Movies I would like to watch- Iwo Jima

Client Eastwood directed two movies on the Battle of Iwo Jima

American point of view: Flags of our Fathers

Japanese point of view: Letters from Iwo Jima

Flying from Israel to Japan

This week we are flying to Japan.

Unfortunately, there are no direct flights from Israel to Japan.

There are basically two options:

1. Flight to Europe (4 to 5 hours) , hopefully a short connection (2 hours) and then a flight to Japan (~11).
2. Flight with El-Al to Hong Kong/Thailand (~11 hours), connection (2), flight to Japan (5).

El-Al cannot fly over Arab countries (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan…), therefore the flights to Hong Kong and back are a bit longer than what you should expect.

Price: Cheapest flight (return) is about 1250$. Assuming you are only staying for about a week or two. If you stay more than a month, the price jumps to around 1400-1500$.

Having spent time explaining about the technicalities, I can now write what we are doing: Mika and Roi will fly through Hong Kong (El-Al JAL), and I will with Air France (Via Paris). Complicated, isn’t it? But, that’s the best combination we could find. (price/timing wise).