We've seen several stories of issues on flights to/from Israel involving male passengers refusing to sit next to female passengers. It presents an attractive question as to where you draw the line between respecting peoples' devout beliefs while also avoiding blatant discrimination.
Well,it looks like there's finally a test case for religion vs. gender in public Israeli spaces, after an 81 year old retired lawyer with a PhD in educational psychology took a flight from Newark to Tel Aviv final December.
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Source: boardingarea.com