El Al is the national airline of Israel. Since the start of the year negotiations have been ongoing between the airline and rabbis from the orthodox community in Israel to introduce “kosher flights”.

The community wants El Al to cater for them by having full separation between men and women, male flight attendants and no movies during flights.

El Al plane LandingImage source: Arpingstone

It seems that that the negotiations are taking longer than expected and now the rabbinic committee on transportation has asked the Israeli public not to fly with El Al:


“After failing to reach a deal with El Al that would see the company operating separate flights for the ultra-Orthodox sector, rabbis are now calling on their public not to fly with the Israeli company at all, and prefer foreign airlines instead….

…the rabbinic committee on transportation has published a statement urging the public to fly only with airlines that offer movie-free flights, or flights with designated areas that are movie-free.

They also included a list of the recommended airlines, and specified which of them also applies a modest dress code for its crew….

..Rabbi Yitzhak Goldknopf, who is taking part in the efforts to introduce “kosher flights,” told Ynet that negotiations with El Al were ongoing, and expressed hope that an agreement will be struck soon.

Although on El Al’s major flights every passenger can turn off his personal TV screen, and on some of the other flights the company operates a “movie-free” zone, the rabbis ordered their followers to refrain from flying wit the Israeli airline.

Goldnkopf explained that “contrary to El Al, these companies screen only movies showing water and scenery, and not dirty movies.” (Ynet News)

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