2023-09 - Tel Aviv, Israel meetings

Numa Hotel, She’erit Israel 1 Tel-Aviv

I visited during the protests against Netanyahu judicial reform. For context, this was just three weeks before the October 7 2023 Gaza attacks. Many people mentioned how safe and convenient it is to raise kids in Israel, such a small country, so near all your relatives. Surprisingly, four different unrelated men and women said they moved to Israel to meet a spouse, and immediately did. All four seemed quite happy. I stayed in Jaffa to be close to the best hummus, Abu Hassan, where I had breakfast at 7:30 every morning, ordered the same thing (the combo), sat next to the same stranger, and even passed the same blue-haired girl walking to high school every morning as I was leaving. Oh man I miss that breakfast a lot. I had planned to go to Palestine after Tel Aviv but it didn't work out. I wish I would have. Four people I met with asked me to delete the record of our meeting, so there were four more not shown here.