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Grabbed dinner at Tal Bagel in Tel Aviv. Had tuna with vegetables on a plain bagel. best bagel I ever had. Just awesome. Drank a coke that came in a real glass bottle, full size, not like the short bottle in U.S. that costs a fortune. Did the pub crawl. Went to Bugsy's, Lansky's, Dimitz and Gollden Bar. We left at 3 and the place was still packed. In Israel there are no liquor licenses. Just open and start pouring. They are allowed to be open 24 hrs. Everywhere I asked, what time do you close and standard answer is when last customer leaves. Everyone of thes epeople work next day. So how do they do it? They come home from work, eat dinner and sleep until 10. They go home around 5 and catch a few hours. When we were at the Golden bar we could not ger a seat at the bar. We were at a table like 2 asses. Sagi told the waitress I was a big Hollywood producer. All of a sudden 2 seats were given to uis. People were staring at me. I have been mistaken for Spielberg previously. It was embarrassing. There is no question I was the only non-Israeli in the place. When I got here I told Sagi I only wanted to frequent establishments Israelis go to. That is being accom[plished.