I didn't believe that the level of development would be so high. They have everything there, skyscrapers, expensive cars, things of the modern world.

I am a person who is not ashamed to say where I am from and I spoke to everybody from the barber to the hotel guards - I told everyone that I'm Israeli. Most of the time I got a warm response. A small group was indifferent, and only one time someone said he was against it. Most of the time, people were warm and curious about where I'm from.

It was very sad to see that the Jewish community is over. The community is very old and there are very few [Jews] left. You see it is another tragic result of the conflict.

As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

But the city rather than curtail the development of skyscrapers has chose to build and occupy those skyscrapers at the risk of the public health.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.