KARAITE-AND-CABLE-CAR-CONFLICT WATCH:
Internationally renowned architects add opposition to Jerusalem cable car plan. Ron Arad, Moshe Safdie, Santiago Calatrava among 27 figures charging that ‘powerful interest groups’ are putting tourism and politics above safeguarding cultural treasures (Sue Surkes, Times of Israel).
The article only mentions the opposition to the cable car plan by the local Karaite community at the very end. But more on that
here.
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