>>21437710From what I gather, even locals tip in tourist areas. The funny thing is, I have a friend who went there a few years ago and was surprised by a couple things and amused by a couple others.
Surprised: cucumbers taste like something. I guess he's only ever eaten bottom-of-the-barrel cukes in Buttfuck, Nowhere where he's from. He kept raving about how good cucumbers in Israel are. I asked if they were circumcised.
Amused: he stayed at a hotel through Saturday, the day Yehudim aren't allowed to work but there was a guy still working the service counter but he couldn't make him a coffee because that would be boiling water and that would be work so he had to give him a bottle of cold water and a packet of Sanka to make something similar to Greek iced coffee with it for himself. Then he used a cash register to charge for the water, which uses electricity IE "making a fire" according to Jewish rules and therefore working lmao*
If he could use the register, he could make coffee.
At beach cafes, he said everyone tipped, Israelis and tourists alike.
>* the way I see it, all the ways observant Jews work to not work on a Saturday is more work than if they'd just worked in the first place which, in my mind, nullifies the whole edict altogether so just make me a coffee, Moshe