Rafael Cohen is the director of Aliyah at the Jewish Agency.
He is a fantastic, friendly, caring person. And a wonderful representative for the Jewish Agency.
Due to darling wife's paperwork mess, Rafael took a personal interest in our case, and cleared his schedule to meet with us personally for the interview. He listened attentively to our case, and is already working on helping us with the bureaucratic monolith that is the Israeli government. If all the people we need to meet with (NBN, Misrad haPnim, etc) will be like him, life will be peachy.
We have completed the apostilled name change document (and anxiously await it in the mail), passport pictures, sent in our marriage certificate (though we will need to get that apostilled, as well), and have an appointment to get baby's passport. In about a month, I think we will be done with all the paperwork...!
Now it's on to prepping for a lift, hunting for apartments and realtors, and making an inventory of what we will need to buy here before moving.
Of course, there's that job interview...
I met with that friend in the office today. He had already asked my current boss for permission to move over to his division. The position is a 5 year contract, comes with a raise compared to my current salary, will graduate to supervisory level in about two months, and is closer to the field I enjoy working in (and possess a Masters degree in, for that matter).
It's a two level jump in the agency in four months, which is unheard of.
My current boss gave me her blessing to interview, and intimated that sticking with her will have benefits down the road, too. In agency politics, that is a strong hint towards latching on with her next project after this grant is completed.
It feels good to be wanted, great to be making progress in a career, and confusing for it to be happening in direct contradiction with my dreams, and plans.
We'll see how the interview goes, I suppose...
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