Among that special team were Captain Yaron Shimoni, a former Israeli Air Force pilot, and Chief Steward Nimrod Demajo, who holds an MBA and is an avid triathlete. In-flight service manager Yigal Levy is a former opera singer. Flight attendant Minerva Mazzawii is an Arab-Christian born in Haifa. She graduated from the Scuola Italiana Carmelita, a school in that city that was founded by six nuns who immigrated to Israel from Italy. She also happens to be a certified personal trainer. Flight attendant Assafo Avavo was born in a small village in Ethiopia and immigrated to Israel when she was 1, as part of Operation Solomon, an emergency program initiated by Israel to evacuate Ethiopian Jews.
“We wanted to show the pope the variety of people who work with El Al,†Ms. Hanegby said.
The airline’s chef, Moshe Segev, even prepared a special Israeli-influenced menu.
Pope Francis meets the journalists aboard the papal airplane on the occasion of his visit to Quito, Ecuador, July 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
In keeping with how social-media savvy this pope has become, El Al asked all of their Facebook fans to assemble their special wishes for Pope Francis. When he arrived on the plane the crew presented him with a bound book of the social-media missives.
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