ABSTRACT
Among the geopolitical changes that have taken place from the establishment of the State up to the present, those in Jerusalem are particularly salient; nowhere else have so many complicated political, security, planning, demographic, historic and architectural problems been combined as in that city. The special importance of Jerusalem for the Jewish people and the nations of the world set it in a different light from other cities, and therefore planning and construction for it have always been accompanied by sensitivity to public and international reaction.
