What's for dinner? Asked Joel.

Joel said I needed to blog the menu from tonight.

After the celebration with the brass marching band, it was an evening of appetizers including stuffed figs and Golan wines.

Then to the fifth floor with salads galore - hummous, lebneh, eggplant, and tabouleh. We kept eating, they kept bringing and then we heard dinner was still to be served!

Dinner was steak and chicken. However, kosher steak...should have kept eating the salads. So we did.

Now, our dessert is a woderful talk by Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barakat.

He said, by 2035, he said that we may lose Jewish majority in Jerusalem. What caused those negative trends? Neglect? Not putting of high enough on priority list for Jewish people? But people leave because the economy is not strong enough here. Education is not high enough and quality of living is not as high as the other parts of the country. But this all has to changed. Jerusalem should be the number one tourist spot. It needs to be built. We need to be working toward making Jerusalem a key place in all our lives and the lives of so many that they too may come here to experience this incredible place.

Now time for coffee and baklava!

Heidi

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