Palestine Airways (Hebrew: נתיבי אוויר ארץ ישראל, romanized: Netivéy Avír Éretz Yisraél, lit. 'Land of Israel Airways'; Arabic: شركة الطرق الجوية بفلسطين, romanized: Šarikat aṭ-Ṭuruq al-Jawwiyya bi-Filasṭīn, lit. 'Airline Company in Palestine') was an airline founded by Zionist Pinhas Rutenberg in British Palestine, in conjunction with the Histadrut and the Jewish Agency.[1][2][3] In 1937 the airline was taken over by British Government's Air Ministry, with the intention of it eventually being transferred back into private hands.[4]
Between July 1937 and August 1940, it operated under the aegis of the British corporation Imperial Airways.[5][6] Throughout these years, Palestine Airways flew thousands of passengers, its best year being 1938 with 6400 passengers.[7]
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- ^ Davies, Ronald Edward George (1964). A History of the World's Airlines. Oxford University Press. p. 200.
- ^ "Jewish Airline". Israel Air Force. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ^ "Palestine Airways Expects to Resume Service Shortly Throughout Middle East". July 27, 1945.
- ^ Edelheit, Hershel (2000). History of Zionism. Westview Press. p. 571. ISBN 0813329817.
- ^ "Israel : The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics". Archived from the original on 2017-08-29. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
- ^ Katz (2020). "The Disappearance of "Palestine Airways" from the Historical Narrative". Israel Studies. 25 (2): 49–71. doi:10.2979/israelstudies.25.2.03. JSTOR 10.2979/israelstudies.25.2.03. S2CID 216394093.