After news broke on Sunday of an Israeli soldier being forced to leave Brazil over a war crimes investigation, an Israeli who faced a similar predicament in Britain shared his experience with The Press Service of Israel.
“If you ask me if I’m scared to fly, yes I am very scared,” Alon Elgali told TPS-IL.
Elgali, a civilian, is the owner of Meshek Afar Ltd, a contracting company that works for the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza who was in London for a wedding in November.
The Israel Defense Forces has warned soldiers traveling abroad that they risk being arrested, forcing them to cancel travel plans while others have been advised to return home — including one who narrowly avoided arrest in Cyprus in mid-November.