Israel’s Transport Minister, Miri Regev, has complained to the senior administrators of El Al, after one of its pilots allegedly told a planeful of passengers from Tel Aviv to New York that “things like the Holocaust potentially happen only in dictatorships — and we are fighting in Israel to remain a democracy”.
The unnamed pilot made his announcement during routine pre-flight remarks this Tuesday, while Israel was commemorating Yom HaShoah or Holocaust memorial day.
The captain made his comments in Hebrew and English so that the majority of passengers could understand his remarks.
One passenger on the flight told Ynet that he was “shocked that an El Al pilot would allow himself to bring [such matters] to the plane, and in general to compare, even implicitly, the issue of the Holocaust to what has recently been happening in the country.”
