The bigger the restaurant, the poorer the quality of the food and the less intimate the atmosphere - that's the rule of thumb I usually apply when chosing where to eat out. But no more. I've discovered that even the world's largest and busiest hyper-restaurant can deliver good food and great atmosphere, and it doesn't even cost that much. The variety on the menu is wide enough for most tastes, and the decor changes from area to area rather beiong just washed over with an enormous coat of paint.

Israeli officials kept quiet about a very large nationwide drill that left the residents worried and stunned. This morning, police forces deployed in full, for what eyewitnesses claim was the largest drill in recent history. Major traffic jams resulted from authorities blocking main roads in central Israel for part of the drill. All emergency and rescue services were included in this exercise. Tel Aviv suffered the worst of the traffic jams and locals claim that this was the largest scale drill of this kind in decades.

Barack Obama has been in the White House for nine months and Binyamin Netanyahu in the Israeli prime minister's office six months. Both have spent precious time batting the numbers of settlement apartments to and fro instead of taking resolute steps to thwart Iran's spectacular advances on the road to a nuclear weapon. DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources note that Tehran has made good use of this time for the longest strides towards its objective than at any time since its program was surreptitiously launched.