Israeli tourists in Peru are expected to arrive in Israel tomorrow morning on specially shipped EL AL planes • "No aircraft from any country except Israel"

Four El Al planes took off last Wednesday (Lima) in Lima, the capital of Peru, with the goal of bringing back about a thousand Israeli travelers who remained in the country, which entered yesterday's full closure. One of the four aircraft has already landed in Lima, and the next three are scheduled to land one after another in the next few hours. Israeli travelers are expected to arrive in Israel tomorrow morning. The four flights, which took about 16 hours from Tel Aviv to Lima, were also record-breaking for El Al. These were the longest direct flights in the history of the company, since flights to Lima have so far been made by connecting flights through other countries.

Photo: Rotem Schleider

Rotem Schlaider, an Israeli traveler in Peru, told Israel Today: "For the last part of my trip, I have been in Peru for a month and a half, I volunteered there at a bartender hostel. There are a lot of guys who just started coming to Peru, and the trip stopped in the middle. Can't really believe this is happening - the police are stopping us on the way to the airport, but the Foreign Ministry document we received showed that we could move on. "

"One day they said the president was going to make a speech, he came up with a speech and said Peru was quarantined. It totally caught us by surprise, no one expected it in any way and of course there weren't too many options to leave the state right after, Peru got quarantined within 24 hours of the speech, It was very short and stressful, I saw girls catching taxis in the middle of the night to the airport, everything here was done under hysterical pressure. El Al to Israel. "

Photo: Rotem Schleider

Schlaider adds: "There is nothing like this in any country in the world, there is no entry of airplanes from any other country - only the State of Israel, only EL AL, the power that the State of Israel has is simply inconceivable. Of our foreign ministry - our country is simply as powerful as it is impossible to describe, no country extracts its citizens like we do. "

"People from other countries are in total shock when they hear what the State of Israel is doing for its citizens. We want to say a huge thank you to God, Magnus, the Foreign Ministry and the Government of Israel, the Foreign Minister, and every member of the State of Israel, I am proud to be a citizen of this miracle from heaven - I have no other country" .