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In an effort to honor El Al’s commitment not to cause chilul shabbos, 120 passengers of an El Al flight who thought they would be in Israel for shabbos spent the holy day in Thailand.
El Al’s managing director was contacted in compliance with company protocol, and he made the decision to house the passengers in a Bangkok hotel until motzei shabbos, until such time they headed to Eretz Yisrael. The Boeing 767 experienced some technical difficulties which accounted for delays that caused the flight to have to remain in Thailand.
El Al reports that shomer shabbos passengers were housed in a hotel that was close to the local Chabad house to ensure they would have a minyan and other shabbos accomodations.
El Al stated that the company remains committed to avoiding chilul shabbos, and in this case, it was a costly operation, tens of thousands of dollars.
(Yechiel Spira - YWN Israel)
kol hakavod!
show your support for el-al, fly el-al!
Comment by isaak of vienna — June 21, 2009 @ 8:40 am
Will we now see an outporing of support for ELAL. Will we all commennd this Kiddush Hashem. So that they will continue to be Shomer Shabbos.
Comment by mitzapimleshuah — June 21, 2009 @ 8:45 am
Quite impressive. Kudos to them.
Comment by zionflag — June 21, 2009 @ 12:22 pm
MiToch shelo lishmah ba lishma!
Comment by NaarYisroel — June 21, 2009 @ 1:01 pm
Good going/resting ELAL, may Hashem repay you…
Comment by y2r — June 21, 2009 @ 2:28 pm
kol hakavod la’hem be’emet kol hakavod!!
Comment by sems48 — June 21, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
Support EL AL!!!
Comment by Aaron Chaim — June 22, 2009 @ 5:06 am
Kudos, El Al!
Comment by Anonymous — June 22, 2009 @ 3:26 pm