Interregnum STOPS 3 and 4 | Archaeology Connection

Do you know when you meet someone and you feel you have known this person for ever? Well, it's not a girl, but probably I still have time to find the love of my life during these 3 months off. I got to know him thanks to a coworker. He is Israeli, and he is doing a PhD in Archaeology in Tel-Aviv. This post is dedicated to Zvika, a wonderful Archaeologist-human I met by chance right before leaving Israel.


I could not meet Zvi earlier due to logistics, but he had helped me virtually with many things TelAviv / Jerusalem / Israel related. It's incredible to find people willing to help, without even knowing you: I still have hopes for the human kind. I would always be grateful to him for this.

He suggested me to leave my luggage at his place and spend time there, since I had to go to the airport around 11PM, so I would have saved one night in the hotel. I accepted and try to repay him with Ben&Jerry ice cream and Italian Cantucci, bought at a supermarket nearby. It seemed we had been knowing each other for ever; we talked about everything in just a couple of hours: archaeology, religions, university, Gath, human kind, judaism, past and future.

Life is unpredictable and great conversions happened when you don't expect them. Zvi is working on his PhD thesis focusing on the Ark of the Covenant and hopefully I can join him in the future in some of his trips related to his project. I will hold him accountable for allowing me to crash on his couch in the future, while visiting Tel-Aviv :)

He also offered to send the 34 postcards I had written, as the Post situation across the world was not easy. Hopefully they will reach destination!

During the evening I just hung out with him and his friends in his AC-equipped apartment. Life is good!




And then I booked my Gett taxi - which as you may recall from the previous post - overcharged me, but at least put me in a really good mood!




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