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My Flight and Orientation

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August 27th 2007
The flight The day before our scheduled departure from JFK, the Israeli workforce announced that it would strike on the Wednesday that our flight was scheduled which put our departure in jeopardy. The program advisor from the New York office was in contact with all of the students via e-mail constantly and we all prepared for the possibility that our plane may not take off. Fortunately, that st ... read more

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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without... ... read more