Day 122: Tel Aviv, Israel

Day 122: Today went and booked my tour thru Israel and Jersualem. My tour guide was very helpful. I noticed that most Israels it takes time for them to warm up to you. I met one of the Israel girls working at the hostel and she was telling me that the Israel people don't have a problem with the Palestine people or muslim people it's more the governments that's the problem. She was very objective when talking about both sides. She told me she use to have Palestine friends in the Palestine territory now she cannot visit them. Palestinian's can go into Israel territory with work permits, but the Israels cannot go into Palestinian Territory. She was hoping for peace with both sides. I asked her about traditional Israelian food or Jewish food, thinking she would say motza balls or schinzel or something similar to that. She laughed and said that there was no traditional Israelian food. Most of the food comes from other countries example moza balls and schinzel are German. I saw quite a diverse looking mix of Israels' from blonde hair to blue eyes, to African looking, what of course binds most of the people is their religion Judaism. Most of the people had immigrated after the Holocuast from various countries in the world. This reminded me of the US with the mix of people. Then went to the Yemen quarter thru the market of course tried some yummy sweets. Went thru the old parts of Tel Aviv which were quite pretty with old white buildings with the new fresh colorful flowers growing on the side. Reminded me of the old Israel with Jersualem being 3000 years old and Tel Aviv being so young about 50 years old of so.