 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here for today's video. It's going to be a walking video I'm going to go walk along the Tachana Masilat Harakevit in Jerusalem. This is the train track park. I'm going to be giving a little bit of commentary along the way from Wikipedia But I want to try to do as much of it as I can so I'm right here at where it starts Which is by the first station complex and I'm going to just start walking now And I'm going to be walking southward as far as I can today. So this is about four o'clock here in the day in the bike lane here and So this is basically an outdoor amenity in Jerusalem I'm going to read as I walk But it says about this place on Wikipedia. It's really nice amenity and It goes through a bunch of different neighborhoods in Jerusalem So it's currently as we said four Sun down here is apparently It just checked. It's like five thirty there about so I have like an hour and a half But I think an hour we should do it train track park reading from Wikipedia here train track park park Masilat is a real real trail urban park in West Jerusalem featuring seven kilometers of walking and biking trails The park follows the right of the Jaffa Jerusalem Railway From the old Jerusalem Railway station, which is what's here on the left Near the German colonized Teddy Stadium in Malta the park is built over and incorporates in its design the original railway tracks installed in 1892 and used through 1998 it's quite relatively new actually The park has been noted as a symbol of coexistence in the divided city as it passes through Jerusalem and Arab neighborhoods And it's used by residents of both That's sort of true. It is the day when the Jerusalem municipality is In a standoff with residents of Sheikh Jar. There's a family there who've been served the demolition notice so I wouldn't read too much into coexistence in Jerusalem, but You know this is In theory intended for that here is Habutaka, this is the bar here where I'm walking past now is What's called in Hebrew the Tachnari Shana, which is the first station complex This is as that as that Wikipedia said kind of intended as a coexistence when you're not only between Arabs and Jews, but also between the various Other populations in the city. So there's some graffiti there. Well, I guess wall art is a better term for it that has none it has a Orthodox Jew it has a Anyway, all denominations in the city and there are some restaurants here open on Shabbat the Jewish Sabbath, so therefore it's kind of friendly towards Secular Jews and you know non-Jewish residents of the city who may wish to access that this is the recently Arrived public bike scheme in Jerusalem. It's called Jarew Fun. I'm gonna do my best to avoid Walking right past people as much as I can and making this video. Just because I kind of feel a bit weird about pointing a camera At random strangers. I'm trying mostly to capture the scenery. Sometimes the people are the scenery. So anyway, this is a This is sometimes used as an ice rink and this aspect here is a bicycle path you can actually rent one of the Jarew Fun bicycles or You can of course bring your own bike and bike along this which is actually a Great amenity because in general Jerusalem is not such a bike friendly city I'm getting into cycling at the moment myself and it's a little bit precarious So it's really nice that this exists. It would of course be better if The whole city were bike friendly, but slowly slowly as they say in Hebrew leat leat There's a guy on the bike So we are walking now South bound So where we are exactly is walking parallel to Derich Hebron, which is Hebron Road I mentioned this in a few of my videos. So we're paralleling that And we're gonna come shortly to Twins Which is a burger joint and on the right here. There's actually a power station It's fenced off and it's got all these warning signs I don't know exactly what its significance is to the power network Other than that, that's what that is. Substation or something like that and technically we should know this is just a car park for the frustration complex People walk their dogs here as well and you can see all along the walk Relics of that original railway right and there's generally placards like this As well, I'm gonna stop to read a couple of them or skim a couple of them Can't do everyone because there's a lot of them. This is Arabic Started World War one the track between Laden, Jerusalem was widened from 100 to 105 centimeters the gauge of the Hijaz Railroad The Hijaz Railway was the longest and most important rail line in the Near East connecting Damascus To Medina and Hijaz and had a branch through Haifa and Akko strengthening Ottoman rule in the region the new wire gauge made of hospital After the British conquered the area through the line past they operated using Captured locomotives taking a spoiled or barge in the railroad in Egypt and Sudan. That's interesting. So we'll see in a second They've in long sections of this