Time cover for August 13, 2012 issue.
New York - There is a new battle being waged over the future of Jerusalem, but not between the usual Israeli and Palestinian players. According to TIME Magazine, (http://ti.me/TcEpA2) in their cover story out this week entitled “The Battle for Jerusalem,” this time, the warring factions are the ultra-orthodox or “charedi” Jews and the secular Israelis.
TIME author Karl Vick writes, “Since 1967, Jerusalem has become a resolutely Jewish city, so much so that the central question preoccupying residents today is not how it might be divided with Palestinians – for they are widely ignored of late – but rather just how religiously conservative the city can become while remaining a place most Israeli Jews could imagine living.” The article states that the ultra-orthodox have only recently made a “Lazarus-like comeback,” one which “threatens the fabric of Israel, or as they see it, points the way to the nation’s salvation.”
