The Kabbalistic Murder Code: Mystery & International Conspiracies (Historical Crime Thriller Book 1) by Nathan Erez Page B
Authors: Nathan Erez
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ceremony, attended by the British High Commissioner for Palestine, Sir Herbert Samuel, took place at the site where the original campus on Mount Scopus was later built. During Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, the Mount Scopus area was one territory in which battles were fought over. While the campus was ultimately retained by Israel, it became an enclave, entirely surrounded by Jordanian territory. Under the terms of the cease-fire reached between the two sides, Israel was granted limited access to the campus and was permitted to post a small contingent of people there. Only once a month, and this by means of an armed and armored convoy, were the contingent's provisions brought in for the following month. That, of course, rendered it valueless as an educational institution. To meet the needs of the university, a new campus was built in Givat Ram, in the western part of the city.
When the entire city of Jerusalem was liberated in June 1967, the government immediately decided to return the Hebrew University to its original site. As a result, a major concrete complex was built on Mount Scopus, planned by a top architect who had won numerous prizes for his distinctive work and exceptional talent. What no one had foreseen when viewing the blueprints in the abstract, but soon became apparent in reality, is that the layout was so complex that neither the students nor the lecturers could find their way around, and people who had been using the facilities for years would often find themselves lost.
As he drove to the university library in Givat Ram, Elijah kept mulling over what Prof. Ashuri had said. However, as usually happened when the logic in his mind was confronted by material that differed from it on the emotional level, there seemed to be a short circuit, and his mind went blank. Why the hell did one have to drive from one campus to the other just in order to access the library? On a rational level, he knew the answer, but that did not make it any more palatable. Life has a dynamic of its own. Thus, even though the campus on Mount Scopus was again accessible and in use, the campus at Givat Ram was still there. In the end, it had been decided that the university would function with two campuses, divided by faculty: the exact sciences would remain in Givat Ram, while the social and behavioral sciences would be located on Mount Scopus. The result was that students and lecturers whose program included elements of both would be forced to commute between Mount Scopus and Givat Ram.
Elijah loved his office on Mount Scopus. From his small window, he could see the Temple Mount and the Old City. However, the manuscript collections were kept in the Givat Ram library, and so it was that he, too, joined the numerous commuters between the two campuses.
Added to the time wasted in driving between the two, was the fact that there was a chronic shortage of parking spaces. He did eventually find a space, but it was a long way from the university entrance. Wearily, he walked from his car to the library, where Ziva, whom he had asked to find the article by Odel Weiss, was the librarian.
“Since when are you interested in the supernatural?” Ziva asked him in a stage whisper. A number of professors looked up, and Elijah felt very ill at ease. He had no idea how Ziva could have known about the conversation he had just had with Prof. Ashuri.
“What are you talking about?” he said, trying to appear indignant, but feeling guilty for doing so.
“Just take a look yourself,” said Ziva, pointing to a computer screen near her. Elijah sat down and looked at the screen. He had no idea from which database the information on the screen had come, but he understood that it must be from some journal entitled The Struggle for the Future. The display showed that the journal had been catalogued under four headings: Social Justice; the Radical
When the entire city of Jerusalem was liberated in June 1967, the government immediately decided to return the Hebrew University to its original site. As a result, a major concrete complex was built on Mount Scopus, planned by a top architect who had won numerous prizes for his distinctive work and exceptional talent. What no one had foreseen when viewing the blueprints in the abstract, but soon became apparent in reality, is that the layout was so complex that neither the students nor the lecturers could find their way around, and people who had been using the facilities for years would often find themselves lost.
As he drove to the university library in Givat Ram, Elijah kept mulling over what Prof. Ashuri had said. However, as usually happened when the logic in his mind was confronted by material that differed from it on the emotional level, there seemed to be a short circuit, and his mind went blank. Why the hell did one have to drive from one campus to the other just in order to access the library? On a rational level, he knew the answer, but that did not make it any more palatable. Life has a dynamic of its own. Thus, even though the campus on Mount Scopus was again accessible and in use, the campus at Givat Ram was still there. In the end, it had been decided that the university would function with two campuses, divided by faculty: the exact sciences would remain in Givat Ram, while the social and behavioral sciences would be located on Mount Scopus. The result was that students and lecturers whose program included elements of both would be forced to commute between Mount Scopus and Givat Ram.
Elijah loved his office on Mount Scopus. From his small window, he could see the Temple Mount and the Old City. However, the manuscript collections were kept in the Givat Ram library, and so it was that he, too, joined the numerous commuters between the two campuses.
Added to the time wasted in driving between the two, was the fact that there was a chronic shortage of parking spaces. He did eventually find a space, but it was a long way from the university entrance. Wearily, he walked from his car to the library, where Ziva, whom he had asked to find the article by Odel Weiss, was the librarian.
“Since when are you interested in the supernatural?” Ziva asked him in a stage whisper. A number of professors looked up, and Elijah felt very ill at ease. He had no idea how Ziva could have known about the conversation he had just had with Prof. Ashuri.
“What are you talking about?” he said, trying to appear indignant, but feeling guilty for doing so.
“Just take a look yourself,” said Ziva, pointing to a computer screen near her. Elijah sat down and looked at the screen. He had no idea from which database the information on the screen had come, but he understood that it must be from some journal entitled The Struggle for the Future. The display showed that the journal had been catalogued under four headings: Social Justice; the Radical
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