Two boys, an Arab and a Jew, running with a torch into Jerusalem’s largest park, inaugurated Jerusalem’s youth capital last Wednesday. The torch was carried from an Arab youth camp at Jerusalem’s northern outskirts in Belt Hanina. The runners were received by Mayor Teddy Kollek, who gave them the “keys of the capital” thus making them mayor and acting mayor of the youth capital. They are Zvi Goldberg of West Jerusalem and Bassan Ashaiya of Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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