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Turn, turn, turn: Montefiore windmill will work again

Nakon više od 135 godina, od  kako su se zaustavila  krila  na staroj vjetrenjači Mosesa Montefiore-a  , ona će se renovirati u slijedećim mjesecima.

Izraelski dobrotvor Montefiore je osnovao mlin u 1857. godini kako bi ohrabrio Židove da sele izvan "Starog grada" i kako bi ih opskrbio namirnicama. Ali se mlin pokvario nakon 20 godina i tako ostao do danas.

Novi projekt vrijedan 5 miliona NIS-a ( Izraelski novac) će obnoviti mlin i dati mu izgled kakav je imao 1857. godine, uključujući bijela krila na propeleru i bijelu kupolu na vrhu.

"Jeruzalemska fondacija" će nadgledati obnovu, koja je sponzorirana od "Christian Friends of Israel" iz Nizozemske, Ministarstva turizma, Gradske vlasti Jeruzalema i Komiteta za  starine .

Ministerial Heritage Plan Committee,  kojemu predsjeda premijer Binyamin Netanyahu, objavio je listu od 13  povijesnih mjesta  koja će se obnoviti  ( cijena 72,5 miliona Nisa),  uključujući Montefiorov mlin,  za kojega je vlada dala prilog od l milijun Nisa.

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The windmill will operate five days a week and will be the only working mill in the country, according to the Jerusalem Foundation.

“It’s an integral part of new Jerusalem, and perhaps symbolizes more than anything else the move from the Old City to new city, which started the flourishing of Jerusalem as it is today,” said Mark Sofer, the president of the Jerusalem Foundation and a former ambassador to India.

Renovations will begin in approximately a month and last three months. A British company is preparing parts engineered to the exact model the British Holman Company built in 1857. The parts will be shipped to an expert windmill construction company in The Netherlands for partial assembly, and will then arrive in Israel.

The mill will have four floors: a flour floor at the entrance; a mill floor on the second level, which will house the heavy millstones; the seed floor on the third level, where sacks of grain will be emptied into large containers; and the top floor, called the “dust floor.”

The only difference between the windmill of the 1800s and the windmill of the 2000s will be a short video in the entryway explaining the building’s history, and some extra mechanical gears to turn the blades on non-windy days.