December 28 in and around Bialik Street in Ramat Gan

We had a nice sabbath, including the cholent (stew) served by a Chabad house at 18 Bialik.

After sabbath we went out and around Rambam square. Just off the square is a Pizza Hut with a live tree growing through the roof in the dining area (another tree goes through the roof in the kitchen pantry area - both box trees).

Presumably, this is because the Pizza Hut franchise was unable to get permission to remove the trees. The trees have something of a sanctified status in Ramat Gan (Ramat Gan means "Garden City" or "Garden Heights" -"Gan=garden) because the first settlers of the city were very big on having parks and trees (based on historical images of Bialik street, these trees were probably planted in the late 1940s) during the early days of the first mayor of Ramat Gan, Abraham Krinizi (more about him in a later post).