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The three-hour flight was nice but the Tel-Aviv airport was a mess. I stood in lines for over an hour for passport services to ask me what I was doing in Israel and where I would be staying.

I feared my car pool partner, Adam, would have left. He knew it would take me time to clear passport services. It’s a hassle for Adam to enter and leave Israel since he is an American citizen born in Iraq. I was grateful that he waited since I am horrible with directions and may not have made it to our office in Haifa. Haifa is a beautiful city overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in the Mt. Carmel area in northern Israel.