Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atop one of Jerusalem's olive-tree-cluttered ridges stands one of man's most unusual monuments to the past. Against the skyline, a white-tiled dome swells from a watery moat to contrast with a black basalt wall aflicker with flames. These dramatic structures mark the new home, dedicated last week, for Israel's collection of Dead Sea Scrolls (see opposite...
...like a cemetery in here," whispered a backbencher in Jerusalem's Knesset last week. And well it might be, for the legislature was facing the most painful decision in Israel's recent history-the question of close diplomatic ties with West Germany, a nation inevitably associated in Jewish minds with the hated Nazi past...
...Chained Liberty, Rodin's nude Adam and Archipenko's cubistic Woman Combing Hair. While Billy watched, twelve white-coated movers lifted the sculpture into vans. In all, there were 105 pieces conservatively worth $1,000,000, and they were off on their final journey to Jerusalem...
What in the world had prompted Billy Rose's handsome gesture? "About 200 of my friends see my collection in a year in my house," explained Billy. "Perhaps 20,000 people will see it on an average Sunday in Jerusalem. I decided to give it to Israel because it is hungrier for culture than any other country in the world." Rose has also made sure that his sculpture will have a spectacular setting: on an olive-studded hill in Jerusalem is the five-acre Billy Rose Art Garden, designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi and landscaped with 10,000 tons...
...that end, Special Envoy Kurt Birrenbach flew to Jerusalem and was astounded to discover that Israeli officials were not exactly jumping with joy. For one thing, anti-German feelings lie bone-deep in many Israelis; for another, everyone recognized that Erhard's decision was prompted less by a desire to do right by Israel than by a need to slap back at Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been diplomatically flirting with East Germany...