Sixty-one Knesset members submitted a petition to Premier Shimon Peres on Tuesday asking him to intervene to allow a woman to be an El Al pilot. The unusual petition dealt with Yael Nahamias, whom El Al reportedly refuses to accept as a pilot.
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