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Good tidings for all of El Al, with much success. Your name Kurtzag means brief, but you should do everything at a steady pace, with abundance... The meaning of “El Al” is that one must always strive for higher.

Rabbi Dr. Chaim Shine is a professor of law in Israel and a columnist for the Israel Hayom newspaper. In the late 1970s he joined his uncle, David Shine, then director of El Al in North America, for an audience with the Rebbe. Concerned with the flight security on El Al’s planes, Mr. Shine brought up the issue with the Rebbe. The Rebbe’s advice surprised him at first, but taking heed of the Rebbe’s words, he led the effort to implement them at El Al. (Late 1970s)

In 1977, while training in the United States together with a group of fellow IAF pilots, Mr. Herzl Makov visited the Rebbe.