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A flat roof is a roof which is almost level in contrast to the many types of sloped roofs. The slope of a roof is properly known as its pitch and flat roofs have up to approximately 10°. [1] Flat roofs are an ancient form mostly used in arid climates and allow the roof space to be used as a living space or a living roof. Flat roofs, or "low ...
Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings. [citation needed] (Säteritak in Swedish.) Mansard (French roof): A roof with the pitch divided into a shallow slope above a steeper slope. The steep slope may be curved.
Many of these tenements can be seen today in Israeli towns like Sderot and Ofakim. From 1948, architecture in Israel was dominated by the need to house masses of new immigrants. The Brutalist concrete style suited Israel's harsh climate and paucity of natural building materials. [22] Today, many such old buildings remain in Israeli cities.
QABATIYA, West Bank (Reuters) -The Israeli military said on Friday it had opened an investigation after videos showed soldiers pushing what appear to be dead bodies off a roof in the occupied West ...
The White City (Hebrew: העיר הלבנה, Ha-Ir ha-Levana; Arabic: المدينة البيضاء Al-Madinah al-Bayḍā’) is a collection of over 4,000 buildings in Tel Aviv from the 1930s built in a unique form of the International Style, commonly known as Bauhaus, by German Jewish architects who fled to the British Mandate of Palestine from Germany (and other Central and East European ...
Unpacked is a brand created by OpenDor Media for young people to address issues related to Israel and Judaism. [3] Publishing on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, it features videos and podcasts [4] on Jewish and Israeli history, antisemitism, and the Holocaust, explainers on a variety of topics.
Two demolished apartment homes of the 8-member Idris family, their relative, her husband and their two children (Beit Hanina, 2014)Demolition of Palestinian property is a method Israel has used in the Israeli-occupied territories since they came under its control in the Six-Day War, as well as in Israel proper, to achieve various aims.
Roof knocking (Hebrew: הקש בגג) [1] or "knock on the roof" [2] is a term used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to describe its practice of dropping non-explosive or low-yield devices on the roofs of targeted civilian homes [3] in the occupied Palestinian territories as a prior warning of imminent bombing attacks to give the inhabitants time to flee the attack.