"Real" Bagels Scarce in the Holy Land
I'm just polishing off a bagel with lox, cream cheese, and a little onion at a café on the corner of Dizengoff and Tchernihovcki—street names in Israel don't roll off the tongue like Washington and Elm. Against all logic, it's difficult to find bagels in Tel Aviv like we have in America.
Here's a rat hole: when young Israeli men notice their hairline receding, they shave their heads, refusing to accept some imagined humiliation; they troop through the streets looking like extras from Apple's 1984 Macintosh advertisement.
Conversely, hirsute middle-aged and older men take added care to orchestrate their hair to reveal the density a la Omar Sharif. Combovers are scarcer than American-style bagels.
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