Arkia, Israel’s domestic airline, resumed mail flights to Eilat yesterday after suspending them Sunday for security reasons. Israeli postal authorities announced that all but the smallest air mail parcels would be subject to inspection and that the senders would have to identify themselves at the post office. Arkia’s move, which surprised many Israelis, was believed to have been taken on the recommendation of security officials that mail flights be suspended until security measures could be improved. (Swiss police said yesterday that a Japanese-made altimeter similar to one that may have detonated a bomb in the Israel-bound Austrian airliner Feb. 21 was discovered in the wreckage of the Swiss air Jet that exploded the same day killing all 47 persons aboard. The discovery was seen as a further link between the two acts of sabotage for which Arab terrorists are held responsible. The altimeter reportedly set off the bomb when the plane reached a certain altitude.)
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