El Al may offer recorded Torah lectures for fervently Orthodox passengers on its flights.
Though Israel’s premier airline has long had an audio channel with music by religious Jewish artists, this has fallen short of demands by fervently Orthodox clients for educational content, Ma’ariv reported Monday.
“The company is certainly thinking of operating a special channel for the ultra-Orthodox sector on the VOD services on our planes. It is expected that establishment of the channel will take a few months,†the newspaper quoted El Al as saying in a statement.
The new channel, if instituted, would likely include the traditional “Daf Yomi” lesson covering a page of the Talmud each day.
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