David versus Goliath: Tiny religious sect emerges as key impediment for controversial Jerusalem cable car plan.
This Saturday, March 2, 2019 photo, shows the Karaite cemetery in Jerusalem. The Karaite Jewish community, a tiny religious sect, is emerging as a major impediment for a controversial plan to connect modern Jerusalem and its historic Old City with a cable car network. Other objections -- from Palestinian residents, environmentalists, urban planners and archaeologists -- have so far been unable to halt the project.
In Jerusalem, a city with over 3,000 years of history, virtually any development project can be contentious. New construction often grinds to a halt after an incidental discovery of antiquities and archaeologists are brought in to salvage ancient remains. Standing amid the wildflowers and lush grass surrounding the grave of his great-great-grandfather, once the head of Jerusalem’s Karaite community, Yefet said he doubts the cable car plan will go through. He is all for modern development, he said — but not at the expense of his heritage.
Though they serve in the Israeli military and consider themselves Jewish in every respect, they face constant friction from Israel’s rabbinic authorities when it comes to marriage, divorce and kosher slaughter. “Nobody asked or was concerned whether it was a problem according to Karaite law if they were to build something over the cemetery,” said Rom Golan, the Karaite community’s attorney. “When we explained it was impossible according to religious law, we stopped hearing from them.”
The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as capital of a future state and view the cable car project as another move to permanently bind east Jerusalem to Israel. The planned route would also be built over the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan.
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