It has been a while since we’ve visited the Land of Israel Museum, even though I buy many many gifts from the store there. The thing that spurred me on today was the fact that the sand sculptures of landmarks in old Tel Aviv were going to be dismantled, or rained on, this week. So we ventured out in the heat of the day to see them, and then raced for the cafeteria for a drink, before we hid in the rothchild building at the exhibit of “faces.” The website doesn’t begin to illustrate the marvel of this exhibit, and the local fascination with others.
I mean eye contact and staring for starters. I can pick an Israeli out of a crowd because he is likely to be looking at someone else. The old story goes that the only reason people don’t make love in the streets of Tel Aviv is that everyone else would be stopping to give advice. It’s not necessarily sympathy, but definitely curiousity.
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