January 5 - Krinizi Museum

After breakfast on Jan 5, Ann and I walked to the Krinizi Museum, which was about a half mile from the hotel on Krinizi Street. 

Abraham Krinizi was head of the Ramat Gan city counsel for about 24 years and  mayor of Ramat Gan for about 19 years. When he died in 1969, he donated his house to serve as a museum and it contains all sorts of memorabilia and pictures from his life. 

Mr. Krinizi did not accept a salary during these 43 years (I don't know where his money came from). He was an advocate of 'green space' which accounts for the name of the city (Ramat Gan means 'Garden City' or "Garden Heights") and for the 'keep your hands off those trees' policy that made for the tree growing through the roof of the pizza hut near Rambam Square. 

In the evening we went to the diamond district in Ramat Gan (about a 1.5 mile walk - we took a bus back) for supper at a restaurant (it was about a block to the right and down from the tall building (called the Moshe Aviv) on the center left (which is about 800' high, the tallest in Israel). Our hotel was off the image on the left.