For Israel-bound travelers, violence throws long-awaited plans into doubt
To get her flight to Israel approved by Los Angeles’ consul general, Maure Gardner had to provide her passport, her husband’s Israeli passport, and their marriage certificate, which required a special stamp from the county clerk’s office. A minor inconvenience to endure for a wedding she had waited over two years to attend. But with angry mobs terrorizing Israeli streets and a hailstorm of missiles lighting up the sky above them, Gardner is having second thoughts. Her flight to Tel Aviv isn’t until June 3, and she’s hopeful the violence will have subsided by then — because if it w...