Category
construction
Israeli company to build $640 million toll road in Colombia
Jewish Journal
July 12, 2016
An Israeli company will have a pivotal role in a multinational plan to upgrade Colombia’s roads.
Tel Aviv cheers new subway, bemoans its construction
Jewish Journal
August 11, 2015
In 2011, when Los Angeles shut down a stretch of one of its busiest highways for a weekend of repairs, residents braced for a traffic jam “of biblical proportions.” Similar sentiments preceded the start of construction on Tel Aviv’s long-awaited light rail system last Sunday.
Israel OKs more eastern Jerusalem construction
Jewish Journal
June 18, 2014
Israel approved the construction of 172 new dwellings in Har Homa, a Jewish neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem.
Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s transformation
Rob Eshman
July 31, 2013
My old office, on the 15th floor at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Kingsley Drive, looked directly at Wilshire Boulevard Temple. It would have been an ideal location to set up a time-lapse camera to document the slow but historic changes that have taken place there over the past few years.
Netanyahu: Israel will build in Jerusalem despite criticism
Jewish Journal
December 19, 2012
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday his government would press ahead with expanding Jewish settlements around Jerusalem despite Western criticism of its plan to build 6,000 more homes in territory Palestinians seek for a state.
Israel to expand settlements after U.N.’s Palestine vote
Jewish Journal
November 30, 2012
Israel plans to build thousands of new homes for its settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, an Israeli official said on Friday, defying a U.N. vote that implicitly recognized Palestinian statehood there.
The Architect and the Rabbi: Wilshire Boulevard Renovation is a Collaboration, History Lesson
Susan Freudenheim
August 1, 2012
Early on a recent Wednesday morning, architect Brenda Levin bounded up the metal steps temporarily installed at the center of the historic sanctuary of Wilshire Boulevard Temple. Leading the way up 10 flights — that’s 100 feet — she climbed to the normally inaccessible domed ceiling, high enough to touch the enormous Hebrew letters circling the oculus\’ opening.
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