{"id":48301,"date":"2018-10-08T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=48301"},"modified":"2018-10-03T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:18:32","slug":"21-00-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=48301","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem project reveals how Jews lived 2,000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Jerusalem project reveals how Jews lived 2,000 years ago<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

DANIEL K. EISENBUD<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Apart from a replica of the Madaba Map, nine other mosaics will illustrate the stories of people who lived and worked there during Byzantine times.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"HousingHousing and Construction Minister Yoav Galant (center) tours the Cardo section of the Jewish Quarter on Wednesday morning. Photo By: AVI HAYUN<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

More than 1,500 years after Jewish life flourished in the Cardo section of the Old City\u2019s Jewish Quarter, renderings of ancient markets mounted on mosaics, discovery of a Byzantine arch and reconstruction of a bombed-out synagogue are breathing new life into the historically rich area.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cardo, which stretches north to south from Damascus Gate to David Street, dates to the sixth century CE and is depicted on the Madaba Map, a part of a floor mosaic discovered in 1884 in a Byzantine church in Madaba, Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The beautification project will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n

The endeavor was initiated several months ago, but it was only made officially public on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The revitalization is being spearheaded by the Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter and the Tourism Ministry, with aid from Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze\u2019ev Elkin, the Jerusalem Foundation, the Jerusalem Municipality and the Israel Antiquities Authority.<\/span><\/p>\n

To mark the capital\u2019s half-century milestone, Pini Refael, manager of education and tours for the reconstruction and development company, said it was decided to focus on the area\u2019s historic culture and art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apart from a replica of the Madaba Map, nine other mosaics will illustrate the stories of people who lived and worked there during Byzantine times.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to renew the Cardo by creating special mosaics that are going to show people what life was like here 1,500 years ago,\u201d Refael said, speaking near two recently completed mosaics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re also going to recreate nine shops to illustrate that time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Refael said the shops will match mosaics of ancient jewelry, fabric, fruit, vegetable, animal and ceramics stores that once lined the ancient street.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll the mosaics will be a replica of this period of life,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the shops will only sell things from that time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The project commenced three months ago and is scheduled to be completed by mid-2017. The mosaics featured in the Cardo are part of a far more expansive project to build many more mosaics throughout the quarter, Refael said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Renowned Israeli artist David Harel was present on Wednesday morning, along with Construction Minister Yoav Galant, to reveal the two completed mosaics. The colorful pieces depict ancient fabric and fruit and vegetable shops and are based on Harel\u2019s oil paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hemeticulously researched the era he would be reproducing and later submitted the paintings to artists at Elon Mossaic, at Kibbutz Elon in the North, to reconstruct them with stones.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI studied all the academic research from that time and got the exact details,\u201d Harel said, noting that it took five months to complete seven of the nine portraits.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI make a drawing, and it then takes about six weeks to complete each painting. Then I bring them to Elon Mosaic. I am painting many different shops \u2013 from spice, jewelry and food to ceramics \u2013 everything as it was 1,500 years ago.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am very proud of this project because it is from our history, and my work will live for thousands of years,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Galant emphasized the Cardo\u2019s historic importance and said the mosaics \u2013 along with a nearby, recently excavated Byzantine arch \u2013 will be seen by millions of tourists who walk through the area every year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great [opportunity] to show all visitors \u2013 tourists, Jews, non-Israelis \u2013 what was happening here 2,000 years ago, how Jews lived, how they made their living in this area and to describe the [ancient] open market,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Galant, a former commander of the IDF\u2019s Southern Command, discussed reconstruction of the nearby Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, which he called long overdue. The synagogue is now being actively resurrected.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis synagogue, together with the Hurva Synagogue, were destroyed by the Jordanians in one of the crucial battles in 1948, just days after the establishment of the Jewish state, and it took us another 19 years before we arrived back and recaptured this area,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to make sure that all the Jewish symbols \u2013 all the synagogues, all the Jewish traditions and whatever symbolized Jewish life in Jerusalem \u2013 will be emphasized and will be greater than it was.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very simple,\u201d Galant said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot allow, under a free and democratic Israeli state \u2013 50 years after we arrived back to the Jewish Quarter to the Kotel and Jerusalem \u2013 that such destruction will remain a scar on the life and prestige of the Jewish Quarter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked his opinion of last month\u2019s UNRWA vote ignoring Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, Galant expressed palpable dismay.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEven if you repeat a lie a thousand times, it doesn\u2019t make it true,\u201d he said. \u201cI condemn this effort to try to twist history for political reasons. It won\u2019t work \u2013 not on the political side, and definitely not on the historical side.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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