Israel offers a plethora of activities for families from picnics at the beach to cultural ones designed just for kids; such as the Tel Aviv Museum’s family art tour, which brings masterpieces to life. Parents can opt for walks in Yarkon Park where kids can explore play areas, a climbing wall, paddle boats, go on…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — El Al said its flight on which haredi Orthodox men refused to take their assigned seats next to women was delayed only minutes by the required switches, not over an hour as was reported. A passenger on the June 21 flight said in a Facebook post recounting the incident that the flight…
Last week, the Twitter world exploded as an in-flight romance was live tweeted at 35,000 feet on an Alaska Air flight from LaGuardia to Dallas. Over the course of the four-hour flight, we were treated to a play-by-play from two people who had switched seats in order to sit next to each other as they…
On Monday, Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, left for Germany, France and England. As always, El Al won the bid to fly them. The flight attendants were given a page of guidelines about how to comport themselves vis-a-vis the prime minister and his wife. A series of dos and don’ts. Among the don’ts, one…
In 2018, Israel celebrated the 70th anniversary of its independence. In 2019, Iran will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Republic. In 1897, at the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, Theodor Hertzl predicted that a Jewish state would exist in fifty years. In 2018, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic…
El Al, the Israeli national airline, issued a petition to the country’s Supreme Court on Wednesday asking it to stop Air India’s new flight route between New Delhi and Tel Aviv. The Air India flight is the first Israel-bound route that Saudi Arabia has allowed to use its airspace. El Al says that the new…
At least three pilots from the Israeli national airline El Al are publicly refusing to participate in the Israeli government’s planned mass deportation of thousands of African asylum-seekers, who claim to be refugees but whom the Israeli government classifies as illegal economic migrants. The move is largely symbolic, as El Al does not fly to…
El Al relaunched nonstop service between Tel Aviv and Miami on Wednesday, the Miami Herald reported, marking the airline’s return since it canceled service in September 2008. The airline had canceled service because of fuel costs and rates, El Al’s managing director said. Starting this week, the airline is offering three weekly roundtrip flights on…
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