Leszli Kálli is a Colombian-born author who was kidnapped and held for slightly more than a year by Colombian leftist guerrillas.
[1][2] Leszli Kálli was born and raised in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
On 12 April 1999, Kálli boarded a plane in Colombia to work on a kibbutz in Israel.
Part-way through the trip, the plane was hijacked by a leftist guerrilla group and forced to land on an abandoned runway in the jungle.
Kálli, along with her father and the other passengers, were held hostage for 373 days.