Not the first year on the Internet has been walking a story about a woman who, desperate to wait for silence on board the flight Tel Aviv-Verona, went to an extreme step. We checked how believable this story is.

This is what one of the options for a widely replicated text looks like: “The Airpan of the Israeli airline flies along the route Tel Aviv - Verona. Of the 160 passengers, about 120 are religious Jews, clearly Sephardi, with many children. Children are worn by plane, their mothers and dads scream on children and shouting with each other. In short, the camp has already gone into the sky. The remaining passengers in despair turn to the crew, but the crew is helpless:

- The plane is not a bus for you, you won’t stop you from the roadside and hooligans.

Several pairs of young Israelis are sitting in the front rows. Desperate to fall asleep or at least relax, one of them, a woman of about 30, stands in the aisle and slowly removes her blouse, and then a bra. All religious ones immediately became quiet, covering their eyes - their own and children. In the reigned silence, the young woman says loudly:

- If there is no silence on the plane, I will take off my panties ...

Her friends promise to do the same. Before Verona in the cabin was a grave silence.

For the manifest resourcefulness and civil courage, which solved the problem of the stability of the air liner in the air, the company's management at Verona handed this bold woman a free ticket to Rome, including a free week stay in the Grand Hotel hotel. ”

This story found a wide response in social networks. For example, appropriate publication In November 2021, Facebook caused more than 40,000 reposts. Roads of the popularity of the story were observed and In previous yearsincluding on the site anekdot.ru.

The story itself contains extremely few details, which is why, indeed, it can be perceived as an anecdote, especially taking into account the extraordinary of the act of the passenger of the aircraft. However, the comments of many users say that their authors completely believe in the reality of the described events. Moreover, messages on a similar topic sometimes slip in the news. For example, in 2021, Easyjet Airlines Paid Compensation for air passenger, which twice in one year was asked to transfer to another place after requests from orthodox Jews, located in the same row. It happened And so that the latter preferred to leave the plane before take -off, when their request did not find understanding with passengers.

A simple search shows that for the first time the story under consideration appeared on the Internet in 2013 - first in Facebook (August 11), and then in "Live magazine"(August 24). The owner of both accounts is a journalist, guide and historian Tel Aviv Boris Brestovitsky. His publication reports that the described is a case from life. At the same time, differences from the viral version are striking: the passenger’s speech is transmitted in indirect form, pants are mentioned in its threat, not panties, and the last paragraph about the award of the airline is absent at all. The author’s version looks more realistic, because the Israeli airline has nothing to do with Rome hotels. Yes, and from any disaster the passenger did not save her: noise and din on board are a rather regular situation that many air passengers are faced with.

We contacted the author, and he assured us that this case, up to small details, occurred before his eyes. The case was in June 2013, when he went on a trip from Tel Aviv to Verona by the company's night flight Israir. It is easy to check that the indicated company really had flight To the homeland of Romeo and Juliet. Moreover, in the LJ of the author in the same July appeared Post with photos From Italy (though already from Rome). According to Brestovitsky, a brave passenger with her friend sat in the front row, and he himself was located in the third or fourth. The plane was small, without dividing into classes. As for the attacked question about the reaction of the liner security service, Brestovitsky gave the answer to it in the comments to his post: while the woman was going to the woman, she managed to dress and sit in her place. Stuard tried to make her a remark, but the man from the neighboring row told him that all the passengers several times to no avail turned to the crew with a request to restore order. The steward was retreated.

Boris Brestovitsky noted that he did not set a goal to condemn the behavior with his post Sephardov-Haredim - This is their culture and their traditions. Judging by commentsSimilar cases in the meeting of sephards with representatives of other cultures are not uncommon. Well, the publication, as we already know, after its appearance healed with a separate life - bred on many sites and turned into a joke with a fictional ending about the award from the airline and sub -storage illustrations. Nevertheless, this story has a specific author, and the facts that would contradict his words are currently not known.