Frank Gehry steps down from Museum of Tolerance project

Ha'aretz
Award-winning architect Frank Gehry announced yesterday that he was withdrawing from the Museum of Tolerance project in Jerusalem. The museum, being built by the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation, has drawn controversy because it is being put up on the grounds of an old Muslim cemetery in the Mamilla neighborhood....

Haaretz has also learned that Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch decided yesterday to cancel plans to set up a compound of judicial institutions in the area. The new buildings were meant to house the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court and the Jerusalem District Court.

Human remains were recently found at the site, which supported critics' claims that construction in the area was offensive to Muslims.......

...All graves have been removed from the site, with hundreds of skeletons reburied at the outskirts of the construction area...   Full story

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