ליפתא, ירושלים

Lifta, 2018

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אוגוסט 15, 2020 בשעה 10:51 am

למרות העזובה והלכלוך, ספה מרופטת מרמזת על בית המידות המפואר שהיה כאן לפנים. בדמיוני כבר הפך לבית חלומות פסטורלי על לצלע ההר, למרגלותיו בריכות המעיין. זיכרון של תרבות דיור שהוכחדה.

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1. גל נדלר הגיב:
  
  אוגוסט 27, 2020 בשעה 8:35 am
  
  האגדה מספרת שאולי אלו שאריות תפאורה שהובאה למקום בצילומי הסרט "מישהו לרוץ איתו", או אולי לא.
  
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Rita Mendes-Flohr הגיב:

אוגוסט 29, 2020 בשעה 6:59 pm

A red sofa in an otherwise empty room in Lifta, a picturesque village at the outskirts of Jerusalem, and one of the few, if not the only, former Palestinian villages in Israel that has not been permanently repopulated by Jewish Israelis, or turned to rubble after 1948, in an attempt to erase all traces of its Palestinian inhabitants.
A red sofa in an empty room. Was it abandoned by its Palestinian residents in 1948 – in flight, in fear, or in expulsion? The remains of a stilled life, a ghostly footprint, its absentee dwellers maintaining a haunting presence.
Except that the sofa is probably from one of the room’s subsequent rounds of inhabitants – Jewish immigrants from Yemen and Kurdistan, followed by militant rightwing Israelis from the “Lifta Gang” plotting to blow up the Temple Mount, then drug abusers from a former rehabilitation center located on the premises, students from an open education high school that long since moved elsewhere; or other more recent squatters, like religious hippies, claiming the local natural spring as a large, open-air mikveh – for men only.
The now empty room with the red sofa evidences its waves of habitation – in the wall’s layers of colored paint, its weathering, humidity, mold, graffiti, with the stones cut by Palestinian stonemasons peeking underneath the coats of plaster. The empty plastic bottles and garbage testifying to the latest occupants.
The inhabitants of Lifta after 1948 were indeed all marginal populations, in a village was, but no longer is, on the periphery of Jerusalem, the city having expanded out, encircling Lifta with new highways, train tracks, tunnels and doomsday bunkers – and where prospectors have an eye on creating a luxury villas and hotels, attracted by the still pastoral charm of the village with its old spacious chambers, domed ceilings, the connection to the nature outside, the orchards, the flowing springs. A development plan that has been halted – for the moment – a plan that would have turned Lifta into a ghost town for the rich, who would only visit their property occasionally from abroad. Will Lifta, according to another proposal, become a living museum, telling its many layers of history that began as early as the First Temple period? Or, could it ever be returned to the Liftawis, its original Palestinian residents and their descendants, who still gather at the village every single spring?

Rita Mendes-Flohr
Jerusalem, August 29, 2020

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