 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. It's YoMatsMahoos here in Jerusalem, which is Israel's national day I am a wisdom friends here walking through Yaffo Street, which is one of the main thoroughfares in downtown Jerusalem I thought earlier that the city looked remarkably empty Compared to previous years I've been here. It is Israel's national holiday But the crowds have picked up and there's been a pretty good showing. We just did two amazing firework displays And for those who haven't had a YoMatsMahoot in Israel before It's a basically national holiday marked on the eve of YoMatsMahoot because the Jewish calendar Works from evening to evening. So on the eve of YoMatsMahoot Town is like this. I'm here in Yaffo Street in Jerusalem. You can see all around me. The public transport has stopped There's DJs playing and it's a lot of fun. And then on the day itself a YoMatsMahoot Barbecues friends come together to cook and it's also a lot of fun. So it's a really good day one of my favorite days of the year and Jerusalem is going through some tough times on the security front, but tonight there's been a good showing Here on YoMatsMahoot Hello, we're here at Kikar Safra the Russian compound in Jerusalem. We're here to party It's YoMatsMahoot Israeli Independence Day Israel just turned 74 and We're here everyone in the country comes to dance here We all do Israeli folk dancing and Yeah, let's go inside and see what it's like What? Approximately 5% of people here know what they're doing. The rest of us are just making random body movements following along