The rabbi of El Al Airlines, Rabbi Yohanan Aharon Hayut, announced today (Sunday) that he will end his role as the airline's rabbi, Channel 7 reported.
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In a letter he sent to employees, he wrote: "I would like to say goodbye to you after twenty-one years, fourteen of which were as an employee of the company and seven years as an external employee.".
He said: "I started at the company as the manager of religious passenger services, and I remember that no one knew what it was or what it was for, and slowly the concept of providing service to the observant religious public was assimilated into the company.
""After the major crisis with the observant public and the consumer boycott of the company, I was also appointed as the company's chief rabbi, a position that oversaw all of the company's kitchens and lounges in Israel and abroad, and, God's blessing, we achieved wonderful achievements in all areas.".
According to him, he "leaves a legacy of a serious organization both in serving the observant traveler, and in the vast upgrade of all the company's kitchens in Israel and abroad - an organization that many, many people from all walks of life in the kashrut world have admired, including all the great rabbis and poskim.".
According to a report on Channel 12, about two years ago, investigators from the fraud unit at the Tel Aviv District Police Department questioned Rabbi Yochanan Hayut under suspicion that he was an alleged accomplice in the frauds of his son, Shimon Yehuda Hayut - nicknamed the "Tinder Scammer.".
