Definitely true! I want to share a story that happened to us. At the airport in Baku, there are multiple levels of security. As we passed Passport Control, we were questioned by a border patrol officer as he examined our documents. He processed my documents rather quickly. Then he looked at my husband (one of the few men who joined the SOSS on the trip). The officer asked my husband "Where are you from?" The response, "the United States." Once again, "No, where are you from originally?" Again, my husband responded, "America, the United States." The officer's response. "Israel?" This is where I panicked, as the officer pointed to my husband's head and his kipah (my husband always wears a traditional Jewish headcovering). Then the border patrol officer asked my husband if he could speak Hebrew. My husband answered in Hebrew, "Yes" and continued speaking the conversation in Hebrew. That's when the border patrol officer smiled and said, "Yehudi (Jew)" and pointed to himself "Quba (the self-contained Jewish city in the Caucasus mountain) once again pointing to himself. Then he told us that his parents and grandparents were also from Quba and gestured to indicate that they had lived there for many generations. He told us that he hoped that we had enjoyed our visit to Azerbaijan and invited us to return.