From the book Chicago by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Ghost town
Text by Eyal Weizman
Given the international outcry that followed the April 2002 obliteration of the centre of the Jenin refugee camp, the Israeli military realized that it had to push its engineering corps to improve its “art of destruction”. As a part of these efforts the military began to upgrade a small mock-up town it called Chicago (in homage to that other bullet-ridden city). Located in the Tze’elim base in the Negev desert, it was to become the world’s largest mock-up oriental city erected since the filming of Ben-Hur.
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