THE NEAREST that Franz Kafka (above) came to the Holy Land was the plan he hatched with his last lover, Dora Diamant, to open a restaurant in Tel Aviv. She would cook while he waited on tables. Alas, tuberculosis claimed the writer from Prague in June 1924, before Kafka's Place could open its doors. (Speciality? Surely, grilled scapegoat.) However, in 1939 Kafka's friend Max Brod fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for Palestine with a suitcase that held most of his idol's manuscripts. It contained the never-completed novels "The Trial", "The Castle" and "Amerika", along with diaries, notebooks and correspondence.
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