 Thank you for watching Jerusalem Anglo Community, your Hamish and new source in Yerushalayim. Okay, we're going to move on, but just to explain a bit more about why this building is so important. It was the first, how would you say, shopping center in Jerusalem. In the 1970s they built it. It was considered super modern. There was before Kenyan Malkha, there was before anything. Everyone came from all over Israel. It was very expensive to buy things here. There was a cinema here. This was like everyone wanted to be seen here at the beginning. And then suddenly things went bad, you know. And it's become a very ugly building, which is good. Because ugly buildings are interesting. Hey Daniel, yeah, you made it. I thought you were lost at the bottom there in the second row. Yeah, that's good. Now, just before we have to have, you're going to have to talk one moment for the camera. You know, we've just started, David, is your first name? Yuda. Yuda is running the store here. And it's a store which helps people. Gives autistic children a chance to work here, special needs people. And also people can donate for people who are kind of for a lot of money for clothes. They can buy things here. And so this is where we're starting. It's our number one out of 40 stops in Murkast Klal. And I was just explaining to the crowd here. This was a school called the Alliance Israel. It's a French speaking school. And it's a beautiful building. There's another one exactly like this across the road, which they're going to be demolishing soon. So you should go over and have a look at it. And that's the vestige of it. We're going to come and have a look at this. It's beautiful. We're going to come and have a look at this. They built this school in 1882. And the organization Alliance Israelite, it was aimed to give people a profession as well as Jewish education. And they're all over the Sephardi world in Morocco, Algeria. It was the first time that they let girls study. It was a competition to Beti Akhov. Beti Akhov was more religious. This was more open-minded. And of course, like everything in Israel, it was controversial, you know, with Jews. And what's amazing about this building is if you just keep looking up, you know, it just keeps, this was like a skyscraper in the 1970s. Everyone was here. Now I'm going to take you to the cinema where they used to have a cinema in the basement. It was very sleazy. I've got to explain to you all, there's a lot of things going on here. You don't believe what's going to happen. But just before now, I'm sorry, I've got to do something very sad, but it's true. About 20 years ago, there was a lot of bombings in Israel. Buses were exploding about 15 years ago. And I personally saw it here. There was a bus here, the number 14. And I was in this building and there was a big explosion. Extremely loud. Everyone knew that it was an explosion and about 25 people died. There's a sign with all the names of the people. And after the explosion, complete silence. Nothing. It's just complete silence. Everyone stopped. And then about 5 or 10 minutes, 15 minutes later, you hear sirens everywhere coming. And so they started to try and recover. There's some people who recovered from that bus. It was a suicider. And some people miraculously, it depended where you sat on the bus that day. So they've got the names of the people as well. Okay, so we've already done three stories in five minutes. I hope you're going to get your money's worth for an hour. So we're going to walk around here for a minute. It's a two minute walk. Okay. This is the main office building. And I'm going to test you at the end. There's a test now. They changed all the floor numbers, okay. So they added seven. So one is now eight. And 14 is now 21. Which means that this is now no longer the cloud building. It's now the cloud tower. They changed the name. And it makes it even more confusing. You press the floor number when you're outside the elevator. Inside you can't press it. Inside is all the old numbers. We also have, so people are walking around. You can see them confused all the time. They don't know where they're going. They don't know what they're doing. You can see people here. You can see them. You'll see them in half an hour walking around. People are getting lost all the time. Wait, they added numbers or actual numbers? No, they added nothing. They just changed the number system. It's also complicated. There's also a music school. We just met somebody so we can go to the music school as well. So I'm going to come and show you that. We're going to do this. There's a music school here under the stairs in a secret tunnel which no one knows about. We're going to go in groups of about ten just walking in and walking out. Probably five. Five. Okay, everyone can put their masks on. So come in five. It's just walking in and walking out. It's just getting more and more confusing this music school. Yeah, it's a month there. We've got a couple more rooms over here. But there are lessons taking place so I don't have to start the lessons. So my name is Yigal. The name of the business is Lene Genbekef. And it's a music school. And I'm the director of the music school here at Lene Genbekef. As I was saying, we have private lessons and a range of instruments, including guitar, bass guitar, drums, voice, and wind instruments. We also put bands together. And we do programs during the school vacations for kids and teenagers. I grew up in London. Made earlier 20 years ago. Just over 20 years ago. Okay, we have to go down to the murder scene. We've got a murder scene to go to. Alright. Okay, guys, this is as low as you can get except for the... We're going to take you soon to the secret car park that nobody knows about except for me. So we're going to take you there. From the in the 70s to the late 90s, this was a cinema called the Queer Cinema. People used to come here for date nights. People used to come here, teenagers. This was a restaurant run by Malkan Sion. They didn't have much there. I came here when I was a student in a program like it's called Taglit, like Taglit. Here. And it was like a whole different jungle. You wouldn't