Israel’s national airline is facing outrage over what critics call the “bullying” of women on flights by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who refuse to sit next to them.
The issue was brought to international attention last week, when a flight from New York to Tel-Aviv descended into an “11-hour long nightmare”.
A group of Haredi Jewish passengers refused to sit next to women, believing that the sexes should be segregated.
After delaying the take-off by standing in the aisles and attempting to trade seats, despite numbers being allocated in advance, the passengers continued disturbing the flight during the journey.
A spokesperson for the airline, El Al, then said it had done its best “to address the needs and requests of all our travellers” in the busy period before Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year.
As news of the incident spread, a petition was launched by a woman in Chicago, Sharon Shapiro, calling on El Al to change its policy. Full story...
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The issue was brought to international attention last week, when a flight from New York to Tel-Aviv descended into an “11-hour long nightmare”.
A group of Haredi Jewish passengers refused to sit next to women, believing that the sexes should be segregated.
After delaying the take-off by standing in the aisles and attempting to trade seats, despite numbers being allocated in advance, the passengers continued disturbing the flight during the journey.
A spokesperson for the airline, El Al, then said it had done its best “to address the needs and requests of all our travellers” in the busy period before Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year.
As news of the incident spread, a petition was launched by a woman in Chicago, Sharon Shapiro, calling on El Al to change its policy. Full story...
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