![]() ![]() This forced grounding is an opportunity for retrospection. Derech Burma will cover for treks to Dharamshala. In the absence of Greek tavernas, Teverya will have to do. Now, as the summer approaches, far-flung destinations must be substituted for domestic locales. Early in the pandemic, El Al airlifted hundreds of Israeli backpackers out of Lima and Melbourne. The first half of 2020, however, has put our intense romance with chul on hold. ![]() (I myself currently live in New York.) This is quite a surprising development for a nation endowed with a promised land and an ethos of shlilat hagolah (the negation of exile). Every year we export thousands of shlichim (emissaries), relocationers, and plain-old émigrés. We go on bar mitzvah trips and babymoons the “big tiyul” and numerous gichot le’chul (short trips abroad) post-army, pre-semester and while-job-hunting trips. We Israelis are a travel-obsessed people, arguably existing in two binary modes: the default ba’aretz (in Israel) and the aspirational be’chul (abroad).
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