Some terse highlights of Israel:
- A very pregnant woman lighting up a cigarette. I'm pretty sure if this happened in the states she would be stoned.
- Meeting the Prince of Belgium. Short, blond guy in a tan suite with a five person entourage. Weird: has a strange penchant for Brazilian women. However, he does know Bibi personally, kind of cool.
- Sitting in Artcaffe (an Israeli chain) looking over Haifa with Polya, drinking espresso, as the sun warms my back
- getting kick ass shoes for about $10 each
- seeing my friend who is classically trained play the piano for the first time
- at the Cave of the Patriarch watching a religious Jewish man checking his cell phone as he is wearing tallit and holding a large prayer book, also seeing a completely white dove
- Nice Israeli soldiers actually talking to us in Hebron and letting us know that the religious Jews are nice to them and they have Friday night dinners with them (a complete surprise to me, since I heard the relationship between the settlers and soldiers wasn't great)
- watching two Israeli lawyers yell at each other in formal preceedings
- dancing in Herzilya on my first night in Israel
- getting lost in Ramat Gan, with no working cell phone and still being able to find Senya's house
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