Within These Walls Page #5

speak of an ideal Jerusalem

a city of glory and peace.

In 1985 the City of David

Archeological Garden is opened.

Amid tangible proof of its

Biblical past,

Mayor Teddy Kollek has come to

speak of Jerusalem in our time.

Aragmatic and sensitive to human needs,

this remarkable man has retained

his office

through the combined votes of

both Arabs and Jews.

"...when we are living in a time

when people want evidence,

they want to see, they want to touch

what they believe in,

and not only believe in the abstract."

"Jerusalem is a place where

meaning survive,

when names survive.

In Jerusalem everybody

has a religion.

That doesn't mean that everybody

goes to synagogue,

or church, or the mosques.

But people believe in things.

The people who come to Jerusalem

because it has a special meaning

for them.

It's not like coming to

another city.

We try to give people a feeling

they live in a city

which belongs to everybody,

where everybody has his

particular past,

and his particular history.

Everybody who lives in Jerusalem

tries to link up

with the past Jews, Christians

Moslems."

"The most important thing

about Jerusalem is its people

in their variety.

It should remain in that variety,

one should protect that variety.

The people who live here,

they are the factor that

is most important."

Through the generations,

thousands of human beings have

been thrust together

to live out their lives in the

vibrant microcosm

that is the Old City of Jerusalem.

Bound by their fierce connection

to the city,

despite their differences,

the pressures of the years,

of violence and suffering,

the resilience of these people

and the city itself has preserved

its timeless qualities.

Even in our ear of materialism

and uncertainty,

the concepts of love, rebirth

brotherhood,

and peace still shine forth from

within the walls of Jerusalem.

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