A memorial ceremony was held Sunday in the community of Yanuv, east of Netanya, to mark the 60th anniversary of a plane crash in Oslo that took the lives of 27 members of the Youth Aliyah movement from Tunisia and three women who were accompanying them. Reuven Rivlin's attendance was the first ever by a Knesset speaker.
Director-General Nissim Taito of the World Organization of Tunisian Jewry told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew news journal on Monday that it was decided to take the children to Norway to recover from an outbreak of tuberculosis that hit northern Africa and to learn Hebrew, ahead of their immigration to Israel. The victims were part of a two-plane flight. The first plane landed safely, but the second plane crashed on a 346-meter-high mountaintop that was mistakenly listed as 146 meters high when the pilot flew lower to get out of a snowstorm.