15.08.2012                      27.Aw. 5772

Geschichte:

Fit for a king? How Israel's lavishly planned mausoleum ended up as a tent

A new study depicts the ordeal – financial as well as bureaucratic – that hindered the construction of Jerusalem's Mount Herzl in the 1950s.

How did Theodor Herzl, the man whose 1902 blueprint for a Jewish state included a vision of a built-up Haifa and was titled "Tel Aviv," come to be buried in Jerusalem?
This fact shows that the development of Mount Herzl and the final resting place of the founder of political Zionism was shaped more by the government's budget and bureaucracy than by an overarching architectural vision, according to a study recently published in Cathedra, a journal for Holy Land studies….