Thursday, July 12, 2007

THE MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE has reportedly received support from the IAA to be built on the site of that Muslim cemetery:
IAA set to okay museum on site of Muslim cemetery
By Meron Rapoport

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) told the High Court of Justice that it was prepared to allow construction of the Museum of Tolerance on the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem's Mamila area, although an enormous archaeologist had determined that the excavation was far from complete.

In the opinion, to be submitted to the court today, Dr. Raphael Greenberg of Tel Aviv University states that the IAA archaeologist excavating the area wrote in his concluding report that there were at least 800 graves still left in the area and that he unequivocably recommended prohibiting construction there.

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Presumably "enormous" is a mistranslation of "prominent" or some such in the original Hebrew. For more, see here and follow the links back. See also here.

I'm back in the public library, but we're headed off now to go hiking.