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Israelis fight for seats on flight out of Georgian capital

Tbilisi: Israelis fight for seat on El Al flight
Foreign Ministry working to evacuate 230 Israelis from war-battered country;
considers evacuation to neighboring countries by land if necessary

By ELI SENYOR Israel News Tuesday, 12 August 2008

TEL AVIV — El Al Airlines dispatched a special flight to the Georgian
capital of Tbilisi Tuesday morning to evacuate Israelis from the
war-battered country. The flight was dispatched at the Foreign
Ministry’s request and is expected to return to Israel in the evening.

Foreign Ministry Director-General Aharon Abramowitz convened an
emergency meeting overnight during which it was decided to work
toward evacuating Israeli citizens from Tbilisi. The Ministry estimates
that some 230 Israelis remain in Georgia.

The Tbilisi airport is still operational, but should efforts to evacuate
Israelis by plane fail, the Ministry will consider evacuating them to
neighboring countries by land.

Meanwhile, the travel advisory to Georgia has been updated, and
Israelis in Georgia were urged to notify the Foreign Ministry of their
whereabouts ahead of a possible evacuation.

Hundreds of Israelis have flocked to the Israeli Embassy in Tbilisi,
Tuesday, hoping to get a place on the flight out of the war zone.

Meir Zarovsky, who is in Georgia as part of an organized tour, told
Ynet that there are “more people than there are places on the plane …
the embassy told us they currently have 190 places and there are
over 400 people here. Everyone just wants to get out of here.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3581210%2C00.html

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