Last night here

Unfortunately, my computer is not working and I am finding it difficulty to post on my blog. Each time I write something, it won't go to my blog and so I have not written over the past few days. I will attempt to do so one more time as it is my last night in Israel. Mom and I had a lovely day. We relaxed at the hotel and went to the pool and read. This evening we took a cab to the city of Tel Aviv. We got there just at sunset and sat at a restaurant right on the ocean. It was truly beautiful and a wonderful way to end our vacation.
For me, this trip has been wonderful. I have learned so much that I never knew about our jewish history, culture and religion and I realize how much more there is to know. Through my experience of being here, I really feel even more connected to my Judaism. I refuse to let that go anymore.
I understand that Israel has many problems. I do also believe that most of the Israeli people want peace . Through traveling throughout all of Israel, I have seen many things and realize that often the world holds a double standard for Israel. I have seen the beautiful homes that the Palestinians are living in. There are 7.5 million Israelis here and 1.5 million arabs. The arabs live in gorgeous communities and before anyone can criticize Israel for what they do to the Palestinians, they need to come to Israel to see for themselves what is going on here. I will not go into this anymore on my blog.
In the event that this blog goes through these are some of the places I visited:
Caesaria which is a beautiful area north of here that King Herod built and which became a "Las Vegas" of the times as well as a port to import and export goods
Zichron Yaakov-an artists colony
Akko and Gorgeous Tunisian synagogue
Golan Heights to Kibbutz Afik where we slept for the night
Katzrin Golan Winery
Kibbutz Kfar Blume where I lived for 2months in 1978
Gamela which was an incredibly fascinating historical place

I leave tomorrow and I am looking forward to going home to be with my family and to celebrate my oldest son Marc's 27th birthday. Kol toov (which means "all should be good!" lilah tov.