Looking forward to our trip ...

It's the last day of 2012, and we have barely 48 hours before we depart for Israel.  I had hoped for and planned for a six month sabbatical there, but those plans have been altered. Elana's sister, Reena, is ill, and so Elana may return to the States sooner.  So might I.  Everything is up in the air right now.

But one thing is (relatively) certain: we have tickets on a flight departing Newark for Israel on Wednesday afternoon, and we expect to be on it.  And we have a place to stay for the first six weeks: Dovid and Shayna Roskies' lovely apartment on Eli Cohen Street in Jerusalem.  We are looking forward to staying there once again.  Following our stay there, we'll travel around Israel for 10 days with the Temple Aliyah group, and then, if we'll be staying on, we'll move into an apartment on Rehov HaPalmach.

Below is a picture that I believe Leora took when we were last travelling in the Negev together, back in 2005: it's taken at Sde Boker, overlooking the Wilderness of Zin.  I look forward to going to that exact spot in about a month and a half, with the Temple Aliyah group.

Until then ...