 YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosal incredibly exciting time of year the first night of Hanukkah here in Jerusalem we also had the World Cup final tonight Jerusalem having so many expat populations lots and lots of really really joyous Argentinian fans and less joyous French fans here in the city this year again we're having the fantastic Newgate Chris market where I'm standing outside is Newgate one of the entrances to the old city of Jerusalem and you can see behind me that there is a terrific market going on as there was last year the entrance to the Christian quarter traditionally and over the course of the last couple of years this area is really really comes life with a few really really interesting bars coffee shops taboos and wine a couple of really nice wine bars so you can see here people of all faiths religious Jews Christians and Muslims checking out the festive light so let's go inside now and check out what there is in the market one of the few places in the world where you can get mulled wine alongside a Salab which is a Salab a traditional drink made from a type of orchard very popular in the Middle East and we're really seeing here lots and lots of different populations tourists as much as locals coming out to check out what's going on here and getting the Christmas spirit in this amazing city that is important to so many different religions coming up on this YouTube channel one reason to stick around I'm gonna be interviewing Jerusalem's only official accredited Santa he's a Palestinian Muslim guy he's got an amazing Santa house open only in December and coming up on this YouTube channel very soon of the absolute highlights of this year's Christmas market is these amazing snow globes these are the biggest snow globes in the Middle East it's a fantastic they're dotted all over the Christian quarter here and you can see the little snow man you can see the Christmas tree and other Christian running in button operated so I'm gonna come around the side now and once you press the snow will go bringing the Christmas miracle to children in Jerusalem yeah taboon and wine this place is located just inside of the new gate one of the new food establishment I mentioned here as you might be able to tell there's currently a power cut that's happened so I've pulled out one of my camera lights to temporarily light up the place this is a really cool place if you're looking for a nightlife in the old city they have an extensive wine menu there's a few beers on top including Taiba and shepherds which can be somewhat hard to find here they have a pizza oven which fortunately is a gas fire it's not affected by the power outage and they have a lahmacun as well which is a type of pizza like dish made with that meat so this is one of the cool places that's been opened here in the old city for a couple years now