Everyday life in Jerusalem

We are having a great time. We have a three room apartment in the middle of Jerusalem, not far from the King David Hotel and the YMCA It has a bedroom, bathroom, and combination living room, dining room, and kitchen. We cook on a two burner hot plate. There is a microwave, electronic pot for heating water, and toaster oven, and a refrigerator with separate freezer on top. There is a stacked washer and drier in a closet. But of course one can only use one appliance at a time . If we use too many appliances simultaneously we have to reset the circuit breakers. Jerusalem is such an intellectually alive place. Then there is the challenge of every day life in a foreign country producing such activities as buying cottage cheese which we thought was yogurt, figuring out icons on the washing machine, mopping the tile floor Israeli style i.e. you wrap a thick cotton cloth (almost like a bathmat) around a squeegee, wet it with floor cleaner in water, and mop--or you throw the floor cleaner in water on the floor and then "mop" with the cloth. We bought canned tomatoes and then realized we didn't have a can-opener. When we want hot water to shower or wash dishes, we press a button and have lots of hot water in 10 minutes--it's a very energy efficient method--Germany and most of Europe had the same kind of system in the 1970s. Washer and drier are front loaders for energy efficiency. Most of the houses and apartment houses have some kind of solar energy set-up on the roof.