The first stop for travelers to Israel is usually Ben Gurion Airport. What they will remember of that experience depends to some extent on their relationship with the country. are they coming home? Are you getting to a place they’ve always dreamed of going to? Passing with fear or caution on your way to somewhere else?
In this 2016 episode of The Israel Story, we hear from people who’ve had unforgettable encounters in or on their way to TLV.
In the first act, we hear how Israeli airport security is really tight, and it’s a big issue that makes a lot of people – both Israelis and foreigners – angry. In the second issue, Julie Subirin takes us back to the sixties and to a fourteen-year-old boy who has just had to fly. Listen here:
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