Departing Thoughts

Pictures of Tel Aviv and Jaffa.

I must say I really love it here in Israel.  I am waiting to fly to Istanbul and sitting in the beautiful airport.  Besides Beijing and Singapore this is the nicest and best run airport I have been in.  Considering the amount of security, it is orderly and fast.

I have enjoyed my time here enormously. I am proud of Israel. In my opinion excluding some of the politics it is a great country both culturally and esthetically. I fiirst visited Israel in 1968 and have come here several times since. I can see all the positive changes even from five years ago.

I hope to return next year to revisit the places I really liked and to go to the places I missed. That includes Petra in Jordan. As interesting as Egypt was I think I will abstain.

So far on this trip the two places I would like to return to are Shanghai and Israel.   No relation except quite a few Jews escaped to Shanghai during World War Two