For El Al, the skies just got a lot less friendly. The airline created as Israel’s national carrier, which recently was privatized, is scrambling to fend off a boycott threat from fervently Orthodox ...

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An 81-year-old attorney who was forced to move seats because an Orthodox Jewish man objected to sitting next to her is suing the Israeli airline El Al. Renee Rabinowitz, backed by an left-leaning ...

A passenger contradicted another passenger's Facebook account of the June incident. JERUSALEM (JTA) — El Al said a flight last month on which haredi Orthodox men refused to take their assigned seats ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Responding to growing pushback from Israeli feminists and human rights advocates, Israel’s national airline announced that it will no longer ask female passengers to move in ...

After facing backlash from a prominent Israeli tech company, Israel's national airline El Al announced on Monday that it will no longer move female passengers to accommodate Orthodox Jewish men who ...

(JTA) Haredi Orthodox passengers on an El Al flight in November that was forced to divert in order to allow Sabbath-observant passengers to get off the plane are suing the airline. The 53 passengers ...