(16 Jun 2025)
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 15 June 2025
1. Wide of Ben Gurion Airport
2. Wide of parked aircraft stairs for passengers
3. Pan from the airport tower to empty street
4. Various of electronic screen showing canceled arrival flights
5. Wide of airport employees walking through empty departure hall
6. Various of empty departure hall
7. Various of Mahla Finkleman, Canadian visitor to Israel, looking over Tel Aviv skyline from her hotel balcony after her flight was canceled
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahla Finkelman, Canadian visitor to Israel:
"Because I keep Shabbat, I think if there are flights Thursday night, it’s not a given that maybe it’ll be via Cyprus or Athens, where we’ll be for next Shabbat, whether it’ll be in Israel or abroad in Europe, but hopefully potentially at the earliest, Sunday or Monday of next week. Unless the skies are not open, in which case we might be here longer."
9. Finkelman walking on the hotel terrace
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahla Finkelman, Canadian visitor to Israel:
"For the first time in 17 years, I did not keep Shabbat. I had my phone with me every time I was in the bomb shelter. I let my husband know. I had to have my Rav (rabbi) at home tell me that it’s OK. But it’s a tense time to be here."
11. Finkleman looking over city skyline
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahla Finkelman, Canadian visitor to Israel:
"In the time that it’s difficult to sleep at night or in the day, there’s a million and one thoughts going through my head and I’m sure every person who’s in Israel right now about friends and family who are here as well as abroad and we just have to hold each other up and it’s these small acts of kindness that sort of strengthen us together as a people."
13. Various of Finkelman looking out to the city skyline from the hotel terrace
STORYLINE:
Israel’s main international airport remained closed for departures and arrivals as its military and Iran are trading strikes.
Airspace over Israel closed on Friday after Israel unleashed airstrikes across Iran.
Mahla Finkelman, a Canadian woman who arrived in Israel on June 9th still cannot fly back because her flight was canceled.
"Hopefully, potentially at the earliest, Sunday or Monday of next week, unless the skies are not open, in which case we might be here longer."
Israel closed its main international hub Ben Gurion Airport “until further notice,”, leaving over 50,000 stranded abroad.
The authorities have moved the jets of the country’s three airlines abroad. Those abroad may have to wait for days until they can return, the airport authority said.
Finkelman is experiencing life during war as other Israelis.
"For the first time in 17 years, I did not keep Shabbat. I had my phone with me every time I was in the bomb shelter. I let my husband know. I had to have my Rav (Rabbi) at home tell me that it’s OK," she said.
Israel, the sole though undeclared nuclear-armed state in the Middle East, said it launched the attack to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. The two countries have been adversaries for decades.
Explosions shook Iran’s capital, Tehran, around noon and again around 3:30 p.m. Sirens went off across much of Israel around 4 p.m., warning of Iran’s first daytime assault since fighting began. More sirens sounded around 8:30 p.m.
Israel said 14 people have been killed there since Friday and 390 wounded. Iran has fired over 270 missiles, 22 of which got through the country’s sophisticated multi-tiered air defenses, according to Israeli figures.
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