Rainier will fly to Israel, July 2015/photo: Ziv Reinstein
Rainier caused quite a stir this week in Israel, when it became known that those who book a flight on the company's website, arrive at the area for filling in the personal details, and when you have to choose which country you belong to - there is an option to choose the "Occupied Palestinian Territory" (Occupied Palestinian Territory).
As we know, Ryanair is an Irish airline - a country many of whose residents side with the Palestinians and not with Israel in the long-standing struggle.
This month it returned to operating flights to five destinations from Israel (Baden Baden, Bergamo, Vienna, Memmingen and Marseille), as we recently published here, after an absence of about four months following the war in Gaza.
Rainier, the lowcost company that these days operates many routes between Israel and Europe, does not have a spokesperson or a public relations company in Israel and does nothing, and this is also one of the problems of customer service for the traveling public from Israel.
so where are you from?
"Occupied Palestinian Territory" on the Rainier website/screenshot, official website
There is also a Palestinian passport
Many may not know, but in fact there is a passport for Palestinian residents, and it is even ranked every year in the ranking of the strength of passports in the world, but it is among the "weakest" passports and does not "open many doors in the world, meaning that its holders are required to obtain a visa in advance to enter many countries in the world.
According to this year's ranking of passports, conducted by the consulting company Henley & Partners, the Palestinian passport is ranked 98th among all passports in the world and can "open" doors to only 40 countries without the need for a visa. The Israeli passport, on the other hand, is ranked 21st and respectable on the list And opens visa-free doors to 166 countries.
So should we boycott Rainier because of the possibility that it opened on its website to indicate that people come from "Occupied Palestine"? Ask us and answer the survey.
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