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South African Jews Welcomed to Israel

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(IsraelNN.com) Eighty-five Jews from South Africa and Zimbabwe recently made aliyah, becoming the third group of South African Jews to become Israeli citizens this year. The new citizens were greeted with a festive ceremony at the Kotel (Western Wall), where they received their Israeli ID cards.

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South African Olim in Kotel Ceremony

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South African Jews demand renewal of El AL flights to Israel
By Jonathan Liss, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: El AL SOuth Africa


Heads of the South African Jewish community started on Thursday a campaign to renew the EL Al flights to the country, after the company cancelled the route over a month ago.

The Israeli airline was criticized by the South African government for its stringent security checkups, as documented on a South African television research show.

A reporter with a hidden camera filmed an El Al security guard allegedly discriminating against dark-skinned passengers at the airport check in.

As a result of the broadcast the South African government issued a request that Israel change its security procedures in the country, which El Al has denied on the basis that they are part of the company's flight regulations.

The top Jewish officials sent a letter to MK Zeev Bielski (Kadima), former chief of the Jewish Agency, in which they warned against the strain in ties between the South African Jewish community and Israel if the flight route remains closed.

Their attempts to enlist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's support in the past, including the South African government's promise to find a solution to the stringent security measures which yielded the crisis, did not stop EL Al from unilaterally announcing the flight route cancellation.

Currently, there is no other direct flight route between the two countries.

"The South African Jewish community, infamous for its support of Israel as a Zionist community, sees this flight route as an integral part of our relations with Israel," MK Bielski wrote in a letter to Netanyahu this week.

"Continuing this flight route is important for diplomatic relations with South Africa, and crucial for tourism in both countries," he added.

Omphalos wrote:TMB worked for the jarheads in the NM desert at a testing ground. His job was to preserve native american relics before the marines blew them all to hell. His expertise is in the Mogollon culture, IIRC.

SandChigger wrote:

Omphalos wrote:TMB worked for the jarheads in the NM desert at a testing ground. His job was to preserve native american relics before the marines blew them all to hell. His expertise is in the Mogollon culture, IIRC.

Past tense?