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I'm relieved, but what a mess this day has been!" commented Yves as he got off the plane at Roissy airport on Thursday evening. He was one of 377 passengers on the first flight organized by France to evacuate its nationals from Israel, giving priority to the most vulnerable. However, this sixty-year-old, who is due to undergo a major operation, thought he was not going to leave. "My name was on one list and not another," he says. "We were asked to report to Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv at 11 a.m. for a take-off at 16:40 p.m. and in the meantime, it was only administrative complications as France has the secret!" he says, happy to return to his country. While the regular service to Tel Aviv is suspended by Air France, two other special flights were scheduled, this Friday and Saturday. "This organisation has been a long time coming, but it has finally been set up," said Meyer Habib, an LR member of parliament for the French in Israel, recalling that 180 members of the French in Israel...
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