They have preserved the original railway and in other sections like this. There isn't that. It's just kind of regular paving Here's another one of these things Here's the power station Hope you're gonna get a small bit Brighter as we go southward So we're facing side so this is we're still going past or a parallel to you have round road Then we're gonna go There's a section of it. That's gonna kind of cut through the German colony Then we're gonna go around the back of Talpios Next we're going to go through Baitz al-Fafah, which is where I was recently to record the al-Rahman mosque, which is now also a slated for demolition Because it was apparently constructed illegally. So that's another controversy going on at the moment here And that's as far as it went last time so the last time I tried to do this walk to its terminus This is a bar called Hasilo Just a little bit of craft beer. There aren't so many bars in this part of Jerusalem But there are a few nice little place and they preserved an original Grain silo by the looks of things presumed. That's where it gets his name from Here we go. So this is I don't know if this is the original train track or In addition, but it is a train gauge of sorts. So apparently there's a project in New York This is really modeled after Another signpost. I'm not going to stop for this one. There's a monastery there on the right So you see these around Jerusalem on Hebron Road. There's one called St. Clair It's monastery. This is another one here and that's on Bethlehem Road, which is running parallel to Hebron Road Unfortunately from a photography perspective. I'm currently walking It's pretty much into the Sun. So there's going to be some glare in this footage So we're going to be crossing over Bethlehem Road now This is where I'm going. It's a pedestrian crossing as far as I know She a little bit better from a sun perspective So that's Bethlehem Road there. It's smaller than Hebron Road and It is the main thoroughfare through residential neighborhood of Bacca What I was going to be saying earlier is when I tried to do this walk in the summer I Got as far technically this goes down to Teddy Stadium and Malchah as I read but there was a huge construction site and the workers were like You're not going through here So I had to regrettably turn around Never actually done the full walk. So if I'm gonna go as far as I can I might need to be a little bit more Ingenious about Navigation along the route somewhere, but we'll see how that goes So this as I said in the summer when I did this walk on Shabbat, it would be Much busier you'd see people here having picnics in the screen space in the center of the park and at this time of week During the weekday most people probably still at work So there's less Less people than you'd see on Shabbat. So this we're transversing now through the German colony Because there's nice little art murals along the way too German colonies like an upscale neighborhood back is pretty upscale too Back it is historically Or traditionally more secular one of the relatively few Times recently did a good Documentary called three-part video documentary called the state of Jerusalem and one of the parts was secular Jerusalem They're making the point that in Jerusalem nowadays. There really aren't secular neighborhoods. There's only ultra orthodox neighborhoods so called Charedi neighborhoods and then there's mixed neighborhoods of Ultra orthodox and regular orthodox. So the Jewish population in Jerusalem by the way but I was curious according to the latest data from the Jerusalem Policy Research Institute, I may have got the think tanks name slightly wrong, but only slightly It's a roughly third split one third ultra orthodox Charedi One third secular, but even within that secular many people Identify more as traditional and one third regular orthodox Which is in Hebrew dati dati leomi National orthodox and regular orthodox so it's a 333 split and then you've got 30% of the city are Palestinians Makhti Sin in Arabic The East Jerusalemites So it's an interesting Interesting city, so it's two-thirds Roughly two-thirds Jewish one-third Palestinian within the Jewish then you've got a three-way split and actually just cross Over the road here, so we don't get the sun not only is it a not only is it gonna make the Video hard to the watch. It's actually just putting my eyes it and bring out sunglasses so this is the Construction happening absolutely everywhere in Jerusalem at the moment. I Don't know what exactly they're building here residential buildings in The German colony, I guess There's a lot of criticism over this construction that you know, it's inconvenient for locals and it's mostly Luxury housing that's going to be out of their financial reach anyway Let's see if I can go into something like a second. Oh you can So here's me Taking my afternoon stroll through Jerusalem here. I'm gonna go back now to regular mode That is quite nifty. This is the Fimi Pam to pocket gimbal I'm