Two pilots marvel at the Divine plan that crossed their paths in the nick of time
Photos: Itzik Belinsky, Personal archives
Nadav Efrat is the only top-tier flight instructor in Israel today who looks like a middle-aged rabbi.
But that hasn’t stopped this former Israel Airforce combat helicopter pilot from serving as head instructor at the Meggido flight school, having clocked in tens of thousands of hours flying helicopters and single and multi-engine light aircraft.
Nadav is also a long-time chozer b’teshuvah, who, after being discharged from the air force and completing a degree at the Technion, married and raised a family in the northern chareidi town of Rechasim, where he co-founded a beis medrash and kollel which he traveled to the US several times a year to fund.
And that’s how, about 15 years ago, he found himself on an El Al flight that would both close a circle and reopen memories of the most harrowing night of his life.
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