Part I: Introduction Part II: Rockets, Jerusalem, and the Kelev Part III: The Incomparable Boaz Shalgi Part IV: Sacrifice and Courage at Masada, Qumran, and the Dead Sea Part V: Between Two Caesareas They say the first step is admitting it. So, here goes: my name is Andy, and I love mistake airfares. Phew. Man, they were right, I do feel better. What are mistake airfares? Pretty simple actually. Sometimes, when airlines input airfares into their systems, they make mistakes. Could be a fat-finger mistake: last year, United accidentally entered the base airfare from SEA-PEK (Beijing) as $25.00 each way instead of $250.00 each way, which led to roundtrips from Seattle to Beijing for $470 after taxes were included. I’ve been able to take advantage of these on quite a few occasions over the past few years: DFW-Frankfurt for $340, Houston-London for $294, and DFW-Lima for $320. There are numerous others I’ve passed up, but then I saw a really big opportunity a few months ago. I was perusing some blogs and flyertalk.com and saw someone post what looked like a mistake fare on El Al Israel Airlines: Boston-Tel Aviv for $360 roundtrip! That’s about $800 cheaper than it should be. So I went into Deal Hunting mode. I looked at the fares people were finding, and most of the tickets were routed through London, Paris, or Madrid on American, then onto Tel Aviv on El Al. Since I know American also flies to those routes out of DFW, I went ahead and looked, and... read more