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easyJet has issued a statement after paying compensation to a female passenger who was asked to move seats on a flight from Tel Aviv to London – after two ultra-Orthodox Jewish men refused to sit next to her.Melanie Wolfson paid extra for an aisle seat on the flight in October 2019.

A British-Israeli woman is suing easyJet for discrimination after she was forced to move seat to accommodate an ultra-Orthodox Jewish men.

EasyJet after staff allegedly forced her to give up her seat for a religious man.British-Israeli citizen Melanie Wolfson, claims she was asked to change seats on two separate flights.The 38-year-old, who lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, alleges staff on the budget airline made her move because a man from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Haredi movement wouldn't sit next to a woman.Melanie said her first flight took place in October, travelling from Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport to London.A lawsuit was filed last week on behalf of Melanie by the Israel Religious Action Center, a division of the Reform movement in Israel.She told Israeli publication Haaretz that it was the first time as an adult she "was discriminated against for being a