Real People ask for Real Water to drink, to be served in genuine paper cups. They were warned that Israeli water might be dangerous. That's true, of course. Oh, it's not as dangerous as the tref sewage and harmful growths in the New York water system, but we'll ignore that fact. There's certainly no reason to put up with some excess minerals in Israeli water.
Israeli water filters do remove some of calcium deposits. That's good, because that small stalactite inside you may already be dripping onto a budding stalagmite.
Surprisingly, many Israelis have been known to survive the local, unfiltered water. Foreigners offer a strange response: "Israelis are used to it."
True.
Israelis are also used to other things as well.
Such as foolish comments from certain tourists.
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