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Had a wonderful dinner at Dita. Another place tourists would not know about. No English menus so I told waitress to order for me anything vegetarian. She is a veggie and did a great job. Had a red pepper filled with eggplant and cheese. Marvelous. Also had a salad with goat cheese. Moshe and Sagi had meat and I tried a few of the buffalo wings. Best ever. Had some kind of sweet and sour orange sauce. The waitress, a Yemenite thing of beauty, heard us discussing the fence and jumped in to the conversation. She stood there for 5 minutes and patrons and co-workers were staring. Only in Israel. She is very smart and admitting to being an ultra left wing. She did concede that the fence is necessary for security. We all agreed that a fence is a bad thing and must come down. She still thinks we could have had discussions and avoided the fence. I told her I was not willing to wait while another person is murdered. As far as putting fence in places it shouldn't be the Israeli Supreme Court has taken care of that. That's what a democracy and caring people do. I heard Condoleeza Rice said we should put nice paintings on the wall. If true, she is a moron. Anyway, I left her a nice big tip, which I am sure she will not return on ideological grounds. Off to Haifa. Starting to get anxious to go home and see family and friends.