Just watched the Israeli Channel 10 News yesterday with an item about the ‘renovation’ of the once so beautiful Habima Theater, designed in 1935 by Richard Kaufmann. The reporter asked the renovation architect Ram Karmi the following quite relevant questions: “Why was there no public discussion about this renovation-project? Why was there no tender issued to select the architect? Why the budget went from NIS 31 million to NIS160 million? Why are there old components missing? Why the sub-contractor went to court to stop the project? Why the opening date changed from last December to the Summer of 2011?”
The amazing answer of the ‘gentleman’ architect was: “Everybody can kiss my arse!!”

Ram Karmi

 Before on Tel Aviv Fever where Habima was mentioned: HERE