using to record these videos on Intent upgrading to the Osmo pocket or pocket to or Something else entirely DJ I've just come out with a really cool new product. Anyway, I won't complete subjects I won't talk about camera stuff in a video by Jerusalem, but This is what I'm using middle Hantel to very Very cool device Okay, so seeing as we've now done the German colony for the most part there's still those placards But I'm not gonna start with this one We're gonna next be going up to Hopefully there'll be less people on the road and then we'll be going through the back of Talpio Which is like this kind of industrial Don't call it industrial wasteland certainly not a very beautiful part of this town Anyway, that's what is coming up next I'm gonna just jump slightly off the trail again probably best not to record right outside of schools. What's there apparently so? Next street we're going to intersect with here It's going to be PR Kenning Street, which I actually did a video about before it's like the main thoroughfare running through Talpio's Leading down to the Hadarum mall, which I also did a video of before So that's gonna be the next crossing here. So I'm gonna just take a breather for a few minutes and Let the scenery speak. Okay. So this is PR Kenning Street that we're coming up to now and on the right is Emicre Feim Which is like the main commercial street in the German colony So once you get to the other side of the street, we've kind of left But this is really the border between the German colony and Talpio'd in fact right here on the street to the left This Talpio these are probably schools or something and to the right is Emicre Feim And which is a Moshe-Wahge-Manit I'm just gonna actually turn the camera in here for a second so you can see Emicre Feim This is a street sign and that's Emicre Feim the German colony leading down there some restaurants on it stuff like that Nice place So we've crossed PR Kenning Street now. This is like the Walking section the actual train tracks and this is for the bicycles there and I mean the coexistence stuff is You know, there's always gonna be that strain because of these political developments So it's not that I'm skeptical that it doesn't exist to an extent But I think to ever to a significant extent in Jerusalem the seven years I've been living in the city I haven't seen much evidence of Significant coexistence There are certainly coexistence initiatives like the Yad Fiyad Yad Fiyad school which you know co-educates in Hebrew and Arabic But on a day-to-day basis of people from East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem. Did you work together? but More significant integration beyond you know working relationships. I don't see much evidence of I think it's really hard for Any real coexistence to take hold in this kind of a political climate unfortunately, but never the last you do see Palestinians who live in it's a faffa, which we're gonna be Straddling next walking here on the George's Abad in fact just all lady pass wearing a hijab So you do see mixed mixing of people, but It's more like People kind of keeping to them themselves their own worlds Okay, anyway we're now going through The back of Talpi out now that we've crossed through the front of Talpi out And we're gonna be passing this kind of industrial building Talpi out as I mentioned in the video I did about purekennig there's really kind of filled with DIY stores and factories and Kind of a useful place to do shopping, but it's kind of ugly and the Jerusalem municipality has planned to make it into a kind of second Urban center for Jerusalem. So that place that we started out in The first station is kind of a first Sort of an urban center for South Jerusalem. I mean it's a complex essentially But there's plans to make Talpi out something more significant Right now besides that those kind of factories. That's pretty residential so apparently this is like Seven kilometers or something of that nature See folks taking their jogs here. Just got to get used to using this Feme in public literally everybody stops and stares like what the hell is that such an easy-looking device You can definitely get some good exercise. I'm looking at the timer on my camera here Says I've been going for 25 minutes already. It doesn't feel like that to me but Don't doubt it I'm gonna just so this site here is going to be Talpi O coming up here 21 minutes on the clock. There's some really beautiful buildings along the tracks. I'm not sure exactly who owns them, but you'll see some like incredible backyards Some nice little parkland here. I think these are not in the parks in Jerusalem We like walking. It's a relatively City with some decent amount of green spaces So where we're walking through currently, I guess is considered South Jerusalem and Bates of Fafa Despite being an Arabic city Actually, we're gonna go through the green line at some point so Off my phone so I can show you guys a Market timestamp in the video for what