RG ST 131H Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Teddy Kollek, Meron Benvenisti, Nir Barkat
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Now israelis who send power to e jerusalem. Kollek won five elections before defeated by olmert. Jer had garbagae and feral cat problem lion faced and beautify jer, relatively successful. Barkat: international marathon, art biennal (v significant in that world), grand prix efforts to make jer a global city which have these things. Issue of economy of jer continued to dog the city -- overwhelmingly tourism. Barkat had idea of medical tourism -- people suffering v significant medical problems and come to jer"s strong medical institutes. Idea people would come to jer for long term medical care. Teddy kollek comes to the city and mayorship in 65. He was bornin a suburb of vienna, member of kibbutz, became a follower of ben guirion -- 1st. P. m. -- (his chief of staff in the fifties), ben guirion convinced him to run for mayor in jer.
