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August 26, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-experts-near-completion-of-jerusalem-walls-restoration-1.380626

Israeli Experts Near Completion of Jerusalem Walls Restoration

(AP/Ha'aretz) Israeli experts are nearing completion of an ambitious restoration of the five-century-old walls of Jerusalem, the holy city's dominant architectural feature and a unique record of its eventful and troubled history. The $5 million undertaking, which began in 2007, is set to be complete by the end of this year. The first restoration of the walls in nearly a century, it has required decisions about which of the walls' many idiosyncrasies - the falcon nests, for example, the hundreds of machine-gun bullets, the botched restorations of years past - are flaws to be corrected, and which have earned a place in Jerusalem's story and are thus worth preserving.

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