Yesterday, on October 15th, we arrived in Israel! Matthias flew from Stuttgart via Berlin and I flew directly from Berlin to Tel Aviv, so we met at the security check at the airport in Berlin. Expecting a security interview before the departure, I arrived 2.5 hours in advance, but they just checked my passport. In addition to the normal scanning, every person and some pieces of hand luggage were inspected. Of course, my viola was travelling with me. Germanwings officially allows musical instruments smaller than a guitar, but only in a soft case, as hand luggage. However, nobody objected to my viola in a hard case as my only hand luggage. The main luggage consisted of a suitcase and a big backpack. This is what I will have for the beginning of these 3 years abroad...
The flight took 4 hours and 10 minutes - actually not much longer than e.g. to the south of Spain, but it feels further. Unfortunately, many clouds did not allow us to see the south-east of Europe, but we saw some islands between Greece and Turkey. In fact, we travelled the Balkan route of so many refugees in the reversed direction, though comfortably in the air... Finally we could see the Israeli coast and the skyscrapers of Tel Aviv before landing at Ben Gurion Airport.
We were queueing in the "foreign passports" line. The lady looked at our passports, did not even need the extra hand-written form by the embassy, asked "Weizmann?", we answered "Weizmann.", and that was it. No interview.
Once we entered the arrival hall, we found Yossi, a professor from the physics department of the Weizmann Institute, who had come to the airport to pick us up - what a nice welcome!! He drove us to the Weizmann Institute where we got our keys and a welcome package, and to our apartment in Rehovot.
The flight took 4 hours and 10 minutes - actually not much longer than e.g. to the south of Spain, but it feels further. Unfortunately, many clouds did not allow us to see the south-east of Europe, but we saw some islands between Greece and Turkey. In fact, we travelled the Balkan route of so many refugees in the reversed direction, though comfortably in the air... Finally we could see the Israeli coast and the skyscrapers of Tel Aviv before landing at Ben Gurion Airport.
We were queueing in the "foreign passports" line. The lady looked at our passports, did not even need the extra hand-written form by the embassy, asked "Weizmann?", we answered "Weizmann.", and that was it. No interview.
Once we entered the arrival hall, we found Yossi, a professor from the physics department of the Weizmann Institute, who had come to the airport to pick us up - what a nice welcome!! He drove us to the Weizmann Institute where we got our keys and a welcome package, and to our apartment in Rehovot.
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