First week of February I went to Israel!

Arriving in Tel Aviv, rented a car and off to the city.
The next days were spent visiting the amazing Dead Sea, Jerusalem, Golan Heights and Haifa.
From what I was able to see, it's a beautiful country with so much diversity from north to south, warm, vibrant, full of electric bikes and of course, good food... I also thought that prices were quite similar to Amsterdam, therefore expensive!

During the trip I was reading THE BURIED GIANT by Kazuo Ishiguro, and somehow the book and the real life had interesting connections... The main one that I would point out is the disconnection between people.
While driving up north to Golan Heights we saw neighbourhoods that were muslim and the other side jewish neighbourhoods divided by religion and a road.
When we arrived at Golan Heights, what an incredible view, from up the mountain you can see the border between Israel and Syria. But not all is about the privilege of the view and a charming cafe, in the highest point of the mountain some metal sculptures of soldiers holding guns are placed in strategic locations, which gave me a strange mix feeling of fear and somehow comfort, I guess is to remind us that as a society we live in constant duality.

... I refuse to take sides and have an opinion about my short experience in Israel, but it does gets me drawing an analogy to my own country and the separation that social classes causes.