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May. 13, 2021
Lori Rosner wasn’t paying particular attention to Israel’s rapidly deteriorating security situation as she checked in at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. She had only received permission to enter the country to visit her daughter 27 hours earlier after a long struggle and was totally focused on making her flight to Tel Aviv.
She was standing at the gate, waiting to board, when she received a call from her daughter, Nili Yammer, in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, informing her that due to that evening’s rocket barrage, Ben-Gurion Airport had been shuttered.
Rosner, who flew several times a year before the pandemic but hadn’t been to Israel since March 2020, knew she had to make a decision.