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(IsraelNN.com) MK (National Union) Uri Ariel on Tuesday released the names of rebellious former air force pilots who are now employed by El Al. They were among the 27 air force personnel who signed the letter refusing to carryout targeted counter-terrorism offensive strikes. Ariel is calling upon El Al travelers not to travel with pilots who “prefer the lives of terrorists over the lives of Israelis”. He asks that passengers inquire at to the names of the flight crew and boycott flights operated by any of the five, adding if a plane is hijacked, they cannot be relied upon.

An Indian airman displays the portable anti-aircraft Igla IM missile system, February 2003. Channel 2 TV reported Tuesday evening that Thailand's Police thwarted an al-Qaida plot to attack Israeli passengers inside Bangkok International Airport, and also down an Israeli EL AL passenger plane taking off or landing from the same airport. Bangkok Police arrested a suspicious man three months ago as he was filming with a video camera near the EL AL counter at Bangkok International Airport. After questioning the man, Police suspected he was collecting intelligence on EL AL and airport security and passenger routines. A search of the...

This just breaking on Channel Two, Israel. Authorities in Thailand have foiled an Al Qaeda plot to blow up an El Al ISrael Airlines in the Capital, Bangkok.

An El Al plane landed safely at Ben Gurion International Airport after reporting a problem with it's hydraulic system. The craft was bound for New York and returned just over an hour after it had left Israel. The airport was put on the highest level of alert - code red - with 20 ambulances, fire and rescue crews placed on standby. A spokesman for El Al said that the passengers and crew were not in any danger. The 747 circled over the sea for about an hour to dump its 13 tons of fuel so that it could come in...

13:35 Emergency situation declared at Ben-Gurion Airport ahead of possible emergency landing of El Al 747 plane (Haaretz)

Gov't Cos Authority recommends El Al share issue next month The recommendation will probably include a financing round by the airline, an offer for sale by the state, options and sale options. Shai Shalev 24 Apr 03 17:41 Sources inform “Globes” that the Government Companies Authority is expected to propose that the ministerial privatization committee approve the total privatization of El Al through the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), without a preliminary sale of 49% of the company. The decision was made at a recent meeting between the Government Companies Authority and potential investors. The authority and the issue...

LOS ANGELES - An Egyptian immigrant's deadly attack on an Israeli airline ticket counter last year has been ruled a terrorist attack related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an FBI spokesman said Friday. "Given his political views and the fact that El Al is an Israeli government-owned airline, that met the criteria for a terrorist attack," said Matthew McLaughlin, a spokesman for the Los Angeles field office of the FBI. Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 41, opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport's El Al ticket counter on July 4 last year, killing two people before being shot dead by an airline security...

State to sell 49% of El Al on TASE in May The state will retain a golden share in the airline, enabling it to commandeer aircraft in an emergency. Dror Marom 4 Feb 03 17:05Government Companies Authority director Eyal Gabbai told ''Globes'' today that the flotation of El Al Israel Airlines shares would take place in Tel Aviv this May. The flotation will take place on the basis of the airline's 2002 financial statements. Initially, 49% of the company will be sold, with the rest being sold later.Gabbai revealed that the state would retain a golden share in the airline...

<p>LOS ANGELES - The family of Yaakov "Jacob" Aminov, the 46-year-old diamond importer who was killed July 4 by a gunman at Los Angeles International Airport, has filed a claim seeking $30 million from the city, the family's attorney said.</p>

PARIS, Dec 9 (AFP) - Security guards at Paris' Orly airport on Monday prevented a man carrying a live bullet from boarding a flight of the Israeli airline El Al to Tel Aviv, airport officials said. The man, whose identity was not revealed, told police the bullet was a family souvenir. Police released the man after confiscating the bullet, but he missed his flight.

<p>BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Airline passengers accustomed to having their bags, their pockets and even their shoes checked are now encountering state troopers trained to examine their heads.</p> <p>Last week Logan International Airport began the nation's first "behavioral recognition program," in which police give what they describe as a "human lie detector test" to passengers with odd or suspicious behavior.</p>

Posted on Thu, Nov. 14, 2002 EL AL: THE AIRLINE THAT GETS IT RIGHTBy Michael Smerconishmas@mastalk I FLEW TO Israel earlier this week against a backdrop of bad news.A Palestinian gunman shot and killed five people, including two children, at a kibbutz. Just hours earlier, two Palestinians were killed in a car explosion in what police say was a failed terror attack. It's the latest in a string of suicidal acts that have wreaked havoc in this country for the last two years.Yet en route to the Holy Land, I slept like a baby. Why so relaxed?Because I traveled...

The captain of an El Al flight from Zurich to Israel was forced to cancel the screening of a scheduled film when ultra-Orthodox passengers, both men and women, began to cause an onboard ruckus. The passengers were objecting to immodest scenes in the film, but another passenger on the flight claimed it was a family drama. The onboard riot reportedly began when a few dozen ultra-Orthodox Haredi passengers refused to pay attention to safety instructions as the plane was taking off, a passenger told Maariv. "While the flight was taking off, as the red seat belt light was still on,...

Two Arrested in U.S. for Attempted Terror Attack in Israel

El Al Pilot Reported Missile Explosion Next to Plane (IsraelNN.com) An El Al pilot reported what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile exploding next to a flight. The plane was heading from Tel Aviv to Russia. The flight landed without incident in Moscow. El Al officials reported with certainty the plane was not in military airspace, but in a regular international commercial lane.

The big three airlines, American, Delta and United have something in common, other than Boeing aircraft. All of America's airlines, those that still serve food, give their passengers cheap plastic knives to eat with for "security" reasons. The plastic knives are "safe" by politically correct standards. Then why does the most secure airline in the world, El Al, still give its passengers a full set of silverware including knives? During a full dinner service from New York to Tel Aviv each Business Class passenger is presented with a full complement of dinner utensils which includes three metal knives if the...

<p>Suicide hasn't been ruled out as a motive for an Irvine man's Fourth of July outburst that left him and two others dead.</p> <p>In the year before he gunned down two people and injured three others at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, Irvine limousine driver Hesham Mohamed Hadayet told a client that he was nearly broke and needed money.</p>

True, we still don't know everything about Hesham Mohammed Hadayet, the murderer who shot and killed two people and wounded several others in front of the El Al counter at the Los Angeles airport. But even if we still don't have much technical information about his involvement in organized terrorism, we do know enough to make a moral judgment that should bring anyone to his senses. Israel has suffered hundreds, nay, thousands of terrorist attacks – suicide and non-suicide – over the last several months. Europe and the rest of the world have witnessed thousands of assaults against Jewish targets....

<p>CAIRO, Egypt (AP) --  The wife of an Egyptian gunman who shot and killed two people at Los Angeles International Airport before he was killed by a security officer said Hesham Hadayet called her hours before the shooting.</p> <p>Hala Mohammed Sadeq El-Awadly said Monday that Hadayet gave no hint he was planning any violent act, instead speaking about how their two sons should spend their summer holiday in their homeland.</p>

<p>July 7, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - The special authorization that the FBI and Secret Service granted El Al security agents years ago to carry weapons while protecting passengers and planes proved rewarding Thursday in Los Angeles.</p> <p>Some Western European and Asian countries have refused repeated Israeli requests to allow armed guards on the state airline to protect passengers while on foreign soil, insisting that their own police can do the job.</p>