On Tuesday, erev Yom Kippur 5779, air traffic in Ben-Gurion International Airport will halt. Incoming flights halt at 1:40PM, and the last takeoff is scheduled for 1:55PM, an El Al flight. With that takeoff, the international airport will be closed for the holy day.
On motzei Yom Kippur, the first flight will land at 9:30PM and the first takeoff is scheduled for 11:30PM.
On Monday, 8 Tishrei, 90,000 travelers passed through the airport on 543 flights. On Tuesday, erev Yom Kippur, that figure is 84,000 passengers on 314 flights.
On erev Sukkos, 84,000 passengers are expected on international flights. During the Sukkos vacation, airport officials report 650,000 passengers will pass through the airport. On a total of 3,870 international flights.
September will continue the sharp increase in passenger traffic at Ben-Gurion International Airport with over 2.2 million passengers in 14,000 international flights, a 17% increase in passenger traffic and it will total over 2.2 million passengers at Ben-Gurion Airport.
The most popular destinations in September are: Greece, Turkey (transit country), Ukraine, Italy, and Russia.
The Airports Authority advises Ben-Gurion passengers to check in for a flight from the home at the airline’s website or at the Ben-Gurion International Airport site, and for passengers to use automatic passageways for biometric passport holders. Therefore, it is recommended that one obtains a biometric passport.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Never understood the logic of those that only keep YK.
The exact same source that told us to keep YK also told us to keep shabboss. Either hold both or none.
Its like fasting half of day, either follow the rules or dont.
2scents. I never understood the logic of those who speak loshon hora or who dont say krias shma before the zman or do any other aveira. But they keep shabbos
The same exact Source that told us to keep shabbos also told us to not speak loshon hora and to say krias shma etc…
Either keep everything or nothing.
my conclusion is we should all keep what we keep and strive and learn to do more but do NOT give up what you do keep just because you dont keep the rest.
And you can take pride in what you do keep as long as you dont use it as a justification for what you dont keep. One mitzva is also valuable to G-D.
2scents, again, another post with your opinions and assumptions of others (with no factual basis).
I too initially thought of the ramifications of closing TLV just for YK. 1. Closing this airport doesn’t nessessarilly mean the Jewish workers will observe YK at home, or maybe they will? 2. Allowing hundreds of workers the day off for YK may initiate a road towards Bal Teshuva, or it may not. 3. Because Israel isn’t entirely Jewish (Muslims and Christians live there too), it is not feasible for economics, tourism, or trade to close every single shabbos of the year. Those Jews that choose to work on shabbos there is their own religiously wrong decision in-and-of-itself. 4. Many boys a few years before bar mitzvah age are unable to fast the full 25 hours, but choose to fast a certain percentage of the day. Though it’s not the complete fast, I commend those boys and encourage them for their strive and determination for growth- I hope you feel the same. According to your logic, those boys should not fast at all! 5. I’ve kept shabbos my entire life, but I’ve met Jews who haven’t. Shabbos (especially in the summer) can be challenging and feel long. Many Balei Tshevuah have told me they started with kiddush Friday night, ‘keeping shabbos’ until chatzos, ‘keeping shabbos’ every other week, to eventual complete shabbos observance.
Please save the time of the moderators and do not call me a appikoreis, a reform Jew, a fake Jew who loves olive dips, a ganev, etc (as I’ve heard it all) , as I have not called you one. Thank you.
With all that’s been said above, I still can’t understand why the airport can’t be closed every Shabbos.
PS that would be a boon for ElAl that claims it’s loosing $$$ due to them (supposedly) not flying on Shabbos while everyone else is.