{"id":286204,"date":"2026-02-11T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/286204\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:11:07","slug":"annual-arkia-launch-event-to-be-held-at-a-seafood-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/286204\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Arkia launch event to be held at a seafood restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Israeli airline Arkia will hold a festive launch event next week to unveil new destinations it plans to operate to this coming summer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The choice of venue has sparked discomfort among professionals from the religious public, as the event is set to take place at a restaurant specializing in non-kosher seafood &#8211; including shellfish.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Senior figures in the tourism industry, travel agents, media representatives and bloggers have been invited to the event, a significant number of whom are kippah-wearers, some of whom questioned the decision to hold the celebration at that location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">A source in the aviation sector told Israel National News &#8211; Arutz Sheva that \u201cthere\u2019s nothing anti about it, but it reflects a lack of sensitivity. If someone holds an event in a nightclub, they don\u2019t expect the religious sector to attend. Here too, there\u2019s a message about who the truly important audience is &#8211; and who is less so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">A company source noted that the event will feature a dairy breakfast which, although prepared at the restaurant, is unrelated to its regular non-kosher menu.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Arkia said in response: \u201cThis is a kosher-style event and a dairy breakfast.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli airline Arkia will hold a festive launch event next week to unveil new destinations it plans to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[146441,163,85,46,146440,543],"class_list":["post-286204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-arkia-airlines","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kashrut-supervision","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}