Travelling through Israel

Observations and anecdotes from both sides of an intractable divide.

The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Old Jerusalem. Photo by Christina Hoag

I presented my passport at the border control booth at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International airport. To my surprise, the immigration officer motioned with a terse chin-point that I was to head into a side room. This had never happened before in all my travels.