Caffe Hazait: A Slow Friday in the Ella Valley
The first thing that hits you at Caffe Hazait on a Friday morning is not the espresso machine or the shakshuka pans on the flat top, but the quiet. Moshav Tirosh sits in a fold of the Judean Hills, twenty minutes east of the fastest lane on Route 6, and the moshav on a Friday is one of those pockets of Israel where the loudest sound is the wind in the eucalyptus. You park along the moshav road, follow the wooden signs painted in the same green as the field walls, and the cafe reveals itself: a converted community space with a covered veranda facing the vineyard rows, wooden benches on the lawn, a wood counter piled with focaccia and a small cast iron pan already smoking with peppers and onions for the first shakshuka of the day. A dog stretches under a plane tree. A grandmother walks in with three grandchildren. The stone jug of iced water on the counter has slices of lemon and rosemary floating in it. This is Israeli dairy brunch stripped back to the fundamentals: a moshav, a Friday, and a plate of something warm.
Caffe Hazait opened in March 2026 as a Friday pop-up, and Friday brunch remains the anchor. During the working week, the space becomes an events room for the moshav and the surrounding Ella Valley communities: brit ceremonies, engagement parties, small work retreats, book launches with a spread of cheese boards and warm bread. The Friday service is the one the wider region drives for.