The Independent reports:
An 81-year-old retired lawyer whose family came to Israel after fleeing the Nazis during the Second World War is suing Israel’s national airline after staff moved her to another seat because an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man refused to sit next to her.
Renee Rabinowitz was travelling on an El Al flight from Newark in the US to Tel Aviv when a Hasidic man objected to being assigned a seat next to a woman.
Staff on the flight asked Ms Rabinowitz to move, saying they would find her a “better” seat closer to first class and, although she thought the request was sexist, she agreed.
“Despite all my accomplishments – and my age is also an accomplishment – I felt minimised,” she said in an interview with the New York Times.
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