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She's a titan of Israeli architecture. Her story contains troubling lessons for her country

JL;DR SUMMARY Ada Karmi-Melamede, a leading Israeli architect featured in the documentary "Ada: My Mother the Architect," reflects on her influential career and the evolving landscape of Israeli society. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israeli Supreme CourtDocumentaryZionist ValuesCommunal SacrificeIsraeli ArchitectureAda Karmi MelamedeYael MelamedeArchitecture And SocietyNature IntegrationIsraeli Society Critique

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"The Israeli Supreme Court building in Jerusalem."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Karmi-Melamede would never return to New York, and to this day, her entire family lives in the United States while she remains in Tel Aviv."
Zikhron Ya'akov, Haifa District, Israel
"The Visitors Center at Ramat HaNadiv Nature Park, designed by Ada Karmi-Melamede, in Zichron Yaacov."
New York, United States
"In the mid-1980s, after being denied tenure at Columbia University, Karmi-Melamede left her husband and three children in New York to move back to Israel to design the Supreme Court building with her brother."

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