NBA All-Star Allan Houston
Flies EL AL Airlines for his First Visit to Israel


Pictured above: Top photo: (From left to right) NBA All-Star player and former Olympic gold medalist Allan Houston with wife Tamara and Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council, Michael Miller, in the EL AL King David Lounge at JFK Airport before boarding their EL AL flight to Israel.Bottom left: Former ABC and CBS news anchor Roz Abrams before traveling on her week-long mission to Israel.Bottom right: New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly with his wife Victoria. (Photo Credits: Shimon Golding)

New York, NY – August 25, 2009 – NBA All-Star player and former Olympic gold medalist Allan Houston and his wife Tamara celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary with a surprise cake on their EL AL flight. The former New York Knicks team captain is in Israel this week to conduct a basketball clinic for children of all ages in Sderot, a town in southern Israel. Houston and his wife will also visit important historical and holy sites.

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).

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.