Tel-Chai Nation

Some airline pilots for El Al put politics ahead of their job, out of contempt for Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reforms:

Israel's national airline El Al pilots left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, high and dry after no one volunteered to fly Israel's first couple out to Rome for a state visit to Italy scheduled later this week, El Al Airlines said on Sunday.

The deadline of a tender issued by Israel's national airline, as is required when the prime minister is set to depart on a commercial airline, expired at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday and was met with indifference by El Al pilots and flight attendants, who refused to take up the opportunity.

Later on Sunday evening, El Al announced that it had finally found a crew to fly the Netanyahu couple out to Italy.

[...] The refusal by the pilots to man the prime minister's flight joins an earlier statement by 37 out of the 40 reserve pilots in the Israeli Air Force's 69th fighter squadron, who announced they will not attend a pre-scheduled training session this coming Wednesday in protest of the government's judicial reform.

The reserve pilots announced their decision Sunday to the heads of the airforce and their squadron commander. Instead of training, they have said they will hold a dialogue regarding the issue under debate outside of government offices.

Although some of these pilots may have been acting upon the orders of a union they were part of, it's still no excuse, and unless they resign from what's clearly a corrupt union, they should have their licenses revoked. This was one of the most blatant examples to date of leftists in business putting politics ahead of duties, and was throughly reprehensible. This is exactly why the judicial reforms have to be made.

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