believe it. Going to cinema in the late 80s in Israel meant everyone was smoking the whole... The whole cinema was full of cigarette smoke. And there was... If everyone was eating Gary Nim, the pumpkin seeds and spitting them in every direction. You know? Huge amounts. People had piles everywhere. And people were looking for a fight. If somebody stood up and said, Get down. Sit down now. And people were punching each other. And we... Did you talk to my girlfriend like that? And it was like one human jungle going to the cinema here. People then in those days, they never used deodorants. No one knew what that was. So, yeah. That was a bit of a shock. But... And then it became a trendy café. Here. Café Forte. Until two years ago when the corona killed it. You had really fantastic salads. It was just a delight. It was a paradise here. You'd sit out here and everything. The only problem is when it rains, sometimes it's not so insulated and the rain comes through. You know? But that's okay. You get a free shower. You don't have to shower at home. You can't even shower. And now, just look at the architecture of it. It has some interesting things. People on Facebook mentioned some famous artists. Osho. Okay. So, he did all sorts of... Being lost in some sort of... Lost in places. This is here. You got it. They were in the stairs. That's right. When he... Are you sure it wasn't MC Esher? That's exactly what we're talking about. It's him. That's exactly what I was looking for. Okay. Now we're getting closer to the murder scene. Everyone, let's go and look for that murder scene. They're still in operation. People... Why are they still here? They work. They work. People... There's a police station upstairs and you have to kind of photocopy your documents and so they all come down here. I'm going to show you a place which is a dead end. At least you won't get anywhere. You can go all over the world. You'll never see something as beautiful as ugly as this, you know? So, yeah. It's just an example. People have to come here because low-income people need to get a rental assistance and it comes from Mil Gum. So a lot of people are looking for Mil Gum. They spend half an hour to an hour trying to find the place. We're just going to walk by the shul. It's in full. They're doing Mincha now. But that's fine. We'll see the action. It's a beautiful, beautiful shul. We'll go in this direction. This is the murder scene. Since the murder five years ago, nobody's been willing to rent the place. I don't know why, you know? It's a pleasant office. It's quite nice. The story is like this. There was an Ethiopian immigrant went through a very nasty divorce and he was left with nothing. So he kind of blamed his lawyer for everything. So he came in here shooting and killed, unfortunately, his lawyer and also he killed the lawyer's daughter. So it was a major tragedy. They were arguing it was completely out of control and then we were told in the building if your office stay inside, he's still around. The police had to take him out. And I have to warn you now something, are there any people here under 18 because there's an adult shop here and I'm not sure if it's allowed or not but we're walking by and not looking. So a lot of shopping things are going on. It's called Muslala. It's a commune of young people. They're growing all sorts of, they've got a big garden there. They've got books. They've got pottery. They're doing, eating healthy food and it's like a big commune. So you'll know what it's all about. They have one rule. You know that they have anything to do with no meat sandwiches. They don't really have anything plastic as well. We're going to come up here. They're growing a lot of things and I'm not asking what's in the pot. I'm not asking. Okay, so I'll just tell you what's going on here. These are good people, Muslala. They're doing something amazing. It's called the concept of rooftop gardens. It's very big overseas and they're the pioneers in this place. So I have only great respect for them. Shimshan has taken a derelict old roof and they've turned it into a flowering happy place with cafes and pottery and literature and coffee and so many good things going on. We're going to walk around and just enjoy. We've got a fantastic day today and we're just going to enjoy, enjoy the nature for five minutes and then we've got our next stop. Okay guys, this is Shimshan and you know me as a food celeb but now I'm doing something different. I've got my ugly buildings of Jerusalem tools and I got to the Mokas Klala and actually we discovered there's a lot of beauty in the ugly. I still can't tell if this is a comedy show or an actual tour but either way I'm really enjoying this. Okay, no problem. So let's see. We do all the beautiful flowers. Where are they? Let's see. We want to do all the beautiful flowers. That's okay. Everyone does what they want. It's fine. I can do a photo and talk at the same time. There's a small restaurant. You can only go one way. You can't come back. So are you guys willing to do that? That's what it is. You can only go one way. You're not allowed to come back. That's how the building is like that. So what is going to give us a five minute tour? It's worth it. We hit the jackpot. First of all, welcome to Muslala. It's a place to be one with nature inside the city on top of a roof. What you see here. So we have a few projects parallel. This project is camping. We have a roof camping. We have a room. We have a place for camp for tents. And we have another idea that's open in the spring. Nursery for trees. We keep the trees for two, three years until they are stronger and then we spread them around the city because the best technology at the moment to clean air is trees. Meditating for a meeting. It comes from Burning Man, the Israeli Burning Man. We have a center for a bee's house. You can look just. We city people sometimes forget that we are part of nature and we think we're a side of it. This is a place to remind us as humans we're still connected. Five kilometers we will pick up this board. I wanted to say thank you for behalf of the Jerusalem residents. All you've done is you've taken, we'll give a