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Builders Affect
Past, Future
LYNN PORITZ SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
Who ever saw Jerusalem
naked?
Even archaeologists never did.
Because she never stripped
completely.
She always put on new houses
instead of the worn and torn
and broken.
Yehuda Amichai Poems from
Patriotic Songs
I
n the past 4,000 years
Jerusalem has risen
many times from the rub-
ble of conquest and destruc
tion; each time, as Israeli poet
Yehuda Amichai wrote, with
building materials mixed of
"love, stones and sorrow."
Today's builders, who have
been reconstructing the city
since the birth of the modern
state, attest to its uniqueness.
Jerusalem's past, its future,
its wars, its battles, and its
spirit, play an integral part in
building the Holy City, along
with the more mundane dirt,
rock, sticks, stones, mud, mor-
tar and machinery.
What makes Jerusalem so
special?
Firstly, the earth itself con-
tains hard dolomite, flint and
limestone that can require
dynamite to level or
penetrate and huge boulders
to buttress, unlike Tel Aviv
which is built on sand. "The
land is made of ridges, moun-
tains and valleys and is never
straight," says Aaron Ella,
one of eight sons of the
40-year-old Nachum Ella &
Sons contracting firm.
The weather is another
obstacle, making it "impossi-
ble to build for almost three
months of the year," notes
Shlomo Kol, whose father
started Isaschar Contractors
40 years ago.
Jerusalem's building code is
also restrictive. A law enacted
during the British Mandate
requires all Jerusalem
buildings to be faced with
stone, be it rough hewn or
fine, square or rectangular. (It
takes 20 tons, or 150 square
meters of stone, to face a four-
room apartment).
Moreover, Jerusalem is one
of the few cities in the world
where workers must stop
building when the past turns
up in the form of ancient
vases, relics and bones among
the foundations.
Archaeologists and the
Atara Kadishe (a religious
organization which protects
gravesites)
temporarily
halted construction last year
on the $100 million Mamilla
project, a 32.5 acre commer-
cial/residential enterprise
across from the Jaffa Gate
when Byzantine relics were
found at the site. And in 1956,
Jason's Tomb was uncovered
by the builders of Kiryat
Wolfson, a luxury apartment
complex in Rehavia. "We
found graves while preparing
the foundations and called in
Atara Kadishe," recalls Mr.
Ella. "We then had to modify
the building's structure. If the
bones cannot be taken to a
special cemetery and relics
removed, we are prohibited
from building," says Mr. Ella,
whose company has halted
work many times for precise-
ly this reason. "We certainly
can't be blamed for building
the future by burying the
past."
Preservation
groups delay
construction when
old buildings
become
endangered.
Preservation groups, such
as the Council For a Beautiful
Israel, also delay construction
when old buildings worthy of
preservation become en-
dangered by new housing
developments. This was the
case with Stern House in
Mamilla, where Theodor
Herzl once lodged and where
much Herzl memorabilia can
be found. The court gave per-
mission for the Council to
take the building apart piece
by piece and reconstuct it in
the same spot after the in-
frastructure for the Mamilla
project was complete.
With the reunification of
the city after 1967, Pinchas
Ben Moshe, an engineer with
the firm of Zalman Barashi,
recalls, "The excavation of
neighborhoods such as Ramot
and Ramat Eshkol, was
fraught with tension." Close
to Ammunition Hill, a former
Jordanian military outpost,
captured during the Six-Day
War, the area was found to be
strewn with land mines. They