I nearly got a full body cavity search by two Israelis

Thought I’d post this as a separate post purely for the comedic value of me, sat in an interrogation booth at an Israeli airport, highly unsettled about the prospect of being cavity searched by two surly Israeli border guards wielding semi-automatic guns…

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I S R A E L (part 2 – West Bank & Tel Aviv)

No journey to Israel would be complete without going to the places responsible for causing a significant portion of the religious tension in the Middle East – Jerusalem and Bethlehem. We had already explored the religious cornucopia of Jerusalem, so the next logical step was to board a bus and head over the 1948 UN Armistice Line and into the Palestinian territories. This trip was to contain one of the most surreal experiences of my life,  as well as one of the most humbling.

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