(JTA) — El Al Israel Airlines will begin nonstop flights between Tel Aviv and Miami in November. It will be El Al’s sixth route in North America; the others are New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Boston and Toronto. Miami International Airport had been in talks with Israel’s national airline since February 2016 in order…
(JTA) — A New York man is facing up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to inappropriately touching the woman sitting next to him on a flight from Israel to Newark, New Jersey. Yoel Oberlander, 36, who is a registered sex offender, pleaded guilty to the charge of assault with intent to commit…
Israel’s national airline, El Al, is betting on a billion-dollar overhaul of its aging fleet to claw back market share dented by relentless competition from low-cost carriers and a damaging dispute with pilots. El Al was once the go-to airline for most Israelis thanks to the kind of stringent security that sees it equip planes…
— A city in northern Spain that is trying to increase its inbound tourist traffic lost a direct flight connection with Israel over its symbolic support for boycotting the Jewish state, a Spanish newspaper reported. The Spain branch of El Al for months had negotiated with tourist officials from the autonomous region of Galicia over opening…
An El Al Boeing 747 flight from New York landed at its Tel Aviv destination on Tuesday after a bomb threat led France and Switzerland to send warplanes to escort the Israeli airliner over their territory. No emergency was declared at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport, where the El Al jet touched down, a Reuters TV…
A story is told of an incident on a bus in Jerusalem. A pretty young lady got on the bus and sat down in a vacant seat next to a Haredi rabbi. The rabbi arose in a huff and walked quickly away from the woman. At the next stop, a Sephardic rabbi got on the…
To appease an ultra-Orthodox male, flight attendants on Israel’s national airline El Al asked an 81-year-old female passenger to change her seat on a flight from Newark to Tel Aviv. The man cited “the Torah” as his reason for not wanting to make inadvertent physical contact with a woman. The Israel Religious Action Center, a…
An 81-year-old woman is suing El Al Airlines after she was forced to move seats to accommodate an Orthodox man during a December flight from Newark to Tel Aviv. In an , Renee Rabinowitz said she was settled in her aisle seat for the long flight to Israel when a Hasidic man assigned to the…
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