Editing Yitzchak Hutner (section)

==TWA hijacking==
In the late 1960s he began to visit Israel again, planning to build a new yeshiva there. On 6 September 1970, he and his wife, daughter, and son-in-law [[Yonasan David]] were returning to New York on [[Trans World Airlines|TWA]] Flight 741 when their flight was [[Dawson's Field hijackings#TWA Flight 741|hijacked]] by the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine|PFLP]] Palestinian terrorist organization.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/23/archives/information-here-meager.html|title=Information Here Meager|author=Emanuel Perlmutter|date=September 23, 1970}}</ref> The terrorists freed the non-Jewish passengers and held the Jewish passengers hostage on the plane for one week, after which the women and children were released and sent to [[Cyprus]]. The hijacked airplanes were subsequently detonated. The remaining 40-plus Jewish men – including Hutner, David, and two students accompanying Hutner, Meir Fund and Yaakov Drillman – and male flight crew continued to be held hostage in and around [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]; Hutner was held alone in an isolated location while Jews around the world prayed for his safe release. The terrorists tried to cut off his beard, but were stopped by their commanders. Hutner was reunited with the rest of the hostages on 18 September, and was finally released on 26 September and flown together with his family members to [[Nicosia]], Cyprus. Israeli [[Knesset]] Member [[Menachem Porush]] chartered a private plane to meet the Hutners in Nicosia, and Willie Frommer, a former student, gave him his own shirt and ''[[Tallit#Tallit katan|tallit katan]]'', since Hutner's ''tallit'', ''[[tefillin]]'', shirt, jacket and hat had been confiscated during his three-week ordeal. On 28 September Hutner and his group were flown back to New York via Europe, and were home just in time for the first night of [[Rosh Hashana]].<ref>Bin-Nun, Dov and Ginsberg, Rachel. "He Swallowed My Papers To Save Me". ''[[Mishpacha]]'', 14 September 2011, pp. 34–43.</ref>