Welcome in Israel
We left for Tel Aviv, Israel early one morning. Our flight was at noon. Right before we checked in our baggage and got our boarding passes, a representative from the ElעלAlאל Airlines (Israeli) asked us a few questions about where we were going in Israel, why we were going, what we'd do, where we'd stay, etc. and about our check-in baggage. After the bags were packed had they passed through hands other than ours? Had anyone asked us to deliver/take something to Israel for them? Were there any weapons in our belongings? After we answered these questions the representative took a piece of paper from a stack, wrote something on it, and circled one of the four letters printed on the top of the paper. We wondered what it meant. As we waited to board the plane we saw two men putting on their tefillin and praying towards Jerusalem. We also saw a couple Orthodox Jews. Almost all of them wore different hats (some wore kippahs ; others ...