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The accompanying video provides a look at the heart of Ben-Gurion International Airport, its operations center.

We learn how the airport manages the 650 incoming and outgoing flights daily, which carry over 100,000 passengers a day – how this is all managed and how the airport remains in contact with European and other officials. Personnel maintain contact with the International Civil Aviation Organization and are constantly busying themselves with flow management of flights entering and leaving Israeli airspace, which is known to be quite small and congested.

We see what occurs when an emergency is declared and how agencies respond from inside the airport as well as from the Gush Dan area.

Whatever the weather or conditions, the airport handles over 152,000 international and over 4,600 domestic flights annually, working their hardest that these flights are uneventful and operate on schedule.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem/Photo Credit: Media Resource Group)