Flight Attendant, 43, a Mother-of-3, Dies After Contracting Measles And Falling into Coma

Airplane aisle during flight. Suhyeon Choi/ Unsplash

An Israeli El Al flight attendant who contracted measles after taking a flight from New York to Israel, passed away this week after spending four months in a coma, according to Israeli officials.

The mother-of-three, Rotem Amitai, 43, died on Aug. 13 at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva after months of hospitalisation, a spokeswoman for the hospital told AFP.