Pingponging with a 12 year old VAT Problem in Ramla

The Ping Pong with the Israeli VAT Office continues. Bat Yam sent me to Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Sent me to Ramla . Ramla's VAT Head Honcho Yossi Cohen sent me back to Bat Yam after appreciating my innocent by perceptive question...Are there only one Yossi Cohen in Ramla VAT/ Income Tax Dept?...... There are actually 3 and according him 82,345 people sharing his name in Zion as of Rosh Hashana 2015. Yossi edges out David ( Hebrew version of course) And Haam and Avi Cohen ...... by Hey I am still smiling ....( VAT/ INcome Tax Authority wherever they are never rank as a Happy Hour or Place to be and quite frankly to be avoid . All three offices are surprisingly elegant, airy, well organised and highly computerized and exploiting every possible technology to squeeze an extra shekels out of the citizens of Zion..... but hey I really am still smiling.... Back to the Bat Yam Office today..

Haven't been to Ramla for a while.... still a blue collar city in dire need of development and desasterous town planing....Architectural Digest will never come to this City.... asked where I could find a Steimatzky or Pinat Hasefer to the crowd waiting to get through security ... they looked at me in puzzlement and bewilderment...."the toshavim don't read books and only newspapers if they are free""' ( sorry I asked,,, but that sums up this town) .... .... a mixture of descendants and olim chadashim ( from 1949 to 1952 and a good spattering of Habeb of Arab Women....but then who am I really to differentiate the doekies religious Jewish women wear on their heads to the equivalent Habeb of their Arab neighbours.... no one escapes that tag ever in Zion) . The Main Street Herzl Street has surprisingly many christian Institutions .. all prior to 1948 Churches, Scools a Monastry and even 2 graveyards....and still a lot of abandoned property in derilict state from the older Ben Gurion gave Rabin.... fire sone shots and get them ( Arab Refugees ) moving towards Gaza and that they did accompanied all the way by macho Palmachniks and what a wonderful perceptive and wise decision that was..... read the revised edition of Ahron Bregman's Israeli Wars or Benny Morris book that tends to be hmmm and hmmm again.... both books will be reviewed soon in the Israel Book Review