By COLlive reporter
Frum Jewish travelers for the Pesach holiday found themselves in constraints instead of the freedom from Pesach preparation they were seeking.
Vacationers of the Pesach program in Odessa, the cultural port city on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, landed on Sunday and discovered they were left bare, Haredim 10 reported.
The airline, which flew out of Israel, notified them that their luggage didn’t make it onto their flight. Some 150 suitcases were reportedly part of the misplaced checked baggage.
Chaim Otmazgin, organizer of the Odessa getaway, reported that the suitcases were instead loaded onto the Sunday night flight.
“The airline promised to bring the suitcases to the hotel,” he said. “We nevertheless sent a vehicle to hasten the process and possibly even to deliver them.”
Without unpacking to do, vacationers went down to the lobby of the hotel and began singing Pesach melodies, with some taking out instruments they brought along.
Yehuda Meshi Zahav, chairman of ZAKA and one of the participants, didn’t allow the setback to demoralize him on the eve of Pesach.
“When suitcases arrive after 24 hours, we get $150 compensation for each piece of luggage,” he told the website. “We will get payment and the suitcases.”
Asked what he intends to do if his clothes don’t arrive in time for the Seder, he said: “If there won’t be a kittel, we’ll wear the hotel bathrobe.”
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