Background

At the beginning of the summer, I approached my employer of four years, Duff and Phelps (Duff or D&P), a New York headquartered global consulting firm, and asked for permission to work remotely abroad in Israel . I was fortunate that Duff had just created a strategic alliance with an Israeli consulting firm, Giza Singer Even (GSE). An arrangement was made wherein I was able to work for GSE in Israel and am now living in Jerusalem and working in Ramat Gan (across a highway from Tel Aviv). I departed to the Holy Land on Tuesday August 17, 2010 through Brussels and arrived at midnight on Wednesday August 18, 2010.