Adventures in Picking Forbidden Fruit on the Streets of Tel Aviv
Few people are familiar with the taste of bitter orange and the diverse uses of its juice, peel and flesh. This might be why pickers of the fruit arouse fury in Tel Aviv.
At 9 A.M. the pickers begin to gather at the bar in the Dok restaurant on Tel Aviv’s Ibn Gvirol Street. They drink a short espresso and exchange greetings with Yotam and Asaf Doktor, the owners of the Dok and Ha’achim restaurants. The night before, Yotam, the elder brother, became the father of a third daughter, and still he reported early in the morning to the restaurant, which is still closed to the public.
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