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stylistic diversity – ranging
from variations on the
Jerusalem style of
modernism – the Youth
Culture Center (1956-60)
and Beit Elisheva (1960-62)
in Jerusalem; through the
refined elegance of the
cinema houses in Beer
Sheva (Keren Cinema,
1951-54), and Ashkelon
(Rachel Cinema, 1953-56);
culminating with early
adaptations of local
Brutalism – a type of
community house with
exposed building materials
that was repeated (among
other places) in Or Yehuda
(1960), Ashkelon (1963),
and Mikveh Israel (1967).
The leisure halls of the
1950s, which at the time
were the largest and most

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