Transportation minister says won’t back new restrictions until airlines given aid

19 December 2021, 2:45 pm

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Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli tells the cabinet she will not back any further restrictions on travel “until the issue of support for airline companies is resolved.”

She says the government is “abandoning thousands of workers for whom this is their livelihood. There is currently no unpaid leave agreement or anything else that supports them. These people perform critical work and the State of Israel must protect the service offered by the airlines.

“We have already heard that British Airways has canceled its flights to Israel as of tomorrow. If not the Israeli airlines, who will fly Israelis who are currently overseas back home? I demand that support for the airlines is agreed on this week.”