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September 03, 2009 - Celebrity NBA All-Star player and former Olympic gold medalist Allan Houston together with his wife Tamara enjoyed their 13th wedding anniversary with a kosher cake on their EL AL flight to Israel. The former captain of the New York Knicks is in Israel this week to take part in a basketball clinic for children of all ages in the southern Negev town of Sderot. Houston and his wife will also visit important historical and holy site.
A group of notable community and political leaders are also travelling on this week-long mission in Israel which is sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC).
A three-time NBA all-star and Olympic gold medal winner, Houston played for three years with the Detroit Pistons before moving to the Knicks as a free agent in 1996. In his nine seasons with the team, he helped take it to the playoffs six times.
“I am pleased to visit Israel on a solidarity mission and look forward to visiting the sites I have read so much about in the Bible,” said Allan Houston.While he said it will take him time to fully appreciate everything he has experienced in Israel, he has made an effort to capture the people and sights around him through recordings on his video camera and posts to Twitter from his iPhone. "Man this Israel trip is serious. Now leaving Ashkelon where we visited Barzilai Hospital where patients are treated from rocket attacks," he tweeted on Thursday morning, before heading to Sderot.
About EL AL
Celebrating more than 60 years of service, EL AL, Israel's national airline, offers the most nonstop flights between New York (JFK/Newark) and Israel as well as the only nonstop service from Los Angeles. Worldwide, EL AL flies to more than 40 destinations from Israel and serves dozens of other destinations throughout the world via partnerships with many other carriers (including 22 additional cities in the U.S.A.). Only EL AL has First Class service on nonstop flights between the U.S.A. and Israel. The airline has annual revenues of about $1.93 billion and carries more than 1.8 million passengers every year.
EL AL embodies Israel’s values of innovation and caring and the promise of a genuine Israeli welcome. Your Israel experience begins with EL AL and warm Israeli hospitality. Israeli flight attendants will make you feel at home, the best trained Israeli pilots will take you to and from Israel and passengers enjoy enhanced in-flight dining with freshly prepared healthy meals.
EL AL. It’s not just an airline. It’s Israel. http://www.elal.co.uk
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