Overview
- More than 60 American Chabad-Lubavitch students evacuated from Israel were confined to a hotel in Amman for several days as regional airspace closures and missile activity repeatedly delayed onward travel.
- Grey Bull Rescue, led by Bryan and Olivia Stern, arranged transport to Jordan and secured a Royal Jordanian flight that landed at Washington Dulles before the group continued to New York.
- Jordanian authorities confiscated kosher food destined for the students, who then kashered a hotel kitchen and prepared Shabbat meals under constrained conditions.
- Credited facilitators included President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan James Holtsnider and embassy staff, with coordination by Ambassador Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun.
- The group comprised yeshiva bochurim from Yeshivas Tzeirei Hashluchim Mesivta in Tzfas and Bais Rivkah seminary students, who reunited with families in New York after arriving at Dulles.