Goliath had taken the bus from Petra back to Amman, knowing that if he took the car, Klein and Gusack could report it to the police and they would be on the lookout for the vehicle. It wouldn’t be so easy to catch him on a tourist bus packed with other people.
His plan had been to hire a car to drive back across the King Hussein Bridge and then to Israel’s main Ayalon Highway. However, he was told that because today was Friday, the King Hussein Bridge was closed from midday and would not reopen till Sunday. That left him with a problem. The longer he waited around, the greater the likelihood that he would be stopped.
And he had no intention of being stopped.
Then someone told him that there was another way of getting into Israel – if he hurried.