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Hi! I have some statements and one question. I love seeing women making their way into the field of technology and I truly wish you the best of luck. I have two daughters who are interested in computer science and engineering, and my oldest will be attending University this fall after being accepted at age 16. She has had to fight for things which would have been, in my opinion, granted without thought if she were male.

Thank you for being awesome! The world is already a better place with you in it!

As for my question, a friend of mine from Palestine told me that if I ever make it to Palestine that I must try ice cream from Rukab's Ice Cream. I've never made it there, and I'm not sure that I ever will. Have you eaten this? How does it compare to the ice cream in Europe?

[ilianam]

Manara's Polish-American co-founder catching up late here to say I never tried that ice cream, but I do recommend eating knafeh in the West Bank and fattet hummus in Gaza! The food in in West Bank vs Gaza is quite different... I think Gaza is particularly good... but unfortunately it's almost impossible to get there unless you're a humanitarian worker or a journalist.

NOTE: if you work in tech and want to mentor in Palestine, check out Gaza Sky Geeks and Code for Palestine. They organize on-site travel for select volunteers (full transparency: I'm involved with both organizations)

[adultSwim]

Mmmm, knafeh!

[cammikebrown]

Rukab’s is in Ramallah, in the West Bank. It looks tasty, and stretches like taffy.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/08/438473615/go...

[eyelidlessness]

I don’t in any way want to diminish the many good spirits here. Just to add a little fire under western readers’ butts.

It’s good to know when talking about Palestine whether you’re geographically talking about the West Bank or Gaza. They’re separated by not a lot of distance but a lot of different kinds of restrictions.

A lot of the rule over the West Bank vacillates between heavy lockdown and expansion of Israeli urban development. Most (not all) Gazans don’t get to experience even that flux.

[hnick]

Looks like Turkish ice cream (I don't know who invented it, it's what I've seen people call it). The article mentions this a bit.

There is a place in Sydney in Newtown that makes a great tasting one, and I had some from a theatrical man in a stall in Singapore once so something similar can be found around the world.

[s_Hogg]

Hakiki is amazing. Get the chocolate baklava flavour, or the rose water flavour

[hnick]

Yes that's the one, I think I tried some kind of chocolate/hazelnut but it's been a while.

I strangely detest rose flavour unless it's also mixed with chocolate in which case I love it (and will devour a bag of chocolate coated Turkish delight).

[ascorbic]

The generic name is "booza", and it's popular in lost of countries in the region. The most famous comes from a shop in the souq in the Old City in Damascus, which is also the most efficient shop I've ever seen. The number of people they serve per minute is quite a sight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booza