Allenby Bridge
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Sep 15, 2026
Yafa JarrarGUEST
There is no direct point for us to depart or land in Palestine.
Yafa JarrarGUEST
From Jordan, we take what's referred to as the bridge, the King Hussein Bridge, which is a bridge designed only for Palestinians to leave the West Bank and to return.
Yafa JarrarGUEST
At the bridge, you have to go through the Jordanian authorities and then the Israeli authorities.
Yafa JarrarGUEST
So, um, my daughter and I landed in Amman, and then our journey for the bridge begun.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
So since he could not find me, he started looking for a rescue, a way out.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
And so he drove up towards Syria, to Aqaba, to the border between Jordan and Israel, the King Hussein Bridge, trying to figure out the best way out.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
And then he calls in JD and Don Feeney because he's like, guys, I need your help.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
I've been in country too long.
9 MINS LATER
Lauren BurnsGUEST
When they heard on their radios, Alia Airport, all of those soldiers left Dave on the side of the road in a cloud of dust and went to the airport.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
They shut down the whole airport looking for us, and Dave was able to escape.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
But while that was going on, we were in the car going towards the King Hussein Bridge towards Israel.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
It was about a 45 minute drive from where the bus was to the border.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The border crossings to Jordan exist.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Allenby Bridge, the Yitzhak-Rabin Crossing, they're real and they function, but they're slow, unpredictable, require visas and advanced coordination, and once you're across, you still have to continue onward.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
You've crossed into Jordan, now what? You're in Amman, and you still need to get to Europe or Asia or wherever you're going.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The overland route from Israel to Europe would require crossing Turkey, which is theoretically possible but practically arduous, and the infrastructure simply doesn't exist for it to be a realistic substitute for flying.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
They had to find me.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
They had to get Bridge passes, passports, visas, like how do you get all of that stuff when you don't have the child with you? That's all the details of the story in the book.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
There's incredible details that go behind this whole rescue mission and what all they had to do to pull this off.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
But the whole timeframe was about three months that I was gone.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
And so once they figured all of that part out, they figured this would be the best.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
And then the goal was to sneak across the border into Israel.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
The King Hussein Bridge or the Allenby Bridge, it crosses over the Jordan River, which is Writing my book and seeing the Jordan River and just how much symbolism there is in the Bible with that area, it's so cool when you dive into it all.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
Dave was watching to make sure I got on the bus that day.
Claudia KarvanGUEST
And they went, yeah, welcome to our world.
Claudia KarvanGUEST
So they said, no, no, you go on the King Hussein Bridge on a bus and they said go and stay at the Banksy Hotel, the Waldorf Hotel right on the separation wall, otherwise known as the apartheid wall.
Claudia KarvanGUEST
I never knew anything about any of this stuff.
Claudia KarvanGUEST
You don't read about it in Australia.
Don FeeneyGUEST
And I can't understand a word they're saying.
Don FeeneyGUEST
And then one guy says, only way, Allenby Bridge.
Don FeeneyGUEST
And I looked at Digley like, what's the Alamy Bridge? He said, I'll talk to you about it later.
Don FeeneyGUEST
So that's how we got the idea.
TravisHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Don FeeneyGUEST
First thing you plan is your escape.
Don FeeneyGUEST
So while Dave was in Jordan looking for Lauren, me and JD were planning the escape routes to cross the Allenby Bridge.
Don FeeneyGUEST
And so you asked me about the end of it.
Earl HammondVOICE_ACTOR
give it a chance, love.
Earl HammondVOICE_ACTOR
In 15 or 20 minutes, we'll be hopping into our little cheroot and crossing the Allenby Bridge to Mm-hmm.
Roberta MaxwellVOICE_ACTOR
Hmm.
Roberta MaxwellVOICE_ACTOR
Sounds like an old-fashioned cigar.
7 MINS LATER
Ian MartinVOICE_ACTOR
that is a pity.
Ian MartinVOICE_ACTOR
I'd like to have apologized to them, too.
Ian MartinVOICE_ACTOR
So, we're all headed for the Allenby Bridge, eh?
Ian MartinVOICE_ACTOR
Mm-hmm.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
That included hijacking a school bus.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
We snuck over the border between Jordan and Israel over the Jordan River, the King Hussein Bridge, and And we escaped into Israel is how we got out.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
And Holly, it hit national, international news.
Lauren BurnsGUEST
It was on every headline all over that an American woman had rescued her child from Jordan.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
But this E1 corridor, it will split the West Bank in half, and you, the, the south will ...
Malcolm NanceGUEST
I mean, you, you gotta do what? Go all the way to the Allenby Bridge, cross over to Jordan, come back on the other side, and then you can go to southern [laughs] you know, go to southern-
Mario NawfalHOST
That's crazy, man.
Mario NawfalHOST
That's crazy