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[Looking directly North, this view of the model city would be from the other side of the Hinnom Valley]
The Jerusalem Model covers nearly an acre and was built to a 50:1 scale. It depicts Jerusalem at its peak in 66 AD, the year of the Great Jewish Revolt, which led to its destruction by the Romans in 70 AD.
It was originally commissioned in 1966 by Hans Kroch, the owner of the Holyland Hotel, in memory of his son, Yaakov, an Israeli soldier who was killed in the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
The model was designed by Israeli historian and geographer Michael Avi Yonah based on the writings of Flavius Josephus, the Mishna, archaeological discoveries and other historical sources.
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[Looking directly West, this view of the model city would be from the Mt. of Olive]
In 2006, the model was moved from the Holyland Hotel to the Billy Rose Garden at the Israel National Museum. The transition involved some of Jerusalem’s finest engineers and craftsmen. First, it was cut up into thousands of pieces - some weighing over 12 tons. Then, over a period of six days, workers, cranes, and trucks moved the pieces with utmost care, and reassembled them at the Israel National Museum, near the Shrine of the Book.
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[This mosaic is located at the North end of the Jerusalem Model]
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