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M
any years ago, when
and had bad coffee at the Atara
Teddy Kollek was first
cafe or Cafe Alaska.
elected mayor of Jeru-
I lived in the Geulah quarter
salem, I sent congrat-
of Jerusalem in the 1950s,
ulations to His Honor,
which had a very mixed popu-
reminding him that in front of
lation and where no one object-
my home in the Jerusalem sub-
ed when I rode my bike home
urb of Nayot was a pothole
from work at the government
which years of pleading with
radio station late on Friday
the former mayor had failed to
nights.
repair.
Today, the chains across the
The new mayor and I were
roads that traverse Geulah go
not exactly close friends. I knew
up an hour before Shabbat be-
him as a journalist knows politi-
gins. It residents are now black-
cians on those activities he re-
hat followers of Chasidic rebbes.
ports. I liked
him: He was a
refreshing
change from
the windbags
who were
mayors in
most Israeli
cities.
Teddy had
an ego that
even for politi-
cians was out-
size, but he
countered that
with a sardon-
ic, brash sense
of humor that
made up for it.
All in all, he
was a good
mayor for the
28 years that An aerial view of Jerusalem.
ended this
month with his defeat by Ehud
The mix of cultures and peoples
Olmert.
that were once Geulah's delight
I had one important factor
are no more.
working against me when I
The city's population, now
wrote Teddy that brief letter. I
about half a million, includes
had not voted for him. At the
several hundred thousand Or-
time, in fact, I was at Stanford
thodox Jews and tens of thou-
University, trying to improve
sands of Arabs living in East
my resume. Since Israel does
Jerusalem. Each creates prob-
not have absentee ballots, I
lems for whoever runs the city.
missed the election. He re-
The problems are cultural, po-
sponded to my note by remind-
ing me that if I intended to
report on how well he dealt with
street repairs, I could do so
more accurately from Jerusa-
lem than from northern Cali-
fornia.
Touche, Teddy.
When he first became mayor,
Jerusalem was a small town of
perhaps 150,000 people. The
main sources of jobs were the
litical and religious. Worst of all
government, tourism, the Jew-
for a politician, they are also
ish Agency, the Hebrew Uni-
largely irrational.
versity and other public
I find nothing rational about
institutions. There was a little
worshipping at a stone wall,
industry and no traffic jams..
most of which was built by the
It was the kind of town where
Turks, or in regarding as sacred
everyone you knew attended
a plot of ground from which, ac-
the same Philharmonic con-
cording to legend, Mohammed
certs, sent their kids to Gym-
made a quick round-trip visit to
nasia Rehavia for high school
heaven. There is also little that
I'll tell you an open
secret: Jerusalem's
future is not all that
difficult to solve.
is authentic about the Christ-
ian holy sites in Jerusalem,
most of whose locations were
determined by a Byzantine
princess hundreds of years af-
ter the events said to have oc-
curred there took place.
Nor does much rationality
underlie relations between Jew
and Arab in Jerusalem. The
Jordanian Army had little re-
spect for Jewish sensibilities
when they controlled Arab
Jerusalem and used Jewish
gravestones from the Mount of
Olives to
build latrines.
Israeli Jews
reciprocate by
letting ex-
tremist
yeshivot pur-
chase homes
in the Arab
Quarter on
grounds that
Jews can live
anywhere in
a reunited
Jerusalem.
3 This argu-
ment loses
some validity
when Arabs
9 are forbidden
2
0- from buying
land or prop-
erty in the
Jewish Quar-
ter on the grounds that only
Jews should be permitted to live
there.
Call this "Arab- rein."
Mr. Olmert, Jerusalem's new
mayor, has inherited a world-
class headache since, if the
peace process is to succeed, all
these problems must be ad-
dressed. But, I'll tell you an
open secret: Jerusalem's future
is not all that difficult to solve.
As far as Jerusalem is the
center of religious veneration is
concerned, no one except a few
Jewish and Muslim extremists
still argues against Israel's po-
sition that each religion should
have open access to its sacred
sites and that all people should
have the right to pray at them.
There's a foolish dust-up about
the Temple Mount where both
Muslims and Jews claim prior
rights. But Moshe Dayan set-
tled this in 1967, by telling the
Muslims: You pray on top, and
we'll pray on the side, by the
wall.
It works.
Jerusalem is also a capital.
There's nothing sacred about
capitals. All they require is a lot