El Al has promoted its first Charedi female pilot to captain. In a historic move, Nechama Spiegel Novak became the first Charedi female captain for the Israeli airline.
Spiegel Novak was educated at Bais Yaakovs in Jerusalem. At age 20, she became interested in aviation and started taking flight lessons in the US.
She received a pilot’s license in the end but when she first tried to get accepted to the EL AL pilot course, she was rejected because of a lack of sufficient flight hours because she did not serve in the air force.
Spiegel Novak did not give up, and flew to the United States every year to accumulate flight hours. After meeting all the requirements and passing all the tests, she was notified in 2015 by El-Al that she had been accepted to its pilots’ course set to be opened in October of that year. During the course, she gave birth, and after her maternity leave, she returned to the course and completed it.
In 2017, Prime Minister Netanyahu took off to Thessaloniki for a trilateral summit meeting with Greek and Cypriot leaders, and it was the first time a prime minister was flown by an ultra-Orthodox female pilot, as Spiegel Novak was the pilot.
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That’s a pretty sexy looking blonde long hair shaytel that the chareidi lady pilot is wearing.
What an amazing woman! She is a role model for young ladies who dream of careers that are presently out of their reach. Many of my classmates with extraordinary intellect and talents were stopped by society’s rules from becoming extraordinary career women and mothers. What a waste of G-d given gifts!
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