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                                The above photos are from the Hotel Arabesque. They refused to obey  POSTCARD FROM TEL AVIV 3 AKKO/ACCO/ACRE  According to google, Acre is a port city in Northwest Israel an hour and a half by bus and train from the center of Tel Aviv. A chef by the name of Uri Buri opened a restaurant with his name (his first name is Uri but we don't know his real last!) and Jennifer had met him when she taught yoga at his hotel a couple of years ago. He is credited with bringing a resurgence of tourism to Acre. Jennifer made lunch reservations at his restaurant and the food was indescribably delicious! Mostly various fish and unusual dishes.     Unfortunately, during the last Gaza uprising, many of the hotels and other buildings were burned down and had to be rebuilt. Some buildings have been renovated in wh...

     POSTCARD FROM TEL AVIV 2 Tuesday started out as a lovely day! Marc picked me up at Jennifer's and we drove to Hadera to visit our 92 year old Great Aunt Bruria and her son Ilan and wife Yael. We got there fine but the car was making short jerks and we were both wondering. Marc's Nissan is electric inside, not the kind you plug in. We got there fine tho a bit concerned, visited for a few hours and had lunch at the very Kosher cheese shop nearby; weather great, ninety two year old Bruria the same as every prior year and we departed to avoid the Tel Aviv traffic. We made it with the car jerking part way and suddenly the car just came to an abrupt stop on the freeway. As luck would have it, a motorcycle cop pulled up and pushed us to the side of the freeway with the help of a truck driver who was on the nearby off ramp. Marc called his Israel company and after much discussion they said they would send a tow truck but had no idea when. He was concerned how I would get to ...

POSTCARD FROM TEL AVIV My flight was amazing. I made out like a bandit and ended up in a mixed business/first class. Best food and service I've ever had. I arrived in Tel Aviv a week ago today. Other than taking walks nothing really happened till a couple of days ago. First of all the Lang's new apartment/home is lovely but workmen and Philippe are still fixing things. Hopefully the art will be up before I depart! We walked 3 miles, 2 1/2 miles and a lot of stairs! Tel Aviv is so different than Jerusalem. All kinds of people including black kippot and a Kosher Mehadrin pizza place on the corner. Otherwise it's just a mix of all kinds of people,  many on scooters and motorbikes on the sidewalks! I must interrupt myself now as Jennifer and I just saw the most wonderful movie, "She Says" Can't rave enough! Sure should be nominated for Best Picture! It was at a theater in a shopping mall but I had to take a picture of  the bathroom: from left the dryer, then wa...