crossing a border looks like But it's actually kind of a joke because The green line is essentially invisible In the West Bank where Israel builds Actually, I don't think no, we're not gonna hit the green line on this walk In the West Bank or Israel builds the barrier. It's gonna be right next to the green line but there are places you can cross it in Jerusalem and It is There's no physical demarcation It's just a line on the map and then Google Maps has it as well So there's really nothing to see it'll just look like this, but I'll nevertheless Announce the moment of crossing the contested green line and into officially internationally considered annexed territory That'll be an event So we're coming up to you apparently on the right according to Google Maps. I just took No, it's took the note took note of my location Going in this is another one of these kind of And there's bite the gun These are all just kind of residential neighborhoods in South Jerusalem. It's kind of sprawling and Pretty boring for the most part of all kinds of look all kinds of look all kind of looks like this You know four or five storey apartment buildings some green patches, etc Bites of Fafa is next and Miss the now contested Mosque there. Oh one thing. I didn't point out yet. These are Public reading libraries. These little things are modeled after bus stops. They're Tachanotkriya I think I've done a video about them too actually Before we get to the Bites of Fafa, we're gonna be Coming to the back of Rami Davi your grocery store That's what this is just for the books you can Borrow in different languages. You can see here This one actually I believe It was burnt down So it's now I've got those signs same bits CCTV and you've got some little playgrounds over here as well. It's pretty nice So more signs Let's read this one view from the train on the way to Bitter which is now called batter these days Batter is an area B in the PA and it's famous for its ancient terraces that train the the old train from Jerusalem Has actually been retired I learned recently learned. So now there's a fast train The one from the new station in Jerusalem called Yatach Navon. It's one of the deepest train stations in the world leave the third after Moscow and somewhere else and That's an ID train to Tel Aviv and up until very recently There was a sort of obscure train running from Malcha To Tel Aviv and that went through Batir And it was a really really beautiful train. It's actually a great pity. I didn't get to do it Before they stopped running it. There's no reason to have it running. It was also very long. It was like an hour and a half so now that the Fast train is running. There was absolutely no reason to have redundant and slower train even if it was scenic so presumably You know, whatever passenger figures they had just completely dropped off. This is Rami Levy. This is a grocery store kind of like Walmart and This is the Rami Levy in Talpiot. This is essentially what all Talpiot looks like so as he said not very beautiful, but I Do think that it would be a great Second urban center for Jerusalem or third depending upon how you look at it Next now is for real baits of Afaa. Well, you can actually see the dome of the al-Rahman mosque from here quite a quite impressive. I was told that it's not the only copycat if you will of the dome of the rock in Jerusalem apparently in other neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. They've gone with the same kind of a thing That's all you can see it there just over the bridge. It's in the news at the moment because of the demolition order and local residents were open arms about it Right-wing organizations have been lobbying the municipality Saying it's a symbol to terrorism. It's exaggerated. There is an 100 centimeter gauge line of a single to right was once thought That this track was obtained from the railway building connection is the original Panama Canal This is just proof of the fact they're always Bayer this time that is JJ Jaffa to Jerusalem together with the name of the manufacturer and Often the year they were made You can actually just really see that So this is definitely original track about that with that I'm sure Before we get to baits of Afaa and its soccer field and the contested mosque We're gonna see some really interesting graffiti That's gonna come up the left and this actually really goes through baits of Afaa. So it's like You get to see up close What it looks like In the neighborhood doesn't actually go in it, but it goes through it This is coming up to about where I got stopped before like instruction sites. We'll see How much further one can get? Perhaps they finished the overpass they were working on Perhaps not I have been told by people. I'm a fast walker. I don't know if that's I'm keeping up a decent pace. So I might take a little bit. I'm 30 minutes or so in I'll see how long it takes me the whole thing if you're a slow walker I'll add a little bit of time to that More storefronts