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Written by Bryan Atinsky, Alternative Information Center Bryan Atinsky, Alternative Information Center
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Published: 02 December 2007 02 December 2007
On 28
November 2007, Meron Benvenisti presented a lecture in West
Jerusalem at the monthly Last Wednesday Forum of the Israeli
Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), which it hosts together with its
outreach center Daila. Meron Benvenisti served as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem under Teddy
Kollek from 1971 to 1978, administering the city’s annexed Palestinian sectors.
In 1982, he established and directed the West Bank Database Project, one of the
first attempts to gather comprehensive data on Israeli settlement and
governmental policies in the West Bank. He is
a regular contributor to the major Israeli daily Haaretz, and author of
numerous books, including: Jerusalem:
The Torn City (1977); Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land (1995);
City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem (1996); and Sacred
Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land
since 1948 (2000).
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