DO NOT FLY

 

Frum Jews From S. Africa Forced To Be Mechallel Shabbos, Board Plane

November 28, 2021 7:00 pm

Travelers walk with their luggage in the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021. Israel on Sunday approved barring entry to foreign nationals and the use of controversial technology for contact tracing as part of its efforts to clamp down on a new coronavirus variant. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit

Five frum South African citizens who landed in Israel on Friday were denied entry into the country and forced to board a return flight out of the country on Shabbos, Maariv reported.

The South Africans, two of whom had traveled to Israel to be menachem avel the family of terror victim Eli Kay, h’yd, had left South Africa before the new travel restrictions due to the Omicron variant had been announced and were not even aware of them when they arrived in the country,

When they arrived at Ben-Gurion after a stopover in Dubai, they were taken to a side room by airport officials and told that they were banned from entering the country and they will have to return to Dubai. When they protested that they couldn’t fly on Shabbos, the officials told them that they would arrest them if they didn’t board the plane.

Elana Smith, a friend of Eli’s mother, Devora Kay, told Maariv: “They treated us like criminals. We asked questions and they yelled at us to be quiet and not ask questions. I told them that I can’t be mechallel Shabbos and they told me that they’ll arrest me if I don’t board the plane. I hadn’t eaten in over 24 hours and I was mechallel Shabbos for the first time in my life.”

Dubai also denied the South Africans entry into the country and they were forced to fly back to South Africa on Shabbos.

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE JEWISH

PEOPLE, TRAVLING IN A PLANE WITH 

200 PEOPLE OR MORE.

THE OXYGEN IS CIRCULATED 

THAT MEANS IF SOMEONE HAS GOT

 CORONA ON THE PLANE, YOU ARE

 BREATHING IN HIS OXYGEN.

THIS IS THE BIGGEST SPREADER OF

 CORONA DISEASE.

THE GOVERNMENTS DO NOT SAY IT 

AS THIS WOULD KILL AIR LINE

 TRAVEL.