round of applause. You're doing to Muslim. It's not me. I'm just a volunteer here. Here you're doing important things. You're taking an ugly building and you're putting a beautiful garden. You've got bees. You're using all sorts of recycling. You're doing beautiful things. You're giving us new hope in this building. Thank you. We're here on the set of Shemshon Eat Jerusalem, a YouTube series. Our crew of one is mushroomed to a crew of three. This is Marcus James here with the tripod. He's our COVID-deographer on today's shoot. We're in Binyon Cloud. We have a still photographer as well. And the whole production team is mobilized at 10 hours notice. In fact, Jerusalem's Best Love Food Celebrity, Shemshon Lashinsky, has pulled together a tour of the cloud building somehow on about 10 hours notice, which is quite impressive. So if you're enjoying this, leave us a comment. Tell us where else we should go and see or bring our blossoming crew of video professionals out to the shoot. Marcus, do you want to say anything about working on the crew of Shemshon Eat Jerusalem? Oh, this is just an absolute blast. Loving every second. There's a lot of stories here of betrayal and love, cheating and temptation in this building. And there's four hairdressers here. There's also two Ethiopian hairdressers. We've got to try and get to them as well. One for the men and one for the women, you know. They normally, all their customers are Ethiopians, but maybe we can have a volunteer who will try Ethiopian hairdressing as well. So come on, we're going to go through the narrow back alleys here. Shemshon, how's running your first tour? I tell you, this is fantastic. People want ugly buildings. They don't want the fun, beautiful buildings. They want the ugly buildings with all the nasty stories. That's what they want. A lot of these places are closed and no one knows what they do inside. It's all very secretive. This looks like a very sleazy corner. You wouldn't want to come here at night. People are running businesses. We don't know what they're selling. But it looks a little bit like an adult. It could be an elder adult business here. We need to go down to the next level. Okay, we'll see if he's willing to talk. Not everyone in the club building wants to talk. They have too many secrets. If I don't come back up to the front, I'm going to have to wait for you. He's not willing to talk, but he said it was much better in the old days. You can come in and see his sports store quickly. He's doing a booming business. People are doing sport in Murkhan's club. This wasn't what it used to be. Now we've got all the watch stores here. They seem to be doing okay. Anyone wants to change the battery in their watch, this is the place to go. All of Jerusalem, they come here to change the watch. The batteries. 1972. David spoke to us. He bought a store here with his brother. He had a restaurant. There was so much hope and excitement. It was a shopping centre. For some reason, Intifada happened. A lot of things happened. Things didn't work out. We saw there was a murder of an Ethiopian guy. He came and killed his lawyer. Now they've got bars everywhere. You can't jump out of the windows. You can't jump out from the stairwell. We've got bars everywhere. We saw there's a lot going on. There's a father and son competing here in the shoe business. We've got lots of little businesses. We've got a computer store here. We've got a lot of clutter. It's just walking around, come and do some photos. Come and have fun. The garden upstairs is amazing. Thank you for joining the tour. You guys have been amazing. It's a bit dangerous. Are you willing to take the risk? Are you willing to go through a secret tunnel? Dangerous car park? You decide. We're not doing it all right. You have to stand next to the wall because there are cars going by. You have to walk back to the wall as you go. We're going to go through this secret car park which cuts over to a gripper screen and saves your team in a walk. Come on down. Some people sometimes get stuck, sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. You put good luck. This is one of two European hairdressers here. There's one for men and one for women. They give you the ladies cuts to the Ethiopian community. Very popular here. Which one do you think I should do? Which one is me? I'm trying to decide. Which one do you think is me? Would that be me? Would this be me? What do you think? This one could be me? This way. Back to the wall and be very careful please. It's very dangerous. It's scary what's going on here. Are you ready for this? I'm buying everyone pizza. What do you think of that? I'm buying everyone pizza. I'm going to order the pizza now. We're going to see the mushrooms. Everyone in this tour gets free pizza. You can't get better than that. We're doing pizza reviews. We're doing tours. We've got 20 people left. The cats have nine lives. But according to this tour you only live once. Just for information there's at least 100 cats in the Mercas building. At least 1000 mice. And hundreds of thousands of beetles. Cockroaches. I've been reading your posts since the beginning. So many of my favorite restaurants here. I found through you. I need Pobiglialishti. Gorscha. I can go on. Really? That's amazing. I'm an influencer. It's great to hear that. Khaverim friends. Lina is a wonderful woman. She makes delicious soups. Salads are eaten here many many times. She's always got a smile. This place is called Yolo. In a nutshell what kind of food do you have? Tell us what you have. We have Georgian traditional pastries. Named Tehshiburi. It's like a pastry with Armenian Georgian cheese and egg. Except that we have some sort of traditional Russian food. Like Russian soups. And the borscht. The beetroot soup. Yes. What would you like to finally meet? Oh wow. What a wealth of knowledge. Of like expertise. Of a deep knowing of Binyan Khao. Little at Charisma of course. Little did we know that this interesting, weird building holds so much. And it was absolutely fabulous to meet. In person. Let's bring out the pizza. I want my camera stuff to eat. The camera stuff is very hard. Here's the stuff please. Wow.