Never, ever for any reason in the world what’s-of-ever start taking photos of a group of teenagers while on a birthday bash for their friend on the main beach in Tel Aviv, unless you shoot and do not tell and then run away and disappear, otherwise, you will find yourself stuck spending an hour taking requests and having to shoot single portraits that you are later asked to email to 12 different email addresses in hebrew while your Israeli cousin is watching in amusement and disbelief.
Lesson learned.
LOL! Keep the stories and the pics coming! What an adventure!