12: Now Boarding
Israel Story
Israel Story
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
For the year’s heaviest week of travel, Israel Story brings tales of love and interrogation at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport
The first place travelers to Israel encounter is usually Ben Gurion Airport. What they’ll remember of that experience depends in part on their relationship to the country. Are they coming home? Arriving to a place they’ve always dreamed of visiting? Passing through, with fear or wariness, en route to someplace else?
In this week’s episode of Israel Story, we hear from people who have had unforgettable encounters in or on their way to TLV. First, we meet Lily Sayegh, an Iraqi-born Israeli in her 80s who had a very unusual seatmate on a flight from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv. Next, we hear from a couple whose romantic fate was sealed by an Israeli security officer. And finally, we meet Victor Rodack who, in 1967, at age 14, was perhaps El Al’s very first stowaway.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Have you tuned in to |
| 0:27.0 | tuned into the Hadassa on call podcast? |
| 0:30.0 | It's an inspiring and captivating glimpse behind the scenes of the remarkable work being done at Hadassa hospitals in Jerusalem. |
| 0:37.0 | From updates on the hospital's response efforts during the Israel-Hamass War, |
| 0:41.0 | to the medical pioneers who are creating life-changing treatments |
| 0:44.4 | and the oncologists discovering new ways to treat cancer. This podcast offers a unique |
| 0:49.6 | perspective from health care experts and their tips for staying healthy. |
| 0:54.0 | You'll also hear remarkable patient stories and why Newsweek has named the Hadassa Medical |
| 0:59.5 | Organization, a world leader in cardiology and oncology and for the use of smart technologies. Visit go dot hadassa dot org slash on call Israel that Israel. That's go. |
| 1:14.0 | H-A-S-A-A-H. |
| 1:18.0 | dot-O-O-S-A-S-A-S-A-S-A-S-A-O-O-O slash slash on-call Israel. Lille, can I ask you, how old are you? |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, more than 18, no, I born in Iraq. |
| 1:34.1 | That's Lily Saig, who came to Israel from Basra in |
| 1:37.1 | 1951 when she was 18. |
| 1:39.7 | Now she lives in Nestziona near Rehovot. |
| 1:42.4 | She has nine grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren. In late September this year, |
| 1:47.3 | Lily was coming back to Israel after visiting her son in the States. |
| 1:50.8 | Better hills, they live. The son drove her to LAX. in the son |
| 1:53.4 | son drove her to LAX she checked in. |
| 1:56.0 | Actually I have a ticket in the |
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