Strategic neglect

Peggy Cidor, The Jerusalem Post

In a recently released survey conducted for the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (JIIS) in early January 2006, 77 per cent of the adult Jewish population in Israel agreed with the statement that “The State of Israel’s national resilience is linked to the resilience of its capital city.”

That, notes co-author Maya Choshen (together with Israel Kimhi and Yair Assaf-Shapira) is the good news.

And now for the bad news.

According to monitoring by the JIIS, “recent years have witnessed the intensification of processes which threaten to impair the city’s resilience and there is a real reason to fear for Jerusalem’s ability to weather the difficulties facing it.”

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