Elderly Woman Sues Airliner Over Discrimination

Elderly Woman Sues Airliner Over Discrimination
A Boeing 777-200 from Israeli airliner EL-AL takes off from Ben Gurion International airport on October 28, 2009. JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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A woman who flew via Israeli national airline El Al said she was forced to move because a religious man refused to sit next to her.

Renee Rabinowitz, who fled the Nazis when she was a child, has sued to the airline for $13,000.

Rabinowitz, 81, said she was discriminated against after an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man objected to sitting next to a woman. Airline staff asked the elderly woman to move as a result.

The Torah says nothing about a man sitting next to a woman.
Renee Rabinowitz, Israeli passenger
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
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