(12 Jul 2023)
ISRAEL CAVEMAN
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
LENGTH: 3:48
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Herzliya, Israel - 28 June 2023
1. Drone shot showing the entire exterior of the cave where Nissim Kahlon has been living and is currently threatened with eviction ++MUTE++
2. Various outdoor area of the cave with tables and chairs by sea view
3. View of the sea from the cave
4. Location of the former restaurant that was at the cave
5. Various of Kahlon carving a tunnel
6. Kahlon getting out of tunnel
7. Kahlon checking his tools
8. Kahlon sitting in the sun
9. Kahlon walking into the house
10. Kahlon walking inside house
11. Kahlon sitting down
12. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Nissim Kahlon, man living in cave and currently being threatened with eviction:
"I worked here for two months, I cut a chunk out of the hill, nobody talked to me. I said to myself 'why don't I build a house, it'll be nice.' I built 'dinosauro,' its tail is here and its head is there and its entire body is the size of this room. Beautiful. I nearly finished and I got a demolition order. I said 'look at this, I've been working here for a year - what am I, invisible? They didn't see me?' If they had told me to go, I would have been gone."
13. Various of Kahlon rolling and smoking a cigarette
14. Various of interior of house with mosaics
15. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Nissim Kahlon, man living in cave and currently being threatened with eviction:
"From the stones I quarry, I make a cast and build a wall. There's no waste here, only material, that's the logic. I have no waste. Everything is useful, there's no trash."
16. Various of different parts of the cave
17. Door to the house
18. Various of Kahlon sitting and looking at photo album
19. Photo of Kahlon
20. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Nissim Kahlon, man living in cave, being threatened with eviction:
"I am not leaving here. I am ready for them to bury me here. Where will I go? The city? I can't be in the city. I love this place, I work all the time, building a bit here a bit there, it's fun for me."
21. Kahlon laying down reading a book
22. Kahlon looking to the side, out the window
23. View outside the window, beach and sunset
24. Various of drone shots of the cave exterior ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Over half a century, Nissim Kahlon has transformed a tiny cave on a Mediterranean beach into an elaborate underground labyrinth filled with chiseled tunnels, detailed mosaic floors and a network of staircases and chambers.
His one-of-a-kind artistic creation is a popular destination for local curiosity seekers, and Kahlon, 77, is quick to welcome visitors into his subterranean home.
Now, Israel’s government wants him out.
Fifty years after Kahlon moved into the home, Israel’s Environmental Protection Agency has served him an eviction notice, saying the structure is illegal and threatens Israel’s coastline.
Kahlon was living in a tent along the Herzliya beach north of Tel Aviv in 1973 when he says he began scratching into the sandstone cliffs and moved into a cave he carved.
Over time, his simple hole in the wall turned into a real-life sandcastle on steroids, filled with recycled wood, metal, ceramic and stone.
"If they had told me to go, I would have left," Kahlon said, sitting in his mosaic-tiled living room, rolling a cigarette.
Nearly every surface of his main quarters in covered in elaborate mosaics, made from discarded tiles of every color that he collected from dumpsters in Tel Aviv over the years.
Kahlon said he received a demolition order back in 1974 that was never carried out.
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