23.03.2011                      17.Adar ll, 5771

Umwelt:

Jerusalem's iconic windmill to spin its sails once again

135 years after it stopped operating, the historic site is to be powered by wind once again. And just to be on the safe side, an electric motor is being installed too.

When the dog Balak, the protagonist of S.Y. Agnon's novel "Only Yesterday," tires of running away from people, he escapes to the windmill at Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem. "And when Balak saw himself at Montefiore's windmill, he was no longer scared, for the windmill was idle and they weren't working in it."
Now, 100 years after Balak's time and 135 years after it stopped operating, the historic site is to be powered by wind once again. And just to be on the safe side, an electric motor is being installed too….