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The Van Leer Institute.
43 Zabotinsky Street.
Friday, 19.9, 10:30.
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Architects: Shimon Povezner, David Reznik, 1962.
Meet and tour with architect David Reznik, in on of the most impressive building in Jerusalem built in the second half of the 20th century. The meeting will include a tour in the building and a lecture in the auditorium, on the Institute’s campus design and construction process.
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Shoval House.
11 Aba Hilkiya Street, Katamon.
Friday, 19.9, 14:00-18:00.
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Architect: Nava Lifshitz, 1994.
Open house at the Shoval family home - a small arabic house in Katamon. The house underwent massive renovation - by altering the garden level, the house’s small spaces could be harmoniously conjoined, creating a natural, organic connection between outdoors and indoors.
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Behind the Scenes of the Jerusalem Theatre
20 Marcus st.
Friday, 19.9, 9:00
,11:00.
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Architects: Nadler-Nadler-Bickson
Main wing, 1971, Second wing, 1986.
Two tours in the four walls and vestibules of the Jerusalem Theatre, behind the scenes and in their front: Sherover Hall, the concert hall, the auditorium and the small hall, stages, control rooms, dress rooms and more.
This is an opportunity to grasp the magnitude of the space required for the operation of a theatre hall.
2 tours, each limiter to 40 pre-registered guests.
* each tour runs approx. one hour. |
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The Shalom House.
20 Ehad Ha’am St., Talbia.
Friday, 19.9, 10:00-17:00; Saturday, 20.9, 10:00-19:00.
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Architect: Zoltan Hermet, 1934-5.
Advocate Shalom Horowitz was one of Eretz Israel’s leading lawyers during the British mandate on Palestine. This is an open house in his home, which was bequeathed upon his death to Keren Hayesod and today serves as a rare exemplar of typical contemporary Jerusalem upper-middle class life-style. This house exudes elegance and multi-culturalism, boasting a spectacular entrance with a Damascus ceiling, bought by Shalom in Damascus, and a beautifully cultivated garden that include 2 cedar trees brought from Lebanon. The drawing room on the ground level used to be a social-musical “Salon”.
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Hansen Hospital
17 Marcus Street, Talbia
Friday, 19.9, 9:00-12:00.
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Architect: Conrad Shick, 1887.
The Hansen hospital - which was erroneously known as “The Lepers Hospital” in the past, and was closed for visitors - is reopening its gates and allowing visits to the South ward and the yard. This is an opportunity to visit the mystery-laden building designed by Shick in the 19th century for the Order of the Mehrenrot Brothers, who founded this hospital and operated it until the declaration of independence of Israel.
Guided tours to the first 50 comers, will leave from the yard every half hour. |
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Preservation in the German Colony.
Meeting point: Gan HaPa’amon gas station.
Saturday, 20.9, 10:00am.
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Historical Tour guided by Rafi Kfir. The tour will pass through the colony’s houses, which were originally built by the Templars in typical German village stle (albeit with local materials), and will highlight how historical and ethnographic changes the colony underwent, are reflected in its buildings.
Open tour. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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OT HAMUTZAR HOUSE
12 Derech Hevron St.
Friday, 19.9, 16:00-19:00, and Saturday, 20.9, 11:-17:00.
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Architect: Clifford Holiday, 1927.
Visit this romantic building, originally designed to serve as the outpatient day-clinic of Saint John’s Hospital (currently Har Zion Hotel) which is located across the street and connected by an underground passage. Today, the building’s spaces, positioned around a communal patio, serve as artists workshops. In the patio you will find, among other things, a fountain and a room whose walls are covered with 180 years old hand-crafted Armenian ceramics.
Open house. Pre-registration NOT required.
Guided Tours in the building: Friday at 16:00, 17:00, 18:00.
Saturday at 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 and 16:00.  |
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Government Publishing House
24 Hebron road
Friday, 19.9, 10:00,
10:45,
11:30.
