A Book of Travel in Israel יןמן ישראלי

בחהליכ בנייה

Because to describe in Hebrew is quite challenging for me, it will take long time to complete Hebrew version. Please enjoy English version at first ...

Index:

Apr. 13 From Japan to Israel
Apr. 14 Wondering into Haifa city
Apr. 16
Apr. 17
Apr. 18
Apr. 19 Jerusalem Tour: Part I
Haifa -> Tel-Aviv -> Palestinian area -> Chapel of Ascension -> Oskar Shindler's grave
Apr. 19 Jerusalem Tour Part II
Jerusalem Old City -> Lunch -> Church of Holy Sepulcher -> arcade
Apr. 19 Jerusalem Tour Part III
Apr. 20 The Final Day - Return to Tokyo
　
Company internal access point - Under Construction

Preface

This writer in Japanese subsidiary of a foreign owned company is working with Israel and US guys. Basically our communication is done by bunch of E-mails or international phone call, and Japanese guys are surprised by cultural difference to each other everyday (Israeli people will say "So do we").
But one day, by business demand, finally I and my colleague decided to have a business trip to Israel, where is quite a new to us to visit.

Here is a our flight schedule.

2001/4/13 JR NEX#13 Shinjuku 09:40 -> Narita Airport 2 10:56
4/13 JL#417 Narita 13:00 -> Milano (Malpensa) 18:15
4/13 AZ#812 Milano (Malpensa) 20:15 -> Tel Aviv 01:10+1
4/20 LY#357 Tel Aviv 07:20 -> Frankfurt 10:50
4/20 LH#710 Frankfurt 13:55 -> Narita 07:55+1

Hey, I can't endure ECONOMY CLASS for all flights. Furthermore, it's consistent that each airline company is unique one. This is because this mysterious flight plan is the fastest plan that saves extra transit time, compared with other flight plan, such as by El-Al Airline or something like that.

Israel Tips ... Both Japanese and Haifa subsidiary adopt a five-day workweek. In case of Japan, it's Monday to Friday as same as US, but in case Israel, Sunday to Thursday. Therefore, we will arrive at Israel on Saturday and prepare to job from Sunday.
However, arrival will be at very early morning. Our biggest concern was, whether Taxi driver would wait at the airport or not.

Anyways, let's go.

(Times described in diary might not be exactly.)