My last breakfast at the Crowne Plaza Tel Aviv City Center hotel. The food in Israel remains superb!
And best of all, they now have the expresso-based iced coffees that they didn't have on Shabbat.
The Miso soup was delicious.
I studied Hebrew with my wonderful Hebrew tutor Keren from 8:00 a.m. to 10:45 when they told us that we had to leave so they could set up for lunch.
The manager from the restaurant told me this morning that there were about 80 rooms with people that had been displaced from the north.
That explains why there were so many Israelis around. Earlier there were another group from the south but they went home.
She said that many of them were very upset and that many of them had small children with them and the whole experience was extremely traumatic.
A few weeks ago I watched an Israeli TV a show where they were interviewing people at a hotel who had been displaced. The woman being interviewed said that some people felt that it was unfair that she and her family were staying in a five-star hotel for months at a time. But they have to understand that she didn't choose to do this. And it's only fun to stay in a five-star hotel if you're doing it as part of a vacation and not because you've been evacuated from your house because of the fear of missiles. So what could have been a wonderful free vacation under other circumstances was actually a very traumatic experience that she would not wish on anyone else.
I also asked her what I should do in the case of a alarm. I told her I thought I should just run down the stairs from the 20th floor and she said no that every floor has a secure bunker and you could easily find the bunker and just enter it. I said what if a big missile hits the building and the whole building collapses and she said that in her own building she doesn't even have a secure bunker and so when the alarms would go off she just went to the stairway and hoped for the best. So basically if the whole building falls, it doesn't really matter where you're going to be.