May 24, 2018

In the year 1972, we bought, in Ein Carem, an old house, with a single ruined room, built in the old Arabic ancient style, standing on a little piece of land, which looks towards the beautiful views of charming Ein Carem.

We approach planning with a great understanding and sympathy to the special place.

For my late husband, Bezalel Hod, it was the first opportunity to design a house, made of stone.

Both of us, me and Bezalel, felt challenged and excited to fulfill our dream, to design our “family house”, according to our ideas of building, step by step.

We merged all the old elements, that were found in the area, during the building process with the new materials.

We combined new design ideas with the original oriental style of the elements’ pieces, that we found during the excavations.

After 3 years of working, the basic house was accomplished, while the rest of the work on its building was done in five stages, according to the needs and the potential, which were planned in ahead.

We treated the old style of building with love and a great respect and tried to use maximum authentic materials.