Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jerusalem's police have bigger things to worry about than the Y2K bug - the Holy City's gendarmes are concerned about their precinct playing ground zero in some attempt to hasten a New Year's Eve Armageddon...
...Most recently, the Israeli authorities angered conservative Jewish groups when they slapped down an attempt by Jerusalem's right-wing mayor, Ehud Olmert, to stop construction of a new emergency exit at the Al Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam that sits on top of the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount. A perennial problem for the keepers of the city's peace is the fact that Jewish prophecy posits the rebuilding of Solomon's Temple as a precondition for the arrival of the Messiah, which would inevitably involve the destruction of Al Aqsa...
...pope canceling a scheduled Holy Land visit in the New Year. Not that the local constabulary would complain too much if His Holiness bows out. "If he does come, security officials are worried to death that some extremist, either Jewish or Muslim, will try to kill him," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer...
...Even more complex, perhaps, is the dilemma posed by the expected crush of tourists at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Built above the site of Christ's crucifixion and tomb, the church has since 1852 been managed according to an uneasy truce imposed on six warring Christian factions by the Ottoman sultan who ruled Jerusalem at the time. Franciscan Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Egyptian Coptic, Syrian and Ethiopian sects each jealously guard their portion of the holy site, according the sultan's rules. But there is only one entrance to the church, which the Israeli authorities fear...
...involvement in the arts has included being president of Carnegie Hall, a founding member of the National Endowment for the Arts and chair of the Jerusalem Music Centre...