Apart from being Israel's leading architectural export, the Boston-Toronto-Jerusalem based architect Moshe Safdie (Haifa, 1938) is the contemporary Herod of the Israeli realm. His footprints are all over the country in every possible scale and typology. Since his over-esteemed 1967 Habitat presented at the Expo '67 in Montreal, Safdie's work in Israel is best known for his projects in and around Jerusalem's old city: the Western Wall precinct; the Porat Yosef Yeshiva; the unbuilt 'Habitat Israel' residential complex; Safdie's private residence; and the still-stagnated Mamilla Complex on the western margins of the Old City's wall, where the promotion film 'Moshe Safdie: The Power of Architecture' (by D. Winkler, Canada 2005) was premiered. Other projects by Safdie in Israel are the master plan for Modiin, a new 'border town' for a quarter-million inhabitants along the Green Line; his master plan for new neighborhoods west of Jerusalem (a.k.a. the scandalous multi-opposed 'Safdie Plan'); main parts at the new terminal at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport; his conquest of Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem with the new Historic Museum and visitor's center at 'Yad Vashem', a project that turned the historical humble memorial site into a Holocaust Theme Park (also evident in Safdie's previous fantastical architecture at the site like the Children's Memorial from 1987 or the Cattle Car Memorial to the Deportees from 1995); his scheme for the Israeli Antiques Authority's future campus in Jerusalem; Yitzhak and Lea Rabin's Gravestone; or the monumental neo-archaic stone citadel structure of the Rabin Center in Tel Aviv, that was inaugurated in November, as a part of the events of Rabin's assassination's 10th Memorial Day. Safdie is one of the main protagonists of post 1967 Israeli architecture – after the modern 1950s and 1960s and on the verge of the emergence of postmodern 'Jerusalemite' effects that intensively still dominate Israeli architecture today. His list of projects in Israel only, reveals his anxiety to occupy the National Architect position as well as his meta-project of self commemoration cult.