Zohar Blumenkrantz:
Chief Rabbi Amar allows Shabbat work at Ben-Gurion Airport
Talkback
Title:
Calm down
Name:
Jerusalem Shmuel
City:
Jerusalem
State:
ISRAEL
The issuing of a "religous excemption" was a bureacratic manuver caused by Israeli politics. Obviously if a Orthodox Rabbi issued the ruling he was convinced that lives were in danger if the work was not done.
Thats my take anyway.