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Architect: Austen St. Barbe Harrison, 1934; Conservation and renovation architects: Plesner Architects, 2008.
Three half-hour tours with architect Maya Plesner in on of the most intriguing projects in Jerusalem today: a house built by the Brits in the International Style, serving as the government’s publishing house until the 1980’s. After years of standing in abandon and neglect, it was renovated and conserved by JVP as an office building for its technology greenhouse and animation company.
3 tours, each limited to 30 pre-registered guests. |
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The Gerber Family House
19 Yishai St., Abu Toor
Saturday, 20.9, 12:00-17:00.
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Architect: Unknown, appendage and interior design: Efrat and Danny Gerber, 2002.
Open house in the beautiful home of a couple who is invested in small scale construction in Jerusalem, such as the house they built for themselves, inside an old building that used to be Nurses Housing in the 1950s and later, offices of Hamelitz organization. The house is situated above a water reservoir (used today as a play room) and includes bedrooms, a living rooms and a lush garden.
Open House. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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The Blum house, Alvin Israel.
20 Henrietta Solde st., Kiryat Yovel.
Friday, 19.9, 10:00
and 11:00.
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Architects: Selma Millson Arad-Avner Simon, 2007.
Visit the boarding school which used to be known as “The Swedish Village” - Tour the new residence hall located in a campus of three boarding schools, dedicated to people with special needs. This is an opportunity to learn about therapeutic sensibility based architecture, allowing for a very accessible campus to be built on a problematic topography.
2 tours, each limited to 20 pre-registered guests. |
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The International Christian Embassy
20 Rachel Imenu, Old Katamon.
Friday, 19.9, 10:00-13:00.
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Unkonwn architect, 1940’s.
Come see the house that was built in the 1940 by a Circassian constructor - serving since then the Czechoslovakian Embassy, the Ivory Coast Consulate, the Hartman Institute and (currently) the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem. This house boasts a magnificent entrance gate, a royal stairway, meticulous wooden details and a date tree in the front.
Open house. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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Natural History Museum (Villa Dekan).
6 Mohaliver, Hamoshava HaGermanit.
Saturday, 20.9, 10:00-14:00.
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Architect: Unkonwn, 19th Century.
Come see a mansion inside a splendid estate, surrounded by a huge garden, built by a rich unknown Armenian merchant. Throughout the years, the house served the Turkish and British Governors of Jerusalem. The mansion is filled with hints to the luxury it once had: colorful floors tiles, iron rings hanging from the ceiling and used for oil lamps, high style fireplaces as well as ceramic and marble ornaments.
Open house. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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The Templar and International Cemetery
41 Emek Refa’im, Hamoshava HaGermanit.
Friday, 19.9, 10:00-14:00; Saturday, 20.9, 10:00-16:00.
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Caretaker Miro Aaharoni will guide the tours and talk about the people buried on the premises, how they arrived to Israel and why. Among them architects Mr. and Mrs. Emberger and John Stanley, who helped to buy ships to help bring Jewish refugees from Europe after World War II.
Open tours. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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Armon Hanatziv (High Commissioner) Promenades
Meeting point: The Hess promenade Restaurant, on Roof deck.
Friday, 19.9, 10:00-11:30.
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Architect Shlomo Aharonson, designer of the promenades, will guide the tour, starting at the Hess promenade, proceeding along the ridge road, descending toward Mount of Olives and ending in the Sherover promenade (near Naomi St.).
Open tour. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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Sigal and Chenchel Benga House
3 Hanotrim Street, Katamon Het.
Friday, 19.9, 17:00-20:00; Saturday, 20/9, 11:00-14:00 and 17:00-19:00.
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Open house in the home of Indian artist Chenchel Benga - who demonstrates use of recycled materials and their transformation into domestic use - such as a ceramic slivers mosaic covered bathroom, studio gallery and seating area, done in an Indian village style. This is a great example of optimistic and entrepreneurial urban rejuvenation at the Katamon neighborhood, and of the use of private space for one’s livelihood.
