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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Canadian students and survivors ‘shaken’, but safe, after Houthi missile hits Ben Gurion airport
Description: About 200 Canadian students, their chaperones and nearly a dozen Holocaust survivors were going through airport security at Ben Gurion International when they heard the blast. It happened on Sunday May 4, as the group was returning from a March of the Living trip–which took them to Poland and Israel–when a Houthi missile launched by Islamic terrorists from Yemen evaded Israel’s air defences and exploded on the airport’s access road.
The Canadian group, along with thousands of other travellers, were ordered to scramble into safe areas or bomb shelters inside the airport until authorities gave the all...