here in Talbiot. I think that's how man street in the background. It's not much to say about it It's more Shopping centres and whatnot. This is an overpass just before baits of Afaa Moshe Baram Street in Talbiot Just like the divider Informally between Baits of Afaa and Talbiot that's it's under this Flyover that you'll see the uh or overpass whatever it's called. You'll see the Cutterflow graffiti People are walking their dogs here. So they're on leashes, which is always Something I appreciate Oh, the sun is really really bright Coming up to the mosque now There's the graffiti that is the Abu Rahman mosque the dome there the one that Jerusalem now wants to position the demolition order for because it's apparently legally constructed alongside the top floor the mosque one of four mosques Baits of Afaa actually predates the the state And coming up on the left is the soccer field at Baits of Afaa I'm going to just go in because it's kind of uh Typical the moment. This is the soccer field As you can see really really big soccer field. That's the mosque. So specifically The dome I think Israel's taking issue with except in the news the top floor as well So it's quite imposing can you see from All over the road and that's the soccer pitch I'm not going to stop uh much along here just because In fact the sun is going down So I'm going to get back on the on the trail or in Baits of Afaa now Another one of the reading stations this one says Baits of Afaa reading station the memory of Baha ad-Din Down that would I do it Park is lit. I'm not surprised the lights haven't come on yet. So you can walk it at night time too. It is nice Definitely to change this tempo as you go through Baits of Afaa. It's kind of less parking more Going through neighborhoods really creative project that like it varies So where it gets a little bit confusing you just have to kind of follow The lines here I feel like it needs a couple of signposts, but it's this is the park track. I believe continued Yep, now we're starting to see the high rise towers of Malcolm the distance including the famously somewhat say disastrous holy land project You can read it about that in the online newspapers Big high rise complex and people there you see it right there just left of the tree Right next to the Malcolm high tech park some people would say it's an eyesore So this is still Baits of Afaa you can tell by the distinctive construction style The houses here Finally, we're getting away from Humanity getting some space here. It's a bit less feel less credit These little things are piece of scheme I believe like verses from the Bible the yamri shon Pachevo has I know it's not She didn't know it's time of day to do this Lighting is very pretty and that Is teddy stadium you can see on the left to the football stadium also actually used I'm not sure the stadium itself or what's the stadium for the coronavirus They use public vaccines. They use public buildings. It's a very impressive effort For almost 40 minutes on the clock now. So it's okay. It's really a decent walk Map says We are the green line is just about 20 meters on the left of where this Set in the track goes so That's how close it is in Jerusalem frankly the yard the yard coexistence school It's just just there No, this is further than I got last time It's good for a new territory. This is where I was stopped because it was a construction site Now we're at another point where again, it's a little bit less clear exactly where the park is Where we're going Going with the flow Nice playground here Guy's training over there Pice arena there Looks like sundowns already happened Well, I mean or is happening Sunslash I should say Take another one of these playgrounds here This after pice that is teddy arena Teddy stadium Bethlehem is just over the site barrier The house ever for Bethlehem 40 Four minutes coming up to now according to my timer Andy having a camera as a stopwatch I think it's fair to say This is the end Because it just kind of stops here this residential Neighborhoods here The bike path stops right there Maybe there's a little bit more we'll see That's kind of sad. We're enjoying that It's supposed to terminate kind of here and you can probably go a little bit further On a continuation, but I think this little Patch of green here it stopped Looking like a public park and it started just looking like regular neighborhoods. So I think we can call that The end of park. I must see that So, uh I'm gonna turn back now. I think That was a good decent walk Hope this was an enjoyable video to Click through or whatever you did with this video And if you want to get more videos like this Please feel free to subscribe As always to this youtube channel And there's something going back in the other direction now. There's somewhere of interest You want to see In jerusalem Then drop me a comment on any of these videos and uh depending upon my Schedule et cetera, et cetera. I'll try and make it happen Uh next video coming soon