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Greatest outdoor party, continues to get Better. Kabbalat Shabbat at the Kotel  just awesome ,anyone who hasn't experienced this is truly missing out.The Highlight was a unit of  about 60 soldiers being led by a Big Israeli Flag, dancing,singing, praying In the True spirit of Am Ysrael chai .........On Friday morning I visted  Sheik Jarra or Shimon Hatzadik, to see all the fuss they show about the anarchist left wing protests aganist Jews living there, but it was quiet. At least i got to check out the tomb and Holy site there. With all the Arab hype of statehood, Shabbat was the first day I felt a little tension walking though the Damascus gate,some shouting and hollering, but there is a larger presence of the border patrol, police, and military....Sue who?  at my hotel they were washing the steps, but failed to warn anyone with that stupid yellow sign that says "Wet Floor", of course i slipped on my A$$ but didn't get hurt, I didn't bother saying anything to the front desk, they wouldn't care.........