The city of Jerusalem recently issued a demolition order for all the balconies of the house of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook, after one of them began to collapse, due to the fear that the balconies would collapse and endanger the public.
The city engineer has agreed to a request by Jerusalem-affairs Minister Zeev Elkin to postpone the demolition for three months, while the Justice Ministry examines the legal possibility that the Jerusalem office will allocate part of the budget to preserve the rabbi's house without taking sides in an ownership dispute on the property. The engineer's agreement is partly due to partial works to support the balconies, carried out by the Council for Preservation of Sites.