Three hundred thirteen days. Forty-four weeks and five days. Even the most adventurous Israeli family anxious to indulge its wanderlust would find a trip of that duration to be difficult, if not impossible. Yet, from May 2018 until February 2019, Alison McLernon and Itzik Bar-Shai of Azor, together with three small children under the age of 10, crisscrossed four continents, visiting 11 countries, including the United States, Canada, Alaska, Guatemala, Belize, Brazil, Peru, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and India.
“I’ve always wanted to travel around the world,” says Alison. “I grew up in the UK, where we didn’t have a culture of traveling around the world when we finished school. When I met so many people here who went traveling after the army, it was something that I really wanted to do.” In November 2017, due to a combination of unusual circumstances,…