A “Just” Jerusalem

March 23, 2008 - 1:00 PM by

When the “A Team” isn’t resolving the problem it’s time to call in back-up support.

On Friday MIT, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the winners of a global contest aimed at choosing the most innovative proposals for developing Jerusalem, a city at the heart of this Middle Eastern conflict.

They chose four teams of students and professors in architecture and international affairs from among some 1,100 entries to the contest dubbed “Just Jerusalem,” set in motion last year.

The winning proposals include a plan to collect rainwater runoff as a potential solution to water shortages in the arid region, and ideas for creating a network of services for Palestinian areas isolated from much of the city by a barrier Israel has built in the last decade due to security concerns.


The winners hail from the United States, Austria, Malaysia and the Palestinian territories; they’ll spend three months this fall on a $50,000 fellowship at MIT trying to turn their ideas into a workable blueprint, project director Diane Davis, an author and sociologist at MIT, told Reuters.

More on the story here.

Isn’t Bibi an MIT alum? Okee Dokee.

Tags: • Category: Israeliness, Politics, Technology 

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One Comment on A “Just” Jerusalem

  1. Benji on Sun, Mar 23rd 2008 2:50 PM

    2. The A-Team??? We’re putting the future of Jerusalem in the hands of B.A. Baracus???

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