Larisa Speyer uses sign language to offer ‘VIP’ service for deaf passengers traveling to sporting event; ‘It seemed like I made their day.’
Itay Blumenthal
Ynetnews
Published: 07.08.15, 20:34/Israel Travel
Flight attendant Larisa Speyer started learning sign language in her down time in recent months, after visiting the Nalagaat Center in Jaffa with her El Al coworkers.
“What I saw that day was the difficult circumstances of being deaf at a café and blind at a restaurant, and since then I have decided to learn sign language,” she said. “I decided to learn sign language because we occasionally have deaf people onboard our flights and I need to be able to serve them.”
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Larisa speaking to the passengers
Larisa is currently studying sign language with her teacher Sami Siroha from “Kol-Hasimanim,” who told her that a deaf athletic team was set to fly to a sports competition in Taiwan with El Al in the beginning of July.
“When I heard that I immediately called my manager at El Al, and asked to be placed on that flight, and he gave it to me. For me, it