Open house. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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Kehilat Yedidya Synagogue
12 Nahum Lifshitz st., Bak’a.
Friday, 19.9, 9:00-12:00.
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Architects: Rosenfeld Arens Architects, 2003.
An opportunity to see how meticulous contemporary architecture serves the ever changing needs of a pluralistic, modern Orthodox community, in a house that doubles as a synagogue and a community center. This structure uses both material conditions in Jerusalem and design requirements, in a sophisticated way - for example - turning the access ramp into an inter-ceremony space, between the gathering hall and the prayer hall (lit by a constructivist glass wall, produced in Israel for the first time).
Meeting and tour with the architects at 11:00.
Open house. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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Agnon House
16 Klausner St.
Friday, 19.9, 12:30,
14:00.
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Architect: Fritz Kornberg, 1931; Conservation architects: Selma Milson-Arad-Avner Simon, 2007-8.
Guided tour in Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s house upon completion of the conservation project and its reopening to the public. The special challenges and complexities of the project as well as dilemmas faced by the design team would be presented by the Ayelet Lieber, the house curator, and Selma Arad-Milson, the conservation architect.
2 tours each limited to 25 PRE-REGISTERED guests.
* Tour runs 1 hour. |
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Israel State Archives
35 Makor Haim street, third floor, Talpiot.
Friday, 19.9, 9:30,
Friday, 19.9, 11:00,
Friday, 19.9, 12:30.
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Three 1 hour long encounters inside Israel’s state archives, will include a presentation of the archive’s treasures - documents, sketches and original construction plans of buildings and neighborhoods in Jerusalem.
* Entry with I.D only.
3 tours, each limited to 25 pre-registered guests. |
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Tantur Institute
The end of Hebron Road, at the entrance to the tunnel road on the left.
Friday, 19.9, 9:00-17:00; Saturday, 20.9, 9:00-17:00.
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Architect Frank Montana, 1968-1972.
An opportunity to discover a modern building with impressive architectural qualities which is located in one of the most fascinating observation points in Jerusalem. A unique example of American modernism in the 60’s, adopted to the Jerusalem materialism. The building was built for the Theological Seminary of the University of Notre Dame and functions as a theological research institute for all disciplines of Christianity.
No need to pre-register. |
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Our Father’s House- “The Mountain`s Palace”
Tsukey Ha`Yeshua. (at the end of the road up the mountain)
Friday, 19.9, 15:00,
15:30,
16:00,
16:30.
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Come see the building complex that earned many names and served many functions since the 1960s, when it was built as the summer home of Jerusalem’s Protestant Bishop, Smauel Gobat. The house served as a British officer’s club and a care center for holocaust survivors. Since the 70s it has been, and still is - a center of Messianic jews. The lush garden hides a footpath, adorned with sculptures on which verses from the story of Joseph and his brothers are engraved. Hiding in the garden is also an ancient wine press dating back to the Second Temple period.
4 tours each limited to 12 PRE-REGISTERED guests.
* No parking or stopping with cars on the ascending access road. Access to the house is by foot only, in climbing a steep hill. |
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The Ein Mor House
Area Aleph number 9, Ein Kerem.
Friday, 19.9, 10:00-13:00.
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A house form the beginning of the 20th century, with high ceilings molded over railroad tracks, painted floor and contemporary additions that serve the ever-changing needs of the family.
Open House, Pre-registration NOT required. |
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Sculptor Aharon Betzalel Studio
Ein-Kerem’s main street.
Saturday, 20.9, 9:30-13:00.
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Sculptor Aharon Betzalel seldom opens his studio and work space to the public, so this is a rare opportunity to explore the space, located within the 2 meter thick walls of a 200 years old structure, boasting domed ceilings, and known to have housed men and stock in one and the same space.
Open house. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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Olive Press: Artist Yitzhak Greenfield Studio
5 Ha’Oren st., Ein-Kerem
Friday, 19.9, 17:00; Saturday, 20.9, 10:00-12:00.
