Flight 1073

This is a question from Catherine, and she writes in, "Given that the Flydubai hijacking took place during Sukkot, I imagine a number of Israelis still had travel plans after that hijacking.

Did any of them cancel their plans because of it?" The short answer is no, and that's also the long answer.

I mean, Israelis did not change their plans because of it.

I think if there's one takeaway I want you to walk away with after this episode, it's how emotionally spent Israelis are after the past three-plus years, to the point where an incident like this, it sounds crude, but it almost felt comical to a lot of Israelis.

Like, "Ah, there you go.

One more thing.

Thank God it turned out okay." I can only imagine if this had happened in the UK or Australia or the United States, it would still be a huge news item.

Isr- Americans, Brits would be afraid to fly.

In Israel, we were kinda laughing it off.

We were kinda like, "Ugh, this too? Really?" Now, as the days have passed, we've realized just how serious it almost was.

Uh, in the past 24 hours, the full plan of the pilot was revealed.

But as I'm sure you'll see as I go through these points, we just didn't have the energy to invest in this as a huge, possibly country-threatening event.

There were many times where we were just shaking our heads, almost laughing at how stupidly comical the whole thing was.

And I wanna...

So to answer your question, Catherine, no, we didn't change our plans.

But I wanna now go through some of the points that came up in my mind.

This is a question from Catherine, and she writes in, "Given that the Flydubai hijacking took place during Sukkot, I imagine a number of Israelis still had travel plans after that hijacking.

Did any of them cancel their plans because of it?" The short answer is no, and that's also the long answer.

I mean, Israelis did not change their plans because of it.

I think if there's one takeaway I want you to walk away with after this episode, it's how emotionally spent Israelis are after the past three-plus years, to the point where an incident like this, it sounds crude, but it almost felt comical to a lot of Israelis.

Like, "Ah, there you go.

One more thing.

Thank God it turned out okay." I can only imagine if this had happened in the UK or Australia or the United States, it would still be a huge news item.

Isr- Americans, Brits would be afraid to fly.

In Israel, we were kinda laughing it off.

We were kinda like, "Ugh, this too? Really?" Now, as the days have passed, we've realized just how serious it almost was.

Uh, in the past 24 hours, the full plan of the pilot was revealed.

But as I'm sure you'll see as I go through these points, we just didn't have the energy to invest in this as a huge, possibly country-threatening event.

There were many times where we were just shaking our heads, almost laughing at how stupidly comical the whole thing was.

And I wanna...

So to answer your question, Catherine, no, we didn't change our plans.

But I wanna now go through some of the points that came up in my mind.