Today was sort of an off day we walked around Tel Aviv for a few hours we ate at Darrel’s favorite falafel stand and for the first time we spent a little time in the hotel. I read, Darrel worked and took a short nap. Then we went to the boardwalk and ate while watching the sunset on the beach. Tonight was Debbie’s last night here.
The sales men here are very aggressive. You think door to door sales men are persistent in America, you have seen nothing. They will not let you walk away, it is a fine art or holding you captive while you are begging to get away. You say no thank you they say, yes I understand, I give it to you for 10 shekels, I get it to sell to you. You like it, no? Here I show you a nice necklace, you like it, yes. And it goes on and on. The secret is don’t make eye contact in the first place, once they see the white of your eyes, you are trapped!
One interesting store/place we went into was the Israeli Bible Society. They sell bibles in all the different languages and they provide Bibles and other Christian materials free to Jewish people. We got a booklet that is the book Matthew for Darrel to give to one of the guys here. We are praying that it will be as the Bible said and be a seed planted, it is the word of God and thus it is living and active.
Israeli money. They have copper coins and they are the less than a shekel and they have silver coins and they are 1, 2, 5 and 10 shekels. Their smallest paper bill is a 20. One shekel is equal to 0.289746 US dollars. Though at the hotel where we exchange money we are getting a lot less for our dollar. The copper coins are called ‘agorot’. They are 10, ½, 1, 2 and 5, though they stopped minting the 1 agoro so they are not possible to find.
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