H eadlines
ISRAELBRIEFS El Al and Others to Add Flights From Tel Aviv to US
EL AL ISRAEL AIRLINES will increase the number of daily and
weekly flights from Tel Aviv to the United States, Globes reported.

That includes going from three daily flights a day to New York
(including Newark Liberty International Airport) to four and
increasing the weekly flights to both Miami and Los Angeles
from three to five.

El Al will be facing competition from rival airlines Delta,
United Airlines and American Airlines. In all, there will be 10
flights per day between Tel Aviv and New York.

Delta will go from seven weekly flights between Tel Aviv and
New York to 10. United will increase from 13 weekly flights
to 24, including the renewal of a Tel Aviv-Chicago route. And
American will launch daily flights between Tel Aviv and New
York, three weekly flights between Tel Aviv and Miami and, in
November, three weekly flights between Tel Aviv and Dallas.

Congratulations To
Israel to Open Borders to Some Countries
Vaccinated or recovered tourists from 14 countries will be allowed
to visit Israel starting May 23, according to The Times of Israel.

The countries are the United States, the United Kingdom,
France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Iceland, Denmark, Ireland,
Portugal, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Tourists will be required to take what’s known as a polymerase chain
reaction coronavirus test before boarding a plane to Israel. Once they
arrive in Israel, they will have to take both a PCR test and a serological
test; the latter proves the existence of coronavirus antibodies.

The pandemic caused Israel to record an 81% drop in tourism
in 2020 compared to 2019, the Tourism Ministry said.

Israeli Man Visiting Baltimore Shot and Killed
An Israeli man visiting Baltimore for a wedding was shot and
killed early May 3 in a robbery outside the house he was staying
in the city’s heavily Jewish Fords Lane area, JTA reported.

Video surveillance shows three youths approaching Efraim
Gordon, 31, as he exited a car and moved toward his aunt and
uncle’s house. Gordon is then shot by one of the youths. Gordon
died later that day at a hospital.

Chabad Online said he was a Jerusalem tech entrepreneur
affiliated with Chabad-Lubavitch.

Gordon was buried in Israel and an online effort to raise
money for his return and funeral quickly produced far more
than the $15,000 sought.

Youngest Survivor Who Testified Against Eichmann Dies
Yosef Kleinman, who was the youngest Holocaust survivor to
testify at Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann’s trial, died May 4 in
Jerusalem, JTA reported. He was 91.

Kleinman, then 31, was one of 110 witnesses at the 1961 trial of
the most-senior German official in charge of Jewish extermination.

His testimony — delivered right after another witness fainted
— was about the fate of Jewish youths at Auschwitz. It included a
description of notorious Auschwitz physician Josef Mengele’s tactics.

Kleinman was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 from Budapest,
Hungary, when he was 14 and saw his mother and younger sister
sent to their deaths.

After liberation, Kleinman and a brother traveled around Europe.

They joined a ship in Cyprus, where they were interned until
allowed to immigrate to pre-state Israel in 1947. He served in the
Israeli army, later opening a carpentry business with his brother. l
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
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