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.
“In the cabin, the attendants receive different and varied requests and they try to assist as much as possible, the goal being to have the plane take off on time and for all the passengers to arrive at their destination as scheduled,” she said.
“Our employees in the air, on the ground, in Israel and around the globe do all possible to listen to and provide solutions to the concerns or requests from our customers whatever they might be, including seating requests on the airplane,” the airliner also stated.
