@kdfrawg it was more a confluence of events:

  1. They finally stopped routing my expense reports to a finance person in Israel first ??
  2. My boss (who keeps Shabbat) is on the East Coast versus in Israel this week. That means he saw it and was able to approve it almost immediately after I submitted it.
  3. US Finance (also on West Coast) was apparently still around.

It will never happen again. ?