Uri Bar-Lev

Uri Bar-Lev (Hebrew: אורי בר-לב; born July 19, 1931) is a retired Israeli airline pilot. He has been claimed to be the only pilot to have successfully thwarted an in-flight hijacking. Bar-Lev was born on a moshav in what is now Israel. As a teenager, he served as a soldier during the war for Israeli independence and later became a pilot in the Israeli Air Force. His last military flight was in the 1956 Sinai War, after which he became a pilot for Israel’s national airline El Al.

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