In the days when he still composed love songs for people and places and not for nails, Dudu Barak wrote a hymn that fondly describes what is happening in the Jerusalem neighborhoods: He will promise Rehavia, Romema "(composed by Yaffa Nahum Heiman).
With the pastoral description, del patos, many residents of Jerusalem can identify.
For those living in the neighborhoods, Jerusalem is first and foremost an everyday home and only then the national capital of the Jewish people.
Today they are happy to celebrate 55 years of unification, but treat with limited bail her overly recommended fans - who see it as a "port city on the edge of eternity" - and Catechism, some of whom are former Jerusalemites (hereinafter: "Jerusalem"), who dislike it for exactly the same reason.
The overflowing slogans of professional Jerusalemites, like the common lamentations of loss on the part of its multiple emissaries, are two sides of the same gaze that prefer the symbolic Jerusalem over the actual one.
"Do you know why in Israeli cinema everything in Jerusalem carries a charged meaning?"
Director Oded Davidoff told me ("Someone to run with").
"Because the Scouts did not grow up in Jerusalem and I do. For me, the Tower of David is not a historical site, it is simply the view you see from the window on the way to school."
The Jerusalemites, who converted their hometown in Tel Aviv and its daughters, made it the heavy and black negative of the white city, but Jerusalem is not (only) a symbol. One simple fact: no new neighborhood has been established in Jerusalem for years.
Political and international opposition prevents the development of Jerusalem beyond the Green Line on one side, while the opposition of green bodies to irreversible damage to natural areas used by its lungs limits it on the other.
The result is that the breaking of the Jewish people has ceased to expand.
While every collection of advertisements heralds the birth of another glorious construction project somewhere across the country, it is hard to come across similar news coming from the important urban metropolis in Israel.
Instead of developing laterally, Jerusalem is growing in height.
The place of construction that expands the borders of Jerusalem has recently been taken by multi-storey housing projects located on the ruins of old buildings.
Towers are popping up downtown as bumps after the rain, without being accompanied by the urban infrastructure that is critically needed for both new and old residents.
The inevitable result is that Jerusalem becomes a crowded and dangerous city.
The public parks are crowded, the roads are congested, and in the health funds and emergency rooms in Jerusalem, the medical staff find it difficult to provide care to the increasing number of patients knocking on their doors.
Jerusalem, a city with a long history, requires us all to think long-term.
Without the inclusion of Jerusalem below there is no point in singing the hymns to Jerusalem above.
Jerusalem lovers will grow old and discover when more neighborhoods are built in Jerusalem, that maybe one day they will also write thrilling love songs about them.
Wise urban planning will allow more residents to enjoy the mountain air, the evening breeze, the smell of the pines.
Next year in a more built Jerusalem.
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