At Last, We Have Begun to Right a Long-Standing Wrong
The amendment approved this week, to raise the mandatory retirement age for pilots to 67, is the product of years of effort involving administrative litigation, an appeal to Israel’s Supreme Court, a State Comptroller report, groundbreaking medical research, and, above all, a growing recognition that this has never been merely a dispute about retirement age. It has always been a matter of national resilience, employment equality, and Israel’s aviation independence