Rabbi Haredi leads the map El Fre Frequent Flyer

After threatening to boycott El Al Airlines following the infamous "Shabbat Flight", Rabbi Shalom Ber Sorotzkin, director of the Ateret Shlomo Institute, met Sunday with a handful of other activists at the entrance to Ben Gurion airport. their platinum cards from the El Al Frequent Flyer Club.

Rabbi Sorotzkin said: "It is expected that officials of the company will recognize the problematic behavior of this theft and the false incentive campaign that followed and publish an apology for it. aggravation caused to the public haredi. "

More than 180 directors of institutions have decided for the moment to boycott El Al and to return their loyalty cards, he added.

Rabbi Sorotzkin, who was on the El Al flight that was diverted two weeks ago in Athens, sent a letter to the chief executive of El Al asking him to issue a public apology for the company's claims. that pbadengers in Haredi would have "riot". It became clear that the plane would not arrive in Israel before the beginning of the Sabbath.

The pbadengers denied the claims. At the end of last week, El Al CEO Gonen Usishkin admitted that no violence had occurred during the flight.

"I came here to announce that after the negotiations, if by Sunday night the excuses are not published, we will unfortunately prefer other airlines," Sorotzkin writes in his letter.

El Al refused to answer the ultimatum and has not yet presented any excuses.

Arutz Sheva The chairman of the group, Yaakov "Ketzaleh" Katz, who participated in "Shabbat Flight", confirmed that there was no violence from the haredi pbadengers.