![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-was-homeless-so-i-carved-myself-a-cave-house-with-incredible-sea-views-but-officials-are-trying-to-kick-me-out/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023-half-century-kahlon-transformed-831703258.jpg&description=REAL-LIFE CAVEMAN I was homeless so I carved myself a CAVE house with incredible sea views – but officials are trying to kick me out A HERMIT who spent half a century carving a cave into an elaborate home is facing eviction. Nissim Kahlon, 77, created a remarkable structure filled with tunnels, mosaics, and winding staircases out of beachside sandstone cliffs in Israel. 8 'Hermit' Nissim Kahlon built the unique house overlooking the Mediterranean Sea Credit: AP 8 The intricate home has become a local tourist attraction Credit: AP 8 Nissim, 77, refuses to leave - but authorities say his dwelling is damaging the coastline Credit: AP But the country's Environmental Protection Ministry said Mr Kahlon's structure is "illegal" - and is endangering the Herzliya beach coastline, to the north of Tel Aviv. The former squatter, who claims he was living in a tent on the beach in 1973 when he began work on the cave dwelling, has said he would rather die than quit his unlikely home. Mr Kahlon told AP News: "I am not leaving here. I am ready for them to bury me here. "I have nowhere to go, I have no other home." Over a period of fifty years, Mr Kahlon created a complex, maze-like structure - which curious passers-by now make an effort to come see. He claims the project began when he ran away to the beach to avoid an arranged marriage, and one day started scratching a hole into the coastal cliffs. But the modest scratches became a distinguished home, with mosaic tiling for floors, bending staircases, plumbing, a phone line, and rigged electricity. And a crafty Mr Kahlon even used a swathe of recycled materials to make the home - with the mosaic tiles filched from dumpsters in Tel Aviv, as well as reused wood, ceramic and stone. Mr Kahlon said: "There's no waste here, only material, that's the logic. Everything is useful, there's no trash." The remarkable cave is known locally as the "Hermit House", according to Atlas Obscura - and a disgusted Mr Kahlon believes it deserves more res){kind=link}
A HERMIT who spent half a century carving a cave into an elaborate home is facing eviction.
Nissim Kahlon, 77, created a remarkable structure filled with tunnels, mosaics, and winding staircases out of beachside sandstone cliffs in Israel.
But the country’s Environmental Protection Ministry said Mr Kahlon’s structure is “illegal” – and is endangering the Herzliya beach coastline, to the north of Tel Aviv.
The former squatter, who claims he was living in a tent on the beach in 1973 when he began work on the cave dwelling, has said he would rather die than quit his unlikely home.
Mr Kahlon told AP News: “I am not leaving here. I am ready for them to bury me here.