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I am having a wonderful time. More commited than ever. Today I went to the home of Professor Arkin who teaches chemistry at Hebrew University. He is the owner of the 2nd largest pharmaceutical company in Israel . His wife and David a sculptor were there. David is from Lithuania and he works out of Hadassah Neurim. Moshe says he is the greatest living sculptor in the world. Moshe is prone to hyperbole. At any arte his works are amazing and I had the privilge to have him explain to me what the art works represent. The deal is they are sending some of his pieces to USA with the hopes of selling them and the profits are his fees and expenses go to the charity. I am being set up, but, I don't care. It is a worthwhile cause as I said before there are at risk kids..370,000 out of 2 1/2 million. The house was the most impressive I have seen. The Arkins have 15 help, gardeners, cooks, etc. Many of the sculptors are on display in their gardens. I ahve a few pix and will post them. My internet connection sucks here so I will probably change hotels if I can get a room. The city is full and very exciting. Restaurants and bars are all full and new. This is the new Europe. People from all over the world are coming here. Especially the French. Thety are buying houses and condos. The real estate market has exploded. The newest hotspot is Old Jaffa just south of Tel Aviv. After Arkin visit we went to the Palmach museum. The Palmach was 1 of 3 underground movements before Independence. (I am sure George knows of this).It takes 3 months to get in. Of course, Moshe pulled it off. Very overpowering. When I think of the sacrifices they made with the ultimate I am truly humbled. After that we went to the artist area and had a wonderful lunch at Suzzana. I had yogurt and cucumber soup and a wonderful Greek sald and drank my usual fresh squozed lemonade. Not having had much sleep I went back to the hotel and went swimming in the Mediterranean. The water was very warm (not MeMe pool warm, but warm). I then went to the hotel pool on the roof (not warm). Sagi collected me about 8 and we went to Orca Restaurant where I had aparagus in an amazing parmesan sauce and red drum fish over eggplant. Just a wonderful meal in a modern beautiful atmosphere. Of course, we had dessert in one of the 1,000 pubs. They are all over the city. The bread here is the best I have ever had. Its 3 am and I will be collected at 8 so time to sleep. I am very happy and miss you all.

HB