(Fargo, ND) – The entire tour group visiting Israel from parishes in the Red River Valley have been booked on flights home, according to Senator John Hoeven. Early Wednesday afternoon, Hoeven announced that he had spoken with the church group’s tour director, Jane Alatrash, who confirmed the entire group is booked on flights home. The flifghts are scheduled to depart over the
The group is safely hunkered down as they wait, Father Phil Ackerman from West Fargo said from Bethlehem. They’ve seen none of the fighting that is killing hundreds just 45 miles southwest of them.