After a 10 hour flight, we finally arrived at Ben-Gurion International at sometime between 8 and 9 am. I didn't get any sleep on the flight, so it promised to be a looooong day. Our first stop was the ancient city of Yafo, or Jaffa. This ancient seaport has been in use since the time of greek myth and legend. It is here that Perseus slew the Kraken, as legend tells. One of the first things I noticed were the cats. There are cats everywhere. The reasoning behind this goes that when Israel first became a nation, nearly 60 years ago, there was a major rat problem. To deal with this, cats were released into the environment. Well, the cats proloferated at a prodigious rate, and I haven't seen a single rat to speak of. Maybe
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