ROOFTOP OF MY LIFE
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For its Season of Culture, the ancient capital has thrown open its rooftops to encourage residents to see beyond their blinkered boundaries. But the reality is a city where the divides are growing deeper. Mon 23 Oct T he rooftops of Jerusalem can be deceptive. From up here, the domes and towers of the hundreds of churches, mosques and synagogues glimmer on the skyline in what seems like peaceful coexistence; the neighbourhoods below come together in a unified sprawl.
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But down below, it is a city defined by barriers. They may not be as tangible as the towering security wall that divides Israel and the Palestinian territories a few miles east, but they are just as divisive and inviolable.
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Living side by side in Jerusalem are communities who exist with no interaction with one another — kept apart by fear, nationalism and religion. To some extent it has long been thus, and not just between Israelis and Palestinians. There is also segregation along secular and ultra-orthodox lines, and the residual hierarchy between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews that emerged when Israel was created in While Israelis typically live in the west and Palestinians in the east of Jerusalem, mixed neighbourhoods do exist.
In the winding alleys of the old city and the streets of downtown, the diverse inhabitants peacefully cross paths every day. Yet as rightwing nationalism seeps into the culture, and technology threatens the traditional ultra-orthodox way of life, the fractures of Jerusalem are growing deeper. Today communities live, not entwined, but in isolated parallel.
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Pfeufer is looking out over the city from atop the Bikur Cholim hospital, where she is a participant in a new city-wide project to open up rooftops, from west to east Jerusalem, that are usually private or inaccessible to the public. Some are art installations; others are the homes of interesting figures, both Israeli and Palestinian.
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Initiated by Mekudeshet, the Jerusalem Season of Culture , the project aims to encourage people to look beyond their blinkered boundaries and see their city afresh. Yet nothing in Jerusalem is apolitical. The foundation that runs Mekudeshet is Israeli, opening Palestinians who take part to accusations of normalising the occupation. In the national consciousness, East Jerusalem just means fear. We are on a journey to collaborate with Palestinians, to get to know East Jerusalem and remove that fear. But it is a long journey and very delicate, and to use a rooftop in the heart of East Jerusalem, well, we cannot.
The project traces a line across a divided city via its rooftops.
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And the stories of the volunteers who have opened their homes to strangers, regardless of ethnicity or creed, speak to a multi-layered Jerusalem, one rarely seen in a conflict-obsessed news cycle: Piles of chairs, teapots, jugs, masks, stools and carpets obscure every surface. On one wall is a vast oil painting of Napoleon and Josephine, adorned with diamante gems and stickers.
Tem certeza que deseja excluir esta playlist? The Clal Centre encapsulates the strange contradictions of Jerusalem. On 30 January , the band, with keyboardist Billy Preston , surprised a central London office and fashion district with an impromptu concert from the roof of the headquarters of the band's multimedia corporation Apple Corps at 3 Savile Row. On one wall is a vast oil painting of Napoleon and Josephine, adorned with diamante gems and stickers. But the reality is a city where the divides are growing deeper by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem; photographs by David Levene.
His parents were among the millions of Moroccan Sephardic Jews who moved to Israel in for the promise of an abundant life; instead, they found themselves ghettoised. That was the segregated reality of Jerusalem — and it was there right from the beginning of this new society. This rooftop once looked out over the barbed wire fence of the green line and the Jordanian sniper watchtowers. After the six-day war in , the green line fence came down — and the view of Jerusalem changed radically. It was here that Deri and 10 others formed the Israeli Black Panther movement in , which fought against the prejudice against Sephardic Jews, most of whom had emigrated from Arab countries.
It was inspired by its US namesake: We would go round and leave notes on the milk bottles, saying: Indeed, the Israeli Black Panthers initially felt more closely aligned to the Palestinian cause in their fight for equal rights. After the Yom Kippur war in , the movement fractured, but the battle lines are still present.
This society as we know it in Jerusalem and in Israel has about 20 years left and after that it will implode. Today it is a city filled with hate. Like Deri, he too served time in jail for violence and protest — but on the other side of the conflict.
He would roam the streets of Jerusalem, blinded by loathing for his Jewish neighbours. But I ended up in jail for five years — and there I saw everything. I realised my life was being wasted. Why did God send me here, in this cell detained with 10 other people? His rooftop sits at a symbolic crossroads: It is a holy place. Sometimes I sit here and I pray to God and I feel that the angels come and sit here with me.
Up here it does not matter if you are a Muslim or a Jew: Real peace will only come when we remember this. He gestures to a vast platter of yellow rice, then to the heavens. Were you a terrorist or did you create peace? All Jerusalemites stay within their communities to some extent, but none more so than the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population: Standing on top of the rooftop of Haredi hospital Bikur Cholim, Pnina Pfeufer looks down at the people bustling below, riding bicycles or pushing prams, recognisable by their distinctive clothing: Pfeufer has lived in this city all her life, but until three years ago she had never set foot in East Jerusalem.
As the news of the event spread, crowds of onlookers began to congregate in the streets and on the roofs of local buildings. While most responded positively to the concert, the Metropolitan Police grew concerned about noise and traffic issues. As police ascended to the roof, the Beatles realised that the concert would eventually be shut down, but continued to play for several more minutes.
The Beatles' rooftop concert marked the end of an era for many fans.
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The group did record one more album, Abbey Road , but by September the Beatles had unofficially disbanded. George Harrison , who guest-starred in the episode, is shown saying dismissively "It's been done! In the film Across The Universe , a musical made up entirely of Beatles' music, Sadie's band performs a rooftop concert in New York City which mimics the original. It is interrupted and closed down by the New York Police Department.
U2 also referenced the concert in their video for " Where the Streets Have No Name ", which featured a similar rooftop concert in Los Angeles. McCartney played a surprise mini-concert in midtown Manhattan on 15 July from the top of the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater , where he was recording a performance for Late Show with David Letterman.
News of the event spread via Twitter and word of mouth, and nearby street corners were closed off to accommodate fans for the set, which duplicated the original Beatles gig.
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