he wants to be.”<\/p>\n

Trump concluded by calling Hayoun a hero<\/a> and sending his best wishes to his family. “You like me, and I like you. Thank you, Yaniv,” he said.<\/p>\n

The post came after Hayoun and other passengers\u00a0on the\u00a0flight<\/a> met with Prime Minister Netanyahu on Thursday and, at the end of the meeting, asked the prime minister the tell Trump that he is “crazy about him.”<\/p>\n

Hayoun also met with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee at the US Embassy, with the encounter later shared on the ambassador’s X\/Twitter account on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Just remember that if I am ever on a plane<\/a> with you and something goes wrong, I am going to be looking for you,” Huckabee told Hayoun before embracing him.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for saving the lives of 170 people,” Huckabee told Hayoun, adding, “Had it not been for you, we would not be having this conversation.”<\/p>\n

Huckabee also relayed Trump’s praise, telling Hayoun, “the president is incredibly impressed with your heroism, your willingness to sacrifice for people you didn’t even know.”<\/p>\n

“Given how much you have done for this country, I felt that the public’s gratitude toward you and President Trump, who has done so much for us, was insufficient. I felt that the level of appreciation was too low, and I wish I could speak to him to tell him how much we value and love you both for what you are doing for our country,” Hayoun said.<\/p>\n

The ambassador gifted Hayoun a red “Make America Great Again” hat the president gave to him as “just a small thank you for the extraordinary act of courage that saved lives and made us all very, very proud.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump thanked and congratulated Yaniv Hayoun for his role in helping save flydubai flight FZ1073…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,54,285901,42,46,1034,43,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-635262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-flydubai-attempted-hijacking","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635262","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=635262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}