By Menachem Daum
Lifta is the only remaining Arab village
depopulated in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence that has not been
completely destroyed or re-populated by Jews. Lifta’s Arab heritage,
architecture and history are about to be erased by Jerusalem’s
municipality that plans to build over 250 luxury villas, shops and a
hotel on this site. An international coalition which includes
Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews is trying to stop this development
and preserve Lifta as a place of memory, of respect and, hopefully, of
reconciliation. The scenes are from a documentary film-in-progress
about this struggle.
More about Lifta: Saving Lifta
