Israel’s national airline admitted the first woman ever to its pilots course. Orit Katzir, who petitioned the High Court of Justice to change El Al’s policy, will begin her training July 12. Katzir already has a pilots license in the United States. Katzir argued that El Al’s rejection of her initial application in 1993 represented sexual discrimination because, at the time, no women were accepted into the Israeli air force pilots course. Since then, that course has started to accept women.
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