The trip home

The El Al flight landed in JFK and we proceeded to Passport Control.Oh, goodness, you should have seen the lines.  But we got through, collected the luggage and proceeded to the line to Customs, which moved much faster. Sheila lucked out and got a bye on Customs. On to the shuttle to LaGuardia, for which we had a reservation and is a wonderful service (NYC Airporter).

Cool thing on the departure runway at LaGuardia: our Southwest plane was in line behind a Navy F-18 fighter!  It took off with a thrilling roar.  Why it was taking off from LaGuardia????

Writing from the Milwaukee airport (last leg of the journey):  thanks for reading.

Post-script post

I thought that this was just about the cutest children's play area in the El Al gate for my flight to the US.

LEHI museum, hummus and departure

We checked out of the apartment and stored our bags for the day.  We walked over to the Florentine neighborhood of Tel Aviv.  We looked for the Levinsky shuk, but didn't find anything noteworthy.   It's a neighborhood market.  One of the five IDF museums in Tel Aviv is in that area (we went to three of the others last year).  The museum is housed in the building in which one of LEHI's significant leaders (Avraham (Yair) Stern) was murdered by the British:

LEHI's mission was underground resistance against the British.

We went to a hummus place recommended by an Israeli friend.  It had dandy hummus and wonderful mint tea (unlimited refills).

 and then walked back to the apartment to collect our luggage.  Our trip to the airport and El Al flight were, thankfully, unremarkable.