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NOTE: This article was posted from New York prior to the start of the holy Sabbath.
El Al Flight #LY008 skipped a stopover in Rome after taking off late from New York on Friday and raced for Tel Aviv — despite the knowledge it would land after the start of the Sabbath — due to a medical life-and-death situation with one of the passengers on board.
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The decision was reached in consultation with El Al’s medical officer and rabbi, and together with the permission of Israel’s Chief Sephardic Rabbi.
The stopover in Rome was to have been made in order to avoid violating the holy Sabbath.
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