{"id":196957,"date":"2019-10-27T07:50:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T07:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196957"},"modified":"2019-10-29T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T08:15:28","slug":"virgin-boss-branson-kisses-the-ground-in-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196957","title":{"rendered":"Virgin boss Branson kisses the ground in Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Middle East Monitor \u2013 Oct 25, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Rchard-Branson-kisses-the-ground.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-196959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Rchard-Branson-kisses-the-ground-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Rchard-Branson-kisses-the-ground-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Rchard-Branson-kisses-the-ground-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Rchard-Branson-kisses-the-ground-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Rchard-Branson-kisses-the-ground.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sir Richard Branson kissed the ground at Tel Aviv airport on Wednesday as he inaugurated Virgin Atlantic\u2019s new UK to Israel route.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Deputy Director General of Israel\u2019s Tourism Ministry, Pini Shani, greeted Branson as he descended from the plane, with the British entrepreneur and billionaire walking towards the cockpit and kissing the ground. <em>The Times of Israel<\/em> reported that his actions came \u201capparently after being told by a local reporter that this was the custom upon arriving in the Holy Land\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kan reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shira_HN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Shira_HN<\/a> tells Richard Branson it is a requirement to kiss the ground when you land in Israel and guess what &#8211; he did.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jCbo7DCcjV\">pic.twitter.com\/jCbo7DCcjV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James J. Marlow (@James_J_Marlow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/James_J_Marlow\/status\/1187035621455466496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The London-Tel Aviv route has been flying since 25 September. Virgin is looking to expand its business into Israel, with Virgin Holidays offering breaks in Tel Aviv.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20191025-virgin-boss-branson-kisses-the-ground-in-tel-aviv\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Branson was told it was customary to kiss the ground when landing in Tel Aviv, which is exactly what Virgin\u2019s billionaire boss did  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,37,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-The_Oligarchs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196974,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196957\/revisions\/196974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}