Last week, for instance, El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. began handing out iPads to its business-class passengers, like OpenSkies.

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El Al Israel Airlines Chairman Joseph Ciechanover is pushing to privatize Israel's national airline, a job that should be achieved in the next year or so.

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In addition to exposing Israel's credit-card holders, hackers from outside the country are believed to be responsible for temporarily slowing down the websites of the Tel Aviv stock exchange and El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. in January.

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Business class passengers on El Al Israel Airlines and French carrier Open Skies are given an iPad to watch movies or listen to music, and Swiss regional carrier Skywork uses them for its in-flight customer satisfaction survey.

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