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CORRECTIONS FROM PRIOR BLOG VIA JENNIFER: First and foremost, Daniella made the peanut butter/chocolate dates a long time ago and Jennifer made these! Secondly my write up on Dorothy really screwed things up so I will quote Jennifer; Dorothy moved here 30 something years ago but just moved from one TA apartment to another between 6 months and a year ago. BACK TO TODAY Talia, Moses, Herbie and I took a taxi to Be, the pharmacy in the same shopping center we had purchased the Apple cord I didn't really need! It took very little time to do the PCR swab test in both the nose and the mouth. We will find out within 24 hours but we did have to pay. Thankfully we had our translator with us! Then another cab to walk at the Port and wait for Marc and Chana Tsipora to join us for dinner at a Glatt Kosher restaurant, Lechem Basar or Bread and Meat. The Port is so built up with shops I didn't recognize it! Every big jeweler, clothing and shoe store is there, even a merry go round! We took a...

TIME AT AND WITH THE LANGS Simone came in by train from Jerusalem during the week and made us a delicious tofu/sweet potato clear thin noodles plus salad lunch. Then fruit incl lychee nuts and dates stuffed with peanut butter and dipped in chocolate that Daniella left in the freezer. Because it is too hot with high humidity to do much outside, we watched a wonderful Netflix film from Spain called Seventee n. Highly recommend. Then walked a mile home down Rothschild which is a wide boulevard and has a shady area down the middle with a path for bikes, etc. on one side and pedestrians on the other.. There are areas for picnics, games, exercise and on. We stopped some men of a certain age to ask what they were playing with small hard balls and they said it was a French game called Petanque like boule. We kept quiet for a few hours and on to the beach for an Erev Shabbat picnic dinner. I don't do oceans but everyone else did. It's like a bathtub!             ...

 MORE FROM TEL AVIV Talia and ChanaTsipora took the train from Jerusalem to meet us at the Tel Aviv Museum. We had a wonderful visit over lunch at the Kosher Cafe.  The highlight currently at the museum is by Zadok Ben-David: People I Saw but Never Met.  "The installation comprises more than six thousand figures of people Zadok Ben-David had seen during his travels around the world - in a market in Kazakhstan, on a beach in Tel Aviv, even in Antarctica - but had never met personally. Something about them caught his eye and made him take their photograph, and then turn their images into thin metal cut-out figures painted in black" We spent considerable time and took lots of photos ourselves from all angles and all levels. Will include the most interesting here and hope you are able to realize what it really looked like.  BRILLIANT! As we exited we could pick up a favorite photo with only Hebrew and Arab on back.

Had a nice visit with Ilan, Yael, Bruria and Gali.      From left: Gali, Daniella, Bruria and Simone. Sunday night Jennifer, Daniella and I went to Jaffa to dinner at a cafe across the street from this felafel stand. Note it opened two years after  the State of Israel! Then to a bar for free to see Shiva Baby which I had already seen but enjoyed just as much! Herbie, Philippe and Moses went to the beach and took a 'voyage' into the water! (video will not work) Sunday mornings (and Tuesdays) there is an arts and crafts show on Nachlot Benyamin. It attracts people of all ages and talents. I took a few photos but my favorite is of a very little girl whose father could not drag her away from all the moving clocks.  And then there is the knitter! Wish I needed a purse as I thought it great that a man would be doing that and told him so!                                      ...