I Don't Need to Be King

How could you do this to us?" the unshaven porter shouts angrily at Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek. The porter used to have a regular parking place for his motorized tricycle, but now he has been displaced by a new taxi stand. "We're a whole family, and we need this place to make a living!" he cries.

Kollek stops to listen for a while, impatiently, then loses his temper. "We're trying to make improvements in this city!" he shouts back. He is a rumpled and impetuous man, and his red face is getting redder. "We're...

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