 It, after all, was to house the scrolls that Gottesman himself had purchased as a gift to the State of Israel.However, numerous Israeli architects were miffed by Bartos's participation due to his being an American and, especially, having been chosen through nepotism, though he was Jewish.Kiesler, also Jewish, was even less acceptable to the Israeli architectural establishment, based on his having never finished his architecture studies in Vienna and having built nothing.