Jerusalem – According to Israel’s Airport Authority, the 521 combined flights scheduled to land and take off on Sunday from Ben Gurion Airport are the most in a single day since the airport became functional back in 1936.
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GLOBES.co.il (http://bit.ly/Yw0KjN) reports that close to 70,000 passengers are scheduled to file through Ben Gurion Sunday, bringing the total of holiday passengers to over 1.4 million.
Airline officials say the most popular destinations over the High Holidays have been Greece, Italy, the U.S., Germany, Russia, and France.
Officials said they are also bracing for as many as 100 incoming flights from Uman, Ukraine, as some 20,000 Breslaver Hasidim make their return from their pilgrimage to Rebbe Nachman’s gravesite.
To think me and my fellow passengers last night were part of history.