DRY AGED STEAKS,
CHOPS &
FRESH SEAFOOD

Phyllis C Richman, Feb. 5, 1995
The Washington Post

"Best of Award of Excellence"

"The national reputation
of The Capital Grille has
crowds beating
down the doors."

The Wine Spectator

"The Capital Grille is the
place to see and be seen."

"Great steak, fancy bar, swank
trappings-everything
a steak house should be."

The New York Times,
March 13, 1996

Boston Magazine

Somerset Collection, North

T H E

CAPITAL®

G-R.I.L.L.E

Mosaic Floor
Is Uncovered

D

wring road construction
near the Lod turnoff on
the Ramle-Ben Gurion
airport highway in June
1996, workers were astonished
to discover an almost undam-
aged floor apparently from the
house of a third century C.E. Ro-
man official.
The central section of the mo-
saic shows a lion and lioness on
two different mountains, sepa-
rated by a lake, with a mythical
monster in between. Another
scene depicts a hare eating
grapes while being stalked by a
dog. Along the borders of this
square are birds, fish and dol-
phins. Other sections include ad-
ditional panels with birds and
fish, a giraffe, a hippopotamus,
and elephant and a tiger; an-
other, a variety of fish and two
merchant ships.
Thousands of curious Israelis
were lucky enough to view the
mosaic in the few short weeks
prior to its being covered over.

WZPS/ISRAEL MUSEUM

"Not only is the menu beefy, but the portions
are gigantic... these steaks, with some bite to
them, have a full meaty flavor... the wine list is
enough to keep you entertained for many visits."

An example of mosaics being
unearthed.

Officials have yet to decide
whether to restore the mosaic at
the site or remove it to another
location for restoration.

WZPS

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Israeli products. Answer:
chemicals from the dead
sea, high-tech equipment,
ci , polished and cut diamonds,
armaments, pharmaceuticals, tex-
tiles, flowers ...
Correct, and the list can be ex-
tended even more. But few would
think of including what may
sound like an unusual commod-
ity: Hebrew literature in trans-
lation. Of course, the Bible
constitutes a splendid tradition
in this field, but reference here is
to modern literary production.
In recent years, the best of Is-
rael's original Hebrew literature
has been translated into no few-
er than 46 languages, including
all the major European tongues
in addition to more esoteric lan-
guages like Hindi, Mongolian,
Tamil, Turkish and Welsh. Chi-
nese, Japanese and Korean are
also on the list.
Quite aside from the econom-
ic benefits to Israel from these ex-
ports (income in the millions of
dollars) is the public relations val-
ue: the good will and positive im-
age promoted among millions of
readers in all parts of the world.
Arabic is not missing from the
list, and several Israeli authors
have a good following in Egypt,
Jordan and Algeria.

The most translated Hebrew
authors are Yehuda Amichai,
whose volumes of poetry have
been made available in 30 lan-
guages, and novelists Amos Oz,
28 languages; A.B. Yehoshua, 22;
Aharon Appelfeld, 18; Yoram Ka-
niuk and David Grossman, 17
each.
The big boom has been in lit-
erate Europe. In the past five
years, no fewer than 400 titles of
Hebrew literature, including po-
etry, prose, drama, anthologies
and literature for children, have
been translated into one or more
of the 25 European tongues. This
represents a tripling of the num-
ber of titles published in 1975-79.
China constitutes one of the
latest breakthroughs, and some
40 Hebrew books are on the list.
One enthusiastic publisher there,
discovering the sales possibilities
in his country (population 1 bil-
lion) for quality Hebrew litera-
ture, placed an immediate order
for nine books in one year. It was
necessary to explain to him that
competent translators from He-
brew to Chinese were not reach-
ly available, and he finally
grudgingly agreed to take three
books the first year. The interest
in Japan is still meager, howev-
er.
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