{"id":51616,"date":"2023-05-16T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51616"},"modified":"2025-05-16T00:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:25:34","slug":"the-historic-flight-of-two-german-air-force-eurofighter-aircraft-over-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/16\/the-historic-flight-of-two-german-air-force-eurofighter-aircraft-over-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"The historic flight of two German Air Force Eurofighter aircraft over Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 20th century, Europe experienced some of the darkest episodes in history. One of the worst took place in Germany.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/12\/l-159-alca-this-is-the-first-fighter-made-by-a-nato-country-that-ukraine-could-receive\/\">L-159 ALCA: this is the first fighter made by a NATO country that Ukraine could receive<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/01\/the-history-of-the-circular-national-insignias-used-by-military-aviation\/\">The history of the circular national insignias used by military aviation<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The Holocaust, the planned extermination of millions of people -most of them Jews- by Nazi Germany, is <strong>a memory that the citizens of Israel still keep very much in mind<\/strong>, because among them are some survivors and many descendants of Holocaust victims. From that horror and the exodus of many survivors arose <strong>the State of Israel, which celebrated its 75th anniversary on April 26.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Precisely, that day took place <strong>a historic flight over that country, carried out by two Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoon fighters<\/strong>. It was not the first flight of the German Air Force over Israel, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/german-military-planes-fly-over-jerusalem-for-1st-time-since-wwi-in-show-of-ties\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on October 17, 2021 two Luftwaffe Eurofighters have already flown over Jerusalem<\/a> along with an F-15 and an F-35 of the Israeli Air Force. <strong>This new flight confirms the friendship between two countries<\/strong> that have a common painful past. Recall that three years ago, Israeli F-16 fighters made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/08\/17\/momento-historico-por-primera-vez-aviones-de-combate-de-israel-aterrizan-en-alemania\/\"\">the first visit of Israeli warplanes to Germany<\/a>. Here we can see the video of this new and historic flight of April 26 published by the Bundeswehr:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jubil\u00e4um: 75 Jahre Israel |Luftwaffe: gemeinsamer \u00dcberflug Tel Aviv und Jerusalem | Bundeswehr\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dqo2n77eVeQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see below some photos of this flight published by the Bundeswehr.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52902482832_0c68f523b0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On their flight to Israel, <strong>the German fighters were refueled in flight by an Airbus A330-243MRTT of the Royal Netherlands Air Force<\/strong>, the T-055.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52902483112_d246a5085a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we can see below these lines, <strong>one of the German fighters, the 31+14 (cn 164\/AS007) wore a commemorative decoration that included the insignia of the Israeli Air Force<\/strong> on the starboard side of its fuselage. This fighter was accompanied by the 30+79 (cn GS059).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52903442650_c2f8b9f0c4_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below these lines we see the decoration of 31+14 in more detail (click on the image to see it enlarged). <strong>The fighter carries the Flag of Israel on its wing and on the port forward plane<\/strong> and the Flag of Germany on the wing and on the starboard forward plane. A spectacular decoration, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52903054761_d9e0671d33_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52903054761_a60d7dce1b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The flight of the German fighters over Tel Aviv.<\/strong> We see the 31+14 photographed from the 30+79. They were accompanied by an Israeli Air Force F-16I Sufa, the 827 (YD-59). German fighters also flew over Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52903054851_f68a1d3987_4k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52903054851_3d261f94a2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 20th century, Europe experienced some of the darkest episodes in history. One of the worst took place in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11546],"tags":[10929,95,18164,10905,2678,18422],"class_list":["post-51616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-germany","tag-israel","tag-israeli-air-force","tag-jerusalem","tag-luftwaffe","tag-tel-aviv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}