TEDDY KOLLEK R.I.P.

Former Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek Dies
Teddy Kollek, who served as Jerusalem mayor from 1965 until 1993, died Tuesday at age 95. Theodor Kollek was born in Austria-Hungary in 1911, grew up in Vienna, and left for British Mandatory Palestine in 1935. In 1952 Kollek became chief aide to Israel's founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, a position he held for 12 years. (BBC News)

A tireless campaigner for co-existence, Kollek said, "Jerusalem's people of differing faiths, cultures, and aspirations must find peaceful ways to live together other than by drawing a line in the sand." During World War Two, Kollek helped Allied intelligence contact the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Central and Eastern Europe. (Ha'aretz)