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Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel's
national airline, El Al, must
grant free tickets to
homosexual partners of its
flight attendants just as it
would for legal spouses, ac-
cording to a court ruling
issued this week.
The court ruling is being
carefully studied in Israel
because it might set a wider
precedent for benefits
granted to the "permanent
partners" of employees.
A specified number of free
or discounted tickets are
routinely issued to airline
employees and their spouses
under employment packages
offered by the companies.
The court dispute arose out
of an El Al company rule
stipulating that if an
employee signs a declaration
that he or she has a binding
relationship with a
"common law" wife or hus-
band, then that partner
should be recognized as a
spouse eligible for the
benefit of free tickets.
The company also included
permanent partners that
could not be married to the
employee because the couple
could not legally marry. In
Israel, such a situation could
result if one of them could
not obtain a religious get, or
divorce, from a previous
spouse, or if the male was a
Kohen and the woman a
divorcee.
The Tel Aviv District
Labor Court ruled that the
company could not discrim-
inate between these situa-
tions, where heterosexual
partners could not many in
Israel's religious courts be-
cause of various
technicalities, and unmar-
ried partners who could not
marry because they are of
the same sex.
So far, only one flight
attendant has filed suit
against El Al, after his re-
quest for a free ticket for his
gay partner was rejected.
If others wish to receive
the same benefits, they will
have to sign a declaration
asserting they have a
"binding relationship" with
the given partner, the court
ruled.
Among the consequences
of the ruling that the El Al
management is now study-
ing are fears that its re-
ligious passengers might be
offended by a company
policy granting free tickets
to gay partners of flight at-
tendants.

Persistent dripping will bore
through a rock.

—Yitzhak Satanov