Hill Square Garden, located in the north of Tel Aviv, is an essential part of the city's preservation plan, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003. The garden is named after General Hill, a British army commander who led the forces in the war with the Ottoman Empire in the Land of Israel. After the British won, they chose to commemorate this by placing three monumental Roman columns at the points where they crossed the Yarkon River. The columns placed at these three sites were taken from Caesarea to signify British affiliation with an ancient imperial heritage, that of King Herod, the builder of Caesarea, and the Romans and Crusaders who rolled there later on.
The British's borrowed use of ancient monuments raises questions about landscape and territorial design (and perhaps even the design of a collective narrative) following foreign heritage, about Israel's past as a British colony, and mainly about the implications of this—and its preservation—today.
Raz's work asks what heritage is and how it can be preserved in a place built on external historical and cultural connections.