72 hours before the war started, Ilana made a ticket to go to New York to spend her one week break between semesters. She was supposed to leave last Sunday, i.e. one day after the war started.
She's been (mostly) a brick about
a) not going on her vacation
b) not going on her vacation because there's a war
El Al offered her a ticket to leave this week (although it's unclear if she really would have been able to leave as only 100 passengers are allowed on each flight and some people, despite having tickets, were refused boarding).
The main reason she couldn't go, though, is that passengers are required to sign that they won't return to Israel for 30 days and her next semester of college starts Sunday (most colleges here do not start Fall semester until "after the chagim (holidays)", so Fall semester this year didn't start until mid-October. Ilana just finished finals last Friday, the day before the war started....)
Our next adventure in travel will (please Gd) getting Chana here for Pesach in 3 weeks. She was booked on a low-cost carrier to Bucharest and then Israel, and has now changed to flying El Al from Bucharest to Israel. Hopefully by the time her flight comes around, things will be (more) back to normal.
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