Couple told mid-flight they'd left child behind

I find humor in the article comment that the Israeli media play up stories about kids and neglect/abuse. They should take their cue from the American media and play up ALL stories.

The fact that it happened to this family is just neglagents , and lesson learned , I am sure they never ment it to happen , people need to slow down and organize they should have stopped and took notice of all family members and luggage and started to board the plane , I just hate flying , It's just a wake up call next time maybe it won't end on a happier note

I find it funny that the child was a female. They Jewish faith believes that Christ has not made the Second Coming yet and that he could return with the birth of any male child at any time. Is this indicative of how they treat their female population. I wonder if they would have forgotten the child if it was a young male?

I don't think any of these incidents were "accidents". It's just another way to get rid of children that people don't want. Those people should be forcibly STERILIZED so they can't have more children. No one will ever know how much emotional trauma these children have suffered, and what it will do to them in the future. I find people like these DISGUSTING, and hope I never meet them in person.

Did Mary and Joseph for get Jesus , did they not

Some people shouldn't have children!

A number of years ago my wife and I were having a child. We went to her OBGYN for a regular appointment. In the waiting room there were no less than three other pregnant women. Each had two other small children with them. Each was obviously of the jewish persuasion. We waited for our appointment, which was after the other womens. My wife was finally escoted into the examining area and I stayed in the lobby. I began to ponder what I had seen and asked the receptionist if this scenario was a normal one. She said most of their patients are from the local jewish neighborhood and many are repeat customers with two and three children each. I must have had an interesting look on my face because the receptionist also added that the U.S. GOVERNMENT is paying them to have children. I was astonished by this statement and inquired for more details. She continued to explain that if they are married to a Rabbi there is federal funding for them to procreate. Their bills are paid directly by the U.S. GOVERNMENT. Hence by you and I thru our taxes. I think this practice needs to be reviewed by someone and stopped immediately!

Not even joking. Yesterday I was driving my car on a street right below Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles and found a 2 yr old girl walking in the middle of the street w NOONE around. I thought I was seeing things. Make a long story short I pulled over and picked her up and began asking her where her Mommy was and she aimlessly pointed. I eventually found a home 300 ft up a hill , 15 feet below Sunset Blvd, full of Orthodox Jews praying at a Chabadd. The beautiful little girl belonged to a woman in there w 4 other kids. The mother could have cared less and stood there and talked w me as I was holding her baby in my arms for 2 minutes. She didn't reach for her once but was saying very non-chalant, "I don't know how I could have replaced her...blah blah blah." This little girl could have been abducted, hit by a car, who knows but its disgusting to me the carelessness of parents. Forget religion. I am jewish. Nothing should be more important than a child. Nothing!

18 Suitcases? 5 Children? Charter to Paris? Sounds like another episode of the rich and clueless!! Forget your purse...forget your keys...forget a carry-on, but your CHILD??? Stupid people just shouldn't be allowed to have children! Why weren't the older children looking out for her? Send her to me and I'll make sure she's loved and NEVER just 'left or forgotten'...anywhere! She'd make a great 'sister' for my 2 year old daughter!

How in the HELL do you EVER loose a child like that? There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever!!!! There should be a test in every country in the world that you must pass in order to be a parent.

I haven't always been the best Mother in the world, but leave my 3 yr old in an airport? I don't think so. Contrary to what the grandmother says, these people are not well organized, etc, etc.

Hmm, sounds like a story I once read...in the Bible, Lk, 2:41. This also happened to a friend of mine with 5 kids--thier youngest was in the baby carrier, and each thought the other took the baby...until they got half-a-mile down the road and realized they'd left her behind! Fortunately, a compassionate staff person stayed with the baby, knowing they would be back shortly! Congrats to the kind and diligent workers at the Ben Gurion Airport!

Sounds like Mary and Joseph in Luke 2:41. A similar thing happened to friends of ours--their youngest was in a baby-carrier, and each parent thought the other had the baby, until they got a half-mile down the road with their other 4 children, and realized the baby wasn't strapped in her usual place. The "I thought YOU had him!" scenario is more common than you would think.

I've got to say though, that getting ON THE AIRPLANE and still not realizing she was missing is pretty noodle-brained. I would assume she needed a seat, or a parent's lap! Thank goodness for the compassionate and on-task staff of Ben Gurion Airport, or this story would have had a different ending.

Oh, this has my dander stirred up. The Duggars from Arkansas have 18 children, and with all of the traveling they do, they have yet to leave one behind, and the parents are always aware of what their kids are doing. And the older children help with the younger ones. Maybe we should all take a lesson from them.