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We started off our day driving to Hispin for chocolate making by עדי במטבח. She was incredibly patient, child friendly and had 4 demonstrations such as first making chocolate from a variety of shapes, nugget based popsicles, "coloring" with chocolate and then making chocolate balls. The outting took roughly 2 hours. We drove back to the our lodging in Aloney Habashan to keep the delicacies in our fridge.

Following that we drove to Beit Haribot (House of jelly) which was cool, but not an interactive demonstration. Pre corona she would have a tasting table. We found a jam named after Simcha and bought pure honey for Rosh Hashana (and fresh grape jelly, which is super hard to find in Israel - - we have Smuckers from super h in Beit Shemesh, but otherwise we haven't had success finding it at a general grocery chain). I'm not sure why, but Sara the owner does not ship her items throughout Israel. 

From there we went to Katzrin to eat pizza at a place called Rashbi. Luckily they were open with nice and safe outdoor eating space. It was here that we saw many many soldiers. We spoke more with the kids about the sounds they heard the night before of tanks shooting. It sounded like thunder and the ground shook. The choclatier confirmed for us earlier in the morning that these are practice rounds and that the Syrians are afraid of the Israeli army. In any case, we had some explaining to do. 

After pizza we went to the Ancient Katzrin village aka "Talmudic Village." It was empty, overpriced and a disappointment. We were not sure if corona cut interactive personele or tour guides to make it more engaging.

We drove back to the outdoor strip mall to find a shabbat dress that we forgot to pack for shabbat here (all I could find decent enough was a white dress with a heart shaped with the Israeli flag that read I Love Israel) and enjoyed a sprinkler water park. We also picked up takeout Chinese food at Chopstix. 

The kids ultimate highlight and close of a very busy day was climbing on free army tanks at Chavita Sheva, a memorial park (right outside of Katzrin off 9088).

Onto Thursday, Friday.

-- Third picture down is your proof of the American Dream home possible in Kedmat Tzvi. The land will cost you just 120,000 shekel and you can build your home. Yala. Our friends in America, the Golan has space for you. 

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