El Al airlines is considering cutting back operations in Holland because of what it terms a “hostile” and “anti-Semitic” environment spawned by a Dutch parliamentary inquiry into the 1992 crash of an El Al cargo jet in Amsterdam that killed 43 people. Briefing a Knesset committee, El Al’s director general said the airline is coming under a media assault in Holland, and that its offices are receiving hostile phone calls.
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