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It turns out that the nightmare with customs was exactly that. We ended up getting our pallet just hours before the event began. The printed materials were for the opening night (we couldn’t change it around because of a bylaw requirement that necessitated that these packets be distributed).

The re-printed materials that we had set in motion on Friday arrived at practically the same time that the pallet did! We had dozens of volunteers waiting and ready to assemble the packets–it was quite the fiasco!

Israeli customs ended up fining us big time for the shipment, claiming we had tried to sneak things through. They held back some of our stuff–including the box of electronics. That stuff is still held up in some shipping nether-world…

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