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Architect: unknown, 1908.
Open house in Yitzhak Greenfield’s home, inside a 100 years old structure - this is an Arab olive press and flour mill that was abandoned during the War of Independence and remained deserted without running water or electricity until it was renovated during the 1960s by the Greenfields. The couple transformed it into an art school, gallery and residence for the artist, all fully functional to this day.
3 tours, each limited to 40 first guests. |
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Ayalon House.
3 Derech Hatazpit, Ein Kerem.
Saturday, 20.9, 10:00-13:00.
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A typical Arab village house dating back to the second half of the 19th century, boasting arched ceilings and one meter thick wall, perforated with small openings that serve as windows. This house is typical for the Arab village of Ein Kerem, and is now the home of artist Avida Ayalon.
Open House, Pre-registration NOT required. |
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The Old Village Houses
Meeting point: Ein-Kerem spring/ Miriyam spring.
Friday, 19.9, 17:00;
Saturday 20.9, at 9:00
and 11:00.
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Meeting point: Ein-Kerem spring/ Miriyam spring.
Pnina and Dudu Ein-Mor from “The Ein-Kerem Legend” will guide you through the different village houses, focusing both on the nature of Arab construction in villages, as well as the village’s luxurious mansions designed by Moroccan and Italian architects.
3 tours, each limited to 35 pre-registered guests. |
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Bible Times Learning Center
13 HaAhayot Road, Ein Kerem
Friday, 19.9, 9:00-17:00; Saturday, 20.9, 9:00-18:00.
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Open house at a `Living Museum` located in a large 19th century Mediterranean villa, built in the late Ottoman Empire style. The large central courtyard is surrounded by high-ceiling rooms, meter thick walls, arched windows and topped by a roof `vineyard` with a spectacular view of Ein Kerem. The villa is also known as `The Allegra House` or `The House of Love and Peace`, from historical/legendary stories of forbidden love. The Heritage Garden boasts the Biblical Seven Species, fruit trees and herbs of the Land. The garden surrounds archaeological finds and replicas which speak to the culture `in the days of Tenach`!
Open House. Pre-registration NOT required |
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Saint Vincent Home
Psukei Hayeshua (mid slope) Ein Kerem.
Saturday, 20.9, 10:00,
11:00.
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Architect: Unknown, 1880’s.
Two extraordinary encounters with the Home staff - the sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul, operating one of the most beautiful buildings in Ein Kerem. Since 1964, this building, built in the European Monumental Style, serves as a hospital for children with severe physical and mental disabilities. The world view of the Catholic sisters-who treat both Jewish and Muslim children, will be outlayed in the meetings. They will tell of therapy methods and daily routines, including a “Touch” room, Music therapy, “Sense Garden” and more.
2 tours, each limited to 25 pre-registered guests. |
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The Wine Press (Beit Hagat)
14 Simtat Hagiva, Ein Kerem.
Friday, 19.9, 9:00-12:00; Saturday, 20.10, 16:00-20:00.
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Architect: Unknown, 1870.
Open house in a building that serves as an example for the variety of uses the houses of Ein Kerem are put to: this building used to be a flour mill and olive press for the adjacent Sisters of Zion monastery. In its center stands an olive press with a crushing stone and Ekel olive baskets. Today the house is in the service of Beit Hagat (Wine Press) Organization, offering a host of activities for the promotion of understanding between religions, as well as a fully functioning guest house.
* A guided tour by a staff member of Bet Hagat, will leave every hour on the hour.
Open house. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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The Stairs House
1 Madregot Habikur, Ein Kerem (next to the spring).
Saturday, 20.9, 10:00-14:00.
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Architect: Unknown. 18th Century; Renovation and preservation architect: Benaya Bin-Nun, 2008.
A unique opportunity to peek into a few century old Arabic house, which underwent massive renovation and preservation process, and today contains two residential apartments and a music studio.
Open house. Pre-registration NOT required. |
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