Sunday, May 14, 2006

On the King David Hotel

Yisrael Medad, director of information resources at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, shared some interesting anecdotes,

writes Michelle Charbin at The Jewish Week.

'About what?', you ask.

Well, it started when

Not long ago, the King David Hotel invited some journalists to a breakfast meeting to announce that it was celebrating its 75th anniversary.

It was already turning into a busy news day, and we should have left right after the sumptuous breakfast and briefing, but most of us couldn't resist the hour-long personalized tour of the grounds, whose country-club atmosphere hasn’t changed much since the heady days of the British Mandate era: an executive room, with its dreamy bathroom and dead-on view of the Old City walls, and the Presidential Suite, where everyone from President Clinton to TK have slept (Madonna almost slept there, but I'll get to that later).


Read on to learn what I had to say.

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