JERUSALEM (ABC4) — The 93 students at the BYU Jerusalem Center in Israel, along with several BYU faculty, their families and service couples, safely found refuge in Athens on Sunday afternoon. In a security update, the Jerusalem Center confirmed they had arrived in Athens just before 4 p.m. Utah time on Sunday, Oct. 15. The refugees were bused to a hotel near Nafplion. Officials said not everyone at the Jerusalem Center made the trip to Greece, however. Jerusalem Center Executive Director Eran Hayet, Associate Director Tawfic Alawi, Head of Security...

Six days after Hamas attacked Israel, Brigham Young University is evacuating its Jerusalem Center. According to the university, 93 students, faculty members and their families, and service couples are “currently relocating to Greece.” BYU has reported no violence at or near its the eight-tiered, 125,000-square-foot building, but Americans are being evacuated from Israel. The Biden administration has announced it is chartering flights to Europe, and that Americans can make their way home from there. BYU released no details about its plans once it students and faculties reach Greece.

JERUSALEM (ABC4) — The BYU Jerusalem Center in Israel is relocating the 93 students, faculty, families and service couples to Greece, the facility announced on Friday morning. Details about where the students, faculty and family members would be staying in Greece were not disclosed, however, the university does routinely offer Health Care programs in the area. A Thursday morning update said there had been no reported violence in Jerusalem but said tensions are always higher on Fridays as Muslims gather on the Temple Mount, or Haram esh Sharif, for noon...

After a week of war between Israel and Gaza, the BYU Jerusalem Center is evacuating students and faculty to Greece, where studies will resume, the center announced Friday morning. “The Jerusalem Center Fall 2023 Program is currently relocating to Greece,” center officials said in a two-sentence security update. “In addition to the 93 students and faculty, faculty families and service couples will also relocate to Greece.” Students had sheltered and studied in place on the center’s campus during the first week of the war, which began Saturday. Field trips were...

Amid terrorist attacks in Israel, The Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center announced plans to relocate students, faculty and their families to Greece. In total, 93 BYU students and faculty, as well as faculty families and service couples will relocate to Greece. Further details about where the group will stay were not made available. The decision to relocate comes as students and faculty were "asked to stay at the center" for nearly a week. BYU has been providing regular, daily updates on security for the last week and no violence has...