Yesterday, my husband John and I flew into Tel Aviv, Israel
where it is 68
degrees warmer than in St. Petersburg, Russia where we started that morning! Even Sun’s Russian Engineers said it was unusually cold.
I am now working from Sun’s offices in Herzliya. Herzliya is a
beach town with palm trees, resort-style hotels, and surfboard
kites visible
along the horizon. It looks and feels like southern California.
Herzliya is also a major Israeli technical center home to lots of
companies like Sun. The American Ambassador to Israel lives here.
The SEED application deadline is 30 January. There have been
12 applications so far: 1 from Israel, 11 from Russia. We will
select 25 to 30 of the final group as participants in the
March-September 2006 SEED term.
I have already made two group presentations here plus I am meeting
many of the Engineering staff individually. There seems to be
a lively interest and I hope to have many more SEED applications.
While I am working tomorrow, John will go on a bus tour of Bethlehem
and Jerusalem. I got to visit Israel’s sights some while I
was working on the Ashdot Yaakov kibbutz near Tiberias in 1979. Also, John and I will get to spend three days in
Jerusalem at the end of this week.
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