Overview
- The Broward Sheriff's Office used airport surveillance to confirm a cleaning crew mistakenly discarded the items into a waste container.
- Airport chaplain Rabbi Eli Eckstein contacted FLL officials and the waste contractor to stop the truck before it reached its final destination.
- Chaveirim volunteers, with access arranged by airport staff, searched a State Road 7 facility and found the tallis bag containing the tefillin.
- Traveler Tovy Schwartz publicly thanked Eckstein, the volunteers, the Broward Sheriff's Office, airport personnel, and the waste company for their roles.
- Participants emphasized rapid coordination and the value of surveillance in the successful recovery, with no disciplinary actions or policy changes reported.