From e687b8985aa87cac82c55e0d32be354caee2aa52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Blaise Thompson
Nancy and Jim travel to Tel Aviv.
+Assistance of United Staff helped Nancy find how to get to Terminal 5 at O’Hare and reach the plane going to Istanbul.
+On the plane, she had the assistance of Bosnian couple in knowing how to work the various technology at her seat.
+Had wanted to watch the movie “The Guernsey Literary…” and it was available for free on this flight.
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+2019-09-13 Friday
-Jim's plane in SanFrancisco.
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2019-09-14 Saturday
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The travelers avoided an accident when the shuttle bus was squeezed between a bluff and another bus.
+In the Istanbul airport, Nancy had the assistance of a couple from Pakistan living in Indiana in knowing how to read the departure board and establish phone and wifi connection in the airport so she could rendezvous with Jim. +
+ +-The travelers were dropped off from the shuttle at around midnight. -Where the shuttle dropped them off in Jerusalem- Damascus gate- about 10 minutes away from the hotel. -Use of global app and phone flashlight enabled them to walk from the Damascus Gate to the hotel in the Old City in the dark with their luggage. -Nancy's main suitcase was still to come. +As the travelers were entering Jerusalem, they were almost in an accident when the shuttle bus was squeezed between a bus and a bluff. +The shuttle bus dropped the travelers off in Jerusalem at midnight- Damascus gate- about 10 minutes away from the hotel. The streets were dark and empty. +Use of global app and phone flashlight enabled them to walk to the hotel in the Old City in the dark with their luggage. +Nancy’s main suitcase was still to come.
-The travelers spent Sunday scouting the Old City. +Not having connected with the contact person, George Hintlian, the travelers explored the Old City on their own. +Many of the things they saw were seen again in more detail on Monday and Tuesday with George.
-After viewing the wailing wall, the travelers walked back to the hotel to take a nap. +After viewing the Wailing Wall, the travelers walked back to the hotel to take a nap. Needed to recover after long trip from USA to Israel.
+The Travelers ate dinner at Bulghourji Restaurant which served Armenian food. +
-Monday morning, with help of hotel staff, Nancy's luggage was found and delivered. +Monday morning, with help of hotel staff, Nancy's luggage was found. +The day included times when the travelers were with George and times when they were on their own.
+Next to Bethesda ruins. +
+ ++The travelers toured David's Tower, where there are 21 layers of history. +
+ +The travelers met with George Hintlian. -Late morning coffee shop. Following are two audio recordings from that meeting.
TODO: audio 1 TODO: audio 2 --The travelers toured David's Tower, where there are 21 layers of history. +The travelers looked more carefully with George for information about Miriam Torosian (n.e.e. Jerahian). +They want to see if there are records that she was born or married in Jerusalem. +They found no records.
George showed them St. James' church.
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+Besides exploring our data about Miriam Jerahian, George was also interested in their data about Grandpa’s property in Turkey. +He read the English and Turkish papers +
+ +TODO: George third audio. + +The travelers returned to CHS and met with George again. Ability to see special place in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre along with Canadian officials guided by George. Recent research affirms that this place was the place where Jesus’ tomb was. -A YouTube video on this issue may be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uuZ-C7nmj4 +A YouTube video on this issue may be found here. This counters research (Talpoit tomb) which concluded that Jesus’ body and family tomb had been found about three miles away from the CHS.
-+Nancy’s luggage was finally delivered to the hotel by staff who had to walk to another hotel outside the wall to get it. +
+The travelers walked the wall Jaffa Gate to Damascus Gate.
--The travelers looked more carefully with George for information about Miriam Torosian (n.e.e. Jerahian). -They want to see if there are records that she was born or married in Jerusalem. -They found no records. +The travelers viewed the dead sea scrolls at the Israeli Museum, which is outside the Old City.
+The afternoon before the travelers left Israel for Turkey, George shared that they should not take the original paperwork (English and Turkish) about Yesia’s inherited property to Turkey. +He offered to keep it for them until he could get it to Jim via a trusted person. +The travelers followed George’s advice and were glad they did. +Because in Turkey they had three experiences which could have placed them in a position they did not intend to be in while there. +First, when they met with the Hrant Dink staff in Istanbul, they wanted to know if Yesia had been a Turkish citizen when he left Turkey in 1900 because they had a law suit against Turkey showing that such citizens may have been entitled to property. +Second, they had an unexpected interaction with a national Turkish politician in Erzindjan and a semi-expected interaction with a local Turkish official in Develi. +Both wanted to know about possible property implications of their visit. +For all three instances they were grateful that they did not have these papers with them. +
+ ++They had a second dinner with George during which they had candid discussion of politics in Armenia, Israel and Turkey. +
+Meet taxi at Christ Church. +Drove to airport seeing divide of Palestine. +