A schmatta, it’s not. Infamous Mexican cartel boss Joaquín Guzmán better known as El Chapo is in the news after a widely publicized interview with Sean Penn in Rolling Stone magazine led to his capture (again). In the days that followed, photos of the actor and the drug kingpin circulated around the world.
DetailsMexico’s most notorious drug kingpin is bound for Brooklyn.
MEXICO CITY — There are indications that drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman had business dealings with actress Kate del Castillo, who arranged a meeting between the drug boss and actor Sean Penn, Mexico’s attorney general said in an interview published Tuesday.
Notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has kicked his long-suffering, court-appointed attorneys to the curb and hired John ”Junior” Gotti’s defense lawyer.
Sean who? Despite marrying and divorcing Madonna, winning two Oscars and palling around with the likes of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, Sean Penn was unknown to Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman before their infamous interview, text messages from the cocaine kingpin reveal.
DetailsThe ongoing labor dispute at El Al has yet to end, and the airline has now issued a warning that the pilots’ resignation may lead to the grounding of all its planes.
An 81-year-old woman from Jerusalem may set a legal precedent regarding religiously-motivated gender segregation in Israel’s public spaces.
Tel Aviv – Na’amat, a women’s group, issued a sharp critique of El Al Sunday night for a policy requiring its female flight attendents to wear high heels until all the customers have boarded the plane.
El Al has promised to look into an incident on a recent flight in which the in-flight movie was stopped after about 20 minutes and the screens folded back in deference to the feelings of the ultra-Orthodox passengers on board.
I had the pleasure of being on “flight 007” going from Israel to NY Wednesday.
