“I Saw My Wife and Children and Realized I Have To Do Something”

Yaniv Hayoun was on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. Neria Kraus: Hayoun was one of the people who stormed the cockpit. “I saw my wife and children and realized I have to do something,” he told me. Hayoun, who works in maintenance and has no background in security, had a split-second decision to make. He told me that he felt compelled to help save his family’s lives, and those of the rest of the passengers on the plane…. Hayoun said he saw the entire scene unfold in real time. “There was complete chaos. One of the pilots stabbed another pilot. He tried to crash us. When it leveled out a little, just a little, we managed to get back up. I managed to