gr Want a Room With A View? were detonated by specially designed, steel bottomed trac- tors. "The tractor driver and myself were insured for one million dollars," said Mr. Ben Moshe. (Fortunately there were no casualties during this particular offensive.) After Jerusalem's unifica- tion, no place in the city held more spiritual significance for the Jews than the Wailing Wall. The once thriving Jewish Quarter of the Old Ci- ty, however, was in ruins after 19 years of Jordanian rule. The revitalization of the Old City involved city planners, architects and builders. Among them was Motka Morachov whose restoration work in the Jewish Quarter included the Karaite Synagogue and the Cardo, a Byzantine street. He found every type of ar- chaeological relic, but Mr. Borochov particular remembers the discovery of the decomposed body of an armed soldier from the 1948 War of Independence, na- tionality unknown. "It's a once in a lifetime job. The buildings of the Jewish Quarter were just a lot of stone and dirt, crumbling ar- ches and chipped ceramic," he said. "Some thought it would be impossible to restore," to recreate an antiquated style while preserving old buildings and relics. "You can't use tractors or bulldozers or sand blasters on a thousand-year-old wall," said Mr. Borochov. "Anything can cause it to crumble. "There were lots of workers. Hundreds. Trucks would leave materials by the Wail- ing Wall and then a team of 50 donkeys would lug these supplies into the Old City. Everything was done by hand. Shovels were used for digging, only gentle hammer- ing on walls was permitted, and brushes were used to clean particularly old structures. "All of the materials used, whether for building narrow lanes or renovating old buildings, were natural stone, wood and iron. And special anti-bacterial plaster was us- ed so the old walls wouldn't rot," said Mr. Borochov. 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