Talk:Teddy Kollek

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Contents 1 Breaking news (he passed away yesterday) 2 missing details 3 Relationship with Arabs 4 Teddy Kollek and the Occupation of Palestinian Land

[edit] Breaking news (he passed away yesterday)

It looks like there are a bunch of us working on this at the same time. Here is a list of some important news articles, books, films, and other sources.

• 1980 cover story article in the New York Times Magazine about Jerusalem.
• Sixty Minutes had a profile on Teddy Kollek back in the late 1970s (I think).
• Thomas Friedman, covering Jerusalem for the New York Times in 1985, wrote a lengthy article called "Teddy Kollek's Jerusalem".
• Amos Kollek, his son, prodcued a documentary film about his life (1996).
• Jewish Virtual Library biography. [2]
• Abraham Rabinovich. Teddy Kollek, Builder of Jerusalem. Jewish Publication Society. biography with focus on his career as mayor. 130 pages. ISBN: 0827605617.
• 1998 article in Jerusalem Post. [3]
• Article in Middle East Report, No. 182, by Joost R. Hiltermann. "Teddy Kollek and the Native Question."
• Article in New Outlook (January- February 1990) by Teddy Kollek, "Whose Jerusalem?"
• Article in Foreign Affairs, Winter 1988/89. by Teddy Kollek. "Sharing United Jerusalem." Kollek also wrote another article for Foreign Affairs about Jerusalem in July 1977.
• Teddy Kollek. Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years in the History of the Holy City. Out-of-print coffee table style book by Teddy Kollek. ISBN: 1565073428
• Naomi Shepard. Mayor and the Citadel. Teddy Kollek and Jerusalem. ISBN: 0297792091.
• Jerusalem Anthology: A Literary Guide. ISBN: 0827607040. Kollek helped edit this.
• Amir S. Cheshin, Bill Hutman, and Avi Melamed. Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem. by three Israeli authors. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-80136-9.
• "The Myth of Jerusalem," New York Review of Books, December 19, 1991
• Meron Benevenisti. Jerusalem: The Torn City (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976).

That's all for now. --Metzenberg 10:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] missing details

this article has almost nothing on his contributions to J'lem: the museums, theaters, zoo, parks, etc. Ehud, Tel-Aviv 132.66.7.213 11:06, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Relationship with Arabs

I originally put in the section called 'controversy' but now changed it to 'relationship with Arab community'. Certainly there are two sides to this story: on the one side, the annexation, the demolitions and the discrimination, on the other, the comparison with what came before the united Jerusalem.

I think this section should focus on Kollek's role in all of this, what he thought and did, since the issues of the annexation are well-covered in different areas on the encyclopedia. And it is an article about the man himself.

Maybe contributors could try not to get too worked up, as it appears they did: blaming the discrimination on the Palestinians, as someone tried to do, or calling a demoltion of some houses an 'atrocity' are not encyclopediac language.

I am not responsible for what is written below but I have flagged this section for neutrality after quotes I put in it and words I used were changed in a subtle manner. The obituary cited in the article from the IHT and the article on Haaretz from Gideon Levy indicate that Kollek's rule over the Arabs was complicated - neither black nor white. If this section is fixed I would be pleased to see material outlining this complicated relationship that was sometimes good, sometimes bad. The flag is merited her because the article is turning into propaganda.Onaraighl 13:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Arabs only have relatively "fond" memories of Mr. Kollek because his successors are even more vile. Mr.Olmert actually banned the organised removal of garbage can contents in East Jerusalem hoping to expel arabs via odor and diseases (no, this is not a joke, this is reality) and this tactic remains in effect to this day! There are a thousand more reasons Jimmy Carter said jew maintain apartheid against palestinians and muslims in the Holy Land! 212.108.200.69 17:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Teddy Kollek and the Occupation of Palestinian Land

Wikipedia's article about Teddy Kollek does not reflect the full scope of reality. I read Gideon Levy's article published in Haaretz Jan. 7 2007. He is a trustworthy journalist, critical of the occupation of Palestinian lands, including Jerusalem-East. Wikipedia's article should reflect the information conveyed by Levy's article about Teddy Kollek's support of the settlement project. The greatest settler, by Gideon Levy, Haaretz Jan. 7 2007 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/810113.html I am not familiar enough with Wikipedia to edit the page, or even add a link at the end. But I find the article controversial and I hope that others can edit it. Thank you. Maryedav 04:06, 16 January 2007 (UTC)