Tourism is down and business is more than slow.
I hope she won't close. Her little homey kiosk with two or three tables, is the only natural foods eatery in an otherwise Middle Eastern sea of falafel, shwarma, and a few burger and pizza shops. About a year ago, Feige moved to Israel from America and opened up the Tree of Life restaurant in Kikar HaMaginim, a little square in the heart of the old city of Safed where one gets the feeling he is either on a movie set or removed by time capsule to the European shtetls of hundreds of years ago. This square will soon be a popular gathering point for the annual Klezmer Music Festival, which will literally bring fiddlers to our rooftops and tens of hopefully thousands of tourists to the northern Galilee. But even large numbers at the Klezmer this year aren't a certainty.